Biff_Poindexter
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A Teen With A Toy Was Killed By Police, And Few Want To Talk About It | Defector
Peyton Ham died on the street where he lived. On April 13, 2021, Ham was killed in Leonardtown, Md., when a police officer fired lots of bullets at and into him. He was 16 years old. It’s a story so sad that you can understand why some folks would want it to just go away. […]
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"Peyton Ham was killed in Leonardtown, MD.; on April 13, 2021, when a police officer fired lots of bullets at and into him. He was 16 years old. It’s a story so sad that you can understand why some folks would want it to just go away. Especially police and public officials in and around the rural Southern Maryland town. It took almost two weeks, and pressure from Ham’s family and others, before the state police released the name of the officer, Joseph Azzari. Family and friends of Ham held multiple rallies, hoping to drum up attention to the case. The rallies were attended by NAACP and BLM-affiliated groups -- but those efforts have had little success spurring the legal authorities to do anything.
However, local newspapers in Southern Maryland have kept on the story. And in August, they had received an audio recording of Ham’s shooting. The newspaper did not say who it got the recording from -- But the account written by County Times reporter Guy Leonard makes Ham’s final moments seem as horrendous as his loved ones’ worst nightmares."
And basically the account goes like this.....
At 1:35 p.m. A cop fires 10 shots at a 16 y.o......
At 1:42 p.m....Walks 12 feet closer to the teenager, fires another shot..
At 1:27:39 p.m., the officer opens fire again, firing four additional shots at close range...
That’s 15 bullets in three volleys in over one minute and seven seconds...police themselves have still not admitted how many times Peyton was shot..To make matters even worse, the state attorney said they can't complete an investigation because the autopsy wasn't finished....reminder, Peyton was killed in April...How is it outside of the local residents, organizations like BLM and the NAACP and a few media outlets -- nobody else is demanding accountability?? Where are the folks who go to every school board meeting to do performance art about how mask mandates and vaccines are all government tyranny but are silent as crickets when it comes to real government oppression?? Are you really saying BLM has a more consistent position regarding police and judicial accountability than the so-called gun-toting, freedom loving right-wing defenders of liberty??