The Killer Is The Victim?

[buddhallah_the_christ]

Are we supposed to feel sorry for the police officer when he kills an unarmed person?

Things are becoming rather bizarre here in America today.

(CNN)The police say it's meaningless, but many casual observers are appalled after hearing an Oklahoma police deputy tell a dying man who'd just been shot, "F**k your breath."

Video of Eric Courtney Harris' final moments on April 2 -- following an undercover weapons sting and a foot chase -- shows Tulsa County Reserve Deputy Robert Bates announcing he is going to deploy his Taser but then shooting Harris in the back with a handgun.

Bates immediately apologizes, saying, "I shot him. I'm sorry."

Harris, who is bleeding, calls out. He's been shot and didn't do anything, he says.

An officer yells at him, "You f**king ran! Shut the f**k up!"

"Oh my God, I'm losing my breath," Harris cries as a deputy's knee pins his head to the asphalt.

"F**k your breath," an officer tells him.

Police have painted Harris as a dangerous, possibly PCP-addled illegal gun dealer who had recently sold methamphetamine to undercover police and who fled police that day in such a way as to give the impression that he had a gun in his waistband.

Though Harris was later determined to be unarmed, Sgt. Jim Clark of the Tulsa Police Department, who has been brought in to review the case, excused the behavior of both Bates and the officer who is heard cursing at Harris.

Bates, who was also one of the department's benefactors, was the "victim" of something called "slip and capture," where in a high-stress situation, you intend to do one thing and instead do something else, Clark said.

"Reserve Deputy Bates did not commit a crime. Reserve Deputy Bates was a victim, a true victim of slips and capture, " he said. "There's no other determination I could come to."

The officer or officers heard cursing at Harris were also influenced by the stress of the apprehension, according to Capt. Bill McKelvey of the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office, who said that even though they can be heard replying to Harris' cries, they did not hear the gunshot or Harris' repeated assertion that he'd been shot.

"They did not know that he was shot at this time," McKelvey said. "They had audio exclusion. They was at a point where they couldn't hear. They didn't even hear the gunshot go off. The officers did not know that Mr. Harris had been shot."

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So the killer cop is a victim who committed no crime even though he shot and killed an unarmed man restrained on the ground because he suffered with "slip and capture" and the other police officers are suffering with something called "audio exclusion".

WTF?

Something really has to be done to bring these street gangs under control.

 

[Katzndogz]

A PCP addled drug and gun dealer who had just sold amphetamines to an undercover cop.

Let me look.

Hmmm just as I thought, fresh out of sympathy.