Posted on 07/20/2015 6:37:04 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) -
A teen is dead after being shot by a Memphis police officer late Friday night.
The MPD officer stopped a car for a broken headlight in the 5700 block of Winchester Road. The officer issued the driver a ticket and let him go. However, the passenger in the car had several warrants for his arrest.
Darrius Stewart, the 19-year-old passenger, was placed in the back seat of the police car to verify the warrants.
Investigators said when the officer opened the back door to handcuff Stewart, he kicked the door and attacked the officer. During the fight, Stewart grabbed the officer’s handcuffs and swung them at him. The officer grabbed his gun and shot Stewart to end the fight.
Stewart went to Regional Medical Center in critical condition where he later died.
officer had several cuts and bruises from the fight, but he did not need to go to the hospital. He is relieved of duty pending the outcome of this investigation.
"Words can't express how I feel," Stewart's mother said. "If my son attacked this officer, why didn't he use a taser? There were two officers and only one of my son."
Read more: http://www.wsmv.com/story/29578116/man-dead-after-struggle-with-mpd-officer#ixzz3gREnUEuI
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If the kid was smart enough to want to be a doctor, he should have been smart enough not to start a fight with the police.
Just wait. Obama, the MSM or some liberal blogger will be right out with the "Truth" as we should know it. It was a simply a case of White privilege, income inequality, police brutality or if all else fails it was Bush's fault. (Maybe Trump's now that he's available)
Cops do it all the time, my question is how can they legally do this?
Of course the line of questioning goes like this.
Cop: Do you have any ID??
Notice the cop does not ask him to see his ID, only if he has one.
Usually the citizen offers up his ID voluntarily.
That is how they get away with it!
Any number of justifications and they start with maintaining control of the situation. Suppose the passenger has carjacked and is holding a hidden gun on the driver? Suppose THIS man with open arrest warrants goes on to do something worse and it comes out that this stop was made and the officer failed to identify?
It is a legitimate stop for a safety reason and an idiot got removed from the gene pool because he forcibly resisted arrest! If he was the misidentified innocent his family claims, why resist?
Hey sons of The BAMish— don’t attack police officers. How friggin’ stupid can they be? VERY......
I wonder if the police department used car cams or body cams?
They always use the same script.
Of course. When they sue, they want to make sure they get the maximum benefit of "lost future wages". If they really wanted to increase their earnings potential, they should have said he was studying to be a Clinton...
:: However, the passenger in the car had several warrants for his arrest ::
And the officer, who stopped the DRIVER for [what amounts to] a code violation found out about the PASSENGER’S warrants because...?
Nobody was mistaken for anyone else.
The psgr clearly identified himself as one who will attack a police officer. The prohibition against same and the provocation for the officer to draw his weapon are not identity-dependent. It’s not a great ending, but the attacker entered a situation whereby his actions and his actions only; 1: The officer is justified in minimally pulling his weapon, and 2: how FREAKING DUMB do you have to be to not know that this is a losing strategy.
There were dozens and dozens of opportunities for the attacker to STOP, perhaps only seconds lone each, but he took none of them.
I believe that there was no cause to ask for an ID. But police will ask any way. He probably did not know that the officer had to have some reason to ask for an ID.
Blacks have been conditioned to believe cops (especially white cops) kill blacks without cause. Consequently they think they have a better chance to live by fighting. This conditioning becomes more ingrained in young people whenever a cop kills or beats down a black person without cause.
Seriously, these Amish yutes just get too much press here on FR...
How often does that actually happen, and how often do the usual suspects claim that it happens?
BoT:
Might I ask that you (BoT) compare and contrast your position vis-a-vis the post of Kirkwood in #28.
Sorry...post #31
I question why anyone would want to be a cop. I really do... I mean, no salary is worth it, but that's just me.
He ain’t did nuthin! Them white folks be always tryin’ to clown bruthas so tired of dem always out thurr be tryin’ to put us in dem prisonz.
Kid: 'bout what?
Fo’ shizzle, my caucizzle!
CC
That’s the reason for all the violence in the middle-east as well. It’s just mistaken identity- all the men are named “Mohammed”!
CC
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