Posted on 09/03/2015 2:17:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A Washington state police officer will not face criminal charges after shooting two unarmed black men suspected of trying to steal beer from a supermarket, a prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
Officer Ryan Donald, a three-year veteran of the police department in the state capital Olympia, told investigators the men had no weapons during the May incident.
But one of them tried to pull him to the ground while the other raised his skateboard above his head “as if to strike him” and that he issued a verbal warning before opening fire, the police department said.
No charges will be brought against Donald because his use of force was justified, said Anne Larsen, a spokeswoman for the Thurston County prosecuting attorney said.
“The officer acted in good faith and without malice,” Larsen said. …
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Aren’t the majority of #BLM protesters in the Pacific NW white or asian extract?
If so the rioting will be mostly symbolic.
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