At some point in time, there has to be a reck­on­ing and a cost-ben­e­fit analy­sis done to deter­mine whether the col­lat­er­al dam­age done by law enforce­ment is worth the life, trau­ma, mon­ey, and oth­er costs asso­ci­at­ed with our quest for the sup­posed secu­ri­ty they offer?
As far as polic­ing is con­cerned, there are the ever-present periph­er­al issues attached to this par­tic­u­lar sub­ject, which in real­i­ty has pre­cious lit­tle to do with the sem­i­nal issue of police violence.
Black lead­ers in their zeal to attract light to the heat of police vio­lence do them­selves and the Black com­mu­ni­ty a dis­ser­vice by insist­ing that those side issues are cen­tral to fix­ing police violence.
By attach­ing Housing dis­crim­i­na­tion, men­tal health issues, pover­ty, lack of good-pay­ing jobs, or oth­er such issues to this debate, it actu­al­ly takes away from the cen­tral issue of police vio­lence because even among the Black com­mu­ni­ty’s most ardent sup­port­ers there are diver­gent points of view on each of the sub­jects named.

And so rather than gal­va­nize sup­port around the all-impor­tant issue of police vio­lence, peo­ple tend to lose inter­est as they feel the total­i­ty of what they are being asked to sup­port is too great.
Every social ill that plagues the Black com­mu­ni­ty is sep­a­rate and must be addressed separately.
Police have nev­er cared about how they treat Black peo­ple rich or poor, they know that they are pro­tect­ed statutorily.
Neither have they ever cared how they treat Black peo­ple liv­ing in big man­sions. The point is that it does not mat­ter how much mon­ey Black peo­ple have, American cops, have nev­er been mind­ful of how they treat Blacks, they know the pro­tec­tions they enjoy in law and pol­i­cy and those are the rea­sons they act with impuni­ty, dis­re­spect, and disregard.
Of the more than 18,000 police depart­ments most cops have nev­er been forced to pull their ser­vice weapons, for many of those depart­ments, polic­ing duties are con­fined to extract­ing tax­es from errant motorists, some law­ful, oth­ers manufactured.
The website(vera.org) argues suc­cinct­ly,[Police spend an inor­di­nate amount of time respond­ing to 911 calls for ser­vice, even though most of these calls are unre­lat­ed to crimes in progress. Many are for qual­i­ty-of-life issues like noise, blocked dri­ve­ways, or pub­lic intox­i­ca­tion. Others are for prob­lems like drug abuse, home­less­ness, or men­tal health crises that would be bet­ter resolved with com­mu­ni­ty-based treat­ment or oth­er resources — not a crim­i­nal jus­tice response. But even when the under­ly­ing prob­lem is minor or not crim­i­nal in nature, police often respond to ser­vice requests with the tool that is most famil­iar and expe­di­ent for them to deploy: enforce­ment. All of this exhausts police resources and expos­es count­less peo­ple to avoid­able crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem con­tacts. And man­ag­ing this large call vol­ume also pos­es oper­a­tional chal­lenges for police agen­cies.]

(Justice​.gov) stip­u­lates, Police are entrust­ed with an enor­mous amount of author­i­ty, includ­ing the author­i­ty to use force, and it is impor­tant that the police under­take these tasks in a man­ner that is legal, and also is respect­ful to com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, and is in keep­ing with local pri­or­i­ties. (For exam­ple, dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties may vary in their approach to cer­tain issues, such as the enforce­ment of fed­er­al immi­gra­tion laws or drug decrim­i­nal­iza­tion or legal­iza­tion.) Police agen­cies must also pro­mote trans­paren­cy and account­abil­i­ty to demon­strate to the com­mu­ni­ty that offi­cers act fair­ly and impar­tial­ly and that there are sys­tems in place to detect mis­takes or abus­es of police author­i­ty. Public trust and coöper­a­tion are key ele­ments of effec­tive polic­ing and are lost when police engage in uncon­sti­tu­tion­al or unpro­fes­sion­al con­duct.

On these fun­da­men­tal issues no per­son, no mat­ter how pro-police, can make the case that police agen­cies are act­ing constitutionally.

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A for­mer Los Angeles police offi­cer has been charged in con­nec­tion with a 2019 shoot­ing inside a Costco in the city of Corona, California, where a men­tal­ly ill man was killed, and his par­ents were crit­i­cal­ly wound­ed, CBS Los Angeles reports.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday that Salvador Sanchez, a sev­en-year vet­er­an of the LAPD, has been charged with one count of vol­un­tary manslaugh­ter and two counts of assault with a semi­au­to­mat­ic hand­gun. He was tak­en into cus­tody Monday morn­ing in Riverside County.
On the night of June 14, 2019, Kenneth French, 32, of Riverside, and his par­ents, Russell and Paola, were shot by off-duty LAPD Officer Salvador Sanchez while in line at a sam­ple sta­tion at the CostcoKenneth, who has been described by his fam­i­ly’s attor­ney as schiz­o­phrenic and non­ver­bal, was killed. His par­ents were crit­i­cal­ly wound­ed but sur­vived. Both were shot in the back.

In September of 2019, a Riverside County grand jury declined to bring crim­i­nal charges; in the case, a deci­sion that sparked major protests at the time, per CBS LA. Grainy sur­veil­lance video appeared to show a phys­i­cal alter­ca­tion between French and Sanchez pri­or to the shoot­ing. Sanchez, who had been hold­ing his 18-month-old son, fired 10 rounds from a hand­gun. In March 2021, Corona police released body­cam footage of their offi­cers respond­ing to the scene. In the footage, Sanchez tells offi­cers that he opened fire after believ­ing that he him­self had been shot.

The shoot­ing cre­at­ed chaos in the store, send­ing shop­pers scur­ry­ing for the exits. Corona police offi­cers had ini­tial­ly respond­ed to reports of an active shoot­er. The Los Angeles Police Commission lat­er deter­mined that Sanchez act­ed out­side depart­ment policy.

The Associated Press con­tributed to this report.

LOOK AT THESE COPS CARRYING OUT AN ARREST. ARE THESE PROFESSIONAL COPS, OR ARE THESE COMMON THUGS WHO SHOULD BE TREATED AS COMMON THUGS IN RETURN?

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In some munic­i­pal­i­ties across the United States shoot­ing inci­dents have gone up, accord­ing to [police] reports. In New York City, for exam­ple, there has been a 35.4% increase in mur­ders in the last two years, accord­ing to NYPD data, though mur­ders are down 2.4% in 2021 year-to-date com­pared to last year. Shooting inci­dents have sky­rock­et­ed data shows. There’s been a 15.8% increase from 2020 to 2021, year-to-date, data shows, and a 100% increase over the past two years.
My point is not to tar­get New York nor malign the NYPD, but they have been known to use all kinds of under­hand­ed tac­tics to get what they want or to make a point.
It is for those rea­sons as there are cries to defund the police after the George Floyd mur­der in 2020, and res­i­dents in large cities like New York City and oth­ers are seek­ing to reimag­ine what polic­ing looks like going for­ward, that we are wit­ness­ing these spikes in shoot­ings and oth­er vio­lent crimes.
We all remem­ber that this same police depart­ment car­ried out the first insur­rec­tion in New York City against Mayor Dinkins led by Rudolph Guiliani. We can­not for­get also that they turned their backs en masse on their boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio, as he deliv­ered an address. not exact­ly a mod­el to emulate.
In fact, this depart­ment has been noth­ing but a group of thugs, its mem­bers have rammed pro­test­ers with their tax­pay­er-fund­ed vehi­cles and bragged about run­ning peo­ple over, who were mere­ly law­ful­ly demon­strat­ing against injustice.

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When polic­ing is looked at in terms of what it ought to rep­re­sent, (a) to the cit­i­zens it is sup­posed to pro­tect, (b) the cit­i­zens who pay for that ser­vice; the NYPD has been a shame­ful self-serv­ing fas­cist tool that serves its own interest.
On the 25^th of June of this year, I posed the ques­tion to you my read­ers; who exact­ly are the peo­ple doing the shooting”?
The ques­tion in no way negates the fact that there are many crim­i­nals out there tak­ing advan­tage of COVID-19 and the sense of uncer­tain­ty with polic­ing to com­mit crimes of opportunity.
However, it seems that some­thing is hap­pen­ing just under the sur­face, con­sid­er­ing that the FBI report­ed a large num­ber of Law enforce­ment and mil­i­tary mem­bers, past and present, were actu­al­ly a part of the January 20^th insur­rec­tion at the US Capitol.|
Conspiracy?
No!!!
I pre­sent­ed you with data and a pat­tern of cir­cum­stan­tial evi­dence that tends to lead toward a cer­tain conclusion.

I would not put it past police across the coun­try to have a heavy hand in this uptick in vio­lence to show that they are need­ed. I do not put it past a gullible pub­lic to lap it up and hire more of these uni­formed terrorists.

And then there is this story.
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Georgia Deputy Who Bragged About Beating Black Man, Claimed He’d Charge People with Crimes to Keep Them from Voting Is Sentenced on Weapons Charges.

A for­mer Georgia deputy and U.S. Marine who bragged in mes­sages with mem­bers of an extrem­ist group that he had bru­tal­ized a Black man in cus­tody and that he intend­ed to charge Black peo­ple with felonies to keep them from vot­ing were sen­tenced to three years and eight months in prison, plus one year of super­vised release on Aug. 3 in con­nec­tion with a weapons charge. Cody Richard Griggers, 28, plead­ed guilty in fed­er­al court on April 26 to one count of pos­ses­sion of an unreg­is­tered firearm and faced up to 10 years in prison. Federal author­i­ties revealed in court in April that while Griggers was still work­ing as a Wilkinson County deputy, he told mem­bers of the “Shadow Moses” group via text, “I’m going to charge them with what­ev­er felonies I can; to take away their abil­i­ty to vote.”In the mes­sages, Griggers used extrem­ist lan­guage, claim­ing he’d beat­en a Black theft sus­pect and talk­ing about killing lib­er­al politi­cians. He also dis­cussed acquir­ing ille­gal firearms, explo­sives, and sup­pres­sors and made pos­i­tive ref­er­ences to the Holocaust.

Griggers was fired from the depart­ment in November after the FBI con­tact­ed the sher­iff about an inves­ti­ga­tion regard­ing ille­gal guns and a man who had made vio­lent polit­i­cal state­ments on social media.
“This for­mer law enforce­ment offi­cer vio­lat­ed his oath of office in many ways, the most egre­gious was by threat­en­ing the very cit­i­zens he was sworn to pro­tect with his words of racial­ly moti­vat­ed vio­lence,” Chris Hacker, FBI spe­cial agent in charge of the Atlanta field office, said in a statement.
“Now he is being held account­able by serv­ing time in prison and nev­er being able to wear the blue again.”
FBI agents dis­cov­ered the group text with Griggers as part of a California inves­ti­ga­tion into a man mak­ing vio­lent polit­i­cal state­ments on social media. Authorities were search­ing the San Diego home of Grey Zamudio when they dis­cov­ered the Shadow Moses group text and saw the messages.
On November 19, 2020, a search of Griggers’ res­i­dence and his ser­vice vehi­cle yield­ed mul­ti­ple firearms, includ­ing an unreg­is­tered short bar­rel shot­gun in his home and a machine gun with an oblit­er­at­ed ser­i­al num­ber in the vehi­cle. The machine gun was not issued to Griggers, and he was not allowed to have the weapon in his law enforce­ment car. Officers found 11 ille­gal firearms in total between Griggers’ home and car.
In August 2019, Griggers texted the group about hav­ing beat­en a Black man.
“Oh, got wrapped up in my AR and for­got to tell y’all that I beat the sh‑t out of a n‑gger Saturday. (Expletive) tried to steal (a gun mag­a­zine) from the local gun store. … Sheriff’s dept. Said it looked like he fell,” Griggers said, accord­ing to an affidavit.
He described the beat­ing as “sweet stress relief.”
He also explained how he’d use polit­i­cal vio­lence to keep Black peo­ple from vot­ing. “Castrate, kill, remove vot­ing rights,” he wrote in an October mes­sage. “The only prob­lem is you can’t expect to get them all that way.”
“Law enforce­ment offi­cers should be above reproach, and the vast major­i­ty of them are. Cody Griggers dis­graced that trust by espous­ing vio­lent extrem­ism and pos­sess­ing a cache of unreg­is­tered weapons while on duty, includ­ing a machine gun with a silencer and oblit­er­at­ed ser­i­al num­ber,” said act­ing U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary. “Officers are nev­er above the laws they swear to uphold, and I thank our law enforce­ment part­ners for help­ing us hold this dis­graced for­mer deputy account­able. On Tuesday, Griggers claimed he was only jok­ing when he made the offen­sive com­ments in the group text.
“They were jokes, but it’s noth­ing to joke about. It has a real impact,” he said tear­ful­ly, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution report­ed

On Tuesday, Griggers claimed he was only jok­ing when he made the offen­sive com­ments in the group text. “They were jokes, but it’s noth­ing to joke about. It has a real impact,” he said tear­ful­ly, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution report­ed.
Wilkinson County Sheriff Richard Chatman said there’s no evi­dence Griggers act­ed on his beliefs while work­ing as a deputy for under a year. He said the claim about the beat­en Black sus­pect did not happen.

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Even after this igno­rant racist piece of shit was bust­ed with ille­gal weapons, con­fessed that he had beat­en a black man, that he had con­coct­ed felonies and charged Black peo­ple with those felonies to pre­vent them from vot­ing, and after he com­mit­ted numer­ous felonies, not to men­tion vio­lat­ing his oath as a police offi­cer, a piece of shit judge gave him three years.
That is white privilege.
And to make mat­ters even worse, if that is pos­si­ble, the piece of shit sher­iff said he nev­er beat any Black person.
And so I ask again,” who are the peo­ple real­ly fir­ing the shots”?

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Yesterday I opined on the tem­pest in a teacup that has been brew­ing over the last sev­er­al days (speak­ing of the alle­ga­tions by Clarendon res­i­dent Nzinga King that mem­bers of the Four Paths police cut her dread­locks against her will.
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This inci­dent, like most oth­ers involv­ing alle­ga­tions involv­ing the police quick­ly cement­ed peo­ple into camps. The entire dis­ci­pline of polic­ing has become a light­ning rod, not just in Jamaica but across the world, as police depart­ments con­tin­ue to be tone-deaf to their pub­lic’s demand for changes in how police offi­cers are allowed to operate.
The job of polic­ing has dra­mat­i­cal­ly changed; cit­i­zens are less like­ly to stand for abus­es of their rights, a stance I whole­heart­ed­ly support.
When police offi­cers go about their duties with­out mal­ice or ill will and make mis­takes, I am always sym­pa­thet­ic to those mis­takes, under­stand­ing that humans do make mistakes.
When police offi­cers vio­late rights because of pre­con­ceived ideas and bias­es, there is no sym­pa­thy com­ing from this writer.

Every offi­cer is taught the basics of the laws they are attempt­ing to enforce. They are also taught what statu­to­ry pow­ers they have to enforce said laws. Nowhere in the JCF train­ing man­u­al are offi­cers taught to vio­late any­one’s human rights. So if an offi­cer, or offi­cers any­where in Jamaica in this day and age decides to cut the hair from some­one’s head, that per­son should have no place in the JCF.
Even if a cit­i­zen asks an offi­cer to cut their hair, that offi­cer should polite­ly decline, ful­ly under­stand­ing the poten­tial back­lash from some­one get­ting the wrong impres­sion of that action.
As a friend and for­mer offi­cer insist­ed yes­ter­day, these alle­ga­tions do not need a long-drawn-out inves­ti­ga­tion from the top brass. The ques­tion is sim­ple, “did a mem­ber of the Four Paths Police unlaw­ful­ly cut the hair from the head of Nzinga King? Who is the mem­ber, and on what author­i­ty did that member/​s engage in that act?
To instill con­fi­dence in the police, the police com­mis­sion­er [must] move swift­ly to tell the pub­lic whether or not any offi­cer actu­al­ly cut the hair from the head of Ms. King immediately.
Each day that pass­es with­out that answer feeds the fire of spec­u­la­tion, builds sus­pi­cion that the depart­ment is hid­ing evi­dence, and increas­es ani­mos­i­ty toward offi­cers, and final­ly, it gives oppor­tunis­tic vul­tures, be they polit­i­cal or anti law enforce­ment, fod­der on which to feed.

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The claim by a young Clarendon woman Nzinga King that mem­bers of the Four-Paths police cut her dread­locks, has elicit­ed much debate and a swift deci­sion by the police high com­mand to ini­ti­ate a top-tiered investigation.
All good stuff; how­ev­er, I choose to await the out­come of the inves­ti­ga­tions ini­ti­at­ed by Commissioner of Police Antony Anderson.
Frankly, I was skep­ti­cal when I heard the sto­ry, and I still am. Not because police offi­cers have stopped doing dumb things, but because Rastafarianism has become such an accept­ed part of our Jamaican cul­ture that it has been hard for me to imag­ine that any police offi­cer would be so stu­pid to engage in activ­i­ties of that sort, but I may be wrong.
In the mean­time, some politi­cians from a cer­tain polit­i­cal par­ty, one Patricia Duncan-Sutherland, jumped head­first into the fray, and have been giv­ing media inter­views on behalf of the young woman and have helped the young lady and her fam­i­ly to secure legal rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the per­son of Isat Buchanan.

It is always easy to seek and get hype off the police in Jamaica, and truth­ful­ly some offi­cers make it easy for the wannabe politicians/​vultures to hop onto their fend­ers, but I digress.
One such failed politi­cian, of the Rastafarian dis­po­si­tion, even posit­ed that he intend­ed to stop by the police sta­tion to find out for him­self what had occurred.
Now seri­ous­ly, I hope that if and when he does decide to stop by the police sta­tion, in the face of an ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion, the police trim the locks from his head and send that idiot on his way.
That said, there are new rum­blings that the young woman lied to her school­mates about her age, lied that the police broke her cel­lu­lar device, and told her class­mates that she trimmed her own locks and regret­ted doing so. Frankly, if she lied about one thing it brings into ques­tion every­thing else she claimed happened.
One class­mate was not shy about telling the media that she was lying about the whole thing.
If this turns out to be a lie, I hope that the police will make an exam­ple of her by arrest­ing her and ensur­ing that she is pros­e­cut­ed to the fullest extent of the law for pub­lic mis­chief, or what­ev­er else Jamaican law allows statutorily.
If how­ev­er, any police offi­cer did vio­late her rights in that way they should be pun­ished accord­ing to the rules of the JCF and where pos­si­ble, held account­able civilly.

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I thought it iron­ic that they chose Isat Buchanan to rep­re­sent her, a twice-con­vict­ed felon now prac­tic­ing law.
Isat Buchanan was bust­ed twice on felony crimes, even when bust­ed and con­vict­ed he lied that he was inno­cent rather than take respon­si­bil­i­ty for what he had done.
He now rep­re­sents anoth­er poten­tial Rastafarian liar. And that a failed Rastafarian politi­cian chose this as the hill he wants to die on to gain rel­e­vance, as he pon­tif­i­cates about going to find out for him­self what real­ly happened.
Just sweet…you sim­ply can­not make this shit up.….

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We can only try to doc­u­ment a few of the atroc­i­ties they com­mit against peo­ple of col­or, lie about them in sworn state­ments and when found to be lying there are no con­se­quences to them for their actions.>
Everyone knows that when you write a state­ment it ought to be a state­ment of fact as to the best of one’s rec­ol­lec­tion. Police offi­cers do not have the right to lie to incrim­i­nate an inno­cent per­son. Police and pros­e­cu­tors are duty bound by law to turn over excul­pa­to­ry evi­dence to defen­dants coun­sel, how­ev­er, police and pros­e­cu­tors sum­mar­i­ly lie and destroy evi­dence they [know] is exculpatory.
Prosecutors sum­mar­i­ly refuse to pros­e­cute police even when they are caught lying under oath in court, noth­ing is done so they move on to the next series of lies to con­vict peo­ple they do not like.
On the oth­er hand, their state­ments which ought to depict sequen­tial­ly their encoun­ters with mem­bers of the pub­lic are arbi­trar­i­ly rid­dled with lies and incon­sis­ten­cies- again with­out con­se­quence to them.

HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE

Chicago police accused of wrongfully raiding another home

A Black fam­i­ly is suing the Chicago police depart­ment for alleged­ly break­ing down their door and point­ing guns at two chil­dren before attempt­ing to cov­er up that they had no evi­dence for the raid, The Associated Press report­ed Wednesday. The Winters fam­i­ly filed the law­suit Tuesday for police wrong­ful­ly raid­ing their home, which has report­ed­ly become a fre­quent occur­rence for peo­ple of col­or in the city.
On the night of Aug. 7, 2019, the chil­dren, two girls aged 4 and 9, were report­ed­ly sit­ting on the bed when police charged in the room with­out warn­ing or a war­rant. Police point­ed their guns at the sis­ters’ father, Steven Winters, whose back was lat­er knelt on by an offi­cer with a gun to the back of his head. Another offi­cer charged into the girls’ room and point­ed a flash­light and a gun at them, while a third offi­cer point­ed a gun at the chil­dren’s sleep­ing grandfather.

The inci­dent report­ed­ly left the chil­dren with “last­ing trau­ma … in the form of night­mares, bed-wet­ting, trou­ble sleep­ing, decreased appetite, cry­ing fits and fear and dis­trust of police,” accord­ing to the AP. The police depart­ment report­ed­ly tried to cov­er up the inci­dent by claim­ing they saw and heard a sus­pect run into the apart­ment, but these claims were proven false by the body cam­era footage that Al Hofeld Jr., the fam­i­ly’s attor­ney, acquired through an open records request. The city has yet to release body­cam footage of the inci­dent. “They do not show any­one enter­ing or exit­ing plain­tiffs’ build­ing or plain­tiffs’ apart­ment,” the law­suit said accord­ing to the AP. “Officers did not find any sign that any sus­pect had entered. Officers did not arrest any­one. The ter­ror and stress to this inno­cent fam­i­ly were all for naught. ”

This hap­pened in Miami Florida.
View these videos and tell me if these are police offi­cers or are they plain gang­sters who should receive the same treat­ment as gangsters?

Like I say as I report on these inci­dents dai­ly, these acts are not polic­ing. These are crim­i­nal thugs act­ing as ordi­nary crim­i­nals, they should be treat­ed as one would treat any oth­er criminal.

You cannot make these things up.
I thought that it was a serious crime for a motorist to knowingly hit a pedestrian or to be involved in any vehicular accident and leave the scene unless it is for a damn good reason like to save the life of the person injured or to avoid been killed by an angry mob etc.?
Well, obviously, I am wrong; if you are a cop, you can simply keep on going, and worse, no other cop will even bother to take a report. Talk about being above the law!!!

The offi­cer appears to have hit the boy but did­n’t stop to help him

L.A.’s KTLA5 reports, a moth­er and a com­mu­ni­ty, are out­raged after an alleged hit and run that left a 14-year-old boy injured. The car cap­tured on video hit­ting him was a California Highway Patrol cruis­er. The dri­ver fled the scene.

The inci­dent hap­pened on June 27^th. The boy was attend­ing a local car show in East L.A. when it hap­pened. Luckily wit­ness­es at the event not only saw what hap­pened but record­ed it as well. What’s most shock­ing is that after the offi­cer hit the boy, he just kept going. The boy suf­fered some seri­ous injuries, includ­ing a shoul­der injury and con­cus­sion, and the effects are still being felt a month lat­er. His moth­er, Sara Cervantes, said the con­cus­sion was so bad, the boy’s speech was slurred, say­ing, “You could tell that some­thing was wrong and he couldn’t talk cor­rect­ly; he was slur­ring his words.”

What’s more out­ra­geous is that oth­er offi­cers seem­ing­ly moved to pro­tect the offi­cer in question:

Community activists and the boy’s moth­er claim that the offi­cer didn’t stop to help the boy. They also said that sev­er­al indi­vid­u­als tried to report the hit-and-run to oth­er offi­cers who were patrolling the area, but not a sin­gle offi­cer would take a report.

Now out­rage has spread with­in the com­mu­ni­ty with calls for the CHP to release the officer’s name and ter­mi­nate him.
“It was absolute­ly dis­gust­ing to see the video of them just hit him and take off, and didn’t even try to find out where his par­ent was or seek med­ical atten­tion for him,” said Alejandra Estrada, a com­mu­ni­ty activist.
There’s still been no response from the CHP.

Of course not; why would they respond to the tax­pay­ing pub­lic that hires them and pays their salaries? They are unac­count­able to anyone?
But that is exact­ly what they are allowed to do in the United States. Why?
Because in the United States, the police have always been the oppres­sors of the abused African-American com­mu­ni­ty. Police serve as a bul­wark that pro­tects white supremacy.
Therefore, the thing we know as ‘police’ has always been an ene­my of the Black com­mu­ni­ty, regard­less of whether there are Black offi­cers in their departments.

Nothing like call­ing the Rambo cow­boys in because some­one is threat­en­ing to kill anoth­er in a domes­tic sit­u­a­tion .….……but has­n’t yet, at least. And what do the Rambo cow­boys do? Critically wound the per­son threat­en­ing harm and killing the inno­cent vic­tim that was being threatened.
Ends well, right?
Well, if you ask the peo­ple who stu­pid­ly believe that the answer to America’s police prob­lems is to mil­i­ta­rize the police fur­ther and not to defund them, employ more pro­fes­sion­als trained in de-esca­la­tion and domes­tic dis­putes, you will find a way to make the argu­ment that this was a pos­i­tive outcome.
It is clear­er by the day that the old cliché “give a man a ham­mer and every­thing becomes a nail” is appro­pri­ate when talk­ing about American police.
These guys show up in a hur­ry look­ing for every rea­son to dis­charge their ser­vice weapons. What their actions are demon­strat­ing is a blood-lust that dri­ves them into look­ing to dis­charge their weapons mul­ti­ple times at a sin­gle per­son, then seek to jus­ti­fy doing so.
We see this hap­pen­ing even when they arrive at a scene where they are in no dan­ger because they have all the oppor­tu­ni­ty to take cov­er and spend the nec­es­sary time talk­ing down a per­son going through a men­tal cri­sis; they quick­ly decide that fir­ing a bar­rage of bul­lets into the per­son is a bet­ter out­come than wait­ing to allow a per­son trained in deal­ing with men­tal health sit­u­a­tions to arrive. This is what has been legit­imized into accep­tance in America, sim­ply mak­ing it offi­cial for police to become on-the-spot exe­cu­tion­ers to dis­pose of peo­ple they do not want to deal with.
People of col­or, poor whites, peo­ple suf­fer­ing men­tal break­downs, peo­ple with devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties, they sim­ply kill them then cre­ate a justification.
They did this to 21-year-old Ryan Leroux, who was expe­ri­enc­ing a men­tal break­down in Maryland days ago. Ryan Leroux had just lost his grand­moth­er, his job, his long­time girl­friend, liv­ing out of his car, and was hav­ing a men­tal breakdown.
He was at a McDonald’s dri­ve-through alleged­ly with a gun on the seat of his car. Police arrived and spent some time talk­ing to him, he threat­ened no one, but that did not stop the police from fir­ing a report­ed 25-bul­lets into his car, essen­tial­ly turn­ing his car into a coffin.

THIS IS HOW THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA CHARACTERIZED THIS LATEST KILLING

Officer gunfire may have killed the mother of 3 in hostage standoff, San Antonio police say

An hours-long hostage stand­off in San Antonio end­ed with police crit­i­cal­ly wound­ing an armed sus­pect ear­ly Tuesday morn­ing and appar­ent­ly killing a moth­er of three with errant gun­fire, author­i­ties announced Wednesday.

“This is an extreme­ly trag­ic event for all involved, and I give my deep­est con­do­lences to the chil­dren and fam­i­ly of the deceased vic­tim,” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said dur­ing a press conference.

McManus iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as 29-year-old Neida Tijerina.

“Officers dis­cov­ered that Ms. Tijerina had died from a gun­shot wound,” he said. “The Bexar County Medical Examiner per­formed an autop­sy this morn­ing. While they can­not yet con­clu­sive­ly state that Neida died as a result of the offi­cers fir­ing on the sus­pect, the phys­i­cal evi­dence appears to sup­port that conclusion.”

A spokesman with the med­ical exam­in­er’s office said Thursday that Tijerina’s cause of death is “bal­lis­tic injury of the chest,” and her man­ner of death as “homi­cide.”

McManus said police respond­ed to an apart­ment com­plex at about 9 p.m. on Monday “for a sui­ci­dal male threat­en­ing to kill his com­mon-law wife,” who was with her three young children.

When they arrived on the scene, McManus said police learned it was a hostage sit­u­a­tion. The sus­pect, Angel Sanchez, 28, was armed with a shot­gun and wear­ing body armor. Sanchez had a his­to­ry of domes­tic vio­lence and “indi­cat­ed to fam­i­ly that he was going to kill Ms. Tijerina and then kill him­self,” McManus said.

Police then called for addi­tion­al units, includ­ing SWAT and a hostage nego­tia­tor. Officers estab­lished a perime­ter and evac­u­at­ed near­by res­i­dents, McManus said. Sanchez then exit­ed the apart­ment and point­ed a shot­gun at officers.

“Sanchez was heard taunt­ing offi­cers try­ing to get them into a con­fronta­tion,” McManus said, and attempts to de-esca­late with him were unsuccessful.

Tijerina exit­ed the apart­ment but would not go with the police because “her chil­dren were still inside, and she did not want to leave them alone,” McManus said.

Sanchez then stepped out of the apart­ment a sec­ond time, hold­ing an infant, but then went back inside.

That’s when three offi­cers got on a roof of a near­by apart­ment build­ing, McManus said. Sanchez then exit­ed a final time and point­ed the shot­gun at offi­cers on the ground, police said.

“The three offi­cers who were pro­vid­ing cov­er from the roof opened fire on Sanchez, strik­ing him. Sanchez dropped his shot­gun, and offi­cers approached to take him into custody.”

That’s when offi­cers dis­cov­ered Tijerina dead inside the apart­ment, McManus said.

“I want to assure Neida’s fam­i­ly and the com­mu­ni­ty that this inci­dent will be inves­ti­gat­ed in its entire­ty,” McManus said but added that body cam­era video of the inci­dent would not be released because it involved domes­tic violence.

Tijerina’s three chil­dren ranged in ages from 3 months to 15-years-old and were unharmed, police said. Sanchez is described as the father of the baby.

Sanchez, who was crit­i­cal­ly wound­ed, is charged with three counts of aggra­vat­ed assault of a pub­lic servant.

NBC affil­i­ate WOAI in San Antonio spoke with Tijerina’s sis­ter, Jasmine.

She told the news out­let she was strug­gling to process what happened.

“Everything’s just … it’s a lot of emo­tions,” she said. “It’s just hard for me right now.”

David Thomas, a pro­fes­sor of foren­sics stud­ies at Florida Gulf Coast University, worked as a police offi­cer for 20 years in Michigan and Florida, doing duty in SWAT and as a negotiator.

Domestic vio­lence calls are gen­er­al­ly con­sid­ered among the most dan­ger­ous for police, Thomas said, and there are many fac­tors that could have led to Tijerina’s death.

“It’s a night­mare sce­nario,” Thomas said.

He said that even if all three offi­cers who fired at Sanchez had hit him, a bul­let could have gone through his body and struck Tijerina.

Thomas said using a weapon while on duty can be tax­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly, but acci­den­tal­ly shoot­ing some­one is a “worst-case sce­nario” for an officer.

“He or she feels absolute­ly respon­si­ble for that loss of life,” Thomas said. “They car­ry that bur­den with them. (NBC reported)»»»»»