Well that didn’t take long:
Jury acquits officer who shot unarmed man face down on the ground
Quite sickening.
And can we please dispatch with the inane narrative that holding bad cops accountable for bad actions means we are demonizing all cops? Fuck off, assholes.
I clicked and watched the video. Unbelievable. And very sickening. The cop, shrieking nonsense as the tasered man complies, should be in an insane asylum.
This poor man’s criminal offense? Expired car sticker.
Charges filed:
2 Louisiana Officers Charged With Second-Degree Murder in Killing of Boy, 6
Note that the usual racial stereotypes have been reversed in this case. Dark colored officers and very light skinned dead six year old kid.
Interesting that charges were filed within 72 hours.
And yet he decided to lead the cops on a chase and then continued to flee on foot. What else was he doing that he was afraid of getting caught for?
Maybe he was afraid of getting killed. This might seem far fetched, if one overlooks the fact that he was indeed killed.
Police don’t kill people over expired tags, and this case was no exception. He chose his fate and the jury agreed.
Didn’t watch the video, did you?
I did and so did the jury that acquitted the officer.
Evidence suggests otherwise, juries notwithstanding.
Driving while black?
Didn’t watch the video, did you?
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This just popped up on my AP feed; thought I’d update the thread.
I look forward to you advising why the police killed Jeremy Mardis.
Unarmed man tased to death in squad car. Police pick up a guy for being noisy at a hotel. They figure out he’s high or something and handcuff him and take him to the ER, repeatedly telling him he’s not under arrest and they’re going to take him in for medical attention. When they get to the hospital, he kicks out the back window of the car, gets out, and runs to the ER door, frantically trying to get in. Yes, I know, he shouldn’t kick out the window. But he was high and not in control. So the cops tase him repeatedly right outside the door of the place they were taking him in the first place, shackle his legs, and throw him in the back seat of the car. While shackled and handcuffed, they tase him repeatedly. When they get to the police station, he is unresponsive so they call in the ambulance and a half hour later, he shows up DOA at the place he was tased. The prosecutors found that the use of force was reasonable, but that was before this video surfaced this week.
But those policemens were scared! Any time a policeman is afraid, he can kill somebody.
It would have saved everyone a lot of time and trouble if the police had simply shot him dead at the hotel.
Presumably, the cops had not peed their pants yet, so they didn’t have probable cause. Got to follow the law!
That’s what really gets me about all these cases. “We took the cops’ word until they were proven to be liars”.
Particularly galling because the video evidence didn’t actually just “surface” recently; this was all available from the beginning to police and prosecutors. No, what surfaced just now, two years after the fact, is news media possession of the footage.
That’s even worse. How could a prosecutor look at that and not find grounds to press charges? How could the coroner not account for that in establishing the cause of death? How many more cases like this are out there without videos that show the full story? How many times did this go on in the days before video?