Left To Die: Rakeyia Scott’s Slip Of The Tongue Is A Window Into The Poignancy Of Police Shootings

[Stuart G]

Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rakeyia-scott-video-call-the-police_us_57e59706e4b0e80b1ba22256?

 09/23/2016 06:41 pm ET,
Ryan Grim, Julia Craven

CHARLOTTE, N.C. ― When Rakeyia Scott saw cops surrounding her husband, Keith Scott, she immediately worried they might shoot him. She pulled out her cell phone camera.

The horrifying video she captured has now been seen millions of times. One poignant moment, however, stands out.

As officers huddle around her dying husband, she shouts out: “Did y’all call the police?”

Call the police. It’s what one does, or is supposed to do, when a crime has been committed, when someone is in need of help. The idea that the police exist to protect and serve is so powerful that it broke through the reality of what she had just witnessed: police shooting her husband to death.

She quickly caught her mistake. “I mean, did y’all call the ambulance?”

Given the nonchalant attitude officers betrayed as Keith Scott lay on the pavement bleeding, she didn’t wait for an answer and took it upon herself to call 911.
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The rest of this story exposes example after example where there has been a shooting by the police of an individual for whatever reason, and they don't seem to give a damn about the person he/she/they shot. This is a very ugly story, but it describes and gives examples of what police do after using lethal force on "someone"...and just as awful, these people left to die, that is the "someone", are all black. It is a gut wrenching story...very very sad and awful..

[riversedge]

1. Why did they put cuffs on him as he lay mortally wounded?

[bagelsforbreakfast]

2. They've seen too many DIE HARD movies...

[Stuart G]

3. I do not know, but they did not call for an ambulance to save his life

It seems they, the police never care enough to call an ambulance to save lives of people shot.

[CherokeeDem]

4. Common practice....

Regardless of no wound, wounded, or dead, the police will secure the person.

Again, it's an officer/ bystander safety practice but it looks bad, especially on a wounded suspect.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

5. The most shocking part of the other video... on same huff page

is at the opening where a CA cop shoots a drunk driver trying to get out of his overturned car who clearly has no gun but is just trying to get out. and according to the video, the cop called for help because the guy wouldn't get out of his car (after being shot dead?)


http://videos.vidible.tv/prod/2016-01/15/569964f0e4b0b0d3123a55dd_640x360_v1.mp4?l6Auib5A8Fw12chircKUQqRTzIRdNXq3pTLC4KHVu5R60wWrjl2BAS_WKKcH3T8K

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Rec for exposure

Seeing Freddie Gray again, I still think his spine was severed before they put him in the van. Cops love to put their knee in people's necks. It wouldn't take much to snap the neck like that.

[Stuart G]

7. Police have been getting away with this for a very long time..a culture of murder...

After the murder, the city/town/state pays off the family and then it is over.. In a moment a link from 1969..Black Panther shooting in Chicago..December 4, 1969..Fred Hampton...If you link to the article..look about 2/3 of the way down, 1969 raid and assassination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton

I got to add something...I was working near where this took place...The morning after the shooting, the apartment had not been closed off. A group of us walked over to take a look, and survivors were giving tours to show where Hampton had been shot. The story in the news was that police were "defending themselves" but when we took the tour through the apartment, it was clear he was sleeping in bed, and he was murdered. Nothing happened to the shooters, but a many years later, the family received over a million in compensation as the article notes.

"In 1982, the City of Chicago, Cook County, and the federal government agreed to a settlement in which each would pay $616,333 to a group of nine plaintiffs, including the mothers of Hampton and Clark.[42] The $1.85 million settlement was believed to be the largest ever in a civil rights case" .

..So Let's say..1982..inflation 3 times that.".......Settlement in today's money..about 6 million dollars..for murder.
and that what is still happening..murder, and then a huge settlement.....and only in the last year, have the murderers been charged...why?????................................................cell phone proof of murder....otherwise same as before...

[Jim Beard]

8. Someone help me with this.... Why were the cops called and why did they want him out of the car?

[Ilsa]

9. I'm still waiting for an answer to this as well.

I thought they were serving a warrant on someone else and didn't like him because he was sitting in his car.

[linuxman]

10. I was far more interested in her repeated slip of the tongue, "Do do it Keith".

I mean, considering he was armed with a book (or so I've been told), what did she mean? Don't read to them? Do throw it? Don't highlight your favorite passage?