Unarmed and shot in the back

[KamaAina]

http://investigations.myajc.com/overtheline/ga-police-shootings/

Nearly half the 184 Georgians shot and killed by police since 2010 were unarmed or shot in the back, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 Action News investigation has found.

Those findings emerged from the most extensive review of police shootings ever undertaken in Georgia, and cast doubt on claims by police that deadly force was always justified. The AJC and Channel 2 reported in October that every police shooting case since 2010 had been deemed lawful in the state’s criminal justice system....

The AJC/Channel 2 investigation also found black Georgians killed by police were more likely to be shot in the back or unarmed than whites. About three out of five blacks were unarmed or shot in the back, compared to about two out of five whites. Seventy-eight percent of the officers who discharged their weapons were white.

Overall, police fatally shot black citizens at a rate twice that of whites based on population figures, the investigation found.

[libodem]

1. All that shit

About being innocent until proven guilty is gone with the wind. All that shit about a speedy trial. All that shit about a jury of your peers...gone out the window. Its extra judicial execution plain and simple. Obey or die. Obey and be beaten, stomped, strangled, tazed, and then hung in jail. You decide.

Is it the Patriot Act? Our civil liberties have been evaporated by taking the habeas corpus out of our treatmrnt of our enemies. It's come home to roost with the systematic reduction of human rights in America. No right to life here unless you are a fetus.

[tblue37]

2. It has always been thus for PoC, but ubiquitous cell phone video is exposing it. nt

[libodem]

5. I'm frustrated and angry

With impotent rage about gun manufacturers using the constitution to capitalize on death. Its ghoulish.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. Heck, you don't expect them to front up to AA's, man-to-man, one

against one, do you??!!

They probably have to pump themselves up with steroids to get some Dutch courage, just to shoot a guy in the back - and are given gyp by their wives at bed-time for :

reduced sperm count
infertility
shrunken testicles
erectile dysfunction
breast development
... among other ailments.

[libodem]

6. I believe it is 'roid rage related

And POC take the brunt of the abuse doled out by these muscle bound robo warriors who are so scared to death of being hurt or killed they inflict it on unarmed and retreating civilians.

Collateral damage means zip to these white supremacy skin head cops.

[hfojvt]

4. meanwhile

there were 566 homicides in Georgia in 2009.

566*5 = 2,800 or so

2,800 >>> (much greater than) 184

Mixing unarmed with "shot in the back" seems a little dishonest to me too. I would guess that most of the 184 were unarmed. If they were not...

Well, if they were exchanging gunfire with the police and then turned and ran and got shot in the back. That doesn't bother me all that much. He who shoots and runs away lives to shoot another day.

And even "unarmed" is a questionable distinction. I am pretty sure I can do quite a bit of damage even without weapons. I was just pounding on a heavy bag yesterday.

Here's the WaPo database. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/

Only 10% of people shot by the police were unarmed. And right there is the story of Kevin Matthews. Why was he shot? Because he was "struggling" with the police. Too bad he couldn't have been talked down, but that's not always possible.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Jim Crow wears a badge

And it's all "legal" and shit.