shot in the back by a cop and now paralyzed

[Linux23]

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/0...h-dashcam-video-police-shoots-unarmed-man.cnn

Let me guess, the officer thought he saw a gun and feared for his life from the fleeing suspect.

This really needs to stop.

 

[Pipeline 1010]

The officer stated that he pulled an object from his pants that might have been a gun. But from the video, it looked like the cell phone was already in his hand all along. It's hard to tell.

Either way, the Earth is round, so running away from an officer is the same thing as charging toward the officer from behind him. Very dangerous for officer safety, which naturally, comes first.

I wonder how long it will be before the department researches and makes public every crime this guy or his family ever committed. As well as any other smear campaign dirt they can find.

 

[Victorian Gray]

"Footage from the Sept. 13, 2013 confrontation was released Thursday as part of a federal suit appears to show Lin shoot Stephens, who is black and has previous arrests for drug possession, four times just seconds after getting out of his vehicle and confronting him.

The new video not only shows how quickly the deputy acted in using deadly force, but that responding officers were complicit, Scarola claims.

Lin can be heard talking to a fellow deputy after the shooting.

"He starts backing away," Lin said. "I said, ‘Get on the ground, get on the ground.’”

"I got your back man,” the fellow cop told Lin. “I got your back. Hey, you hear me?”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...ots-bike-riding-20-year-old-article-1.2197139

 

[Linux23]

so much for their internal investigations

cops are worse than thugs. at least with a thug you know what you're getting. with a cop, they pretend to be the good guys, but they are worse than the very thugs they're supposed to protect citizens from.

 

[Genx87]

Acting like they are a gang.

 

[MongGrel]

A Clockwork Orange, Alex and the police



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZQOBLqinQk

 

[Blanky]

pig should be in prison. Not everything in the world "could be a gun".

 

[SheHateMe]

Either way, the Earth is round, so running away from an officer is the same thing as charging toward the officer from behind him.

haha



Also, for anyone curious to see the full video here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-3hTWLHUOU

Guy comes running back into the frame of the video only a few seconds after he got off of his bike. Notice how you never hear a single word from either cop or the guy who was shot.

 

[Darwin333]

so much for their internal investigations

cops are worse than thugs. at least with a thug you know what you're getting. with a cop, they pretend to be the good guys, but they are worse than the very thugs they're supposed to protect citizens from.

And unlike cops, you can actually protect yourself from thugs.

 

[Darwin333]

pig should be in prison. Not everything in the world "could be a gun".

Just think if a normal citizen shot someone because he pulled a cellphone out. What are the chances that he'd be a free man today?

 

[TheVrolok]

So. Fucking. Disgusting.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Just think if a normal citizen shot someone because he pulled a cellphone out. What are the chances that he'd be a free man today?

Pretty good provided you live in FL. Admittedly I don't think the trial has occurred but looks like he's free.

http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0712/Ex-cop-charged-in-Fla.-popcorn-shooting-released-on-bond



Off topic, I miss spidey in these threads so much craziness.

 

[Linux23]

haha



Also, for anyone curious to see the full video here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-3hTWLHUOU

Guy comes running back into the frame of the video only a few seconds after he got off of his bike. Notice how you never hear a single word from either cop or the guy who was shot.

holy fuck you see how hot that cop is coming down on this kid? what the fuck was his mindset that he had to jump the curb and come up on this kid like that.

 

[Linux23]

And unlike cops, you can actually protect yourself from thugs.

:thumbsup:

 

[Jaskalas]

Just think if a normal citizen shot someone because he pulled a cellphone out. What are the chances that he'd be a free man today?

The victim did not "pull a cellphone out". The cellphone was in his hands, from the beginning. For the "crime" of having something in his hands, the victim was gunned down.

From watching that video, I can assure you the decision to kill shoot the victim was made before the victim ran. Running was a last resort to watching an officer decide to kill him.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Pretty good provided you live in FL. Admittedly I don't think the trial has occurred but looks like he's free.

http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-N...ged-in-Fla.-popcorn-shooting-released-on-bond

They're still in the pre trial phase and the two cases have nothing in common.

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/r...r-shooter-curtis-reeves-has-pre-trial-hearing

 

[DrDoug]

The victim did not "pull a cellphone out". The cellphone was in his hands, from the beginning. For the "crime" of having something in his hands, the victim was gunned down.

From watching that video, I can assure you the decision to kill shoot the victim was made before the victim ran. Running was a last resort to watching an officer decide to kill him.

The whole thing comes across as the guy was approaching the cop to talk to him and he saw something that spooked him. The only thing I can think of is that the guy panicked because the cop was aiming at him and not saying anything. The speed with which this happened and his false claim to have ordered the guy to the ground makes me think that this cop intended to shoot him. Nothing else makes sense to me and it's clear that the cop lied to cover up his crime.

I'm not surprised that the cops absolved the cop of any wrongdoing. As far as they are concerned, it was a good shoot.

It always is.

 

[Jaskalas]

We should take comfort that public video is going to create a public outcry.

This sort of police brutality against citizens has, likely, always existed. It is only now in our modern age of widespread video surveillance and internet publication that the public gets to witness what is happening to them, and how terrible it can be.

Policy changes are coming. It's just a matter of time until we overcome this violence.

 

[Blanky]

We should take comfort that public video is going to create a public outcry.

This sort of police brutality against citizens has, likely, always existed. It is only now in our modern age of widespread video surveillance and internet publication that the public gets to witness what is happening to them, and how terrible it can be.

Policy changes are coming. It's just a matter of time until we overcome this violence.

Yeah I think it is inevitable as well.

The guy in this video acted shifty for sure and he had something in his hand. From the perspective of the guy in driver's seat I could understand drawing the pistol, but then he just fires without confirming it is a gun, and it is plain daylight. That is just the wrong decision.

 

[ch33zw1z]

The victim did not "pull a cellphone out". The cellphone was in his hands, from the beginning. For the "crime" of having something in his hands, the victim was gunned down.

From watching that video, I can assure you the decision to kill shoot the victim was made before the victim ran. Running was a last resort to watching an officer decide to kill him.

I agree with almost all of this. I don't see the guy even running. When the cops roll up to him he had one hand on the handle bars and was casually riding. He wasn't peddling fast, didn't run when he got off his bike, approached the officer in a non threatening manner with a look of confusion. He turned and ran when the officer pulled his weapon.

 

[TheVrolok]

I agree with almost all of this. I don't see the guy even running. When the cops roll up to him he had one hand on the handle bars and was casually riding. He wasn't peddling fast, didn't run when he got off his bike, approached the officer in a non threatening manner with a look of confusion. He turned and ran when the officer pulled his weapon.

Absolutely this.

 

[Linux23]

He was black and the cop had a wartime mentality. That's all the threat that cop needed.

 

[Pipeline 1010]

We should take comfort that public video is going to create a public outcry.

This sort of police brutality against citizens has, likely, always existed. It is only now in our modern age of widespread video surveillance and internet publication that the public gets to witness what is happening to them, and how terrible it can be.

Policy changes are coming. It's just a matter of time until we overcome this violence.

Although I'd love to think so, I'm not so sure that changes are really coming. Each time a cop gets away with something like this, it creates a legal precedence for the next cop that does this to be exonerated.

It seems like the powers that be LIKE it this way. The judges, the prosecutors, the unions, city/county/state leadership all seem to do their best to cover for this kind of behavior. If those guys aren't going to enact the change, then who will? Who is going to change things?

 

[SheHateMe]

If you look close enough, you can see Dontrell's elbow come back into view before he turns around and runs away. It doesn't even look like he got close to the officer. He was only a foot or so away from that bike. The guy didn't say shit to him, it looks like he literally got off the bike and walked a foot and see what was up and ended up getting shot in the back.

 

[soulcougher73]

Id be curious to find out why he ran or what he was pulled up on for.