The big headline with the protests against police brutality against black males this weekend was that officers turned their backs on Mayor Diblasio at the funeral of the two slain officers. I guess they felt it was inappropriate for the mayor to have shown sympathy for people like Eric Garner, who police choked to death for selling loose cigarettes. But another headline is that protesters gathered to protest the out-of-control polices shooting of Akai Gurley. What? Hadnt heard of him yet? A young black guy with a 2 year old daughter was guilty of being in a dark stairway with his girlfriend. A rookie cop shot his gun by accident, he claimed. A cop who then texted his union before any medical services for Gurley as the victim lay dying--because saving the life of the guy hed just wrongly shot was less important than saving his job after a fatal blunder. Gurley, described by police commissioner Bill Bratton as a total innocent, was unarmed. DAILY NEWS: “That’s showing negligence,” said a law enforcement source of the pair’s decision to text their union rep before making a radio call for help. “The guy is dying and you still haven’t called it in?” To make things even worse, the officers were uncertain of the exact address of the building in the Pink Houses they were in, according to their text messages, the sources said. The officer and his partner werent even supposed to be patrolling the Pink House at that time. I wonder if this cop will get off too? huffingtonpost/2014/12/27/akai-gurley-protests_n_6385234.html
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 10:03:20 +0000
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