There’s not much doubt in my mind that if the 93-year-old lady had been white and conservative this whole thing would be over and forgotten by now.
Murderer, murderer,murderer, murderer.
Perhaps the family had a responsibility to take her car keys and gun away before things reached this crisis point?
Well as long as justice has been done /s
Now the city is guilty of discharging a police officer within city limits.
I’m going to pine in here and I’m not doing so lightly:
I’ve read all the comments through what was 61 at the time. This thread has a bit more information than the first I read. I’m just assuming at that time I was too busy to click on the parent link of the OP, as my understanding of the shooting then was patently wrong.
First, aside from the known facts in the case, a “City Council Investigation” is NOT a Grand Jury. There has been NO Grand Jury on this matter. The CC held an ‘emergency meeting’ and reacted by firing the officer for what I deem (from what I’ve read at this link and others the past half hour) a ‘justifiable shooting’.
That stated, a summary:
1. White cop shoots armed black woman
2. White cop gets fired without due process
Sorry, but anyone that finds that justifiable is patently wrong. And I’m one of those that is likewise alarmed at ‘cops patrolling like the US is Afghanistan’ and concerned by duty officers’ body count in cases of ‘unarmed’ victims.
Wait for the Grand Jury. There’s just no sense in getting all caught up in that community’s emotional reactions (which are race-based, btw)...watch this video and look at the community members in attendance at the CC meeting
http://www.click2houston.com/news/hearne-pd-officer-terminated-after-fatal-shooting/25916724
I’ll also just poke a reminder here: Family members called police on the gal because they were ‘threatened’ and presumably afraid of her with the gun. She then confronted an armed officer with predictable results.
If the situation was different, white guy or gal & white cop (no racial overtones), I’d call it either ‘suicide by cop’ or ‘Darwinism’...IMHO.
So when’s this “officer” going to be arrested and charged with MURDER?