Louisiana Cops Who Killed Autistic Six-Year-Old Might Be Very Bad Men (to put it mildly)
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Louisiana Cops Who Killed Autistic Six-Year-Old Might Be Very Bad Men
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Maybe instead of gun control we need cop control...
In our story last week on the fatal police shooting of six-year-old Jeremy Mardis in Marksville, Louisiana, we briefly mentioned a line from a CBS News story: “Investigators are looking into whether one of the marshals had a personal grudge against” the boy’s father, Chris Few. The two deputy marshals fired 18 shots into Few’s SUV, five of them hitting Jeremy, who sat in the front seat next to his father. Police body cam video showed Few had his hands up as he was shot.
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Maybe instead of gun control we need cop control...
As it turns out, “a personal grudge” doesn’t begin to describe it. The marshals who killed Jeremy and critically injured his father also allegedly terrorized townspeople in Marksville, and appear to have gotten their jobs in the first place thanks to a feud between the town’s mayor and presiding judge. If it weren’t so horribly real, it might make a good plot line for True Detective.
According to the Guardian’s Matthew Teague, the two officers, Norris Greenhouse Jr. and Derrick Stafford, subjected Marksville residents to a steady diet of bullying and everyday assholishness. Teague notes that the town was shocked by the Nov. 3 shooting of Jeremy Mardis, but not all that surprised that Stafford and Greenhouse were involved: “He pushed people around, man. He was dangerous,” resident Willie Barton said, summing up Greenhouse’s standing.
One woman told Teague about the time she’d been on the receiving end of Greenhouse’s Protecting And Serving: She said that a few years ago while picking up her child at the local school she had a crossed a line — a literal line in the sidewalk that Greenhouse had pointed to — and while a queue of other parents watched he had slammed her against the school’s exterior wall and arrested her. All charges were dismissed.
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Even before taking the part-time marshal jobs in Marksville, Greenhouse and Stafford both piled up an impressive number of lawsuits against them for excessive force; WaPo notes that Stafford has “at least five lawsuits…currently pending against him.” Greenhouse has his own collection of civil complaints, too. But of course it gets worse: Stafford has been charged twice with aggravated rape in nearby Rapides Parish. According to the indictment, one 15-year-old victim said Stafford committed rape on the victim’s birthday in 2004. In a separate incident, a second victim said Stafford committed rape in 2011.
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...for all of the wrong reasons. 
murdered by parents, caregivers, and oh yes, cops. 
http://autisticadvocacy.org/2015/02/2015-day-of-mourning-vigil-sites/
These acts are horrific enough on their own. But they exist in the context of a larger pattern. A parent kills their disabled child. The media portrays these murders as justifiable and inevitable due to the “burden” of having a disabled person in the family. If the parent stands trial, they are given sympathy and comparatively lighter sentences, if they are sentenced at all. The victim is disregarded, blamed for their own murder at the hands of the person they should have been able to trust the most, and ultimately forgotten. And then the cycle repeats.
For the last four years, ASAN, ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, the National Council on Independent Living, the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, and other disability rights organizations have come together at local vigils across the country to mourn those losses, bring awareness to these tragedies, and demand justice and equal protection under the law for all people with disabilities.
Early March is the anniversary of George Hodgins' death a few years ago. The Sunnyvale, CA man was murdered by his mother, who then turned the gun on herself. We held the first of these vigils at Sunnyvale city hall.
The Blue Mafia has got to go down hard and fast.
