Shoot 'em dead. It is not related in any way to 'justice'. It does not have anything to do with enforcing the 'law'. It does not involve any aspect of 'crime prevention'. It is not 'self defense'. What it is, is murder. When a person is holding a gun, is pointing that gun at an unarmed human being who is at a considerable distance away and then makes a conscious decision to pull the trigger and shoot that human being, it is murder.
That a group of people, all holding guns and aiming at the same, lone human being and in unison shoot that human being, it is collective murder. That the group of shooters are uniformed police officers does not change the facts of the murder. The shooting of that human being does not constitute 'justice' and the murder cannot be viewed as 'law enforcement'.
If the human being was suspected of having committed a crime, then the goal of 'law enforcement' would be to arrest that person to be tried in court. If found guilty of the crime, that person would be sentenced by the court to be punished.
But, in this country, we have authorized the police to act as the judge, the jury, and the executioner.
What is the difference between a mob of people who lynch a black man and a mob of people who fill a black man full of bullet holes?
“Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.”
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A newly released autopsy confirms that Mario Woods was shot 21 times during a deadly altercation with San Francisco police officers on Dec. 2 last year.
Woods, whose death has sparked protests and a federal review of the city’s police department, was shot twice in the head and six times in the back according to an analysis of the autopsy reported by CNN and its affiliate, KRON-4.
Five officers unloaded their firearms into Woods, a 26-year-old, black man. “The fact is he was shot in the back,” Burris said. “The significance to me is most of the officers who were shooting were not being threatened at the time they fired those weapons.”
The medical examiner’s report states that 27 bullet casings were recovered at the scene... watch video here at 'Filming Cops'.
Woods, whose death has sparked protests and a federal review of the city’s police department, was shot twice in the head and six times in the back according to an analysis of the autopsy reported by CNN and its affiliate, KRON-4.
Five officers unloaded their firearms into Woods, a 26-year-old, black man. “The fact is he was shot in the back,” Burris said. “The significance to me is most of the officers who were shooting were not being threatened at the time they fired those weapons.”
The medical examiner’s report states that 27 bullet casings were recovered at the scene... watch video here at 'Filming Cops'.
It is not only that civilians are murdered at the hands of the police. 'Our' system allows them to beat the "#@%&" out of anyone for whatever whimsical reason that occurs to them at the moment... Or, beat them to death...
The acquittal of two Fullerton, California police officers in the beating death of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man who was pummeled into a coma as he begged for his life, underscores the fact that cops now have a license to murder.
Thomas, a mentally disabled homeless man, was beaten, tasered, suffocated and pistol whipped as he lay on a street corner being sat on by no less than six police officers during an incident in July 2011.
In what is undoubtedly one of if not the most disturbing police brutality videos ever, Thomas can be heard pleading for his father, moaning, “Daddy, daddy, they are killing me,” as officers prolong the assault... see video here at infowars.
Thomas, a mentally disabled homeless man, was beaten, tasered, suffocated and pistol whipped as he lay on a street corner being sat on by no less than six police officers during an incident in July 2011.
In what is undoubtedly one of if not the most disturbing police brutality videos ever, Thomas can be heard pleading for his father, moaning, “Daddy, daddy, they are killing me,” as officers prolong the assault... see video here at infowars.
AND IT HAPPENS TO WHITE PEOPLE, TOO... Police claimed that the brutal pummeling they inflicted on Thomas was a justified response to his pathetic attempts to resist being murdered.
After Levi Frasier filmed a Denver police officer throw six powerful punches into the face of a suspected drug dealer, officers threatened Frasier with arrest unless he gave them the video, he tells RT.
The video is remarkable for its sheer level of brutality: Three police officers are seen holding down unarmed suspected drug dealer David Flores in a parking lot. After Flores ignores a command by police officer Charles Jones to release a sock from his mouth that he suspects contains narcotics, Jones delivers six consecutive punches to his face.
When Flores’s pregnant wife attempts to intervene, Jones trips her up and she falls, landing on her stomach... see video here at RT.
Flores ended up in the hospital, while Denver police originally said the display of force by the officer was reasonable under the circumstances.
Just one week after airing of the videotape, the Denver Police Department awarded Jones a promotion.
The video is remarkable for its sheer level of brutality: Three police officers are seen holding down unarmed suspected drug dealer David Flores in a parking lot. After Flores ignores a command by police officer Charles Jones to release a sock from his mouth that he suspects contains narcotics, Jones delivers six consecutive punches to his face.
When Flores’s pregnant wife attempts to intervene, Jones trips her up and she falls, landing on her stomach... see video here at RT.
Flores ended up in the hospital, while Denver police originally said the display of force by the officer was reasonable under the circumstances.
Just one week after airing of the videotape, the Denver Police Department awarded Jones a promotion.
Judge, jury & executioner: Police carrying out ‘death by firing squad’... what you saw is so many officers who decided to take the law in totality into their own hands. They executed the law – it was death by firing squad. The reason why the officer wasn’t found guilty is because they didn’t know who fired the lethal shot...a police officer who tasered and pepper-sprayed a motorist, David Washington, who had suffered a stroke at the wheel of his car in Virginia. The second incident took place in Ohio after a cop, mistaking a backfiring car for gunshots, fired at the driver and passenger, Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, respectively, up to 49 times.
Is there ever a justification for firing 137 times at an unarmed couple, as we saw in Cleveland?
... There is certainly no justification. This is the type of things that you see in movies; these are the things that you don’t even believe are real. To be in America and to experience this type of thing taking place, where the officer jumped on top of the hood.
First of all, that is very reckless for an officer to jump on the hood of a car, and then fire as many shots into the window, stopping to reload. This leads me to believe that this was not an officer who was in fear of his life. This is an officer who is bloodthirsty, who wanted to kill someone. An officer who wanted to do whatever he could to live out some wild video game fantasy.
... There is certainly no justification. This is the type of things that you see in movies; these are the things that you don’t even believe are real. To be in America and to experience this type of thing taking place, where the officer jumped on top of the hood.
First of all, that is very reckless for an officer to jump on the hood of a car, and then fire as many shots into the window, stopping to reload. This leads me to believe that this was not an officer who was in fear of his life. This is an officer who is bloodthirsty, who wanted to kill someone. An officer who wanted to do whatever he could to live out some wild video game fantasy.
If it were just a few “bad” cops terrorizing the citizenry, that would be one thing. But what we’re dealing with is a nationwide epidemic of court-sanctioned police violence carried out against individuals posing little or no threat of violence, who are nevertheless subjected to such excessive police force as to end up maimed or killed.
This is not about a philosophical pondering about the origins and nature of this abuse and brutality. The fact that there have been virtually zero convictions of guilty officers over the past generation tells us that the only place to turn to is perhaps the international criminal courts -- either the Organization of American States or the United Nations. Both criminal courts exist precisely for situations in which the courts in a given country do not function. And this is unquestionable when it comes to the brutalization of people of color in this country; the courts have never functioned. The issue of state-sponsored violence in this country is prima facie evidence that a reign of impunity for law enforcement has always existed, particularly when it relates to the abuse of the Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples of this country. Additionally, for these peoples, law enforcement has always functioned, more than anything, as a system of control.
Please read A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males.
Also read police murder innocent people without consequences and the police kill.
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