I suspect the trial for all the officers involved is going to eventually be disappointing for those seeking justice. By the time the trials wrap up, we’ll have new distractions. Remember this case?
Jonathan A. Ferrell was a 24-year-old former football player for Florida A&M University who worked two jobs and moved to North Carolina to be with his fiancée.
On Saturday, the car Ferrell was driving crashed into trees off a northeast Charlotte road. The wreck was so severe that Ferrell would have had to climb out of the back window to escape, the Associated Press reported.
An obviously shaken Ferrell walked about a half-mile to the nearest house and was “banging on the door viciously” to attract attention, police say.
The woman who lived there opened the door, and when she saw Ferrell, shut it and called police at about 2:30 a.m.
When officers arrived, Ferrell ran toward police, who attempted to stop him with a Taser. He continued to approach them when officer Randall Kerrick fired his gun, hitting Ferrell 10 times and killing him.
Kerrick’s trial resulted in a mistrial twice I believe. The state declined to try him again. He shot 12 friggin rounds and hit Ferrel ten times for no good reason and he walked away without a conviction or doing any time.
Things could turn out different this time, but I’m not putting any money on it.
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I was in a car accident when I was a teen and hit my head on the windshield. I did some pretty odd things afterwards. I wasn’t myself for quite a few hours. Both of the doors of the 64 Impala were ripped off from the 30 feet of guardrail we obliterated. I was a passenger and instead of leaving out of the doors that were no longer there, I busted out the windshield and escaped the car that way. I was in shock. I ripped my copper necklace off my neck for some reason. I loved that Indian thunder- bird necklace and spent hours looking for it the next day. For some reason I thought if the cops saw me wearing it, I’d be in trouble. Yeah, I was really not thinking at all. Shock from an impact will do that to you.
Trump: Hey, Bob, I’m getting clobbered on this Corona thing, can you help me out?
Kroll: I got just the thing, hold tight
Chauvin: What, Bob? Kill em? And make sure I get seen doing it?
Kroll: Don’t worry, you’ve got friends in high places, if you get my pardon, I mean pun
Chauvin: I got just the guy, so sick of working the club with him
Let’s talk about accountability: there’s a fairly prominent businessman in my community who is using FucksBook to spread a rumor that “people” from nearby predominantly African American cities are coming here to loot a shopping center. It’s so bad that a group of kids who were coming over for a (socially-distanced and supervised) get together are being picked up by their frightened parents.
Well, good, some common ground. Certainly the other three could have said, Dude, chill, he’s subdued, let him up. Maybe they wish they had. And you and I both probably agree more than you let on that everyone deserves a fair trial and if the process takes a while that’s part of the attempted fairness. You rush a thing, you’re likely to mess it up. But it seems like we both saw the same video.
