Thread to discuss when the police kill a civilian

Blind guessing without having looked into the context - Black boy around 11 years old holding a toy gun in his fenced-in backyard? Because I remember that video, I take longer to get out of the car than they did exiting and shooting him dead. Okay, going in now…

Nope! Different one. Should have been clued in by the mother who wasn’t shot in the one I was thinking of.

Sometimes police face consequences for behaving badly.

First thought: “Wow, most of those charged are held on bail instead of paid administrative leave, I can’t believe it.”

Second thought: “Oh, 45% of Antioch’s police force is on paid administrative leave for their racist texts.”

The guy taking the exams impersonated four men (one with a beard) and two women. That’s impressive.

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Leonard Allan Cure, freed after wrongful conviction, shot dead in traffic stop : NPR

[sarc] Probably would have been safer in prison. [/sarc]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-cant-breathe-black-man-ohio-tells-police-before-he-died-video-shows-2024-04-26/

Just in time for a summer of protests.