Well this tragedy with the police murdering a 7 year old now has a reality TV angle

[AllentownJake]

DETROIT - Police who carried out a raid on a family home that left a 7-year-old girl dead over the weekend were accompanied by a camera crew for a reality television show, and an attorney says video of the siege contradicts the police account of what happened.

Geoffrey Fieger, an attorney for the family of young Aiyana Jones, said he has seen three or four minutes of video of the raid, although he declined to say whether it was shot by the crew for the A&E series "The First 48," which has been shadowing Detroit homicide detectives for months.

Police have said officers threw a flash grenade through the first-floor window of the two-family home, and that an officer's gun discharged, killing the girl, during a struggle or after colliding with the girl's grandmother inside the home.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37191818/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001

Fucking disgusting. A bunch of cops acting tough for a reality TV crew and a 7 year old girl dies.

[aikoaiko]

1. I'm waiting to hear more details about this tragic death.

Hopefully the video tapes will show how this innocent girl came to die and who should be held accountable.

[MrScorpio]

2. Good, there's video tape and Fieger's on the case

This is looking up.

Bing's stunt is going to cost the city big.

[AllentownJake]

3. I wonder how the Reality TV crew angle contributes to the story

They want a nice video tape for the A&E show of the cops playing Rambo.

[MrScorpio]

8. I'll tell you a little story

When I used to live in Virginia, I once asked an off duty Hampton VA PD officer if they'll ever show up on COPS.

He said that the Chief of Police would never allow it. Why should their mistakes show up on national TV?

This chief (back then) was a cool guy, Hampton cops are totally professional from what I saw and very non confrontational. The wear powder blue uniforms and drive around in powder blue squad cars.
They have community involvement and do community policing.

I realized that these departments who do these TV shows are more interested in getting publicity than doing their fucking jobs properly.

The DPD is broken today. The last mayor to keep these cowboys on a short leash was Coleman Young.

Hopefully a good lawsuit is the cure for this problem.

[AllentownJake]

9. My Grandfather was a state cop

He would go ballistic over an incident like this.

There are good law enforcement officers. Generally the intelligent police chiefs realize that if the community likes and trust you, you don't have to discharge weapons as often.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. And that's a really good show

[notadmblnd]

5. Were they showing off for the cameras?

Shooting bullets through a door into a house, is not an act of courage. I'd even go so far to say that it is an act of cowardice and cowards should not allowed to be police officers.

[AllentownJake]

6. I think a 7 year old would still be alive

If they quietly hid and waited for the suspect to come out in the morning.

Yes I think this was showing off for cameras.

[JuniperLea]

7. Reality TV is disgusting...

Now a child dies in the name of the idiocracy? Jesus God we are in bad shape... :cry:

Reality TV isn't real at all! You don't get "real" when people know they are on the tube! It's just stupid to think it's real!! Don't people have better things to do with their time... ugh... I forget I'm in a minority. I really only watch PBS... I stopped paying for cable a very long time ago... I figure it's far better to donate to PBS than to "donate" to some fat cat cable owner... I mean really, you know who these people are as well as I do.

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