Police release video of officer shooting boy, 11, who had called 911 for help

[BaronChocula]

Source: NPR

Body camera video released by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation shows the moment an 11-year-old boy was shot and wounded by a police officer last May in his home after calling authorities for help.

Officials in Mississippi made the footage available this week after calls for its release from Aderrien Murry's mother, Nakala Murry, and the family's attorney.

Body camera video released by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation shows the moment an 11-year-old boy was shot and wounded by a police officer last May in his home after calling authorities for help.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223769843/bodycam-video-aderrien-murry-greg-capers-mississippi-shooting

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THIS HAPPENED LAST MAY!

[COL Mustard]

1. Well, it's all okay

It was just another N....

A freaking 11-year old?!?!?! Gimme a fucking break. The family ought to own the whole fucking town!!!!!

[BaronChocula]

2. I often wonder

at what point will municipalities start upping their cop-hiring game before they go completely broke from yokel members of the force with their 400 hours of training.

[Bristlecone]

3. I may be wrong here, but don't taxpayers foot the bill I think.

If it was pulled from a pension fund or local police budgets, it would dry up post haste.

[BaronChocula]

5. Yes

since taxpayers fund municipalities. Drained coffers are drained coffers. I'm reading that Tucson, AZ went broke in '83 from a settlement. But maybe that point should be played up - how the taxpayer is on the hook for ill-prepared cops.

[erronis]

6. Exactly. And the taxpayers don't see the connection to their tax bills

Hidden in some category such as "Public Welfare"

Get rid of "qualified immunity" for everyone working for the public. Everyone including LEO and the prosecutors should be able to be charged for crimes when they are the malfeasants.

I've heard local/state governments say they couldn't hire LEO if they couldn't offer immunity. Why would any law-abiding rule-following LEO want immunity. DO YOUR JOB AS DEFINED BY LAW and you'll be just fine.

Perhaps the laws proscribing these types of individuals are way too loose.

[Lemonwurst]

4. No excuse

The young boy was black, in Mississippi. When is this ever going to change?

[C Moon]

9. The cop is black, too. Don't know what happened there.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. Oink!

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. Phil Ochs - Here's to the state of Mississippi