Legally Justified By Laws Designed To Be Racist; Morally Reprehensible Otherwise.……

Heavily armed police continue to show up to situations that require patience & persuasion, itching for any sliver of legal justification to shed blood. The common thinking is that there is a cut-off time, and thereafter, they are legally justified to end the situation by extra-judicially murdering the person they were called to help.
How much more innocent blood will American police be allowed to shed because the twisted laws created to murder Black people with no consequences to the killers, are still being used today?

Following on in the series of Articles we have cho­sen to bring to your atten­tion, this sto­ry involves anoth­er liv­ing, breath­ing per­son just expe­ri­enc­ing men­tal dis­tress being gunned down by police.
Police offi­cers whose job is to save lives have become one of the great­est threats to the lives of Americans of col­or and those who are suf­fer­ing from men­tal distress.
In the fol­low­ing arti­cle, you will see that not only has a police com­man­der deemed it nec­es­sary to order an under­ling to end the life of the 19-year ‑old; quote, “If he does­n’t drop it, just take him. In con­junc­tion with the local District Attorney, they lied to the par­ents of the young man they mur­dered and then tam­pered with crit­i­cal evi­dence that deter­mines ‘jus­ti­fi­ca­tion.’
Police offi­cers are not sol­diers; they are not sup­posed to be ordered to kill any­one. Each police offi­cer bears full respon­si­bil­i­ty for their actions.

The idea that any police offi­cer at a scene can order that the life of some­one be end­ed because he is not com­ply­ing with police orders to drop a weapon should be fright­en­ing to everyone.
The idea that local pros­e­cu­tors would have access to video evi­dence of a crime against an indi­vid­ual, regard­less of who that indi­vid­ual is, and know that the evi­dence was tam­pered with and refuse to act even more frightening.
In the video, you will see that the account­ing of the police and the lat­er lies they told as they tried to jus­ti­fy killing an inno­cent was not sup­port­ed by the real facts as they evolved in the video.

The video below shows how cor­po­rate media reports these killings and gloss­es over these atroc­i­ties by accept­ing police ver­sions of those crimes.

Here also is NBC news report­ing on the incident.

Fatally shot by Pennsylvania State Police last year, a Chinese American teenag­er had his hands in the air when troop­ers opened fire. New videos reveal, prompt­ing calls for an inde­pen­dent inves­ti­ga­tion. The videos, record­ed by the State Police, show the final moments of Christian Hall’s life on the after­noon of Dec. 30, 2020.
Hall, 19, who had been diag­nosed with depres­sion, was stand­ing on the ledge of a high­way over­pass near Stroudsburg, in north­east­ern Pennsylvania, when troop­ers arrived. They tried to per­suade him to get down, but they backed away when they saw he had a gun — lat­er deter­mined to be a real­is­tic pel­let gun.
Video pre­vi­ous­ly released by the Monroe County dis­trict attor­ney shows Hall rais­ing his hands in the air, with the gun in one hand, after a troop­er fired bul­lets that struck the bridge.
But the final sec­onds before he was killed were blurred by author­i­ties.
https://​www​.nbc​news​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​u​s​-​n​e​w​s​/​c​h​r​i​s​t​i​a​n​-​h​a​l​l​-​p​e​n​n​s​y​l​v​a​n​i​a​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​s​h​o​o​t​i​n​g​-​v​i​d​e​o​-​r​c​n​a​5​626

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.