They had this kid face down when they shot him.
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This cop is actually really nice to the open carry white folks.
On the surface, the cases appear nearly identical: Michael Brown and Dillon Taylor, two young, unarmed men with sketchy criminal pasts shot to death by police officers two days apart.
But while the world knows of the highly publicized situation involving 18-year-old Mr. Brown, whose Aug. 9 death in Ferguson, Missouri touched off violence, protests and an angry national debate, most people outside Utah have never heard of 20-year-old Mr. Taylor.
Call it Ferguson in reverse, but minus the noise.
Let’s examine the facts in the lesser known case. Taylor, who has been described as white and Hispanic (where have we heard that before?), met his death at the hands of a black cop on Aug. 11, two days after the now-infamous shooting death of Michael Brown. The Taylor incident occurred outside a 7-Eleven in South Salt Lake, Utah. According to a quote at the Inquisitr made by South Salt Lake Police Sgt. Darin Sweeten:
I did a little research. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports from 2000 to 2004, police-involved “justifiable homicides” kill about 350 people a year, 99 percent by shooting. [Update: see below for 2014 links.] Virtually all police-involved killings, most for good reason, are categorized as justifiable. Of those killed by police, 32 percent are black and 64 percent are white. While the percentage of blacks killed is high compared with the black percentage in America (13%), it is low compared with other indicators of violence, such as the percentage of homicide victims and offenders believed to be African American (both 48%).
Charging him? Are we still going on with events that didnt happen and using that as a justification?
Brown was also further away than this guy, shot 6 times twice in the head and had regular strength.
Plus they werent perps of anything. The cop told them to get out the street. Maybe you are saying the cops had to draw down on two perps of Jaywalking.
Are you saying there was no contact or physical altercation between Brown and the officer?
hmmmm...the branch Dravidians might disagree,with your premise as would the family in Ruby Ridge.....
As would this white guy...
Accounts differ at this point as to who first opened fire[36] but agree that DUSM Roderick shot and killed Weaver's dog and that Samuel Weaver returned fire at Roderick. After the Federal agents began firing, 14 year old Samuel Weaver was shot in the back while retreating,[37][38] and DUSM Degan was shot and killed by Harris.[39]
You have a better case with Ruby Ridge. I agree that was a clusterfuck.And did all the children in the compound engage in terrorism as well...or the children on Ruby Ridge?
Ruby Ridge - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Accounts differ at this point as to who first opened fire[36] but agree that DUSM Roderick shot and killed Weaver's dog and that Samuel Weaver returned fire at Roderick. After the Federal agents began firing, 14 year old Samuel Weaver was shot in the back while retreating,[37][38] and DUSM Degan was shot and killed by Harris.[39]
Charging him? Are we still going on with events that didnt happen and using that as a justification?
Brown was also further away than this guy, shot 6 times twice in the head and had regular strength.
Plus they werent perps of anything. The cop told them to get out the street. Maybe you are saying the cops had to draw down on two perps of Jaywalking.
Are you saying there was no contact or physical altercation between Brown and the officer?
This guy killed 12 people.
And here he is in court.
Here's an unarmed black American killed by police.