Posted on 05/29/2023 10:13:23 AM PDT by heartwood
A Mississippi police officer accused of shooting an unarmed 11-year-old child who called law enforcement for assistance in a domestic disturbance incident has been suspended without pay, according to reports.
The action taken against Sgt. Greg Capers of the Indianola Police Department as an investigation is ongoing into the shooting that unfolded last weekend at the home of Aderrien Murry, Murry family attorney Carlos Moore told The Associated Press.
The mother said police responded to the residence in the rural city around 4 a.m. Saturday after the father of one of her other children showed up, knocked on a window and appeared irate.
Moore told AP that two police officers responded, and one kicked the front door before Nakala Murry opened it. She told them the intruder had left the area, but three children were inside, according to Moore.
Moore said Nakala Murry told him that Capers yelled into the home and said anyone inside should come out with their hands up. Moore said Aderrien walked into the living room with nothing in his hands, and Capers shot him in the chest.
"His words to me was ‘why did he shoot me?"’ Nakala Murry said her son told her right after being hit. "He ran to me, he was bleeding, I held him... he bled out the mouth."
The child spent five days in a local hospital for treatment for a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs before being discharged Wednesday, Moore said.
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Stupid officer! Thank God the child didn’t die! Lord have mercy on them all.
With all due respect, I take gentle issue with that chief’s remarks. Policing has changed, and not in a good way. Yes, policing challenges are greater. But I expect professionals to respond to those challenges in a professional way.
Too often that’s simply not the case. Back in the 1970s (when I was kind of a hippy) my interactions with cops were fine. No problems. Now I’m an old graybeard. And with few exceptions, I’m treated rudely.
Body cams have made such incidents very well-known. Some poor slob is walking down a sidewalk, doing nothing wrong (see the link). He gets harassed and arrested. Maybe that only happens one time out of a hundred. No matter. Would you trust a medicine that makes you deathly ill one time out of a hundred?
… rural city…
Aren't most cities way out in the middle of nowhere?
I figured it was a black cop, otherwise, the screaming headline would be WHITE COP SHOOTS BLACK CHILD.
My point is that people would be more responsible as citizens if they didn’t have the option of calling 911 to deal with these situations. This country was founded by men who would have been repulsed by the idea that we would have taxpayer-funded police officers whose job is to respond to the scene every time a sheep has a problem with a wolf.
This is why I am a big advocate of the “Defund the Police” movement.
Exactly.
Agree, regardless of anything else——he’s alive.
Note: Indianola is part of the early life of the late BB King who wasn’t literally born in that town.
“B.B. King Birthplace - Berclair
The long and remarkable life of B.B. King began near this site, where he was born Riley B. King on September 16, 1925. His parents, Albert and Nora Ella King, were sharecroppers who lived in a simple home southeast of here along Bear Creek. After his parents separated when he was four, King lived in Kilmichael and Lexington before moving as a teen to Indianola, which he referred to as his hometown.”
https://www.merchbar.com/jazz-blues/b-b-king/b-b-king-indianola-mississippi-seeds-vinyl-record
The real cause is the 95% of good cops covering for the 5% of the bad ones.
You’re only as good as the worst behavior or person you tolerate.
> The real cause is the 95% of good cops covering for the 5% of the bad ones. <
With regret, I must conclude that this 95% number is too high. Maybe 30 years ago, yes. But as a rough estimate, I’d say maybe half of the cops today are good cops. The other half are consumed by ego, and a rigid us-against-them mentality.
And I sure do sympathize with those good cops. Speak up, and you just might get the Frank Serpico treatment. It’s a real mess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Serpico#Shooting_and_public_interest
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