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"
What happened to just putting a notch in your gun?
That way no one knows exactly which notch was their relative.
His epitaph should read “Good Riddance”
“Damarius Butts”
There’s got to be a great limerick for dear old Damarius just waiting to be discovered.
He was such a nice boy!
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.
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.
he suffered 11 gunshot wounds and bled to death
A fitting end. Life of crime leads to dead end.
In the ghetto ~
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.
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.
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.
They did their job which was evidently justified. Displaying a tombstone at their workplace is extremely unprofessional in my opinion.
Hi.
Damarius Butts
With a name like that he didn’t have a chance.
5.56mm
LOL
Someone should have baked a tombstone cake!
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.
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.
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.