In fairness to the officer, this was clearly an accident where the unarmed man fell and landed on some bullets that were left lying around.
Wait, what? The whole thing was videotaped?
Just fucking Christ on toast, people. He shot him IN THE BACK.
11 white jurors , 1 black
The cop feared for his life, How did he know that black man would not turn into the Incredible Hulk
āā¦And then, he ran into my bullets. Backwards. He ran into my bullets five times!ā (Apologies to āChicagoā)
This shit just continues to break my heart. Thatās about all I can say about it.
Everybody saw the goddamn video.
He shot a guy in the back as the guy was running away.
The police arenāt supposed to have carte blanche to shoot anyone they please. Shooting someone is supposed to be a last resort to save life or limb.
Some stories claim the dead man had wrestled with the cop, took the copās taser, and either shot him with it or tried to.
Even if that was true, the guy was running away with nothing in his hands, and the cop shot him in the back.
Thereās no way a cop can claim someone who was running away from him and empty-handed was a deadly threat that the cop had NO CHOICE except to shoot.
For the love of God! Could the video be any more clear? Whitey McWhitecop shot a fleeing man in the back - a black man who the fucking racist cop had stopped for the capital offense of a broken taillight.
Arghhh! I hate this fucking racist country.
I canāt like your post Tena because this is too heartbreaking, but I agree. Fully.
The only reason any juror should be holding out in this case is if he or she wanted to vote guilty for first degree murder instead of a lesser charge. For the second time in a month all of us have good reason to say ājust when I thought Iād seen it allā.
If this guy walksā¦I have no faith in our system! Absolutely noneā¦
You guys donāt understand what progress is. Before post racial America, the jury would have found him innocent and good-looking after 20 minutes of deliberation and would have given him a parade the following week.
If there are 12 jurors and only one is not sure yet, I think blaming the whole US is a bit of an over reaction.
And yet somehow BLM is the one stoking racial animus. If only white men could catch one break in this country.
The US, as embodied in our Constitution, was founded on the principle of white, European racial superiority. The US has always been and apparently always will be a racist nation. We are South Africa with flowery but ultimately empty words about equality. Apartheid in SA lasted ~50 years; weāve been practicing apartheid for over 200 years.
Then why do you stay in this awful place? There are over 300 other countries to choose from.
Really? Can you give me current examples of Apartheid here in the US? Actual laws like those that existed under Apartheid?
Oh FOAD, mrcomments! āLove it of leave itā is such a bullshit response. This happens to be the country where I was born. I would gladly live elsewhere, but I am kind of invested in the effed up country.
Interesting. Because lots of people who were born elsewhere come to live here. Lots. And that includes lots of blacks from Africa. I welcome all of them for sure, but it this place is so bad, why do they come here? Perhaps because you really donāt know what Apartheid was? Your comment is actually disrespectful to people who actually lived under Apartheid, much like many āHolocaustā analogies I hear.