Family of 11-year-old shot by police vows to seek justice after officer gets no charges
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once again, a child was shot, the shooter will be rewarded, and a bunch of people who did nothing wrong will pay for it
This is why calling cops to solve family disputes is a bad idea. They peddle violence, and to a hammer everything looks like a nail.
I'd agree in many cases but not this one.
This wasn't a husband, it was a father of one of the women's kids. He didn't live there, and he showed up "irate" at 4am. She felt unsafe, and not unreasonably so. If you genuinely feel unsafe and can't leave the situation (for any number of reasons), that's when you roll the dice and call the cops.
This is also a black woman living in Mississippi, so even if she's lucky enough to have never been on the receiving end of shitty police behavior, she possibly had a better appreciation than most what might show up at her door if she called them. She was still unnerved enough to call. Maybe she didn't think it through, but again, I don't think it was the wrong impulse.
Roll the dice on calling the cops, the way its meant to be 😎
That phrasing is utterly dystopian
I disagree. Had to call the cops a few times to settle family disputes, they were always the best course of action.
I remember a woman from the US called the police because her son was having a mental breakdown and threatened to kill himself with his shotgun. Multiple police arrived and found the woman talking to his son who is inside his vehicle. The police saw the shotgun and promptly shot the son multiple times with the mother just outside the car in close proximity.
Shooting KIDS is how we Protect The Children!
God forbid they get the active shooter
I’m sure the officer thought it was a dog and
was excited at getting to shoot a defenseless animalfeared for his lifeMaybe the cop was actually Israel and thought Hamas was hiding in the kid.
If the officer gave the kid a flyer saying "you're about to be shot", then it's ok.
Doubtful. Historically the police love shooting, lynching, and enslaving black ppl. Kinda their original job
Obvious racism and corruption aside, the reason most often cited for not charging officers that irresponsibly discharge their weapons and harm civilians is that they were following the protocol they were taught as officers. Are there any attempts to get these protocols and training changed and if so, why aren't they being reported on in the news?
I would have liked to have been a bug on the wall to hear the grand jury deliberate this one. I mean I get the knee jerk reaction, but even so a kid who it seemingly was complying with instructions, gets shot anyway. How is that not negligent?
They also need to charge who ever gave him that haircut. Poor kid.
Yeah let's focus on the kids haircut. Smh
I'm sorry, that was very insensitive from me. It's always tragic when a black kid gets shot by the police in the US. But the haircut is something you don't see every day.
Whenever you wonder who the asshole in a situation is, at least you know the answer. It's you.
It's just a joke.
Way to pile on. You've really made a difference and shown how shiny your armor is.
Post your hairline, bet you won't
I think that shape up looks good. Why do you think it looks bad?
It's painted on.
I have to admit it sort of does look off. Like a Lego hairpiece almost. Didn't look that hard until reading their comment. But now that I have it is kind of giving off uncanny valley vibes.
It looks sharp. Something maybe about the proportions is doing it.
It looks like it's drawn on