Posted on 11/12/2023 5:47:53 PM PST by algore
Stephen Perkins, 39, was gunned down by cops from Decatur Police Department outside his home on September 29 in Decatur, Alabama.
Police have said that a tow truck driver had attempted to repossess Perkins pickup when it is alleged Perkins pulled a gun on him, causing the driver to call 911.
Surveillance cameras captured the moment Perkins was gunned down by responding officers, who fired eighteen shots at him. Appallingly, a driver from Allstar Recovery drives off with the dying man's truck as he takes his final breaths just feet away, with his final words said to have been 'help.'
That newly-released footage - first shared by Decatur Daily - has triggered outrage in the Alabama city, with both the repossession firm and police department blamed for what activists say was Perkins' needless death.
Officers can be seen standing over the body of Perkins in his front lawn after gunning him down, with the tow driver nonchalantly making off with Perkins' white GMC Sierra.
Officers can be seen standing over the body of Perkins in his front lawn after gunning him down.
They claimed Perkins had been told to drop a gun he'd been holding but that he'd refused to do so.
Chief Todd Pinion later said Perkins had been ordered to 'get on the ground' by officers who'd identified themselves as police.
The change of story has led locals to question whether the police department has also gotten other crucial details wrong.
After the shooting, the officers appear to pat Perkins down, with one officer moving from Perkins' right side over to Perkins' legs.
Out of sight, an unidentified repossession officer has hooked the GMC to their truck and begins to tow it away.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Another black guy makes a fatal judgment call. It’s his fault.
Suicide by cop and repo guy able to reclaim the auto. Just another day.
Assuming they’re not malfunctioning.
Think of all the goodwill that the repo company has spent years nurturing with Decatur’s black community, squandered in an afternoon.
(Are sarcasm tags necessary here?)
What a convoluted and one sided, emotion filled article. Was it written by some 23 year old pink haired white girl from the US?
Make your car payments on time.
Problem solved.
>> “a dying father’s vehicle”
A dying BLACK father’s vehicle. So obviously racism at work here.
And climate change of course.
Well - the cops may have gotten it right or wrong. But the repo company
got it right.
The “change of stody” could also be remembering events as the brain takes a few days to process the traumatic situation.
Its why people should never try to give detailed statements after a shooting, they need to have a few days to get things in the right order. If they dont it appears as if they are changing their story when in fact they are remembering things more accurately.
It is not always that simple, I definitely will wait for more information, back in college, I bought a Jetta, paid my payments on time to a finance company who had not been paying the payments to the originating finance company. Got notices, and they tried to repo my car. Locked it in a friends garage for a couple months at night until we got that sorted out.
Trump? Not the Zionist dog murdering occupiers of Palestine?? Crap, I must have the wrong sheet of talking points...
Came here for that.
Happy ending story.
He pulled a gun. Driving the truck away did not have anything to do with his death. Can I assume the story mentions the dead man’s race to engender race rage? That would be my guess.
true dat, seen it happen before.
That’s odd language. One does not require an “indictation” to know if one is late making payments. Either you are or are not. It’s not some kind of discovery.
Committing aggravated assault against a tow truck driver is not going to end well.
I’m fighting back the tears as it is.
If you can’t pay then you can give to random repo or die to random repo.
Lets get a drink!
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