Let me get this straight, a less than honorably discharged white vet, hopped up on amphetamines goes berserk in an auto parts store, assaults a polite police officer with a head butt, goes for the officer's gun when he tries to arrest him, gets shot lunging towards the cop after being warned that he would be shot if he moved towards the cop, and the cop is wrong because he is black and the perp is white and it is Texas.
Got it.
Here is a list of stories on that incident. Show me where Whitehead did any of that, you lying fucktard.
James Whitehead | The Examiner
What is known, however:
Cop Shoots Unarmed Veteran Over Racial Slur, No Charges Pending
Eye witness account:
Holidays without their Hero | The Examiner
Randy Edwards can't help but relive the moment he saw his friend, Lance Cpl. James Whitehead, gunned down in the passenger seat of his truck while sitting parked in front of the O'Reilly Auto Parts store on 16th Street in Orange. The killing occurred July 26, but Edwards has spent the nearly four months since then trying to come to terms with how something like this could happen to a man he, and the nation he served, called a hero.
"I could see (off-duty Orange police captain Robert) Arnold was out of control," Edwards said, recounting the events July 26. "He came at James (Whitehead) with the intent to kill him and that is exactly what he did. It was all just so crazy to get to that point. There was a yelling, then there was a shooting. Then (Whitehead) was dead." Whitehead, a decorated Marine hero, was shot once at point-blank range and succumbed to his injuries almost instantaneously.
His last words, said Edwards, were directed at the man who pulled the trigger to end the Marine's life. "James stood up and said, 'You shot me,' while looking Arnold in the face," Edwards remembered in detail. "Arnold just looked at him and said, 'I damn sure did.'
More and more each day it becomes clear that Democrats are nothing but liars and cheats.
All the witnesses agree except one, Randy Edwards, who just happens to be the next door neighbor to the doped up perp and has relatives married to the Whitehead's, so guess which witness is the only one cited by all the right-wing racist media? Anyone with half a brain knows the radicle right-wing extremist Washington Examiner would never present the whole story, and any fool should know that something must be missing when the Texas Ranger, who was asked to investigate, said the shooting looked justified, and a grand jury found no grounds for a criminal indictment, and an arbitrator ordered the officer returned to duty. But no, all those unbiased people are wrong and the most biased person is the only one who is right if it serves the race baiting of the Right.
Here are the facts that came out in the Grand Jury hearing, the autopsy and the arbitration hearing:
Robert Arnold had received only "excellent" and "good" marks on his reviews during his six years at the Orange Police Department. He had previous service with the Texas Department of Public Safety. Arnold was promoted to captain in May last year, becoming the highest-ranking African-American in the department's history.
Ranger Ken Parks from Hardin County came and investigated and said the shooting looked justified.
Chief Kittrell and other ranking officers in the department had an internal investigation of the shooting which found yhat Whitehead was 6-foot-3 and about 230 pounds, about 6 inches taller and 40 pounds heavier that Arnold. The pathologist testified that Whitehead, a former Marine, had amphetamines and marijuana in his system. He became so belligerent and loud, cursing and calling the store manager foul names, that the manager called 9-1-1 for police. Arnold, who was shopping with his 13-year-old daughter, at first asked him to be quiet and not curse in front the girl. Whitehead yelled at Arnold, calling him names with the "n" word and "f" word. Kittrell said Arnold followed policy inside the store.
One of the witnesses was Glen Chadwick Dorrell, a clerk at O'Reilly. He said Arnold "acted like a gentleman" in asking Whitehead to stop cursing in front of his daughter. Arnold identified himself as a police officer and went out to his car to get his identification, Dorrell said. Whitehead began following Arnold. Dorrell said he grabbed the arm of Arnold's daughter and kept her in the store behind the counter with him; so she was not outside when Whitehead was shot.
Pathologist Dr. Tommy Brown of Jefferson County testified that the autopsy showed Whitehead had amphetamines and marijuana in his blood stream. The two lawyers questioned about the prescription for the amphetamines and whether Whitehead was taking more than prescribed.
Whitehead was a former Marine who fought in Iraq. ArnoldÂ’s attorney
Cagle pointed out that Whitehead had received a less than honorable discharge.
OÂ’Reilly Auto Parts store manager Ray Hebert testified he called 9-1-1 when Whitehead became belligerent and started cursing when he learned the part could not be returned. The manager said he hears irate customers and cursing every day, but has called the emergency number for police only one or two other times during his 26 years in the Orange store. Hebert said Arnold was shopping in the store with his daughter when Whitehead lost his temper. Arnold went up to try to calm Whitehead down and ask him not to curse.
“Get away from me you f---ing (N-word) coon,” Whitehead said, according to Hebert.
Arnold went out to his car to get handcuffs and a flashlight (police officers can use it as a weapon), Hebert said.
Whitehead went outside after Arnold and went to the pickup truck. The manager went outside, too. Arnold and Whitehead ended up “kind of bodying up on each other” by the truck, Hebert said. Hebert said he recollects that Arnold said something like “If you hit me, I’m going to shoot you.” And Whitehead replied “I want you to put a bullet in my head, coon.” Hebert said Arnold told Whitehead, "If you come toward me, I'm going to have to shoot you."
Whitehead then told Arnold to shoot him and used a racial slur against Arnold, Hebert said.
Hebert said he saw Whitehead lean forward, then he heard a gunshot.
