Posted on 11/07/2015 10:32:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Police say footage of an officer-involved shooting contributed to prosecutors’ decision to press charges.
All of it was filmed. The police chase of an SUV after dark on a weeknight. The shots fired. The driver, struck in the head. His son, 6 years old, shot dead in the front seat.
The fatal shooting of Jeremy Mardis in Marksville, Louisiana, on Tuesday was captured on a body camera worn by one of the four police officers present at the scene. And it was that video footage that led in part to the decision to charge two of them with second-degree murder on Friday night.
The footage, Colonel Mike Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police told reporters, was “extremely disturbing, and it is partly why we’re here tonight with these charges.â€
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Where is the video?
So, what does it show?
Shows a 6 y.o. boy being shot in the head by 2 gang banger cops.
black cops shooting a small white child in the front seat of a car
was the child in a car seat? was he screaming before they emptied their guns into him? was he dead before they shot his father?
where is “White Lives Matter” to demand a full accounting?
Don't be absurd White isn't a color that matters, and oh yeah, that's racist!
“Where is the video? “
A big part of the article waxes rhapsodic about whether the issues surrounding who should see the video and when. I’m guessing this was addressed by the information officer but that part was left out of the article. I gather that they are trying to get a determination from somebody on whether to release the video. I can see where releasing it to the media might poison the potential jury pool and therefore cause a mistrial.
The child was shot 5 times in the head and chest. The father was wounded twice.
One has to wonder if those two shots were intended for the child, as well. It seems pretty clear that the 6 year old was the target of the gangbangers, rather than the father.
Cops need to chill out....one report said they shot the kid 5x and he was still buckled in!
They need to release the video.
I still haven’t heard why cops were chasing the guy, or whether or not the kid was visible inside the car.
I'm cautious on that. I'd be afraid that they could claim a tainted jury and get away with it.
“They need to release the video.”
Even if releasing the video ends up freeing the accused? This is new legal territory. If the prosecution’s release of the video is later deemed prosecutorial misconduct, the assailants could walk free. Frankly, I’m prepared to wait. Why do we need to see the video if seeing it lets them off?
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/mistrial
“If the mistrial results from judicial or prosecutorial misconduct, a retrial will be barred.”
Everybody switches their stance when the races are reversed. So it goes.
http://www.rcfp.org/rcfp/orders/docs/POLICE.pdf
Records of active investigations are exempt (from Louisiana’s Public Records Law), except for the initial police report. La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 44:3(A)(l), (4). Records of closed investigations are public records
only after pending or reasonably anticipated litigation is finally adjudicated or settled. La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 44:3(A)(l)
Here’s the pertinent Louisiana Revised Statute.
http://legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=99685
Records of prosecutive, investigative, and law enforcement agencies, and communications districts
What a strange and horrible world you must live in ...
Well, the important thing is that the officers involved went home safely...for now.
If this plays out like it looks and is alleged, I wonder who will get them in prison first, the inmates or the guards. In any event, no one will see anything.
“I still haven’t heard why cops were chasing the guy, or whether or not the kid was visible inside the car.”
With that kind of gunplay, he had better have been armed with a machine gun and hand grenades.
A couple of earlier threads if anyone is interested in scanning them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357381/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357487/posts
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