When Fear of the Police Is Not Living Free

found online by Raymond

 
From Glenn R. Geist at MadMikesAmerica:

It’s getting very hard for me to maintain the opinion that unnecessary and illegal shootings by police officers are a rare and statistically unimportant thing. It’s harder and harder to believe the cover stories that have traditionally justified such things now that most of us have video cameras in our pockets and are able to post to the internet in real time.

The LA Times posted a video a short while ago: a close-up of a young man apparently trying to get up off the ground and being shot repeatedly by an officer. After staggering and falling in terminal agony after the first 6 shots, he gets another as a gratuitous point-blank coup de grace. There is something in his right hand that certainly looks flexible and not gun-like. You can see that as it hits the ground. My stomach turned as I heard him saying no, no, no until the last shot silenced him.

No, I wasn’t there, didn’t see what led up to it, but I’m not blind or stupid and I’m sure I witnessed a murder.

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