Cops shoot unarmed black guy 2 weeks after not shooting white guy running amok with AR-15.

[DetlefK]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/27/1815543/-Milwaukee-officials-covered-up-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-but-new-video-destroys-that-story

According to the district attorney’s office, the police officers claimed that Smith had run from them after being involved in a street fight, escaping to a nearby rooftop. A witness had claimed that Smith was armed with a gun. The two officers who were first on the roof also claim that their view of Smith’s body was obstructed by an air conditioner vent, and they believed he was reaching for a weapon hidden inside of it, making it harder for them to determine whether or not he was armed. Officer Finkley is believed to have fired the first shot, with Officer Stahl hearing the shot and then firing his gun.

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What the video shows is a freaking-out Officer Stahl, gun trained on Smith, yelling and cursing at Smith, screaming at him to “put your hands in the air!” Smith can be seen with his hands stretched out, fingers spread—nothing in them. At all. He is also standing a good 8-10 feet away from the nearest air-conditioning vent. Smith then begins to lie down face-first on the floor, so very clearly in submission, when shots from both officers ring out. His cellphone can be seen falling out of his pocket as he drops to the floor. He grabs at his groin—he was shot in that area, a bullet lodged in his pelvic region—and the cops continue to scream at him. He alternates between covering his head with his hands, having already been grazed by one of the bullets, and covering his groin, where he has clearly been shot. While this happens, Stahl can be loudly heard screaming, “Do not fucking move! Do not fucking move!”

Smith reaches for his groin again. Stahl repeats, “Don’t move! Do not fucking move! Stay down!” At this point, Officer Finkley comes into frame while trying to handcuff Smith. Stahl yells, “I got him! I got him!” At this point, Smith begins wailing, “Help me! Help me! Why y’all shoot me? Why y’all shoot me?”

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To put this set of events into perspective, let’s remember 20-year-old Milwaukee man Brandon Baker. A long time ago, let’s say about two weeks ago, on Election Day, Mr. Baker began shooting an AR-15 off of his roof.

According to the criminal complaint, officers found Baker with a rifle and armed with three other guns.

When they told him to drop the gun, he refused and said he was running for governor and that he was going to start a militia.

Mr. Baker was finally “tackled” by police officers and taken into custody.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. but Kaepernick refused to stand for sacred noises!

[BSdetect]

2. Obscene dichotomy of "law enforcement" examples. Just disgusting.

[Basement Beat]

3. American law enforcement officers...

are racist.
I'm not sorry but they clearly are. So-called "Good ones" refuse to break the "blue code/wall" or whatever its called are just as complicit.
This is all just so damn tiring. We will never evolve as a country.

[saidsimplesimon]

4. I am so ashamed of my

fellow Americans, including myself. It is true, "shot for being black" continues without any loud demand for action from my "white" community other than "thoughts and prayers". "When will it ever end?"

A concert at the University of Michigan was my intro to Peter, Paul and Mary, 1966.

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[lostnfound]

5. I'm so glad he survived. need a kindness committee that treats these victims very well

And a justice and truth commission that gets to the bottom of i
And a National Police Violence Safety Board, patterned after the NTSB, that recommends changes in police training, equipment, certification and systems, to systematically reduce the stupidity and abuse we see on a too-frequent basis.