Aderrien Murry, who is Black, was wounded by police after calling 911, and authorities declined to charge the officer involved
  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
    62·
    11 months ago

    once again, a child was shot, the shooter will be rewarded, and a bunch of people who did nothing wrong will pay for it

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
    392·
    11 months ago

    This is why calling cops to solve family disputes is a bad idea. They peddle violence, and to a hammer everything looks like a nail.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      202·
      11 months ago

      I’d agree in many cases but not this one.

      This wasn’t a husband, it was a father of one of the women’s kids. He didn’t live there, and he showed up “irate” at 4am. She felt unsafe, and not unreasonably so. If you genuinely feel unsafe and can’t leave the situation (for any number of reasons), that’s when you roll the dice and call the cops.

      This is also a black woman living in Mississippi, so even if she’s lucky enough to have never been on the receiving end of shitty police behavior, she possibly had a better appreciation than most what might show up at her door if she called them. She was still unnerved enough to call. Maybe she didn’t think it through, but again, I don’t think it was the wrong impulse.

    • chitak166@lemmy.world
      16·
      11 months ago

      I disagree. Had to call the cops a few times to settle family disputes, they were always the best course of action.

      • wildcardology@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 months ago

        I remember a woman from the US called the police because her son was having a mental breakdown and threatened to kill himself with his shotgun. Multiple police arrived and found the woman talking to his son who is inside his vehicle. The police saw the shotgun and promptly shot the son multiple times with the mother just outside the car in close proximity.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    26·
    11 months ago

    I’m sure the officer thought it was a dog and was excited at getting to shoot a defenseless animal feared for his life

  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Obvious racism and corruption aside, the reason most often cited for not charging officers that irresponsibly discharge their weapons and harm civilians is that they were following the protocol they were taught as officers. Are there any attempts to get these protocols and training changed and if so, why aren’t they being reported on in the news?

  • DrMorose@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 months ago

    I would have liked to have been a bug on the wall to hear the grand jury deliberate this one. I mean I get the knee jerk reaction, but even so a kid who it seemingly was complying with instructions, gets shot anyway. How is that not negligent?

  • Kalash@feddit.ch
    15113·
    11 months ago

    They also need to charge who ever gave him that haircut. Poor kid.