Ridiculous Police News (Specific events)

[Niiro]

she said she saw the police officer attempting to place Brown in the rear seat of a squad car.

She then observed the teen, hands in the air, attempt to flee. Several shots were fired at Brown as he ran, Crenshaw said, striking him in the head and chest.

Dorian Johnson said he was walking with Brown in the middle of the street when a police car pulled up. The officer told the teens to use the sidewalk, according to Johnson.

After an exchange of words, the officer shot Brown even after he raised his hands in the air, Johnson said.

The officer tried to leave his vehicle just before the shooting on Saturday afternoon, but Brown pushed him back into the car, “where he physically assaulted the police officer” and struggled over the officer’s weapon, Belmar said.

[NynJa]

I'm pretty sure none of these matching stories means they'll favor the story of the cop.

[myreality]

Going to be another Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman fiasco. Hopefully this time the news agencies decide not to alter the evidence when reporting their speculations.

[Drex]

if it was the cop in the picture, it's pretty clear why he shot him. no way he was going to chase him with that belly bouncing. like an april fool's episode of baywatch.

[wipers]

Rioting equals peace sounds about right.

[Drex]

to early to get in an uproar

don't worry, the looting & vandalism have already begun

[6souls]

Ohio Man Shot Dead By Police While Holding Toy Rifle In Walmart

A 22-year-old man was shot and killed last week in an Ohio Wal-Mart after failing to obey police officers’ orders to put down a toy rifle he was holding. Beavercreek police say officers followed proper protocol when they shot John Crawford III in the store. But Crawford’s family is speaking out, saying they believe the officers used excessive force against the young man, the Dayton Daily News reported.

Crawford was holding a Crosman MK-177 air pump rifle as he walked through the store, WHIO, Dayton, reported. The weapon, which can shoot both pellets and BBs, had been removed from its original packaging. April and Ronald Ritchie told WHIO they were in the hardware section of the Wal-Mart when they saw Crawford walking with the toy gun in his hand. They became alarmed and called 911 to report him.

Once on the scene, Beavercreek police Officer Sean Williams and Sgt. David Darkow located Crawford and instructed him to put down the replica rifle. When he didn’t comply, he was shot by the officers. Crawford died at a local hospital shortly after the shooting. The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office ruled Friday Crawford died of a gunshot wound to the torso and listed his death as a homicide.

Spoiler: show

Speaking to the Daily News, LeeCee Johnson, 22, who identified herself as the mother of Crawford’s children, said she was talking to Crawford on her cell phone at the time of the shooting.

“We was just talking. He said he was at the video games playing videos and he went over there by the toy section where the toy guns were. And the next thing I know, he said ‘It’s not real,’ and the police start shooting and they said ‘Get on the ground,’ but he was already on the ground because they had shot him,” she said. She added she “could hear him just crying and screaming” and said officers “shot him down like he was not even human.”

Both Officer Williams and Sergeant Darkow are currently on administrative leave, Beavercreek Police Chief Dennis Evers told a news conference. Evers said Beavercreek police support the “quick response” of the officers and “preliminary indications are that the officers acted appropriately under the circumstances.”

But Crawford’s family is challenging the department’s claims. At a Sunday news conference, Crawford’s parents, John Crawford II and Tressa Sherrod, said they are seeking more clarity on the circumstances surrounding their son’s death. Family lawyer Michael L. Wright said he has requested surveillance footage and information regarding any communication that occurred between the police department and the store’s security team. Wright added Crawford’s family isn’t planning to file a lawsuit before they can assess the information gathered in the investigation.

The Bureau of Criminal Investigation asked Wal-Mart to turn over all the footage from the Beavercreek store's nearly 120 cameras, the attorney’s general office said. Investigators have already received video from the cameras in the area of the store where the shooting occurred. Tasha Thomas, who identified herself as Crawford’s girlfriend, told the Daily News she drove Crawford to the Wal-Mart. She said he was not armed when he walked into the store. She was in another part of the store when he was shot.

http://www.ibtimes.com/john-crawford...almart-1655416
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/...stified/ngyzY/
http://www.whio.com/news/news/report...al-mart/ngwTS/

[quannum]

wonder if he's black ...

John Crawford III

hmm, could go either way

LeeCee Johnson, 22, who identified herself as the mother of Crawford’s children

well ...

Tasha Thomas, who identified herself as Crawford’s girlfriend

damn

[6souls]

wonder if he's black

He could be brown. He's kinda brown in the photo I posted with the article.

Unrelated, the gf;

Spoiler: show

[vagus]

Why didn't he drop the toy gun? As much as I want to believe police are trained. They saw it as a legit threat.

[Moss]

unless they didn't give him any time to comply, I'm not seeing any issue with the popo's actions

him refusing to put it down just makes him seem more sketchy and potentially dangerous

[NynJa]

Theres a reason toy guns have a big fluorescent orange cap, which this one, presuming the article image is accurate, doesnt.

And a BB gun may not be "real", but they'll cause decent damage if fired at close range.

[Tarage]

I saw this on FFXIAH and thought it might be worth talking about for a second.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/sta...efense-police/

Ignore the retarded ass website itself, but the jyst of it seems to be this:

The law states:

(i) A person is justified in using reasonable force against a public servant if the person reasonably believes the force is necessary to:
(1) protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force;
(2) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful entry of or attack on the person’s dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle; or
(3) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful trespass on or criminal interference with property lawfully in the person’s possession, lawfully in possession of a member of the person’s immediate family, or belonging to a person whose property the person has authority to protect.

So... you can shoot cops in Indiana? Am I understanding this correctly?

[NynJa]

That site is stupid as fuck, I get the point they're trying to make, but their reasonings are fucking dumb.

Who’s to say that a cop pulling you over to extort money from you for the victimless crime of not wearing a seatbelt, isn’t an unlawful act? Or how about breaking down your door in the middle of the night to kidnap you and throw you in a cage for possessing a plant?

Last I checked, when you get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt, you get a ticket which you then have to pay to the city, its not like the cop pockets the money on the spot.
Getting busted for growing weed isnt "kidnapping".


The shit on this guys site is fucking dumb:
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/mot...iving-freeway/

Maybe the cops were in an unmarked car because they were watching someone else, and this idiot continuing to film them after getting an answer he wanted, rendering their ability to try to not get spotted by whoever theyre watching moot, is considered obstruction of justice (or something similar).

[Kohan]

Not only that, but I fucking hate the half-brained notion that not wearing a seatbelt is "harmless." Yeah, sure. When your body becomes a 150+ pound ragdoll flailing around in your cabin, potentially causing great harm to you and/or your passengers, I bet you'll think it's real fucking harmless -- if you survive.

[BaneTheBrawler]

actually the term used is victimless, but the same point applies.

[Kohan]

actually the term used is victimless, but the same point applies.

Indeed. Your body essentially becomes a weapon when it's whipped around like that, and it isn't as if your grisly death won't have consequences for anyone who's involved in trying to save your life, or cleaning up the mess you leave (literal and figurative). It's just a stupid thing to do.

[Waraji]

Anyone else catch he Christy Mack shit that happened over the weekend?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5672346.html

After another hit or two, he left me on the floor bleeding and shaking, holding my side from the pain of a broken rib. He left the room and went to the kitchen where I could hear him ruffling through my drawers. Assuming he was finding a sharper, more stable knife to end my life...

Hope this piece of shit rots behind bars.

[Tarage]

I was less wanting to talk about the website and more wanting to talk about the crazy law...

[Sepukku]

Anyone else catch he Christy Mack shit that happened over the weekend?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5672346.html



Hope this piece of shit rots behind bars.

The dude deserves to rot in jail, but I believe there's far bigger policing issues currently than solving a case of domestic violence against a porn star if police have executed a man with visible weapon-free hands in the air....