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I've run out of words.

It's just bewildering!

Just....

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"Police have said Howell was involved in a scuffle while trying to steal a handgun during a street sale. Authorities said Tramond Peet, 18, of Lindenhurst intended to sell a gun to Howell near Gilead Avenue in Zion. During the exchange, a fight broke out between Howell and Peet, and a shot was fired, police said.

A neighbor who heard the gunshot and witnessed the fighting called police, authorities said. When officers arrived on the scene, Howell ran and was shot sometime later.

Zoladz confirmed Peet, who was arrested on weapons charges in the case, is a student at Grayslake North but said she could not provide additional details.

Perlini said relatives of Howell also attend Grayslake North.

Peet has been charged with two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and is in Lake County jail on $15,000 bail."

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20150409/news/150408522/

Sorry, but your OP was a blog post. I find actual news articles better for discerning facts.
Why so defensive and accusatory ?

Hate to say it but most news organizations will simply republish what the police give them as gospel. So by it's self that's not a definitive statement.

even though it is from a news source, and not the unedited musings of some person somewhere.

want to know the whole story>

I guess in the world of blog reporting that is a possibility.

If you were a cop responding to a call about a fight with a shot fired, you might presume that firearms were involved.

I'm not saying this is a justified shooting, just pointing out that there is reason for posting a bit more background.

before opening fire.

If the Peet kid has been charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and the report says he TRIED to sell Howell a gun, but Howell TRIED to steal it instead, then why did they shoot Howell whom the report admits was not armed?
I'm surprised the Peet kid wasn't killed. There must have been to many witness's when the cop's found him.

... so what are their justifications for shooting him in the back!?1?

the criminals they are supposed to protect the public from.

RIP to yet another young AA teenager, dead at the hands of the police.

these parts:

Would society actually be safer net-net with no police force (as currently constituted)?

Sure, criminals and predators would more easily prey upon the vulnerable. But offenses like Walking While Black, Driving While Black and Living While Black would stop being capital offenses.

I'm posting sarcastically (somewhat), but I think it's a valid question. If you're rich and white, the police have your back. If you're poor and black, the police shoot you in the back.

You see, even if he punched the cop straight in the face


STILL YOU DONT shoot them in the back, or at all

any cop can and will and does kill anybody they want, anytime they want, anywhere they want for any reason they want

without video they just have to say their feared for their life

their guns and other weapons warm and well-oiled, so the police here have to resort to shooting or choking to death white folk who are mentally challenged, 15 year old kids, 80+ year old men, and people with no money. Probably if we didn't have those they would import baby seals or something.

This town isn't quite as white as the Whitopia across the border, Coeur d'Alene, but there was a story last year about a black kid coming home depressed because he was the only black kid in the class. Again this year.

I have a certain advantage, in being 60 (oops, 61 now) and looking like a retired, white insurance agent. All the pale faces think I think like they do.

They ALL know that murdering African American Males is a hot issue in the Media,
and they STILL keep doing it.
It is almost like those kids on YouTube hurting themselves in idiotic (and life threatening) ways, and then posting their stupidity to the internet.

does not deter.

What we now know beyond a shadow of a doubt: Ferguson IS NOT an isolated case.

Not a comment at you, just on the article. It was sick to read.

... looks like another Scott shooting

After they have been over there killing terrorist and being called heroes for it.
It is a logical conclusion that when they become cops they will take the same attitude toward people that don't look white because that was their targets in Iraq.

IMO the most stupid thing we ever did was make an all volunteer military...it has become a magnet for people who like killing people...especially sense we call them heroes for it.

other than being black, the young man's crime was.........

wait for it..........

wait for it..........

wait for it..........

wait for it..........

wait for it.............


WALKING DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET



Channel 2's Liz Artz spoke with Atlanta Police Chief George Turner after officers shot a 22-year-old man in southwest Atlanta.

Around 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, police officers saw 22-year-old Yuric Ussery walking in the middle of McDaniel Street.

Police say Ussery immediately ran when approached by officers.

During the chase, police say Ussery produced a handgun and pointed it at officers.

Officers opened fire on Ussery, but investigators have not been able to determine how many shots were fired.

Channel 2's Liz Artz spoke with Ussery's brother who says they were on the phone together and police may have mistaken the cell phone for a gun.

"He didn't pull out no gun. He was reaching for a phone. He answered the phone," Chvotkin Ussery said.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/police-identify-man-shot-officer-southwest-atlanta/nkqcW/

Every day, another one. Sick solidarity?

In our faces, as if staying 'we will not be stopped'.

like there's some secret reward or something. it just goes on and on.

Sorry cops, never cry wolf.

What do you do except start posting cameras everywhere and watch the watchmen.
Seems that video is the only thing that works in punishing after the fact.

Posters belittle change by doing this.

Changes nothing.

They* are spreading fear and terror of these criminals in uniform so the people cower.

* They = Billionaire Bigot Society

"Like flies to wanton boys are we to the cops;
They kill us for their sport."

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It just has to.

During the first days after the Michael Brown shooting. Many turned out to be unreliable as declared by the DOJ. We'll see.

Reports we now know came from a PD with racist/corrupt cops running it. We also now know coroners will lie to cover for cops. Yes indeed we shall see.

They didn't base their work on police interviews alone.

So they get to work with what is given to them to form an opinion. If Holder had been the DA and the DoJ was invovled in getting a GJ trial...things might have been completely different.

We will never know.