Cops shoot six year old five times and kill him in pursuit of his father, trying to serve warrant.
authorities said a 6-year-old child was shot five times and killed, his father was critically injured, after a police pursuit and shooting Tuesday night. The child, Jeremy Mardis, was sitting in the front passenger seat of a vehicle when the situation unfolded.
Louisiana State Police reported it happened in Marksville, LA around 9:30 p.m.
Dr. L.J. Mayeux, coroner of Avoyelles Parish says the father of the victim, Chris Few, had warrants out for his arrest. Ward 2 City Marshal deputies spotted Few's vehicle on Washington Street. Instead of pulling over, Few led deputies on a chase through Marksville, finally turning down Martin Luther King Dr., which is a dead end street.
Mayeux says Few backed into the marshal's vehicle several times and would not come out. That is when a gun battle ensued between the marshals and Few.
Read more: http://www.fox10tv.com/story/30434913/autistic-6-year-old-shot-5-times-killed-during-police-pursuit#ixzz3qcjJCjN3
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So, what am I supposed to do?
Bash the cops and forget that it was the father who started the car-chase with his kid in the car?
Bash the cops and forget that it was the father who intentionally rammed other cars with his kid in the car?
Did the cops know there was a kid in the car?
Would you intenionally ram another car when you are driving with your kid?
You are mixing up two questions here:
1. Why did the police shoot?
2. Why was that kid in the car in the first place?
How much fun you're having.
laugh away
That's why they were after him. And I presume that he knew that there's an arrest-warrant with his name on it.
And in the process of "fleeing for his life" he still found the time to ram their cars.
I get it. What the cops did was outrageous.
But why do people keep making excuses for this guy?
"He loved his son. This out-of-context-photo proves it. How dare you question his parenting-decisions for taking his child on a car-chase? And the kid was autistic, which totally tells us whether he was a good parent or not."
"When the cops came for him with an arrest-warrant, he fled, but he wasn't fleeing from the warrant, he was fleeing for his life."
This is the final straw. 
Read more: http://www.fox10tv.com/story/30434913/autistic-6-year-old-shot-5-times-killed-during-police-pursuit#ixzz3qdF7JtMM
This is where dashcam or bodycam footage would be VERY valuable. It *is* possible that the cops just opened fire on him after he rammed them, not knowing, or being able to see, that a child was in the passenger seat. Once they discovered it, one of them *could* have planted a weapon on the father. He's in critical condition, so let's hope that he survives so we can hear his version... or hope that there IS dashcam footage to back up their claim. I know this is on the edge of
territory, but if there were no dashcams, and a "drop gun" was used, I would think that the cops would have made SURE that the father was dead, too.
Still trying to process this all...
Ghost
I'm guessing that you only responded to my headline and didn't read the post? 
I have been guilty of that before myself...
Peace,
Ghost
probably rambling a little, but this just has me shaken up right now.
Dashcam, or bodycam, footage would be very valuable because:
A - It's not hard to imagine the cops jumping out and shooting at a driver who just rammed them several times while trying to flee. I can see where they could have genuinely feared for their lives.
B - When they finally stopped the driver and approached the vehicle, they saw the boy, dead from their bullets, in the front passenger seat. They all freak out, and conspire to plant a gun on the suspect and say that he started the shootout.
C - If the cops didn't have dash/bodycams and knew it, why didn't they make sure that the driver was dead so he could not refute their story later.
Summary: Dash/bodycam footage would either 1- Back up the officers stories or, 2- show them as complete liars and conspirators in a tragic, senseless killing of an innocent 6 year old boy.
If he did indeed ram them several times, the damage to their vehicles would show that. Where I live, that is known as "Aggravated Assault & Battery with a Motor Vehicle" or "Attempted Vehicular Homicide" if they were outside the vehicle... then you add "On A LEO" to the end of those and the charges go up exponentially, by also adding "Felony" in front of those charges. It also gives the officers the excuse of "I feared for my life, and the lives of my fellow officers, and fired on a fleeing felon", justifying their use of deadly force.
I hope that cleared it up for you... 
Peace,
Ghost
shoulders above the window....
total mishandling of a situation.. yet again.. 
Right?? Lol...
Some people are arguing upthread when we only have very little information to go on. DU is funny and always entertaining! 
entitles cops to turn the local streets into a fucking war zone?
That somebody who failed to make a probation meeting or pay a traffic ticket or return a library book should be chased around town in a high speed manner that puts the entire community at risk?
You believe the job of being a cop entitles cops to treat all humans like their personal playthings? Because that high speed chase over a measly warrant could have killed many people, and put many, many more lives at risk than just that little boy's. In a case last week, Michigan cops (I believe) were chasing a seatbelt violation and ran through a red light and killed somebody.
This is how cops are allowed to behave in your book? Like life is a goddamned motherfucking free-for-all, and public safety be damned?
How is it cost-effective or in the interest of public safety to allow cops to go off half cocked like a bunch of lunatics? How do they get a special pass in your mind, so much so that you claim they 'did nothing wrong, move along?'
Are cops above the law, above common sense? Do you believe they should escalate situations that are NOT life and death situations INTO life and death situations because they are special goddamned snowflakes?
The cops and marshalls are COMPLETELY to blame for using a goddamn sledge hammer to put a tack in the wall.
That people think cops should have free rein to treat our roads and neighborhoods like their own private high-speed fun zone makes me want to PUKE. 
I just hope you aren't a cop anywhere near me. The cops in my area don't serve warrants this way. They don't have to, because they have something called COMMON SENSE and also a REGARD FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.
Medals for them all. Promotions and raises, too!! They keep us safe!
Norris Greenhouse Jr. and Derrick Stafford, 32, were arrested by the Louisiana State Police. Both were booked on charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
"We took some of the body cam footage. I'm not gonna talk about it, but I'm gonna tell you this. It is the most disturbing thing I've seen and I will leave it at that," said Col. Mike Edmonson at a news conference State Police held Friday night.
