Life is hard. Life as a homeless man is damn hard. Life as a homeless man living in the mountains suffering from paranoid schizophrenia is about as hard as it gets.
Escaping into the hills of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to set up a campsite, 36-year-old James Boyd mistakenly thought he was safe from the normal dangers of homelessness in the city. He was wrong.
It turned out that it was illegal for James to camp where he had set up shop and it seems he just couldn't process why he had to leave. Over 50 feet away from officers, and well out of harm's way for any of them, James was shot with a flash grenade, seemingly out of frustration. When he turned around to get on his knees, he was shot multiple times and killed. After he was shot, much like Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Akai Gurley, and Richard Ramirez, James Boyd was, irrationally so, treated as if he was a grave threat and offered no serious medical attention.
According to the Associated Press, charges will be filed today against the officers who shot James Boyd by District Attorney Kari Brandenburg.with training in the form of popups for police who have to qualify with a gun why are they just abandoning that training and shooting at the slightest move or it seems just for the hell of it? we use to see on TV shows the police walking down a makeshift street with pop outs of criminals and innocents that was the training to not kill civilians because they moved but to distinguish between who's a threat and who is not, similar to this but more of a real life size environment using cardboard cutouts.
are we now seeing more cop killings as a retaliation of their merciless killings, not good it will only hype up the already present fear and more trigger happy drop the hammer in a NY minute cop mentality. solving the problem starts with identifying those inclined to such acts and weeding the ones already there out that IMO falls on the fellow officers who see them away from the brass or officials, it's like they need some kind of Hippocratic oath to do no harm and those who do should be called to account by the laws we charge them to enforce goose gander.
