From the article
“Our investigation revealed evidence such as a shell casing and video footage showing she repeatedly ignored police commands to disarm and that she fired her weapon at LAPD officers,” Forkish said.
I mean, they certainly could be lying. I wouldn’t put it past them. However, these are exceptionally specific claims about evidence.
So, it is just a case of guns making everything safer.
The claims of the police hold precisely zero weight in cases like this. If there’s no evidence that doesn’t start with “the police say…”, then there’s no evidence.
That’s what they said about Tamir Rice. Let’s see the body cam footage - if their cameras weren’t all “accidentally” turned off or malfunctioning, that is.
Indeed, the cops are now saying they’re not sure if she fired her gun at all, and prosecutors have no comment on whether she’ll be charged with a crime. Quelle surprise!
If she weren’t white and rich, in all likelihood she’d be dead.
Sad news:
But it gets even better – they might not even have been looking for the guy they arrested:
Aggarwal et al . examined rideshare data from Lyft in the state of Florida to compare minority drivers with their white counterparts. Lyft objectively measured drivers’ locations, driving speed, and location speed limits[…]. White and minority drivers showed no discernible differences in speeding behaviors or traffic violations. However, when both drove at identical speeds, police were still 33% more likely to issue speeding citations to minority drivers and charged 34% more expensive fines, unequivocally revealing bias.
This is the same for drug use, where white teens and Black teens use drugs at about the same rate, but Black teens are arrested and charged at a much higher rate.
Nice to see some great data on it, though, using Lyft tracking.
That looks like the same study I posted in 4222. Good to see it’s continuing to get attention, of course.
I debated for a while where to put this, because it involves LEO AND unmarked “security” acting like assholes because some Republican didn’t like someone was doing:
Basically, a woman was speaking out (and out-of-turn) at a Republican town hall, so the local Sheriff had her physically hauled out by a team of unmarked security armed goons. Now the goons have been charged with battery, and she’s getting ready to sue the shit out of them and the sheriff.
Someone I know (very slightly) is sitting in jail on attempted kidnapping charges for what seems like nothing more than preventing a kid from falling off a mobility scooter.
A Brown man spoke to a white woman in Georgia. What did you /think/ was going to happen?
The article doesn’t seem to indicate whether the police spoke to the mother, who surely would be able to tell them if Patel had tried to kidnap her son.
There is an earlier story from that source that quotes the woman’s fiancee but not her.
Here is a YouTube video from a source that I regard as quite non-sensationalist.
From the publicly available evidence it seems pretty conclusive that this is a fit-up after the cops responded to a wildly imaginative complaint.
Joe the President established NLEAD, the Police Accountability Database. Naturally, since that guy did it, the acronym has “lead” in it, and there is that nasty “accountability” word in there, Felon-ONE has taken it down.
Ironic coincidence: the accused’s name is Patel, same as the wrongly accused man from Lakeland Florida in 2017 who found a lost girl, was taking her back to the nearby playground; was jumped, beaten and, after police rescued and cleared him, was smeared on FB by the parents.
Not a civilian, instead a cop killed by “friendly fire”. After he learns that the woman he was living with died at hospital man takes hostage. While the man has a gun, it has no bullets in it.
Police open fire and kill the hostage taker–as well as one of the cops.
In 2016, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s office (in Dayton, Ohio) came very close to murdering Charles Wade, an inmate who was restrained in a restraining chair. They did something that should never be done: they leaned him way forward before trying to uncuff him. This is very dangerous, because it can cause asphyxiation in a matter of seconds. As expected, no one was fired, no one was retrained.
They must have thought that was fun sport, because they did it again a couple months ago, to an inmate named Christian Black. But this time they were “successful” from their point-of-view - Christian Black died. I can only assume they were high-fiving each other afterwards. The video footage is horrific (warning - disturbing). The red countdown timer shows the elapse time of no oxygen to the brain. (The video breaks away for a couple minutes to review what happened to Charles Wade in 2016, and then returns to show the… inevitable outcome of Mr. Black.)