Black and running from the cops? History has proven...stupid move kid. Best bet would have just been to freeze. Either way hes screwed though, black and running away from cops. Tisk Tisk..
You made a statement about how the events occurred. I am asking you if you have evidence to back that up.
None. But I do find it weird that he couldn't flush a "small amount" of marijuana down the toilet in the time it took for those officers to get into the home, which was in the order of a few minutes.
Black and running from the cops? History has proven...stupid move kid. Best bet would have just been to freeze. Either way hes screwed though, black and running away from cops. Tisk Tisk..
None. But I do find it weird that he couldn't flush a "small amount" of marijuana down the toilet in the time it took for those officers to get into the home, which was in the order of a few minutes.
Blue.
Let's see. No warrant. Officers break into home. Officers shoot a Black teenager in the chest.
No charges were pending to the dead teen. He was being followed because "he looked like he had a gun."
Identity of the officers are not being released.
So easy to kill minorities these days.
Want to kill a Black person: become a cop.
Want to kill a Hispanic person: become border patrol.
Want to kill a Brown person: join the military.
It's amazing how much you can get away with wearing a uniform.
If you consider what the teen did as running and a lot of cops think like you, that means black's are really screwed. He wasn't even close to running. 65 year old's power walk faster than that.
"This is Officer A. Hole, shots fired and perp down, he was evading me at a break neck speed of 3.4mph"
I agree that he did not deserve to die for being in possession of pot. However, he ran. A chase invokes animal instincts. The chasee becomes scared and the chaser instinctively looks for a way to stop the chasee at any cost, even violence.
Running into a person's home involves danger. The cop was in a dangerous situation motivating an instinctual increase in the level of reaction to that of deadly force.
The kid would still be alive if he had not run.
Why be biased in your speculation? Lets speculate he had already flushed 50 pounds down the drain and was on his final batch. Really, if we are going to play this game let's at least make it fair. :\
Black and running from the cops? History has proven...stupid move kid. Best bet would have just been to freeze. Either way hes screwed though, black and running away from cops. Tisk Tisk..
He wasn't running. He looked unaware that he was even being followed by the police. :\
Unaware of NYPD following u, your own fault lol...
He wasn't running. He looked unaware that he was even being followed by the police. :\
Shooting people for getting high now? This has nothing to do with race or blacks and everything to do with this stupid moral high horse "drug war" that has gone on for years. So many civilians and officers alike killed, botched raids, family members shot and killed in the WRONG HOUSES, people accused of being cop killers for defending themselves in a no knock breaking and entering at 3 am...
I'm not a drug user, but I firmly believe everybody has exclusive right to their own bodies and what they do to themselves. If you can get your shit from a legit dealer who doesn't steal or violate the rights of others, and you can pay for it and smoke/shoot it without stealing or violating the rights of others, then where is the fucking problem?
95% of the need for a paramilitary police forces with automatic rifles and armored vehicles along with the "fearful situations" caused by these encounters daily would disappear overnight if this shit wasn't arbitrarily criminalized.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8531261
"shows graham running down his block, cops following"
Cops stake out bodega due to known drug activity in the area.
Suspect runs when he sees cops (can be seen in link).
Either tries to find place to hide what he has or gets the rest of his drugs in the house and runs to bathroom, in front of cops, to flush down toilet.
The shooting was an accident and would have been prevented if the officers didn't break the 4th amendment by breaking and entering into this guys home. I also believe (hope) the cops wouldn't have broken down the door if they didn't think he had a gun on him. For all we know he did and he threw it away while running home. If the police did see a gun on him before he ran, it's understandable that they can mistake something he was holding, or the position of his hands, to be a gun, especially after having to chase him, break down his door, and put themselves in a dangerous situation.
I personally don't think they should have run into the house, especially if they thought he was armed. This is the kind of crap you see on TV that makes you roll your eyes and think "oh please, any real cop would call for backup or the freakin SWAT instead of trying to be some hero. Well, this young cop watched too much TV and this is what happened.
Under no circumstances should police ever barge into a house like this when they are basically alone, as mistakes will most likely be made, and somebody will get hurt or be killed. There is nothing to be gained in such a situation, and in every possible scenario I can think of, it would only turn out better (with regards to safety of all involved) when the police secure the premises outside and wait for backup to arrive. I would love to know if this is a procedural issue, training issue, or failure to follow procedures on the part of the 2 police on the scene.
He could have just not ran away from them and all would have been well.