Dontrell Stephens Dies Eight Years After Being Paralyzed In Police Shooting

Not only was the former military killer not held accountable, but he was also promoted to sergeant after shooting Dontrell Stephens four times.
Dontrell Stephens was unarmed.

Gut-wrench­ing? Yes. A tear-jerker?.….….….sure!!!
As a for­mer cop, when I first read this sto­ry, I wept openly.
I wept because in my decade long ser­vice as a law-enforce­ment offi­cer in a coun­try that has been char­ac­ter­ized as the fifth most vio­lent coun­try in the world, one that has borne the brunt of America’s manip­u­la­tion when it comes to polic­ing, I have had hun­dreds, prob­a­bly thou­sands of expe­ri­ences like the one in which Dontrell Stephens was murdered.
Yet, I nev­er once shot a sin­gle per­son in any of those encounters.
I said encoun­ters in which Dontrell Stephens was killed because that dement­ed, demon­ic beast that shot him that day intend­ed to kill him on the spot. His psy­chi­cal death 8‑years ‑lat­er was just a delayed event.
Adams Lin is char­ac­ter­ized as a mil­i­taris­tic cop who car­ries extra mag­a­zine clips above what his depart­ment requires. When ques­tioned about it, he replied, “As we say in the Army, ‘We pray for peace, but we train for war.”
This is the most direct state­ment we have heard from a killer cop that American polic­ing bad­ly needs revamping.
They are trained killers, not peace offi­cers. These degen­er­ates do not belong on our streets; they see parts of the pop­u­la­tion as their ene­my to be exterminated.
Since shoot­ing Dontrell Stephens, Adams Lin has been pro­mot­ed to sergeant.
It is the typ­i­cal path for an aggres­sive cop who wants to be pro­mot­ed or com­mend­ed; shoot, kill or maim a Black per­son, and you are pro­mot­ed rather than held accountable.
It hap­pens all the time across the Country in depart­ments small and large; from Ferguson, Missouri to Westchester County New York to Palm Beach, Florida, and all places in between, aggres­sive killer cops shoot and kill an unarmed Black per­son and lies about being afraid for their life and rather than be impris­oned for betray­ing their oaths and lying, they are pro­mot­ed and held up as heroes.
It is atyp­i­cal of any oth­er [gang] that has cer­tain rites as part of their ini­ti­a­tion process; mur­der a Black per­son, and you have demon­strat­ed that you are one of us.
The Black com­mu­ni­ty will have to decide whether it will sit around and allow this to con­tin­ue or whether it will get up forty-plus mil­lion strong and put an end to the genocide.
Mike Beckles.….….….….…

Nearly eight years after Dontrell Stephens was shot by police and left par­a­lyzed, the 28-year-old has died.
According to The Palm Beach Post, Stephens died due to com­pli­ca­tions from paral­y­sis. He report­ed­ly passed away on Sunday, August 29.
Dontrell had an unfor­tu­nate and dif­fi­cult life. His attor­ney Jack Scarola said to The Palm Beach Post, “It was a vari­ety of issues, includ­ing bed sores. I hope that as a con­se­quence of the res­o­lu­tion of his case that he had some relief. But what­ev­er relief he had was very short-lived.”
In June of 2020, Stephens even­tu­al­ly received a set­tle­ment for $6 mil­lion. Nearly $1 mil­lion of his set­tle­ment went to out­stand­ing med­ical bills, WPTV reports.
On Sept. 13, 2013, Dontrell Stephens was rid­ing his bicy­cle when a police offi­cer’s car was fol­low­ing him. The dash­cam video, obtained by The Palm Beach Post, showed the police car pulls him over. Stephens got off his bike and walked toward the deputy. Seconds lat­er, the deputy shot Stephens four times. Stephens could be seen run­ning away as the bul­lets struck him. Stephens, 20 at the time, was car­ry­ing a cell­phone and was unarmed.