Police Killed Nearly 100 People Just in September

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Posted on October 8, 2014 by Joshua De Leon
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Police in the United States have killed 77 people in the month of September, and the courts and justices keep rescuing these uniformed murderers from justice, reported Reader Supported News.

RSN compiled a sample of instances where police officers have killed someone, either adult or child, and managed to escape unpunished for their crimes. For instance, a Michigan judge last week dismissed a felony manslaughter charge against officer Joseph Weekley who shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones to death during a hapless police raid.

After Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway erred in dropping the charge, an appeals court recognized that the decision was wrong. However, the appeals court noted that a review was disallowed. In short, an irresponsible officer whose stupidity cost the life of a young child was not brought to justice.

In Tallahassee late last month, 61-year-old Viola Young was tasered in the back by police after she stopped to ask about an arrest. She was paralyzed for two minutes and subsequently charged with “resisting and obstructing an officer without violence.” That attack on Young could have potentially been deadly.

http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/police-killed-nearly-100-people-just-in-september/

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. This is going to have some serious blowback.

Police dressing like the military and acting like thugs.
Anyone recall their history?

[Mister Nightowl]

2. Are they trying to compete with ISIS?

Fuck!

[TheVisitor]

4. Compete?

They have far surpassed ISIS in the murdering of Americans...
I honestly think that "Industrial Privatization" allowed this to happen. By all accounts, George H. W. Bush signed executive order 12803, allowing anyone to purchase, lease, or bid for "economic infrastructure"... this includes our police and prisons... Then his son came along with the Patriot Act and gave police unprecedented power to warrantlessly wiretap, break down your door, and to shoot you, rob you, etc... With little to no reprecussions. Right now in America, anyone could technically own our police system... Any country could've paid for them... Or any terrorist organization... So as far as I am concerned... The police ARE ISIS

[Cooley Hurd]

3. As long as the police continue to have immunity from prosecution...

...not a goddamned thing will change.

[TheVisitor]

5. I agree...

It is time to start going after the prosecutors and judges who let shit like this slide... They are just as guilty

[ColesCountyDem]

7. It would be more productive to go after the legislators.

The legislatures are the ones who enact the statutes that define the elements of various degrees of homicide, and they also define the situations under which a homicide is deemed 'justifiable'. In virtually every state, the threshold for ruling a homicide by a law enforcement officer acting in his/her official capacity 'justifiable' is ridiculously low.

In my own state, Illinois, if a law enforcement officer reasonably believes that he/she is in danger of either death or serious bodily injury, he/she is legally justified in using deadly force, up to and including killing the person. Again, it is what the OFFICER believes, not what you or I might believe. Most state laws are similar, if not identical. Let that sink in.

This is why it's almost impossible to indict a law enforcement officer for homicide, not because of malfeasance or misfeasance on the judges' or prosecutors' parts.

[bonniebgood]

11. I agree with 'TheVisitor" don't forget the Mayor and Chief of Police, the

thug ISIS officer's aren't doing this alone. They are directly carrying out orders from the Top. Gov, Mayor, Prosecutor, Chief of police.

[Enthusiast]

6. This is deeply disturbing.

[MerryBlooms]

8. Because they know they can get away with it.

Not so much as an apology when they raid the wrong address, damage property, kill pets, maim or murder both children and adults. Just inside investigations, kissing each other on the ass and then finding themselves justified in their actions. I wish there could be a nation-wide federal review of police tactics and the practice of police departments investigating themselves, ended.

[Tribalceltic]

9. Every 9 hours

[marble falls]

10. This could be the galvinizing issue. Either way something has to be done to curb the police.

[bonniebgood]

12. Something has to be done to curb police? How about starting with

who hires them, who do they answer to? Obviously the bosses who hires them condone this behavior. This behavior is coming from the top.

[marble falls]

15. The big probem was all that unmonitored and unlimited "Homeland Security" pork.

[marble falls]

14. Just found this:

http://latest.com/2014/10/teenager-knocked-allegedly-brain-damaged-run-police-cigarette/

By Joshua M. Patton, October 9, 2014.

Yet another young black male has been physically assaulted by police for doing nothing illegal. In June, then-16 year-old Michael Hamer was walking down the street, when two plainclothes police officers emerged from a vehicle and knocked the teen down into the gutter. At one point, an officer knocked Hamer unconscious “with one blow after stopping him for smoking a cigarette, hitting him so hard he now has neurological problems, according to the boy’s family,” according to The Brooklyn Paper. The police reportedly thought that the cigarette was marijuana.

Hamer’s parents now say the boy has suffered neurological damage as a result of the arrest and, with a legal team featuring retired state Supreme Court Justice William Thompson, are asking that the NYPD officers be charged criminally.

Hamer eventually pleaded guilty to “disorderly conduct,” perhaps the most abused law in the United States. What was disorderly about walking down the street, smoking a cigarette, and minding one’s own business? From harassing the homeless to putting their critics in cuffs, police use disorderly conduct as a kind of catch-all crime to legitimize their harassment of citizens not doing anything illegal.

[brachism]

13. Not that I am dismissing premise or police violence, but

If one traces through the references one would find this article’s source is another which references another, etc. The beginning of the chain is dated Tuesday October 7th and states "US police killed 77people throughout the country in September, according to a compendium of local press reports compiled by volunteers on Wikipedia."

-> http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025646513#post9
-> http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/police-killed-nearly-100-people-just-in-september/
-> http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/26280-police-killed-77-people-in-september
-> http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/07/poli-o07.html
-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States,_September_2014


First I'm not sure I would consider 77 nearly 100. Additionally I've learned to be extremely cautious when using Wikipedia as a primary source. Finally, after reviewing the Wikipedia page which is the original source of information for the article it seems some could have been justifiable. Two examples:

09/26/2014 - Cody Dempsey (Ohio) - was shot to death by officers after a chase. Media reports witnesses seeing Dempsey shoot at officers. Unidentified officers from the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office, Weathersfield Police and the Ohio State Highway Patrol were involved in the chase and shooting.

09/25/2014 - Sandoval, Giovany Contreras (California) - A carjacker, Giovany Contreras Sandoval, stole a woman's Escalade in Richmond, drove to Marin County, and lead law enforcement to a chase that ended in San Francisco's Financial District. They pursued him across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, onto southbound U.S. Highway 101 and then over the Golden Gate Bridge. Sandoval crashed the car at a road, and a man who walked up to the scene to try and help was shot and wounded in the chest. CHP and San Francisco Police Department officers arrived to the scene of the crash, and a less-lethal bean bag gun was fired. Sandoval then took out his revolver and fired a shot at police. Six officers returned fire, hitting him 32 times.

I’m neither shilling for the police nor condoning police violence. Police violence is an increasing problem which needs to be addressed.

[madokie]

16. What percentage was black or brown?

My bet is its pretty high

[Initech]

17. That picture shows why i think militarized police are a far bigger threat than Isis ever could be.

End this madness now!!!! By giving police access to highly militarized equipment, you are declaring war on every day citizens.