Essentially, an innocent man who ran from an unlawful traffic stop was executed by police, who investigated and cleared themselves in his murder.
Lawyers have revealed the entire premise of the traffic stop was illegal, as the officer lied in his initial report. Now, years after an innocent man was brutally executed, the citizens will foot the bill
A precedent has been set in Arkansas that a police officer can be found guilty of killing an innocent child and still be a cop.
Is it any wonder why so few people have any trust or respect for law enforcement when miscarriages of justice like this are continually allowed to take place?
Special report: Many US police departments have struggled to regulate Taser use, despite dozens of deaths so far this year – and researchers who argue they can be lethal
Calvon Reid writhed in pain before he died. “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,” the 39-year-old screamed. Reid, an African American father of two, was held face-down by two police officers on a grassy lawn inside a predominantly white, gated retirement village in the south Florida suburb of Coconut Creek in the early hours of 22 February.
Moments before, two officers, standing 10ft away, had deployed their weapons in tandem. Not guns, but Tasers. The barbs struck Reid in the chest, according to eyewitnesses, unleashing 50,000-volt shocks to his body. Reid stopped breathing within moments; two days later, he died in the hospital.
“The whole thing seemed brutal,” 58-year-old locksmith John Arnendale told the Guardian from the ground-floor apartment at Wynmoor Village retirement homes where he watched Reid lose consciousness for the last time.
It is not clear why the officers were trying to arrest Reid in the first place. He was not accused of any crime. Though police say he was acting aggressively, other witnesses have disputed this.
“They didn’t have to use a Taser to stop him,” Arnendale said. “There were four of them and he wasn’t huge or particularly athletic. They certainly didn’t choose the least harsh thing to do with him. They were kind of punishing him.”
While deadly police shootings in the United States have gained international attention this year, Reid is one of 47 lesser-known people who lost their lives after law enforcement officers deployed a Taser, according to The Counted, an ongoing Guardian investigation documenting fatalities that follow police encounters.
Reid’s case is, in many ways, tragically typical of the other deaths following the use of a Taser by police in 2015: he was unarmed, as in all but three cases. Like nearly 40% of the victims, he was black. And as in at least 53% of such cases, the suspect was displaying signs of intoxication before his or her death. As with many of these incidents, Reid died following shocks administered seemingly in violation of national guidelines, by officers belonging to a police department with lax rules on how these less-lethal weapons should be used.
In January 18th, 2016, Philip Mitchell Brailsford, a "cop", had murdered Daniel Shaver, a father-of-two begging for his life and not to be shot, only to be shot only by the thing in this photo, who got a "not guilty" verdict.
The widow of Daniel Shaver was left traumatized, and her child was diagnosed with depression and PTSD after she was found choking herself, crying about how this thing isn't in jail.
Because of this fucking thing, 2 children are going through hell, suffering from something a war veteran goes through.
Because this thing couldn't use fucking handcuffs, went fucking crazy with power, and had no empathy, an innocent man was murdered, traumatized a woman, and put 2 children through hell.
This man is not a cop, a son, a human, or something that should be alive.
This is a demented psychopath that must be killed in order for the survivors of the event to feel at peace.
We must also take proper punishment into our own hands.
The fact that this sadistic demon was acquitted means that there is clearly a fault in how courts deliver verdicts and extreme likelihood of authoritative corruption.
We can't trust the very thing that we have a contract with to protect us in exchange for some of our rights, so it's inevitable that we take matters into our own hands when they fail to.
This is an example of a monster, and it is alright to kill this.
And if nobody has the courage to do so, then I'll start.
I don't plan to live under the fear of dying at any moment because of a rotten motherfucker like this.
Do you want to live in constant fear of your life ending at any moment because of demons like this?
Have the courage to fight back, as if you ever encounter a demon like this, you will either die in fear or fight back with your only chance of survival.
You have the choice, now which one will it be?
condolences to the family of alton sterling, who was publicly executed by the police
heres an article on the coroner's report. http://m.msnewsnow.com/msnewsnow/db_385781/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=ayuwGE7A warning: there is a video of his execution in a link within the article.