http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/23/1387174/-Apparently-136-Bullets-Were-NOT-Enough?detail=email
Two and a half years ago I penned "Wouldn't 136 bullets have been enough?" detailing the egregious and unjustified deaths of two Clevelanders in a hail of police bullets - chased twenty miles through the streets of that city because their car had backfired and officers thought they had fired a weapon (they had no weapon).
Michael Brelo, the officer who fired the last 15 shots from on top of the car they were driving, was put on trial and today, to few people's surprise, was found not guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The judge (who was also the jury) decided that there was no proof that Brelo had fired the fatal shots.
So now we have uncovered yet another way for police to kill and get away with it: a firing squad. And they don't even have to load one of their guns at random with a blank.
There is little more I can say. Having police fire 137 bullets at innocent, unarmed citizens and there be no consequences is absurd, yet that is the world we live in.
A Cleveland police officer who climbed onto the hood of a car and fired repeatedly at its unarmed occupants in 2012 was acquitted of manslaughter on Saturday by an Ohio judge.
Officer Brelo was one of several officers who shot at Timothy Russell and his passenger, Malissa Williams, during a chase through the Cleveland area on Nov. 29, 2012. Police officers fired 137 rounds at the car, prosecutors have said, including 49 by Officer Brelo.
Other officers stopped firing after Mr. Russell’s Chevy Malibu was surrounded by the police and came to a stop, but prosecutors said Officer Brelo climbed onto the car’s hood and fired at least 15 rounds from close range, including the fatal shots.
“We’re asking our officers, based on their training, not to be compelled by fear to kill people when there’s other reasonable, objectively reasonable, options available to you,” said James Gutierrez, an assistant county prosecutor, in closing arguments. “And there was. He wanted to kill.”
In closing arguments, Patrick A. D’Angelo, one of Officer Brelo’s lawyers, said his client believed he was under attack when he fired on the car.
“What would make him want to shoot through the windshield at another human being?” Mr. D’Angelo said. “Could it be that he was shot at? Could it be that he reasonably perceived that the occupants of the Malibu were shooting at him? That’s what all the other officers perceived. That’s what Officer Brelo perceived.”
if all the other murders didn't ring a bell or turn on a light as to why Black people under perpetual police state are angry and afraid hopefully this is that spotlight you needed. it's like some police decide if you run they have to teach you a lesson not to so they beat and kill you but there is that other reality if you stay and don't run the same thing happens except now you're being punished for not fearing them that my friends is the Black person and police conundrum, dead if you do dead if you don't. and the courts well they are okay with it we need to be taught a lesson i hope our new AG is more aggressive than the last who never was able to find civil rights violation when murdered by cop.
AG Loretta Lynch show them and us that women can and will extract justice it's time for men to get lost they have screwed this country up for centuries if they love it like they claim give it to those who actually do love it. why do you need to ask cops not to murder unarmed citizens that is right wing 100% remember Pres. should have the republicans over have dinner get a beer with Mitch McConnell why do you have to date congress in order for them to do what we pay them for that is where the breakage of Washington starts and gets corrupted more along the way.
