This is outrageous, and only a tiny amount of reality. Here are a few highlights from the attached well-cited article. 1. Police kill someone every single day in this country. Sometimes it is justified, sometimes it is clearly not justified, and sometimes the only thing the public has is the word of the officers involved, which has become notoriously unreliable. 2. In the same time frame, cops killed more Americans than died in the Iraq war. 3. In the last 15 years, more than 25% of people killed by the NYPD were unarmed. 4. It should be noted that the number of cops shot and killed last year was 33. That’s the lowest rate of officer “death by gunfire” in over 100 years. 5. Being a cop is not a statistically dangerous job. It isn’t even in the top ten of dangerous jobs. Your local pizza delivery driver It should be noted that cops in Utah kill more people than drug dealers or gang members. 6. has a higher chance of being killed on duty than a cop. In March, cops killed a homeless man for “illegally camping.” While he was attempting to surrender, he was shot repeatedly, hit with a grenade, attacked by a K-9, and then shot with a bean bag while he bled to death in the dirt. An officer announced his intentions to shoot the man two hours before the first shot was fired. He is retiring with full benefits. The video is available theantimedia.org/cop-who-killed-homeless-man-retiring/ In May, cops in Habersham Georgia tossed a concussion grenade through a window into a crib and blew a hole in the child who wound up in a coma. They were serving a petty drug warrant. Of course, the person they were looking for didn’t even live there. The department then refused to pay for the medical bills for the child they maimed. In November, charges were tossed out against an officer who killed a 7-year-old girl while she was sleeping during a botched raid. The fatal shot was fired by a cop who was blinded by a grenade that had been thrown by another officer. Since he couldn’t see, the only responsible thing to do was to start firing. Surprisingly, the cops didn’t claim they were in fear for their life, nor did they plant a weapon on the 7-year-old. The killer was charged, but then the charges were dropped. theantimedia.org/murder-by-cop-the-year-in-review/
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:12:46 +0000
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