Posted on 08/16/2014 11:19:26 AM PDT by yldstrk
After police in Kenosha, Wis., shot my 21-year-old son to death outside his house ten years ago — and then immediately cleared themselves of all wrongdoing — an African-American man approached me and said: “If they can shoot a white boy like a dog, imagine what we’ve been going through.”
I could imagine it all too easily, just as the rest of the country has been seeing it all too clearly in the terrible images coming from Ferguson, Mo., in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown. On Friday, after a week of angry protests, the police in Ferguson finally identified the officer implicated in Brown's shooting, although the circumstances still remain unclear.
I have known the name of the policeman who killed my son, Michael, for ten years. And he is still working on the force in Kenosha.
I think there’s a posse of FR cop haters making a trek to Ferguson MO to show their solidarity!
Right on brothers! Off some pigs!
Seriously, this contingent will call us “cop suckers” if we simply don’t hate cops and think they are a priori cold blooded murderers in all instances.
This is the Rev Al contingent, Bill Ayers contingent of FR and they are quite incongruous.
Now there you go interjecting facts.....How dare you.
And the prosecutor decides what evidence the Grand Jury will see, and what they won't, and he will decide how strenuously to argue the case in front of them.
If the prosecutor is not interested in an indictment, there won't be one.
So you advocate shooting a perp because he's fighting with 3 cops...?
So what if he was drunk as a lord? He was handcuffed and it sounds like the cop just basically executed him. If it was as described how does it differ from the incident in that infamous photo from the Vietnam war?
Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
First of all, as far as I can tell, the kid did not have the officers gun. The cop only felt it being pulled which was hooked on his side mirror...
So you mean to tell me three cops who are trained to deal with people who are intoxicated needed to shot a handcuffed person in the head? Not once but twice pulled the trigger after a misfire...?
Sounds trigger happy to me, but that's just my opinion, the jury who awarded them 1.75 million must have seen something sideways here...
The real issue beyond this one incident is that in 129 years all shootings by cops in Wisconsin were righteous. Who needs probable cause when you can make the laws of probability simply disappear....
your a good man Norm... I have always liked your posts.. and your a Vet if I remember correctly..
Turns out he was wrong.
I'm not sure why it matters that he was not holding a weapon or that he was outside his house rather than anyone else's.
I'm unaware of any law that says you're allowed to attack someone if you don't have a weapon - that didn't work too well for Trayvon Martin.
Nor did I know that you are allowed to resist arrest as long as you are outside your house.
I have family in law enforcement..
to see some of the crap others would toss at them
for the mistakes of other cops pisses me off..
Yes, cops do make mistakes, they do lose it ..
they are human.
but to then see scabs ripped off just to bang away at hem
over a case where all the facts are not in yet..
just par for the course for those who have axes to grind here..
I say, let em grind.
Justice is blind after all.
Boyd, James (38) New Mexico (Albuquerque) Albuquerque police fatally shot James Boyd, 38, in the Sandia foothills following an hours-long standoff and after he threatened to kill officers with a small knife, authorities said.
He died after officers fired stun guns, bean bags and six live rounds, authorities initially claimed. But a helmet-camera video showed Boyd, who claimed to be a federal agent, agreeing to walk down the mountain with them, gathering his things and having his back turned to the officers when they killed Boyd.[10]
One of the more eye opening shootings on the list....
According to the father’s investigation, the police officer got his gun caught on the broken mirror of a car, but thought it was Michael Bell attempting to grab the gun.
I glanced at some articles on the incident and one said it was an illegal stop. I want to know if his son was legally drunk as it relates to that issue. His state of mind and resultant behavior at the time could have also affected the officer’s belief that Bell was trying to take his gun.
Cops are the new lawyers.
Everyone bashes on them.....until they need one.
http://www.odmp.org/officer/14283-police-officer-travis-ed-williams
This is my uncle. I never got to meet him. Every single person that I have met that did know him thought of him as a truly great man, who would have likely ended up as police chief. Obviously there are poeple in law enforcement that have no business being there. They are the exception, and I wish that the media would quit trying to convince people, especially Freepers, that they are the rule.
True..., when LEOs execute one of your family members you can comfort yourself with those sage words of wisdom....
Seriously ???
Every year thousands of intoxicated drivers get belligerent when busted...
How many are shot in the head with three cops on the scene when they are unarmed. ...?
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