On July 31, 2013, Jermaine McBean, a 33-year-old computer engineer with no criminal record, paid $100 for a camouflage BB gun at his local pawn shop. As he walked to his home with his headphones on, listening to music, he was shot and killed by police in Oakland Park, Florida. Police claimed that he ignored their requests to put down his weapon and then aimed the gun, which was empty, at them in an aggressive manner.
Now, nearly two year later, it turns out the police told multiple lies in attempt to cover up their killing of McBean. Below we will expose each of the lies they told.
Lie No. 1: The officer who shot and killed McBean, Deputy Peter Peraza, said multiple times that he saw nothing in McBean's ears.
A transcript shows that Deputy Peter Peraza, who fired the fatal shots, repeatedly told sheriff's investigators that he did not see anything in McBean's ears.
Nothing, the officer swore under oath, prevented Mr. McBean from hearing the screaming officers.
Truth: The headphones are clearly in McBean's ears in a picture taken by a nurse who lived in the neighborhood.
Also, according to the New York Times:
The deputy who shot him, Peter Peraza, said he had feared for his life, convinced that Mr. McBean was about to start firing. Deputy Peraza was asked at least five times whether there was any reason that Mr. McBean would not have heard the officers’ commands, such as whether there was anything in his ears. Each time, Deputy Peraza said no.
Taken by a nurse from the balcony above McBean, headphones can be clearly seen. Also seen are police officers to the left and right of McBean
Truth: If the headphones were ever in his pocket, they were placed there long after he was shot and killed by police.
Not only does the photo clearly show the earbuds in his ears, but the nurse who took the photo claimed that she pointed them out to the officers after they refused to allow her to provide any first aid to McBean.
The witness who took it, a nurse who asked to remain anonymous, says she pointed out the earbuds to police at the scene, after they rebuffed her offer to provide first aid to the dying man.
Lie No. 3: The police said that McBean aimed the gun at them in a menacing manner.
"I felt like my life was threatened. I had that feeling like if I would not go home that day," said Peraza, who has been on the force for 14 years but spent a decade of that working in the detention center.
"I felt like I could've been killed. My sergeant could've been killed. He could've shot somebody in the pool area. So as soon as he did turn and point his weapon at us, that's when I fired my duty weapon."
Truth: A key witness who saw the entire ordeal and actually called 911 stated clearly that the gun was never aimed at police.
Michael Russell McCarthy, 58, told NBC News that McBean had the Winchester Model 1000 Air Rifle balanced on his shoulders behind his neck, with his hand over both ends, and was turning around to face police when one officer began shooting.
"He [McBean] couldn't have fired that gun from the position he was in. There was no possible way of firing it and at the same time hitting something," McCarthy said. "I kind of blame myself, because if I hadn't called it might not have happened."
In South Florida’s Broward County, no officer has been charged in a fatal on-duty police shooting since 1980, a period that covers 168 shooting deaths.2 years with the evidence you see above even with a couple of charges made there still is no convictions and it appears the police procedure after they murder has become more emboldened and if not for the severity of their actions before and after this is almost ludicrous. like the not so funny joke now about the southern cops who dug up a Black guy so they can prove he shoot himself in the back 7 times with a repeating rifle or the real case of the Black man sitting in the back seat of the police car handcuffed behind his back somehow found a gun in the seat and shot himself in the chest.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/handcuffed-black-youth-shot-himself-death-says-coroner-n185016
G W Bush, " you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on"
