Feds won't charge NYC officer who killed unarmed teen
Source: Associated Press
Feds won't charge NYC officer who killed unarmed teen
Jennifer Peltz and Michael Balsamo, Associated Press
Updated 2:44 pm, Tuesday, March 8, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) Federal prosecutors will not bring criminal charges in the case of an unarmed black teenager who was shot to death in his home by a white New York City police officer, officials said Tuesday.
The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan said prosecutors found insufficient evidence to pursue federal charges in the 2012 death of Ramarley Graham and have officially concluded their investigation. The 18-year-old was shot in the bathroom of his Bronx home by an officer who had barged inside during a drug investigation. He was killed in front of his grandmother and 6-year-old brother.
In a statement Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said his office conducted a thorough and independent investigation, but determined "there is insufficient evidence to meet the high burden of proof required for a federal criminal civil rights prosecution."
Prosecutors have said police first encountered Graham when they spotted him and two other people walking into a Bronx bodega in the afternoon of Feb. 2, 2012 and then immediately walking out. The officers, who were conducting a street narcotics investigation, said they saw Graham adjusting his waistband and told fellow officers they believed he had a gun. Police followed him to his Bronx home. An officer made his way into the home and forced his way into a bathroom and shot Graham once.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/No-federal-charges-for-NYPD-officer-who-killed-6877513.php
atreides1
(16,079 posts)I was in fear of my life...
"Richard Haste, the officer who shot Graham, said he fired his weapon because he thought he was going to be shot. No weapons were found in the apartment."
Personally I think the cop was just black teen hunting! What better way to bag your catch...then to have him cornered in a bathroom!!!
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)It "almost" worked for Oscar Pistorius.
Only this is a Pig Cop, and in America. He'll be acquitted 99 times out of 100. But they make a big deal out of the 1 in 100, just to make it look like they give a shit.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)I wonder if his fellow cops patted him on the back when no charges were brought against him?
An investigation? Yeah right!
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)All the Pig has to do was claim he would have acted the way he did regardless of the kid's race. Which is quite possibly true. Pigs sometimes just like killing folk, because after all....they can. And when they make a mistake, it's kind of a Whoops moment, and at worst they get a paid vacation while there is an "investigation."
It's just a bonus when it's a black person, but that's tough to prove.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The cops killing spree in 2015: by the numbers
By Richard Becker
Liberation, Jan 12, 2016
In 2015, police in the United States continued to kill at a rate far higher than every other country in the world for which statistics are currently available. That year, U.S. cops killed at least 1,200 people, more than three per day on average, according to the research of the website www.killedbypolice.net.
The exact number is not known. There is no federal agency that keeps track. The FBI compiles annual statistics for justified homicides by policebut participation in the program by the approximately 18,000 police agencies in the country is completely voluntary, and only about 800 actually provide reports. Most departments, including the notoriously racist and murderous New York Police Department, do not participate at all.
The FBI reported 444 killings by police in 2014, the latest report available. The FBIs amazingly broad definition of justifiable homicide by police is: The killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty. The FBI classified every one of the 444 killings as justified.
SNIP...
No war on police in 2015
SNIP...
Police officers killed by hostile actionsgunfire or assaultdeclined from 64 to 49. Given that there are more than 1.5 million police in the country, those numbers reveal that the claim of a war on cops is truly bogus.
U.S. cops kill at 100 times or more the rate of other countries
U.S. political leaders frequently promote the chauvinistic idea of American exceptionalism, the notion that the United States is the one indispensable country, superior to all others. It is dangerous propaganda employed to justify wars and interventions around the world.
But in the area of state violence, the United States is indeed exceptional, particularly as compared to other developed capitalist states.
CONTINUED...
http://www.liberationnews.org/cops-killing-spree-2015-numbers/