Aderrien Murry, who is Black, was wounded by police after calling 911, and authorities declined to charge the officer involved
  • Alien Nathan EdwardEnglish
    65•6 months ago

    once again, a child was shot, the shooter will be rewarded, and a bunch of people who did nothing wrong will pay for it

  • DarkGamer
    37•6 months ago

    This is why calling cops to solve family disputes is a bad idea. They peddle violence, and to a hammer everything looks like a nail.

    • deweydecibelEnglish
      19•6 months ago

      I’d agree in many cases but not this one.

      This wasn’t a husband, it was a father of one of the women’s kids. He didn’t live there, and he showed up “irate” at 4am. She felt unsafe, and not unreasonably so. If you genuinely feel unsafe and can’t leave the situation (for any number of reasons), that’s when you roll the dice and call the cops.

      This is also a black woman living in Mississippi, so even if she’s lucky enough to have never been on the receiving end of shitty police behavior, she possibly had a better appreciation than most what might show up at her door if she called them. She was still unnerved enough to call. Maybe she didn’t think it through, but again, I don’t think it was the wrong impulse.

    • @[email protected]
      -3•6 months ago

      I disagree. Had to call the cops a few times to settle family disputes, they were always the best course of action.

      • @[email protected]
        4•6 months ago

        I remember a woman from the US called the police because her son was having a mental breakdown and threatened to kill himself with his shotgun. Multiple police arrived and found the woman talking to his son who is inside his vehicle. The police saw the shotgun and promptly shot the son multiple times with the mother just outside the car in close proximity.

  • @[email protected]
    28•6 months ago

    I’m sure the officer thought it was a dog and was excited at getting to shoot a defenseless animal feared for his life

    • @[email protected]
      4•6 months ago

      Doubtful. Historically the police love shooting, lynching, and enslaving black ppl. Kinda their original job

  • TedescheEnglish
    7•6 months ago

    Obvious racism and corruption aside, the reason most often cited for not charging officers that irresponsibly discharge their weapons and harm civilians is that they were following the protocol they were taught as officers. Are there any attempts to get these protocols and training changed and if so, why aren’t they being reported on in the news?

  • @[email protected]
    3•6 months ago

    I would have liked to have been a bug on the wall to hear the grand jury deliberate this one. I mean I get the knee jerk reaction, but even so a kid who it seemingly was complying with instructions, gets shot anyway. How is that not negligent?

  • Kalash
    -99•6 months ago

    They also need to charge who ever gave him that haircut. Poor kid.

      • Kalash
        -31•6 months ago

        I’m sorry, that was very insensitive from me. It’s always tragic when a black kid gets shot by the police in the US. But the haircut is something you don’t see every day.

    • teft
      11•6 months ago

      I think that shape up looks good. Why do you think it looks bad?

      • @[email protected]
        -8•6 months ago

        I have to admit it sort of does look off. Like a Lego hairpiece almost. Didn’t look that hard until reading their comment. But now that I have it is kind of giving off uncanny valley vibes.

        It looks sharp. Something maybe about the proportions is doing it.