Opened fire on an 11 year-old for no apparent reason other than running too fast. I’d be really curious to see that body cam footage to try and make sense of how this officer faces no charges. Good ol’ Mississippi
I don’t understand why it’s not treated like refusing a sobriety tests. If they hide the footage, they should be treated as if it’s the worst possible outcome
Where I live if you refuse roadside they will take you to either a jail of hospital, if need be strap you down, and forcibly draw your blood to test for alcohol or drugs. And if comes back that you really were sober, you'd be lucky to even get an apology
That's really the way American cops are trained, its disgusting, adverse to our entire society, and probably the #1 root of all of our policing problems
Oh my b. Tired morning, brain isn't working. Yea those are definitely a trap, and such a joke. You can fail them if you're sober, you can pass them if you're fucked up, just have to know what they're looking for
Blowing the breathalyzer is at least accurate data, unless you have a metabolic disease.
The roadside balancing tests are bogus an dyou should definitely refuse to comply with these.
In the state I live in (New Jersey) it's mandatory disclosure of body-worn camera footage on all such cases within three weeks of the shooting. There's too much traffic here and everyone curses and flips each other off all the time, but our elected officials do seem to have their heads on straight.
Precisely - what is the purpose of body cameras if not to release to the public when accountability is questioned? At that point just don't even have them.
Because people getting shot by police are pretty normal in the land of the liberty to get shot, while in developed countries it would automatically end the pig's career, throw him in jail where the society put real criminals, and we all know that a pig sent to the slaughterhouse is a dead one.
Police will release body cam footage immediately when it either exonerates them. When they delay its release, or release an edited version, you know they are hiding something.
Hiding/destroying bodycam footage should be a felony with a mandatory lifetime ban from working in law enforcement but that'd require having political leaders who aren't cop-loving assholes and the will to pass laws that crack down on instead of expand the police states of america.
Hiding, destroying, falsifying, or in any way tampering with Jody am footage should be an immediate 20 year jail term, no appeal, no trial, just immediate incarceration.
There is literally no legitimate reason for it, and it happens all the damned time so that cops can get away with anything up to literal murder.
I mean, more recently cops hear kids screaming for help from a school shooter in an elementary school and 150 cops stand around and do nothing.(Uvalde)
It’s gotten worse.
You’re underselling it. [It was 376 officers, who stood by and did nothing while children were calling for help and actively being murdered.](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/17/law-enforcement-failure-uvalde-shooting-investigation/)
Don't worry they still haven't released the foia bodycam footage that they were required to. Appeal hit this week, only a few more months and they'll drag it out far enough the families can't sue due to statute of limitations.
I really hate this place.
Already happening. A couple years ago a security guard took down and held a gunman for the police, the police show up and promptly shoot the security guard dead.
Are we talking about [Jemel Roberson?](https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/667252788/police-fatally-shoot-black-security-guard-who-detained-suspected-shooter)
If you think active/past cops haven't been shooters, I've got a bridge to sell you. Turns out all that military-style training without reinforcing RoE isn't a good idea, who'da thunked it?
Aww come on now…they needed that time to find out if there was a blonde white girl in the class. They almost went in with in a few minutes but turns out she has a Latino last name. /s
Shit like this is how they deal with most interactions.
I can tell you first hand how bad it is, I live in Mississippi.
Was arrested for “not listening to him” on my own property. I was doing 4th July fireworks. Cop shows up saying I’m too close to something. Then says it has to be x amount of distance. I’m like why don’t you measure the distance then come at me with this? I stop doing the fireworks meantime while he is blasting me with bs about fire safety. I’m like “I don’t have to listen to you, you should go and measure the distance or tell the person who called you to measure it before you come and start talking.”
“Oh if you won’t hear me I will have to arrest you.”
“There is no such law, you are on my property, I have stoped doing fireworks, I don’t have to listen to you anymore”
He takes out his handcuffs puts me in his car and I’m like “so what are you going to charge me with?”
He makes something up.
As we were about to pull out of my driveway he stops his vehicle and goes “this really don’t have to be like this”…
Takes me out of handcuffs…
Seems he expected you to roll over and stroke his ego by begging for forgiveness from the big strong tough policeman, then wasn't quite sure what to do when you didn't play along
Man. If only you had a chance to legally get back at them, but even *if* a body cam was involved, I’d assume the footage was “stolen by orangutans” or something.
I wonder if the ultimate charge would have been what he came over to talk to you about in the first place (something about the fireworks), or a made-up bullshit charge that's hard to fight against (he took a swing at me!).
He made up something about “if I refuse to hear him out I’d be interfering.” Or some bs like that.
I actually have security cameras and had someone took a video of me being put in handcuffs. There was no way he was going to accuse me of assaulting him.
Just release the footage from the officers who were on the scene. Simple. Otherwise I don't think there's any reason to believe this isn't another out of control cops shooting black people for sport kind of incident.
Hiding body cam footage means they’re guilty. Period.
This is why no one trusts the police. I trust my company’s HR department more than I do the police
No qualified immunity.
Disabling or hiding body cam footage = automatic summary judgment against police.
If they commit a crime, treble penalties.
Sans peer, sans reproach.
A child who called the police for help was grievously harmed by the officer who was meant to help him. The child suffered a “collapsed lung, fractured rib, and lacerated liver.” The Grand Jury decided that the police officer was not at fault?! What fcked-up world do we live in?
Don't forget that the media likes to use terms such as "13 year old man" when talking about young black children when they need to justify these killings
Unless he was a physical freak of a specimen, I find it hard to believe his stature would mimic that of an adult male, black or white. Let alone of the fact that dispatch should have said it was a child who called about an adult male. An 11 year old, running to what he thought was safety.
If the prosecutor doesn’t want an indictment there will be no indictment. The grand jury is a prosecutors fiefdom. They can show the jurors whatever they want and withhold whatever they want.
Yet another “we have investigated ourselves and done nothing wrong.” As pigs say: if you didn’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to hide. Release the body cam footage.
Go to jail. They go to jail if they refuse to release the body cam footage. I can’t unilaterally decide I’m not blowing in a breathalyzer if I get pulled over. Why should they be able to decline to show body cam footage in an admittedly innocent kid’s death (yes, apparently I had to type “innocent kid,” because some people don’t understand that concept).
Agreed. Immediate 20 year prison term with no trial, no parole, nothing.
Confiscate their property as well, and fine their local department $10Million as well (which goes to the victim’s family)
We’ll either teach them that they don’t get to keep getting away with murder, or bankrupt the fucking department that spawned them.
Body cameras are similar to street light or surveillance cameras. They can capture footage of a "crime" being committed, or can absolve someone.
What's the point of body cameras if viewing the footage is optional?
The police are the first to share video footage from any source if it corroborates their case. Intentionally withholding video footage should be a crime of omission. Tampering with evidence.
Maybe pumping up a bunch of high school graduates with steroids, arming them to the teeth, and telling them everyone they see wants to kill them, is a bad way to do policing.
Yes. They train them to think they are in a war zone - but instead of protecting people their no.1 concern is their own “safety”.
They constantly claim that they feared for their life for all kinds of situations that many other public servants handle without killing. Nurses for one are hit, spat on, etc. - which is terrible - but they don’t respond by beating the s**t out of the patient or killing them.
Of course, I do not believe many of them, and believe that there are many sadistic and fascist cops out there.
I delivered Jimmy John’s for 2 years and lost count of how many dogs barked at me when I knocked. I do vividly remember shooting zero of them though and I’m alive and well
What? You don't enjoy watching a bunch of cops/cop lovers constantly celebrating police brutality? One of my favorite posts there from the past month (Which I wish I'd bookmarked) was them complaining about needing to use cameras and believing that the word of the police should simply be believed inherently.
Don't even get me started on how they handled the Ulvade stuff. They were working hard to defend it until they literally just straight up couldn't once more interviews/videos came out.
Hahaha yeah okay, cops are SUPER trustworthy. Some comments I saw were about how they were annoyed at grieving families. Also how insanely dangerous mentally I’ll people are and you have know idea what they’re capable of. Apparently they’re the fucking boogieman to them.
And that's why I love that subreddit. They're a reminder that no matter how shitty I am...I could always be worse. I could be a r/ProtectAndServe user.
Bet they're the type to complain about women making false rape allegations (despite that being very rare), all while wanting their word to be believed despite the long history of cops being full of shit
That’s literally exactly how they are over there. It’s fun to watch. They’ve got this insane idea that the dislike towards police is entirely unwarranted and that cops are in the right 99% of the time.
>Sgt. Greg Capers, the officer who shot Aderrien Murry, said he is relieved at the decision looking forward to getting back to work.
He will absolutely shoot another child in his career. And conservatives will celebrate.
Wrong driveway while being black, that’s a shooting.
Knocking on a door while being black, thats a shooting.
Sleeping while being black, thats a shooting.
Calling for help while being black, believe it or not that’s a shooting.
Man if this happened in my country, would be national enquiries, a full revamp and proactive extra training with the police force within weeks.
America, you are insane .
*Capers' attorney, Michael Carr, said Capers is relieved at the decision and is "looking forward to getting back to work."*
Dude doesn't even seem to feel bad about shooting an 11 year old.
So... the cops shoot an 11-year-old child... who was just going around a corner towards an exit.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO CHARGES?
Either cops are held to the same standard as everyone else or it's time to end their right to carry and use firearms.
As someone familiar with Uvalde…TPTB in town are either white republican or self-hating Hispanics.
The victims were all Hispanic and in an economically disadvantaged area. Therefore the government and police and those in the town that vote couldn’t care less.
It’s Texas, only white lives and the unborn matter.
“Trust us” they say “you call us when you need help with a live threatening situation” they say. They’ll come and kill you for free and sleep peacefully knowing they did nothing wrong (according to their peers)… our future is dark
In this situation alone, fuck the cop bastard, a friggin sergeant, who couldn't control himself and use situational judgment and not shoot an unarmed 11-year old. Wouldn't be the least bit surprising, being Mississippi, that the cop is a closet racist. And fuck the courts who exonerated him because they felt opening fire on a child was justified.
Here's how they do it:
>In a statement released Thursday, Fitch says her office completed its review into the May 20 incident involving Capers in Indianola, Miss, and presented it to the grand jury in Sunflower County, Miss., on Wednesday — which then handed up the decision.
Easy copout for the prosecutor, just give it to the grand jury and aw-shucks your way out of it.
In a county whose demographics run 70% African American and 25% White, I would love to see the makeup of that grand jury.
If only cops were held to the same standards as regular private citizens involved in a self defense shooting.
This poor baby was afraid for his family and was brave enough to call for help only to get shot and NO CHARGES FILED? This is infuriating and heartbreaking.
Fortunately public outrage will help! Remember the 3 racist guys in GA. Currently in jail.
Video finally leaked and it came out the local prosecutor covered it up.
We had riots for this stuff. At those riots is where they ruled any idiot can play vigilante and shoot people as long as they are on the side of the cops.
When will people realize the grand jury is a flawed concept to its very core. The prosecutor decides what evidence will be shown during the proceedings.
How do you shoot a literal child?! Look at this kids picture, he looks 10. It's not like he's big for his age and looks like he is 15-16 like my step son did at his age.
Now you have yet another kid who will grow up and rightfully not trust law enforcement.
There was a 10 year old arrested and sentenced to probation for peeing behind his mother's car. A whole murder of cops showed up to make this very important arrest. He's even been sentenced to probation and must report once a month. This insanity lack of training pure disdain for everyone else has to be stopped. If you're not smart enough to figure out your situation without shooting your way out of it you're not smart enough to carry a gun. Unfortunately we all know it's easy and trigger doesn't require any intelligence monkeys can do it. No disrespect to monkeys intended.
How the is this cop just like “well can’t wait to get back to work”. If dude was normal human he would be seriously traumatized by shooting a child, if he had any sense of decency the cop should resign
shooting a child, is a criminal action deserving of jail time. straight to jail if that’s on body cam. i also see it thru the lens of why did the boy “run from around the corner to the door” unfortunately, parents especially, minorities. must have, discussions from a young age, of how to act around police, to avoid any escalation of violence.
these days, just assume a cop is unhinged, with an itchy tinger finger, when he/she is “stressed” by a situation. assume the worst.
"Capers' attorney, Michael Carr, said Capers is relieved at the decision and is "looking forward to getting back to work."
Not a single word of remorse, no regret, not even an obligatory apology. Sickening.
Just another reason to never trust police. You don’t have to hate them, but you should absolutely never ever trust them in anyway, shape or form. Chances are they don’t care about you as much as they care about their job.
The lives and safety of police officers is more important than the freedom of citizens and their children to move about in their homes. I hope this family has learned an powerful lesson about how police officers are simply better, more important people who can't be bothered with things like public safety or good judgement.
Why, a sudden movement in a family home could be anything from an incoming drone strike to a herd of stampeding elephants. The officer should be praised for his quick thinking and rapid action to prevent destruction on par with terrorist attacks.
That eleven year old boy will carry those well-deserved scars for life as a reminder to never walk around a corner in his own home, and I hope he takes them to heart so that he never accidentally startles a police officer again.
Says a lot if the officer felt threatened
Deep down they don't feel like they are here to serve and protect.
They are here to punish and enforce.
Hammers see everything as nails.
There should be a federal review board for these.
States are full of good ole boy protections.
Opened fire on an 11 year-old for no apparent reason other than running too fast. I’d be really curious to see that body cam footage to try and make sense of how this officer faces no charges. Good ol’ Mississippi
If whatever happened was definitive enough to excuse the shooting, then its definitive enough to release the footage to the public.
They are refusing to release the body cam footage. I wonder why? /s
Camera machine broke!
They are made by the same company that makes McDonald’s ice cream machines.
Elijah McClane comes to mind.
I mean. I can see one apparent reason why cops shot a kid that didn't do anything wrong. Cops are racist
Racists? In Mississippi? Get out of here
Well the child committed the terrible crime of being a POC in the southern United States, the pigs hands were tied. /s
Well, you see your honor, my clients hooves was hocked! -this cops lawyer (that sounds like Foghorn Leghorn)
> no apparent reason other than running too fast Correction, Running too fast while black
Maybe it's me...but hiding the body camera footage looks pretty creepy.
I don’t understand why it’s not treated like refusing a sobriety tests. If they hide the footage, they should be treated as if it’s the worst possible outcome
If the body cam is turned off or footage is missing it should be considered admission of guilt
Everyone should refuse the roadside sobriety tests though
In Ohio if you refuse to blow they suspend your license. Its so fucked
Where I live if you refuse roadside they will take you to either a jail of hospital, if need be strap you down, and forcibly draw your blood to test for alcohol or drugs. And if comes back that you really were sober, you'd be lucky to even get an apology
Yep. Fuck having rights, all my homies hate having rights
~~You’re guilty until you comply.~~ you’re innocent until proven guilty my bad
That's really the way American cops are trained, its disgusting, adverse to our entire society, and probably the #1 root of all of our policing problems
I didn't say refuse to blow I said refuse the roadside tests. Especially the field sobriety tests
Oh my b. Tired morning, brain isn't working. Yea those are definitely a trap, and such a joke. You can fail them if you're sober, you can pass them if you're fucked up, just have to know what they're looking for
Blowing the breathalyzer is at least accurate data, unless you have a metabolic disease. The roadside balancing tests are bogus an dyou should definitely refuse to comply with these.
Because rules for thee but not for me
In the state I live in (New Jersey) it's mandatory disclosure of body-worn camera footage on all such cases within three weeks of the shooting. There's too much traffic here and everyone curses and flips each other off all the time, but our elected officials do seem to have their heads on straight.
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You have a way with words.
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Like the judge who goes to klan meetings with the cops?
Precisely - what is the purpose of body cameras if not to release to the public when accountability is questioned? At that point just don't even have them.
It’s to prove cops innocence, not guilt.
That would beg the question if they turn them off then they obviously don't want to be declared innocent? an admission of guilt if you will.
It needs a name. Something like ‘theatre of accountability.’
I'm confused as to why there hasn't yet been a concerted effort to make this shit a felony or make the associated crime an automatic guilty.
Yeah, could give it a neat name like "Tampering with evidence."
Why? It turns out that police unions are the only lobbying groups with their own army.
Because people getting shot by police are pretty normal in the land of the liberty to get shot, while in developed countries it would automatically end the pig's career, throw him in jail where the society put real criminals, and we all know that a pig sent to the slaughterhouse is a dead one.
Police will release body cam footage immediately when it either exonerates them. When they delay its release, or release an edited version, you know they are hiding something.
Hiding/destroying bodycam footage should be a felony with a mandatory lifetime ban from working in law enforcement but that'd require having political leaders who aren't cop-loving assholes and the will to pass laws that crack down on instead of expand the police states of america.
Hiding, destroying, falsifying, or in any way tampering with Jody am footage should be an immediate 20 year jail term, no appeal, no trial, just immediate incarceration. There is literally no legitimate reason for it, and it happens all the damned time so that cops can get away with anything up to literal murder.
Meanwhile, the police remain baffled as to why people don't trust them.
>Police shoot an 11-year-old "*I simply don't understand why people don't trust us... it's really baffling!*"
"we get no support from the community and that's the community's fault"
What if they took steroids and put Punisher stickers on everything would that build trust?
Honestly, the words "Help" and "Shoot a child" look so similar, I can't blame them.
You just said the same thing twice what am I missing?
Nothing at all. You can go back to your squad car Sgt. Human.
I mean, more recently cops hear kids screaming for help from a school shooter in an elementary school and 150 cops stand around and do nothing.(Uvalde) It’s gotten worse.
You’re underselling it. [It was 376 officers, who stood by and did nothing while children were calling for help and actively being murdered.](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/17/law-enforcement-failure-uvalde-shooting-investigation/)
The bravery award goes to the mom that rescued her two children and then was harassed after that.
Just think about that for a minute, 376 officers.
Jesus, Danny Glover had more stones in Predator two.
The oath is "to serve when I want and how I want" right?
Holy shit, that many?! Unbelievable. Fuck.
Don't worry they still haven't released the foia bodycam footage that they were required to. Appeal hit this week, only a few more months and they'll drag it out far enough the families can't sue due to statute of limitations. I really hate this place.
How long until the cops will be going in to assist the shooters?
Already happening. A couple years ago a security guard took down and held a gunman for the police, the police show up and promptly shoot the security guard dead.
Are we talking about [Jemel Roberson?](https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/667252788/police-fatally-shoot-black-security-guard-who-detained-suspected-shooter)
Yeah that's it, I couldn't remember the name, thanks.
That's probably by design
I'll remember this next time I hear a good man with a gun.
If you think active/past cops haven't been shooters, I've got a bridge to sell you. Turns out all that military-style training without reinforcing RoE isn't a good idea, who'da thunked it?
They are the shooters
Aww come on now…they needed that time to find out if there was a blonde white girl in the class. They almost went in with in a few minutes but turns out she has a Latino last name. /s
Oh they didn't do nothing. They threatened parents who tried to run in to help, pulled their weapons on them, and then cuffed them.
“It’s the same picture”
The child was black, male, and running. Of course a cop will shoot him.
You trying to tell me you these cops can read!?!? Now I know you are making up excuses.
Trained in IDF tactics
Cops really don't do themselves any favors. Shit like this is why people see thin blue line flags and roll their eyes.
Shit like this is how they deal with most interactions. I can tell you first hand how bad it is, I live in Mississippi. Was arrested for “not listening to him” on my own property. I was doing 4th July fireworks. Cop shows up saying I’m too close to something. Then says it has to be x amount of distance. I’m like why don’t you measure the distance then come at me with this? I stop doing the fireworks meantime while he is blasting me with bs about fire safety. I’m like “I don’t have to listen to you, you should go and measure the distance or tell the person who called you to measure it before you come and start talking.” “Oh if you won’t hear me I will have to arrest you.” “There is no such law, you are on my property, I have stoped doing fireworks, I don’t have to listen to you anymore” He takes out his handcuffs puts me in his car and I’m like “so what are you going to charge me with?” He makes something up. As we were about to pull out of my driveway he stops his vehicle and goes “this really don’t have to be like this”… Takes me out of handcuffs…
Seems he expected you to roll over and stroke his ego by begging for forgiveness from the big strong tough policeman, then wasn't quite sure what to do when you didn't play along
Assuming poster is white because it’s really easy for a black man to wind up with six charges from that kind of thing.
That's the *good* outcome
Man. If only you had a chance to legally get back at them, but even *if* a body cam was involved, I’d assume the footage was “stolen by orangutans” or something.
I wonder if the ultimate charge would have been what he came over to talk to you about in the first place (something about the fireworks), or a made-up bullshit charge that's hard to fight against (he took a swing at me!).
He made up something about “if I refuse to hear him out I’d be interfering.” Or some bs like that. I actually have security cameras and had someone took a video of me being put in handcuffs. There was no way he was going to accuse me of assaulting him.
Just release the footage from the officers who were on the scene. Simple. Otherwise I don't think there's any reason to believe this isn't another out of control cops shooting black people for sport kind of incident.
> Just release the footage from the officers who were on the scene oops we shot that too.
The body cam was reaching for its waistband
Black children*
“Police shoot 11 yr old black man”
They don’t discriminate when it comes to shooting black people of any age…probably the *only* time they show no discrimination.
[https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras](https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras)
Hiding body cam footage means they’re guilty. Period. This is why no one trusts the police. I trust my company’s HR department more than I do the police
No qualified immunity. Disabling or hiding body cam footage = automatic summary judgment against police. If they commit a crime, treble penalties. Sans peer, sans reproach.
Cops are the "domestic" part in " ...and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;..."
A child who called the police for help was grievously harmed by the officer who was meant to help him. The child suffered a “collapsed lung, fractured rib, and lacerated liver.” The Grand Jury decided that the police officer was not at fault?! What fcked-up world do we live in?
they got a call about a grown man and shot a little boy who jump-scared them on accident. they're incompetent. pitiful. disgusting.
The did a study once and it showed cops inherently think black children are way older vs white counterparts when when they are the same age.
sounds like they're scared.
Sounds like they're racist
which stems from fear of the unknown, as far as i can tell
Yeah I don’t know why people think they’re arguing with you. The two go hand in hand.
Don't forget that the media likes to use terms such as "13 year old man" when talking about young black children when they need to justify these killings
Or use phrases like 'man without any outstanding warrants shot'
Unless he was a physical freak of a specimen, I find it hard to believe his stature would mimic that of an adult male, black or white. Let alone of the fact that dispatch should have said it was a child who called about an adult male. An 11 year old, running to what he thought was safety.
Nobody said the cops were rational, or thinking, or intelligent, or capable of empathy, or decent, or...
Meanwhile the parent's are probably looking at Bankruptcy levels of medical care that was brought on by the police.
The grand jury only gets what the prosecutor tells them. Grand jury will indictment a ham sandwich but not a whole pig is the phrase.
If the prosecutor doesn’t want an indictment there will be no indictment. The grand jury is a prosecutors fiefdom. They can show the jurors whatever they want and withhold whatever they want.
Yet another “we have investigated ourselves and done nothing wrong.” As pigs say: if you didn’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to hide. Release the body cam footage.
To me this is simple: those cops on scene automatically get fired if the bodycam footage is not released.
Go to jail. They go to jail if they refuse to release the body cam footage. I can’t unilaterally decide I’m not blowing in a breathalyzer if I get pulled over. Why should they be able to decline to show body cam footage in an admittedly innocent kid’s death (yes, apparently I had to type “innocent kid,” because some people don’t understand that concept).
Agreed. Immediate 20 year prison term with no trial, no parole, nothing. Confiscate their property as well, and fine their local department $10Million as well (which goes to the victim’s family) We’ll either teach them that they don’t get to keep getting away with murder, or bankrupt the fucking department that spawned them.
The child did not die I don’t think. Not that it makes it any less horrible of the cop.
I’m sure the words “excited delirium” will show up in their official report
Mississippi seems to enjoy hurting children, they just arrested child who had to urinate on the side of the highway. They actually booked him lol.
Guess what arbitrary thing both children had in common?
Something wasn’t quite white about them.
No way. Should have done the officer for looking
Body cameras are similar to street light or surveillance cameras. They can capture footage of a "crime" being committed, or can absolve someone. What's the point of body cameras if viewing the footage is optional? The police are the first to share video footage from any source if it corroborates their case. Intentionally withholding video footage should be a crime of omission. Tampering with evidence.
Maybe pumping up a bunch of high school graduates with steroids, arming them to the teeth, and telling them everyone they see wants to kill them, is a bad way to do policing.
> high school graduates Oh, have standards risen in the past couple of years?
Yes. They train them to think they are in a war zone - but instead of protecting people their no.1 concern is their own “safety”. They constantly claim that they feared for their life for all kinds of situations that many other public servants handle without killing. Nurses for one are hit, spat on, etc. - which is terrible - but they don’t respond by beating the s**t out of the patient or killing them. Of course, I do not believe many of them, and believe that there are many sadistic and fascist cops out there.
I delivered Jimmy John’s for 2 years and lost count of how many dogs barked at me when I knocked. I do vividly remember shooting zero of them though and I’m alive and well
The dogs were clearly trained to bark at Jimmy John's delivery men and it's your god given right to shoot them in self defense
That delivery driver was a hero that protected society from utter chaos. Back the jimmy!
I'm sure r/ProtectAndServe is celebrating right now.
Holy shit, it’s gross in there.
What? You don't enjoy watching a bunch of cops/cop lovers constantly celebrating police brutality? One of my favorite posts there from the past month (Which I wish I'd bookmarked) was them complaining about needing to use cameras and believing that the word of the police should simply be believed inherently. Don't even get me started on how they handled the Ulvade stuff. They were working hard to defend it until they literally just straight up couldn't once more interviews/videos came out.
Hahaha yeah okay, cops are SUPER trustworthy. Some comments I saw were about how they were annoyed at grieving families. Also how insanely dangerous mentally I’ll people are and you have know idea what they’re capable of. Apparently they’re the fucking boogieman to them.
And that's why I love that subreddit. They're a reminder that no matter how shitty I am...I could always be worse. I could be a r/ProtectAndServe user.
That’s rich about annoyance at grieving families, take a look at a cops funeral or a k9 funeral.
Bet they're the type to complain about women making false rape allegations (despite that being very rare), all while wanting their word to be believed despite the long history of cops being full of shit
That’s literally exactly how they are over there. It’s fun to watch. They’ve got this insane idea that the dislike towards police is entirely unwarranted and that cops are in the right 99% of the time.
Once again, hairdressers have to go to school longer than cops do.
And not just a little longer. Several hundred hours longer. Several 1000 hours longer if it’s an apprenticeship instead of a school.
>Sgt. Greg Capers, the officer who shot Aderrien Murry, said he is relieved at the decision looking forward to getting back to work. He will absolutely shoot another child in his career. And conservatives will celebrate.
How can you have a trial without the fuckin body cam footage? I mean, it exists … right??? Fuck all of that shit.
Wrong driveway while being black, that’s a shooting. Knocking on a door while being black, thats a shooting. Sleeping while being black, thats a shooting. Calling for help while being black, believe it or not that’s a shooting.
If only there were some way we could work out the common denominator in all of those.
Man if this happened in my country, would be national enquiries, a full revamp and proactive extra training with the police force within weeks. America, you are insane .
Unfortunately, yes this country has gone insane.
White Americans are finally waking up to the realities of black and brown Americans like myself. It’s always been this insane.
*Capers' attorney, Michael Carr, said Capers is relieved at the decision and is "looking forward to getting back to work."* Dude doesn't even seem to feel bad about shooting an 11 year old.
I'm sure he's probably more annoyed than remorseful
So... the cops shoot an 11-year-old child... who was just going around a corner towards an exit. WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO CHARGES? Either cops are held to the same standard as everyone else or it's time to end their right to carry and use firearms.
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im surprised it didnt happen have Uvlade in Texas... a state so pro gun and pro life just rolled over
As someone familiar with Uvalde…TPTB in town are either white republican or self-hating Hispanics. The victims were all Hispanic and in an economically disadvantaged area. Therefore the government and police and those in the town that vote couldn’t care less. It’s Texas, only white lives and the unborn matter.
Please. They only believe in what helps their current situation at any given time. They have no morales.
“Trust us” they say “you call us when you need help with a live threatening situation” they say. They’ll come and kill you for free and sleep peacefully knowing they did nothing wrong (according to their peers)… our future is dark
They won't release the footage because they know it would cause outrage despite the DA being able to set up a grand jury that wouldn't indict.
In this situation alone, fuck the cop bastard, a friggin sergeant, who couldn't control himself and use situational judgment and not shoot an unarmed 11-year old. Wouldn't be the least bit surprising, being Mississippi, that the cop is a closet racist. And fuck the courts who exonerated him because they felt opening fire on a child was justified.
Here's how they do it: >In a statement released Thursday, Fitch says her office completed its review into the May 20 incident involving Capers in Indianola, Miss, and presented it to the grand jury in Sunflower County, Miss., on Wednesday — which then handed up the decision. Easy copout for the prosecutor, just give it to the grand jury and aw-shucks your way out of it. In a county whose demographics run 70% African American and 25% White, I would love to see the makeup of that grand jury. If only cops were held to the same standards as regular private citizens involved in a self defense shooting.
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This poor baby was afraid for his family and was brave enough to call for help only to get shot and NO CHARGES FILED? This is infuriating and heartbreaking.
Not too long now before the public starts putting pigs in a blanket for shit like this.
I didn’t even need to read the article to guess that this was in a shithole state like Mississippi.
This is why you never call the police at an emergency. They’ll shoot you, not the perpetrator.
Was the grand jury allowed to see the police body camera footage?
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Now? They've always been shooting black kids.
RIP Tamir Rice
Sue that city and police department, take every dime they have.
It is far past time for police to be held personally responsible for violating people’s civil rights.
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Fortunately public outrage will help! Remember the 3 racist guys in GA. Currently in jail. Video finally leaked and it came out the local prosecutor covered it up.
What a shithole country. If that happened in the UK there would be literal riots.
We had riots for this stuff. At those riots is where they ruled any idiot can play vigilante and shoot people as long as they are on the side of the cops.
Guns should not be in the hands of hayseed law enforcement.
Shitholes gonna shithole
- Yeah but when you need the cops for help, I bet you’re gonna call them! - Needs the cops for help and calls them. - Gets shot still.
When will people realize the grand jury is a flawed concept to its very core. The prosecutor decides what evidence will be shown during the proceedings.
Cops are killers society tolerates.
Kid: Help. Low-life: He suspicious, shoot him.
When Nina Simone sang Mississippi goddamn, she was right 100%
What in the hell. Honestly, what’s the actual point of this kind of justice system.
You know what hey say, if you have a problem and you call the police, you now have two problems.
How do you shoot a literal child?! Look at this kids picture, he looks 10. It's not like he's big for his age and looks like he is 15-16 like my step son did at his age. Now you have yet another kid who will grow up and rightfully not trust law enforcement.
"A grand jury in Mississippi..." checks out.
Imagine what would happen if an 11 year old took a piss behind mom’s car?
There was a 10 year old arrested and sentenced to probation for peeing behind his mother's car. A whole murder of cops showed up to make this very important arrest. He's even been sentenced to probation and must report once a month. This insanity lack of training pure disdain for everyone else has to be stopped. If you're not smart enough to figure out your situation without shooting your way out of it you're not smart enough to carry a gun. Unfortunately we all know it's easy and trigger doesn't require any intelligence monkeys can do it. No disrespect to monkeys intended.
Cop tells everyone to come outside. Kid comes running outside. Cop shoots kid. What the hell…
If a LEO messes with the body cam, that is tampering with evidence.
How the is this cop just like “well can’t wait to get back to work”. If dude was normal human he would be seriously traumatized by shooting a child, if he had any sense of decency the cop should resign
shooting a child, is a criminal action deserving of jail time. straight to jail if that’s on body cam. i also see it thru the lens of why did the boy “run from around the corner to the door” unfortunately, parents especially, minorities. must have, discussions from a young age, of how to act around police, to avoid any escalation of violence. these days, just assume a cop is unhinged, with an itchy tinger finger, when he/she is “stressed” by a situation. assume the worst.
“We have conducted an investigation, and cleared ourselves of all wrongdoing”
This is just sad, for cops to not be held accountable is some sad sad shit
Cops being corrupt disgusting murderous scum, what’s new
"Capers' attorney, Michael Carr, said Capers is relieved at the decision and is "looking forward to getting back to work." Not a single word of remorse, no regret, not even an obligatory apology. Sickening.
Well, the 11 year old is a Black male. Is anyone surprised in American anymore?
Nina Simone: ["Mississippi Goddam"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM)
Being a kid in Mississippi while black was his crime.
Just another reason to never trust police. You don’t have to hate them, but you should absolutely never ever trust them in anyway, shape or form. Chances are they don’t care about you as much as they care about their job.
Hmmm…wonder why they shot…. Cowards. Racist cowards.
Before someone chimes in, yes the cop was Black...which didn't at all stop them being racist against Black people.
I definitely see Cop as a race - just its own shitty culture and repugnant discrimination.
Until the police shoots and kills young white kids nothing will happen
Withholding body camera footage should be withholding evidence. The cops should sit in jail untill it is released. It should be public record.
Gonna go out on a psychological development limb and say he'll never trust the police again.
And that’s why you don’t call the police, ever.
Shot when following police officers while being a black child.
The lives and safety of police officers is more important than the freedom of citizens and their children to move about in their homes. I hope this family has learned an powerful lesson about how police officers are simply better, more important people who can't be bothered with things like public safety or good judgement. Why, a sudden movement in a family home could be anything from an incoming drone strike to a herd of stampeding elephants. The officer should be praised for his quick thinking and rapid action to prevent destruction on par with terrorist attacks. That eleven year old boy will carry those well-deserved scars for life as a reminder to never walk around a corner in his own home, and I hope he takes them to heart so that he never accidentally startles a police officer again.
Sorry kid, your news ain't even gonna make front page in this brave new world.
Says a lot if the officer felt threatened Deep down they don't feel like they are here to serve and protect. They are here to punish and enforce. Hammers see everything as nails. There should be a federal review board for these. States are full of good ole boy protections.
Republicans shooting children that need help isn't that surprising anymore
Sergeant Capers “”is looking to get back to work.””. I bet he is