The title is ironic, but the sentiment isn’t.
Victim shot by police in Indianapolis after robbery.
Carl Williams, 48, dialed 911 around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday to alert cops a man with a rifle forced his wife to give him her car keys then drove off with her car, according to Indianapolis police. Yet Officer Christopher Mills wound up shooting Williams in the stomach, investigators said.
Williams, a black Air Force veteran who has worked as a postal employee for the past 16 years, was recuperating Thursday at his family’s eastern Indianapolis home, his lawyer Richard Hailey said in a statement.
A few things to defend the police here – they were told a car was stolen but it was parked outside the house when they arrived, the man came out of the houses garage with his gun visible, he was black…
The police shooting of a Brooklyn teen nearly three years ago is now being compared with that of Tamir Rice — after surveillance video reveals the 15-year-old posed no threat at the time.
Keston Charles, who had been wielding a BB gun, was shot three times by Officer Jonathan Rivera — who fired 16 times at the teen — during a foot chase.
Unlike Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was shot to death by Cleveland police while holding a pellet gun in November 2014, Charles was lucky to survive.
The video – on the site above – shows the boy running, looking over his shoulder but never aiming his ‘gun’ as the police insisted he did (and thereby justifying their use of deadly force) to defend their case. 16 shots, from just one officer, the boy was hit once in a buttock and twice in the chest – the last two when he was standing with his hands up surrendering, verified by a former New York City chief medical examiner.
He was black, like the boy from Cleveland, but at least he survived.
Ok, let the nutters reply…;o)
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August 27, 2016 at 11:28 pm