Posted on 09/29/2016 10:35:36 PM PDT by Theoria
The police video footage of the last moments of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis’s life shows deputy marshals firing a barrage of bullets at his father’s S.U.V. after a car chase on the dark streets of central Louisiana. It shows his father slumped over the open car window, injured and bleeding.
Minutes later, the words of an officer can be heard: “There’s a juvenile.”
The deputies had fired 18 times into the car, prosecutors say. The boy, strapped to the front passenger seat of the car, was struck five times in the head and chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene. In the aftermath, one of the officers appeared to vomit, according to audio from the footage.
The video was released on Wednesday at a preliminary hearing in a Louisiana court before the deputy marshals, Officer Norris Greenhouse Jr. and Lt. Derrick Stafford, were tried on charges of second-degree murder. It was the first public glimpse of what happened on Nov. 3 in Marksville, a small city near the Mississippi border.
It raised questions about basic police tactics and the wisdom of high-speed chases. But the fatal shooting of the child, who was white, received little of the national attention that has trailed other police killings. It spurred no organized street protests; no viral hashtags; no movement like Black Lives Matter, which was sparked by anger and despair over a wave of killings of African-Americans by law enforcement officials.
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This is a edited video, mostly covering the shooting.
Few's fiancee claims one of the Marksville officers went to her house, sent her messages[FR]
Damn shame NYT is habitually selective in its concern for humanity — a transgression rooted in its sympathy for Nazi Germany.
I don’t want to see a kid shot
It’s disgusting
Those cops got something coming one day
Ah yes the 2 police officers who were sporting those nice beards. Hope they throw the book at them, lock em up and throw away the key.
I won’t watch the video. This is sickening.
Two negro cops done been charged
Yes. All cops are heroes! And all those who dare criticize a cop are BLM thugs. Right???? Can't pretend otherwise....
America. 1976-2000. R.I.P.
1776-2000
Yes. All cops are heroes! And all those who dare criticize a cop are BLM thugs. Right???? Can’t pretend otherwise....
Say what you will, but it is sickening that an innocent child was shot to death.
Oy veh, has 0bama made everybody crazy?
The article describes officers appearing to vomit in reaction to the death of the child.
>> Those cops got something coming one day
Thousands of children are aborted daily without this type of reaction.
Yeah, the killing situation is bad, but to say the LEOs got “something coming” ain’t right.
You need to read more about them and the shoot
They got charged
Read what the state police colonel said
This reinforces the research that twice as many white people are shot and killed as black people per 100,000 arrests.
If indeed the father did try to back his vehicle into the officers’ vehicle, and they couldn’t see the boy, what else were they supposed to do? Some father, racing around with his son, just to avoid an arrest.
I live here where the shooting of Jeremy Mardis occurred.
I have very large Blue Lives Matter signs in my yard....Trust me....They will pay.
...”what else were they supposed to do?”
Tires then tear gas?
EXACTLY! The father is at fault for this child's death. It is just like when terrorists hide in mosques or hospitals.
The media is anti gun not anti criminal and will report all shootings which makes the use of firearms look evil.
I see. You have a sign in your yard, therefore you’re correct and beyond reproach. How much blame do you assign to the father? I think you’re being a bit unreasonable.
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