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Please meet Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, LA...
He was killed by cops after he was questioned about selling CDs on the street...
#AltonSterling trending #1 on Twitter... https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltonSterling?src=trend
Welcome to America.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 6, 2016, 12:50 AM - Edit history (1)
Post left only for continuity of subs.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Shandris
(3,447 posts)It's his way of drawing attention to it I think. I don't know the man personally or anything, just seen his pattern over a period of time.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Basic story
http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id4757
More info about it here
http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/alton-sterling-baton-rouge-louisiana-police-shooting-victim-suspect-video-photos-facebook-family-protests-officers-names/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/louisiana-police-officer-fatally-shoots-suspect-40346546
Decent article
http://www.wbrz.com/news/one-brpd-officer-involved-in-shooting-on-north-foster-drive/
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)My hometown. Damn.
I fear the police. And nobody else.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)no need
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)Thank you!
Initech
(100,155 posts)Chisox08
(1,898 posts)He was pinned to the ground and shot multiple times at point blank range. How can anybody justify what happened to him?
Tortmaster
(382 posts)We need a Democratic President and House and Senate ASAP. Until we do, the NRA and police unions will kill any attempt to end all the senseless death and suffering.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)Tortmaster
(382 posts)... of violence, with the NRA gorging on the money made off it. The police will claim they were afraid for their life because the guy had a gun, so they had to have a gun and had to shoot their gun, and because of the crime and violence caused by these guns, the NRA sells more and more guns until more and more death occurs, meaning that more and more guns must be sold, and at the same time, the police argue that they have to be better equipped with more and more frightening death machines, and there you go.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Extra-legal execution is NOT American.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)...executed him.
Police cannot make the choice to execute someone on the spot like that. He was pinned down by at least two cops. While pinned to the ground, they popped him. No due process. No trial (if he was breaking laws). Just straight up executed.
SMH.
yuiyoshida
(41,874 posts)Its still hard to believe that events happen like this nearly every time we turn around.. and nothing is being done to address this kind of police brutality.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Mm-hmm.
I expect we'll see a lot of that in coming years.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)having your body camera intentionally "fall off" (or "be rendered inoperable" or be "accidentally left in the car" or "was covered by a jacket" becomes grounds for termination and until juries in murder trials against police officers begin to rightfully view it as a willful attempt to conceal evidence...not proof of guilt in its own right but as part of the body of facts and evidence that should be considered in light of other facts and evidence of the alleged crime.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)But having it happen to multiple cops is suspicious at best. And given the phone video, it's even more suggestive that it wasn't an accident. Unlike the shooting which was pretty clearly intentional.
Orrex
(63,298 posts)Proven time and time again.
Don't worry--the cops are sure to be cleared of any wrongdoing, and isn't that the most important thing, in the end?
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)...seeing this. I watched those cops execute Alton and was thinking that, despite what is seen on the video, the cops will get away with it. And, they will.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)ecstatic
(32,814 posts)want my morning ruined. But MSNBC just showed it and the tearjerker press conference. 😔
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)...you can just see the pain in his eyes/demeanor.
coco77
(1,327 posts)They had him down no need for a gun they could have handcuffed him, oh I forgot he is black so he has super human powers.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)...they want and there will be no consequences to the murdering police.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Black folks with guns: Violent criminals
White folks with guns: 2A patriots
Once again the media digs up the victim's record before digging up the names of the cops involved...
Once again the usual suspects set up the same old arguments that 15-year-old speeding tickets and selling CDs on the street makes this a justifiable shooting...
Once again the "All/Blue lives matter" crowd is nowhere to be found...
Once again the "But what about black on black crime?!" Derpfest is in full shout...
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . because it's far more important to "play stupid games, win stupid prizes*" America that a black guy MUST be at fault for his own death than even ONE corrupt police officer sees one day of jail time for their crimes.
* - [font size="1"]Doesn't apply to Republicans, CEOs, cops or rich white kids.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Hopefully this snowballs into a serious look at just what kinds of scum are slithering into our police forces.
Of course, I can hope in one hand and . . . you know the rest.
Ace Rothstein
(3,201 posts)Is that what I just saw? Holy shit.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 6, 2016, 01:22 PM - Edit history (1)
Per Hanlon's Razor, I wonder if the motive is Panic and not Malice. That's probably my White Privilege talking; it's a difference without a distinction.
It's not going to stop anytime soon.