Today’s US police shooting of an unarmed person thread

[SWP's back]

Seems like there’s another shooting every week in the states where a cop shoots or kills an unarmed individual, often without punishment.

Latest one in the news was Stephen Clark:

NY times link

Unarmed, black, 22, shot at 20 times by police because he was holding a mobile phone.

The police were looking for someone that was trying to break into empty cars and they were more than happy to hand out the death penalty to their perp.

The video is fairly harrowing:



When will the American public finally manage to feel like their police officers are there to defend them as opposed to kill them?

This isn’t a one off. US cops kill 1,000 civilians every year.

In 2015 they killed 300 black people of which 1 in 3 were unarmed. Whilst they have no issue killing unarmed people, unarmed black people are 5 times as likely as being killed as their white or Hispanic peers.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/

It does make me very grateful that only specialist officers are armed in the U.K. Whether it’s a training thing, a panic thing or the wrong sort of people joining the police force in the US, it’s appalling that nothing every seems to be done about it and it’s neigh on impossible for a serving police officer to be found guilty of murder or even manslaughter so long as they can show they thought their life was in danger, whether it was or wasn’t.

 

[Scottyboi]

RIP another unarmed man, when did self defence mean you fired 20 bullets into someone.

Imagine raising your son all them years to discover he has just been cornered and shot dead by some vile pig with a god complex.

 

[aguero93:20]

Stephen Clark should have been carrying a gun, he would have been able to protect himself then.

 

[SWP's back]

Stephen Clark should have been carrying a gun, he would have been able to protect himself then.

Or rocks.

 

[KnaresboroughBlue]

Seems like there’s another shooting every week in the states where a cop shoots or kills an unarmed individual, often without punishment.

Latest one in the news was Stephen Clark:

NY times link

Unarmed, black, 22, shot at 20 times by police because he was holding a mobile phone.

The police were looking for someone that was trying to break into empty cars and they were more than happy to hand out the death penalty to their perp.

The video is fairly harrowing:



When will the American public finally manage to feel like their police officers are there to defend them as opposed to kill them?

This isn’t a one off. US cops kill 1,000 civilians every year.

In 2015 they killed 300 black people of which 1 in 3 were unarmed. Whilst they have no issue killing unarmed people, unarmed black people are 5 times as likely as being killed as their white or Hispanic peers.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/

It does make me very grateful that only specialist officers are armed in the U.K. Whether it’s a training thing, a panic thing or the wrong sort of people joining the police force in the US, it’s appalling that nothing every seems to be done about it and it’s neigh on impossible for a serving police officer to be found guilty of murder or even manslaughter so long as they can show they thought their life was in danger, whether it was or wasn’t.

Perhaps they would be less trigger happy if there were far fewer guns on the streets. They feel that almost any situation could be potentially life threatening.

Many European countries have armed police but I suspect there aren't anything like as many shootings of unarmed people as there are in the USA.

 

[SWP's back]

Perhaps they would be less trigger happy if there were far fewer guns on the streets. They feel that almost any situation could be potentially life threatening.

Many European countries have armed police but I suspect there aren't anything like as many shootings of unarmed people as there are in the USA.

Vicious circle isn’t it.

 

[Scottyboi]

Vicious circle isn’t it.

It is as more people will probably start shooting first to make sure they aren't murdered by the police. I seen one of a man who told the police officer he was armed, which is obviously the right thing to do, anyway they shot him dead when he took his seat belt off. Was stopped for something daft like a brake light.

 

[SWP's back]

It is as more people will probably start shooting first to make sure they aren't murdered by the police. I seen one of a man who told the police officer he was armed, which is obviously the right thing to do, anyway they shot him dead when he took his seat belt off. Was stopped for something daft like a brake light.

Absolutely appalling.

I still can’t get the video out of my head if the poor bloke in the hotel hallway crying his eyes out and begging the police not to shoot him right up until they did.

That prick got off without a guilty verdict as well and fucked off to the Far East.

 

[laughing gravy]

the reason they shoot folk is because they are never held to account over there.during the gulf war 2 american pilots attacked a british troop carrier killing 7 squadies the MOD requested he pilots attend the inquests,the pentagon refused saying no american can be held accountable.

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

Seems like there’s another shooting every week in the states where a cop shoots or kills an unarmed individual, often without punishment.

Latest one in the news was Stephen Clark:

NY times link

Unarmed, black, 22, shot at 20 times by police because he was holding a mobile phone.

The police were looking for someone that was trying to break into empty cars and they were more than happy to hand out the death penalty to their perp.

The video is fairly harrowing:



When will the American public finally manage to feel like their police officers are there to defend them as opposed to kill them?

This isn’t a one off. US cops kill 1,000 civilians every year.

In 2015 they killed 300 black people of which 1 in 3 were unarmed. Whilst they have no issue killing unarmed people, unarmed black people are 5 times as likely as being killed as their white or Hispanic peers.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/

It does make me very grateful that only specialist officers are armed in the U.K. Whether it’s a training thing, a panic thing or the wrong sort of people joining the police force in the US, it’s appalling that nothing every seems to be done about it and it’s neigh on impossible for a serving police officer to be found guilty of murder or even manslaughter so long as they can show they thought their life was in danger, whether it was or wasn’t.

Very very sad; poor guy, life snuffed out at 22