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"Damarius Butts, 19, was killed while fleeing a robbery at a downtown convenience store on April 20, 2017. He tried to steal beer, before officers chased him and exchanged gunfire."

Okay I have one thing to say about this.

Who ever these cops are? They are either FReeprs or lurkers but either way they come to this site.

That fake tombstone was their way of saying "happy ending"

1 posted on 07/12/2023 5:57:38 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

What happened to just putting a notch in your gun?

That way no one knows exactly which notch was their relative.


2 posted on 07/12/2023 6:03:19 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: Morgana

His epitaph should read “Good Riddance”


3 posted on 07/12/2023 6:04:23 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: Morgana

“Damarius Butts”

There’s got to be a great limerick for dear old Damarius just waiting to be discovered.


4 posted on 07/12/2023 6:06:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: Morgana

He was such a nice boy!


5 posted on 07/12/2023 6:08:22 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Morgana

Fortunately she didn’t see the epitaph on the fake tombstone because it was in miniscule print:

Here lies Damarius Butts
He had a taste for liquor;
So he stole a case,
Then quickened his pace;
But the bullet, it was quicker.


8 posted on 07/12/2023 6:13:45 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: Morgana

The key phrase is “exchanged gunfire”

The thief thought stealing beer was important enough to open fire on police chasing him.

I can see how mom raised this creature. The mother is a creature.


11 posted on 07/12/2023 6:19:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

he suffered 11 gunshot wounds and bled to death

A fitting end. Life of crime leads to dead end.

In the ghetto ~


12 posted on 07/12/2023 6:20:35 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Morgana
Going for the tough rhymes here:

There was a young man named Damarius
Whose successes at crime were nefarious
He ate twenty slugs
Now he's sleeping with bugs
And an epitaph that is hilarious.

The story does note that it was the BLM that made the tombstone, not the police.

16 posted on 07/12/2023 6:36:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Morgana
The video comes from a body cam.

Hard to believe that is routine procedure, filming in the Break Room.

I think the precinct in question was the same one seized by Black Lives Mattter during the Seattle George Floyd riots and the weeks long occupation of the Seattle Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Who made the decision to search for body cam video of the tombstone?

Until proved otherwise, this entire episode looks manufactured and staged to me.

20 posted on 07/12/2023 6:53:18 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Morgana

If they were Freepers, they were stupid, immature ones. A professional workplace should be neutral. What if the mom had come in as a victim of a violent crime and found that there? They can celebrate all they want off-duty and off the premises.


23 posted on 07/12/2023 6:56:15 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: All

They did their job which was evidently justified. Displaying a tombstone at their workplace is extremely unprofessional in my opinion.


24 posted on 07/12/2023 7:08:05 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Morgana

Hi.

Damarius Butts

With a name like that he didn’t have a chance.

5.56mm


28 posted on 07/12/2023 7:24:51 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: Morgana

LOL

Someone should have baked a tombstone cake!


30 posted on 07/12/2023 7:39:54 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Morgana; All

I read the article.

The ‘tombstone’ was taken from a BLM memorial, according to the mother’s attorney.

It was NOT made by officers. There are numerous items adorning their ‘breakroom’.

Last time I looked, Butts wasn’t the only person killed by SPD over that 4-year period; I don’t see pattern behavior reflected in that room in that respect whatsoever.

Nothing nefarious. Bad taste? Depends. But no one would have known had the video not been released in party to other litigation against the department. It was there for who knows how long. I took a look at our shop the other day and was shocked at the old crap hanging around that I just don’t notice except on rare occasion.

I bet that was the case here, too.


35 posted on 07/12/2023 9:08:46 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Morgana

You can where she be less than pleased. She lost a fourth of her living. Now she is back to a welfare check, food stamps, and turning tricks. Damarius brought her half of what he stole and laid it at her feet or put it in her lap.


37 posted on 07/12/2023 9:38:21 PM PDT by sport
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To: Morgana
Applauding the humor on this thread. Might I add to the fray?

There's a shot Butts named Damarius
Whose life was short and precarious.
He's not with us now,
That we must allow,
But Butts's tale's in media quite various.

39 posted on 07/13/2023 6:22:06 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Morgana
"Damarius Butts"


40 posted on 07/13/2023 6:25:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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