The Orleans Parish coroner said Grimes was shot 14 times, including 12 times in the back...See? What more proof do you need?
Family members said they want to know why officers descended on a young man with no criminal record, who graduated from one of the most prestigious high schools in the city...
Grimes did have a gun. His family and the lawyer, Jenkins, said he had a legal permit to carry the weapon. [More]
Forget his assailants were plainclothes officers, indistinguishable from street thugs.
If only the "Only Ones" had guns, this wouldn't have happened.
Right?
[Via remarks and Avg Joe]
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incidents like this will continue to occur until such time as an entire neighborhood wreaks retribution on thugs like these at the time and on the spot.
Until being a thug carries a penalty our police will continue to murder. Until the public makes it too physically dangerous for them continue to murder, the hierarchy within the departments and their political masters will continue to encourage officially sanctioned murder.
Apparently his skin was too dark for self-defense to be a valid reason for carrying a weapon.
''We train our officers to fire when fired upon. We train them to fire more than one shot,'' he said." This is part of the problem, Barney only had one bullet and he had to keep it in his pocket.
Try training your officers to not act like parasites. Oh, wait, that negates their whole existence.
This is the second "Cop shoots civilian for no apparent justifiable reason" incident in less than fourteen days. So far that makes a projected rate for this year of one per week for a possible total of 53 or more. What was it last year? Or did we even have any last year?
48 bullet casings were found at the shooting scene
How do you miss a dead man who's already been shot 12 times in the back that much? Another one for the "only one" files.
You shoulda seen this "Travis County Yuppy Colony" (that shall remain nameless), TX cop at the range the other day entirely missing his DPS target at the indoor range at 7 yards slow fire.
I had to leave the firing line before I commenced laughing my ass off with the range staff as I didn't want him to accidentally shoot me or single me out to follow home later.
Focusing on the target instead of the front sight, was he?
We can outshoot them. That's why they hunt in packs.
As for 14 back-shots and 48 rounds expended, I think it went like this; After two hits: "Oh, sh--, this isn't the right guy!"
"Oh, sh--! Oh, sh--!"
"Okay, guys, no witnesses..."
The biggest issue I've run into with most police I've known or met is that most of them are "law enforcement officers" instead of "officers of the peace". Very few of them have any understanding of the fact that, as part of the executive branch, it is not their role to go out and enforce every single law that they can.
The day that police in urban areas really start to grasp that concept is the day that occurrences of symptoms like this will start to fade away.
No laughingdog, the day they start dying consistently at such scenes is the day that those symptoms will start to fade away.
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