What would you do if a cop did this to you? Number 2

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The police

vehicles screeched to a halt in front of the house shortly after

4:00 p.m. They ordered Lopez and her children away from Derek –

who, predictably, had risen to his feet by this time – and

then ordered him to remove his hands from his the pockets of his

sweatshirt.



Less than a

second later – according

to several eyewitnesses at the scene – Derek was hit with

a taser blast that knocked him sideways and sent him into convulsions.

His right hand involuntarily shot out of its pocket, clenching spasmodically.



“Not in

front of the kids,” Derek gasped, as he tried to force his

body to cooperate. “Get the kids out of here.”

The officers

continued to order Derek to put up his hands; he was physically

unable to comply.

So they tased

him again. This time he was driven to his side and vomited into

a nearby flower bed.

Howard Mixon,

a contractor who had been working nearby, couldn't abide the spectacle.

“That's

not necessary!” he bellowed at the assailants. “That's

overkill! That's overkill!”

At this point,

one of the heroes in blue (or, in this case, black) swaggered over

to Mixon and snarled, “I'll f*****g show you overkill!”

Having heroically shut up an unarmed civilian, the officer turned

his attention back to Derek – who was being tased yet again.



“I'm trying

to get my hands out,” Derek exclaimed, desperately trying to

make his tortured and traumatized body obey his will. Horrified,

his friend Sandra screamed at the officers: “He is trying to

get his hands out, he cannot get his hands out!”

Having established

that Derek – an innocent man who had survived two tours of

duty in Iraq – was defenseless, one of Wilmington's Finest

closed in for the kill.

Lt. William

Brown of the Wilmington Police Department, who was close enough

to seize and handcuff the helpless victim, instead shot him in the

chest at point-blank range, tearing apart his vitals with three

.40-caliber rounds. He did this after Derek had said, repeatedly

and explicitly, that he was trying to cooperate. He did this despite

the fact that witnesses on the scene had confirmed that Derek was

trying to cooperate. He did this in front of a traumatized mother

and two horrified children.

Why was this

done?

According to

Sgt. Steven Elliot of the WPD, Brown slaughtered Derek Hale because

he “feared for the safety of his fellow officers and believed

that the suspect was in a position to pose an imminent threat.”

That subjective belief was sufficient justification to use “deadly

force,” according to Sgt. Elliot.

The “position”

Derek was in, remember, was that of wallowing helplessly in his

own vomit, trying to overcome the cumulative effects of three completely

unjustified Taser attacks.

When asked

by the Wilmington News Journal last week if Hale had ever

threatened the officers – remember, there were at least 8 and

as many as 12 of them – Elliot replied: “In a sense, [he

threatened the officers] when he did not comply with their commands.”

 
Wow, I hope every cop that was there gets removed from duty, convicted of contributing to murder, and gets raped by large men in prison who all know what they did until they die of natural causes at the age of 95.
 
thats so fucked up, i wouldve thrown rocks at them so he could get his hands out then i would throw more rocks at them.. of course i would probly get shot by just about every cop in a 4 mile radius by this time
 
that blows. fascist fuckheads just loving the power of the badge.

ruins it for the majority of cops who are descent, hardworking, well intentioned people.
 
do we even need police in a large part of america? i don't think so. In my town, people don't kill each other. People steal car stereos, which the police do absolutely nothing about. The cops drive around and look for people to harass, they are, arguably, the biggest danger to an average citizen in my city. so why even have them??
 
that made me shiver reading this. absolutely fucking dispickable. who the hell allowed them to pass the police accademy anyway? thats not a police brutality case, thats a fucking murder case. if your a fucking cop and you kill someone without a purpose, thats still fuckin murder, cop or not. i think necessary force of police needs to be more finely justified...
 
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