The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

Started by Syt, August 11, 2014, 04:09:04 AM

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Oexmelin

Que le grand cric me croque !

mongers

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

DGuller

It's just another front of the culture war.  Michael Slager's lawyer royally fucked up.

CountDeMoney

That's not a video of a police-related shooting.  That's a 15 minute torture and execution video.


As long as it's tolerated, it will continue.


mongers

Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 08, 2017, 04:29:17 PM
That's not a video of a police-related shooting.  That's a 15 minute torture and execution video.


As long as it's tolerated, it will continue.

Didn't want to watch the video, but did see a still of it, figured it would be really ugly.  :(
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

garbon

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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

Of all the police shooting vids in recent memory, I have to say that the 18 minute version linked in The Atlantic article is probably the most horrific.  No wonder the guy was crying by then.  15 minutes of bullshit commands and constant threats.  It's a fucking torture video.


I would say I just don't understand anymore, but at this point it's beyond the ability to understand.  I can't even comprehend it anymore.



Oexmelin

Que le grand cric me croque !

Razgovory

If they won't convict on that, they won't convict on anything.

What sort of lesson is the public suppose to draw from this?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Jacob

Quote from: Razgovory on December 08, 2017, 06:23:17 PM
If they won't convict on that, they won't convict on anything.

What sort of lesson is the public suppose to draw from this?

That the police can shoot you at will.

mongers

Quote from: Razgovory on December 08, 2017, 06:23:17 PM
If they won't convict on that, they won't convict on anything.

What sort of lesson is the public suppose to draw from this?

Avoid* the free-fire zones?




*maybe move to Canada.
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jimmy olsen

Chicago PD are fucking crazy!

http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/12/us/beneath-the-skin/?sr=sharebar_twitter
QuoteHorrific cuts cover her son's body after he's shot dead by Chicago police, and Cynthia Lane wants answers. A yearlong investigation by CNN's Rosa Flores shows the truth is not always black and white.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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11B4V

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

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"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

jimmy olsen

Texas gets one right!

https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-police-officer-found-guilty-murder-death-teenager/story?id=57455946

QuoteFormer Texas police officer found guilty of murder in death of teenager Jordan Edwards

By Bill Hutchinson

Aug 28, 2018, 6:25 PM ET

A former Texas police officer was found guilty of murder on Tuesday in the 2017 killing of an unarmed African-American teenager who was shot as he and his friends started to drive away from a house party in a car.

A Dallas County jury convicted Roy Oliver, who is white and a former officer for the Balch Springs Police Department, of murdering Jordan Edwards when he fired multiple times into a car full of teens and struck the 15-year-old in the head.

The jury announced its verdict just before 3 p.m. local time, after deliberating 13 hours over two days.

As Dallas County District Court Judge Brandon Birmingham read the verdict, Oliver, 38, wearing a gray suit and standing between his two defense attorneys, showed no emotion.

After the jury filed out of the courtroom, relatives and friends of Jordan hugged each other. Some, including Jordan's mother, Charmaine Edwards, broke into tears.

Odell Edwards, Jordan's father, sprung up from his seat in the front row of the courtroom and hugged Assistant District Attorney Mike Snipes.

"I'm very, very happy," Odell Edwards told reporters. "It's been a long time, a hard year."

The jury found Oliver not guilty of aggravated assault for firing with a rifle into the car of teenagers.

Jordan was shot to death on April 29, 2017, when officers responded to a late-night house party in Balch Springs, a suburb southeast of Dallas.

During the trial, Officer Tyler Gross, Oliver's partner that night, testified that when he and Oliver arrived at the scene he spotted a car full of people outside the house apparently attempting to drive away.

Gross testified that as he ran toward the car he ordered the driver to stop.

Oliver testified during the trial that he thought Gross was in danger of being run over and fired an AK-15 rifle five times at the car, hitting Jordan who was in the front passenger seat. He also testified that before the shooting, he was inside the house and that he believed he heard gunfire erupt outside.

"I had to make a decision," Oliver told jurors. "This car is about to hit my partner. I had no other option."

Oliver initially told his superiors that the car was backup up toward Gross when he opened fire. But police later said police body camera and dash-cam footage showed the car was moving forward and away from the officers when Oliver shot at the vehicle.

Three days after the shooting, Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber announced that Oliver, who joined the police force in 2011, had been fired.

During his closing argument, Snipes described Oliver as reckless and out of control.

"This guy is an angry, out-of-control walking bomb, a time bomb that went off on April 29, 2017," Snipes told the jury.

He played the jurors the police dash-cam footage and freeze-framed it to show Jordan, wearing a light blue top, in the front seat of the car just before he was shot.

"He didn't know it, but he's got about 10 seconds to live," Snipes told the jury.

Snipes said Jordan, a star football player at Mesquite High School in Balch Springs, had a bright future that was cut short by Oliver.

"He really had a million friends, [he] really had a 3.5 grade point average, he really did want to go to [the University of] Alabama to play football," Snipes told the jury. "He did not deserve to die that night."
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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