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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould someone please post a link to a story
of an unarmed young white suburban teen who was shot 6-7 times by the police, from 30-35 feet away, for possibly shoplifting, and left to die in the street with no medical assistance being requested? Please include any incidents where the young, unarmed white teen was not completely cooperative with the police, or refused to obey orders, or ran away, and was shot 6-7 times from 30-35 feet away and left to die in the street with no medical attention being called for.
I keep hearing the "right" saying that there is "no racial bias" in the application of law enforcement, or the use of force, so there must be hundreds of stories and incidents of police gunning down an unarmed white teen.
There just has to be hundreds or thousands of them...right?
Show me some stories of young white teens being "stopped and frisked" while walking down the street. I mean, the white population has a similar rate of youth delinquency...right?
There have to be thousands of stories of white kids just minding their own business and being stopped and searched by the police...right?
Please stop the "media bias" and find and post some links to these stories. They deserve to be heard...anyone...anyone...Buehler....?
I expect that DU GD will just be overrun by examples of young white kids having fatal encounters with the police...right?
:sarsasm:
Recursion
(56,582 posts)And that was after a car chase.
Bonx
(2,051 posts)"Cpl. Beth Gatny fatally shot Christopher Roupe, saying Roupe was pointing a gun at her on Feb. 14 when Gatny knocked on the door of the Roupe home to serve a probation warrant to the teens father.
Roupe's attorney said family members told him the teen was holding a Nintendo Wii controller.
Tuesday the Cherokee County District Attorneys Office said a grand jury heard testimony in the case over the course of two days and found that the use of force by Gatny was not authorized."
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/grand-jury-finds-officers-use-force-not-authorize/nffrh/
and I understand in this case the cop was found guilty of excessive use of force and the shooting was not justified.
Hopefully, that will be the same result in Ferguson.
I'm not familiar with this story, but did the police find any footage of the victim shoplifting? Did they review what type of music he listened to?
Was he a Zepelin fan...you know how "demonic" ole' Zep was.
Did the authorities try to assassinate the kids character by implying "he was just a thug"?
Bonx
(2,051 posts)Samantha Ramsey.
Nutso cop jumped on the hood of her car and shot & killed her as she was driving away.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/07/21/samantha-ramsey-boone-county-sheriffs-department-shooting/12960957/
Bonx
(2,051 posts)"Russell Rios was killed during a scuffle with Sgt. Jason Blackwelder, 30, in July 2013 after he chased the teenager who was suspected of taking iPad cases worth $50 from a Walmart.
Blackwelder initially claimed he shot Rios in self-defence after the teen throttled him, but later evidence showed Rios was shot in the back of the head."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656090/Cop-walks-free-court-despite-guilty-shooting-manslaughter-teen-stole-iPad-case-Walmart.html#ixzz3AlOy2vCZ
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)have provided the links you requested. You might want to edit out your smiley.
Bonx
(2,051 posts)Seth Jacob Beckman
for 'acting aggressively':
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/08/18/suspect-injured-after-police-involved-shooting-in-harford-county/
Bonx
(2,051 posts)"Video of the fatal shooting of a naked Alabama college student shows him with his arms outstretched and his palms open seconds before a campus police officer fired."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/gil-collar-shooting-video_n_1958480.html