Behind the Scenes of Police Murders

[Jimmie Higgins]

Nothing that should be too new or a huge revelation to people on this website, but it gives a peak into how police tend to respond when they murder someone. It's an older story, but there's some movement on it now and the mainstream press has begun to report on what this article argued a year ago.

I goes through how we always get these stories in the media that go something like: "police shot a young man today... witnesses said he was unarmed but a gun was later found 50 feet away"

It also gives more evidence of a pretty routine threatening of witnesses and a newer thing: rounding up cell phones of witnesses. Finally, it shows what BS the "tasers save lives" and "police now have video cameras so it couldn't have been brutality" arguments are.

http://sfbayview.com/2011/unnamed-young-black-man-killed-by-oakland-police/

[citizen of industry]

He had a bag, ran, threw it over a fence and put his hands up, and they shot him 3 times. They cuffed him while he was dying, it took four hours for an ambulance to get there, later they tried to silence all the witnesses and invent a fictitious gun that he supposedly threw.

If he did have a gun, it doesn't change the equation. I hope the article isn't going the other way and painting the victim in a more "acceptable" light. It's also natural and expected the article targets white cops, as opposed to cops, but it's a shame it is based on race and not class.

And what's with the guy letting the pigs into his house without a warrant, letting them take his phone, accepting a CD after his phone was wiped, etc. The article was very clear that he was a hispanic man, though.

[Jimmie Higgins]

If he did have a gun, it doesn't change the equation. I hope the article isn't going the other way and painting the victim in a more "acceptable" light. It's also natural and expected the article targets white cops, as opposed to cops, but it's a shame it is based on race and not class.Totally agree. This guy was apparently "guilty" of having a dime-bag of something... the guy shot in SF was "guilty" of hopping a turnstile... "guilty" for anything is no excuse to shoot. It's a way to demonize and marginalize people... oh someone in the Aneheim shooting was a gang member... most places that means you are poor and know someone or are related to someone involved in crime. They use these excuses and make criminals "othered" in order to get away with murder.


And what's with the guy letting the pigs into his house without a warrant, letting them take his phone, accepting a CD after his phone was wiped, etc. The article was very clear that he was a hispanic man, though.This however... yeah intimidation - I don't know if I wasn't radical if I wouldn't have done the same thing even knowing that I didn't have to. I mean he did just see them execute someone.