Sometimes justice is served when black people are assualted and killed.
WORLD NEWS APRIL 12, 2019 / 8:12 AM / 14 DAYS AGO
"Sweden charges three police over fatal shooting of Down's syndrome man"
"Eric Torell, who had the mental age of a three year-old, died in a hail of bullets after sneaking out of his home in Stockholm in the middle of the night to play.
Police fired 25 shots at Torell in a residential courtyard believing a toy pistol he was carrying was a real weapon. Torell, was hit three times. Two of the shots, including the one that killed him, hit him in the back.
“I have decided that the police who have been charged for the shooting did not follow the procedures they should have done and had they done so, they would have realized that Eric - the victim - was not a threat,” prosecutor Martin Tiden told reporters.
Two officers were charged with misconduct and one with causing another person’s death.
Tiden said the police were justified in opening fire at Torell, who did not respond when asked to put down his gun, but that they should have stopped firing when Torell turned away from them."
"U.S.APRIL 25, 2019 / 10:17 AM / A DAY AGO
Ex-Florida policeman gets 25 years in prison for killing black motorist
"(Reuters) - A former Florida police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday for fatally shooting a black motorist who was awaiting a tow truck in October 2015."
The ex-cop provoked fear in a stand-your-ground state. For once the dead black person got justice from their grave.
Shooting unarmed people is negligence per se, i.e., "in itself!" Shooting unarmed people is not helping anyone feel safer. I feel in danger if stopped, and I am WHITE!
"negligence per se"
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
Negligence due to the violation of a law meant to protect the public, such as a speed limit or building code. Unlike ordinary negligence, a plaintiff alleging negligence per se need not prove that a reasonable person should have acted differently -- the conduct is automatically considered negligent, and the focus of the suit will be over whether it proximately caused damage to the plaintiff.
"per se"
/ËŒpÉ™r ˈsÄ/
adverb
adverb: per se; adverb: perse
by or in itself or themselves; intrinsically.
"it is not these facts per se that are important"
synonyms:
in itself, of itself, by itself, as such, intrinsically
Shooting unarmed people is against the law, but cops get away with it all the time! Why? "PERCEPTIONS?"
Cops are shooting unarmed people "just in case?" Maybe they could hurt us, so we shoot them?
"Killings of police officers on duty are near record lows"
By German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Nov 14, 2018, 4:11pm EST
https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938238/police-officer-on-duty-deaths-killings
"There’s no sign that it’s more dangerous to be a cop today than it was decades or even years ago.
For much of 2015, Fox News and the New York Post decried a “war on cops,” specifically blaming the Black Lives Matter movement — and its criticisms of excessive use of force by cops — for enabling a wave of violence against police officers in the US.
But it looks like 2015 was one of the safest years to be a police officer in America. Since 1960, only 2013 had fewer on-duty police officer deaths than 2015."
THE FOLLOWING VOX Series OF POLICE BEHAVIOR IS INTERESTING. They are damning if only half true, but horrific is 75% true! If 100% true, we have criminal cops enforcing "law and order" everywhere in this country - White Nationalism has prevailed.
"American police shoot and kill far more people than their peers in other countries
By German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Nov 14, 2018, 4:12pm EST
https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938170/us-police-shootings-gun-violence-homicides
"There are huge racial disparities in how US police use force"
By German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Nov 14, 2018, 4:12pm EST
"Black people are much more likely to be shot by police than their white peers.
An analysis of the available FBI data by Dara Lind for Vox found that US police kill black people at disproportionate rates: Black people accounted for 31 percent of police killing victims in 2012, even though they made up just 13 percent of the US population. Although the data is incomplete because it’s based on voluntary reports from police agencies around the country, it highlights the vast disparities in how police use force."
"There’s no good official data on how many people police kill each year"
By German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Nov 14, 2018, 4:12pm EST
https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938206/police-shooting-killing-data
"The federal government tracks police shootings and killings through the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’s Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD), but both vastly undercount the number of deaths to police.
A 2015 study by RTI International, which conducted the analysis for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, found that from 2003 to 2009 and 2011, ARD captured approximately 49 percent of people killed by police, while SHR captured 46 percent. Neither system picked up about 28 percent of law enforcement homicides in the US, meaning more than one-quarter of police-caused deaths weren’t tracked at all under ARD or SHR."
"Cities across the country have been riddled with accusations of police abuse"
By German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Nov 14, 2018, 4:12pm EST
"It would be one thing if allegations of police abuse were focused on one city, state, or region, but multiple investigations by the media and the US Department of Justice have uncovered patterns of abuse and excessive use of force — particularly against black residents — all over the country."
"Cops are almost never prosecuted and convicted for use of force"
By German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Nov 14, 2018, 4:12pm EST
https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938234/police-shootings-killings-prosecutions-court
"Police can use deadly force if they merely perceive a threat"
By German Lopez Updated Nov 14, 2018, 4:12pm EST
"Legally, what most matters in these shootings is whether police officers reasonably believed that their or others’ lives were in danger, not whether the shooting victim actually posed a threat.
In the 1980s, a pair of Supreme Court decisions — Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor — set up a framework for determining when deadly force by cops is reasonable.
Constitutionally, “police officers are allowed to shoot under two circumstances,” David Klinger, a University of Missouri St. Louis professor who studies use of force, said. The first circumstance is “to protect their life or the life of another innocent party” — what departments call the “defense-of-life” standard. The second circumstance is to prevent a suspect from escaping, but only if the officer has probable cause to think the suspect poses a dangerous threat to others.
The logic behind the second circumstance, Klinger said, comes from the Supreme Court’s decision in Tennessee v. Garner. That case involved a pair of police officers who shot a 15-year-old boy as he fled from a burglary. (He’d stolen $10 and a purse from a house.) The court ruled that cops couldn’t shoot every felon who tried to escape. But, as Klinger said, “they basically say that the job of a cop is to protect people from violence, and if you’ve got a violent person who’s fleeing, you can shoot them to stop their flight.”
The key to both the legal standards — defense of life and fleeing a violent felony — is that it doesn’t matter whether there is an actual threat when force is used. Instead, what matters is the officer’s “objectively reasonable” belief that there is a threat."
So it is OK for cops to be judge, jury, and executioner if they "perceive" a threat to themselves or others. Wow! Cops can shoot anyone, anytime under this rule.
"Generally speaking perception means appreciation or cognition. It is an observation awareness, or realization, usually based on physical sensation or experience. In Roman and civil law it refers to the act of taking into possession of rents, crops, profits by a bona fide possessor or usufructuary."
https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/perception/
Legal Negligence!
"negligence per se"
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
Negligence due to the violation of a law meant to protect the public, such as a speed limit or building code. Unlike ordinary negligence, a plaintiff alleging negligence per se need not prove that a reasonable person should have acted differently -- the conduct is automatically considered negligent, and the focus of the suit will be over whether it proximately caused damage to the plaintiff.
LEGALIZED NEGLIGENCE!
"Fleeing felon rule"
"At common law, the fleeing felon rule permits the use of force, including deadly force, against an individual who is suspected of a felony and is in clear flight."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleeing_felon_rule
Unarmed people are being killed, LEGALLY!
Police MUST stop shooting people out of fear. Police must be trained to fire on people only when fired upon. It has to be literally self-defense when they shoot people.
There MUST be a CRIMINAL charge EVERY TIME ANY cop shoots unarmed people or persons, for ANY reason. I do not care if they were scared, or "perceived" a threat or danger to others!
I do not agree with shoot first, ask questions later. If yu decide to be a cop, also, please decide not to murder people.
There should be fines and prison time following a perp walk, a trial, and a judge sentencing the negligent, afraid cop for either
1. assault if the person does not die, or, at least,
2. manslaughter if the person dies, and
3. when applicable, charge and conviction is for MURDER!
In my opinion, and normal sane logic, when you shoot someone, unarmed people, you have committed a crime even if you were scared of them. NO ONE GETS A PASS!
"negligence per se"
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
Negligence due to the violation of a law meant to protect the public, such as a speed limit or building code. Unlike ordinary negligence, a plaintiff alleging negligence per se need not prove that a reasonable person should have acted differently -- the conduct is automatically considered negligent, and the focus of the suit will be over whether it proximately caused damage to the plaintiff.
Definition provided by Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/negligence_per_se
Will the killer cop negligence ever slow or stop? Nope. It will get worse. We police based on fear. We police based on personal prejudices. We police based on profiling. We police badly.
'"The federal government has helped the militarization of police"
By German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Nov 14, 2018, 4:12pm EST
