Indictments aren't convictions, but this is progress.
In two separate cases, two police officers in Georgia and two police officers in New Mexico were each charged with murdering a man that they had already surrounded and subdued.
In East Point, Georgia, right outside of Atlanta, two officers were charged with murder, aggravated assault, manslaughter, and six counts of violating their oath of office in the death of Gregory Towns, a 24-year-old father.
According to a lawsuit his family filed a year ago, Gregory Lewis Towns Jr. was trying to catch his breath after a chase of less than a mile when former police Cpl. Howard Weems and former Sgt. Marcus Eberhart activated their Tasers a combined 14 times in an effort to get the 281-pound man to stand up.
The indictment said Towns’ hands were cuffed behind him and he was “exhibiting symptoms of fatigue and shortness of breath.
The officers claimed to have only used their stun gun a few times on Towns, but the models of stun guns they used created an electronic log and showed that they were actually used 14 times—which could kill anyone.
Soon after the officers were charged in Georgia, indictments were announced for two Albuquerque, New Mexico, police officers who shot and killed James Boyd, a mentally ill homeless man who was living in the mountains.
For the first time in the Albuquerque Police Department’s history, officers will face murder charges for actions taken on the job.
these arrest we are seeing instead of paid vacations is encouraging but like the opening sentence they are not convictions i still feel as i've said in other post this means little until their is a conviction no are convictions and incarcerations these acts of murder will continue to terrorize Black citizens by local police until they are held accountable as any other person who murders.
as we've seen all murders of American citizens are not by gunshot but choking, knees in back and neck and taser guns, baton beatings with so many instruments of mass destruction at their disposal we don't have chance and they know it.
