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johnnyknj
(37 posts)Why are so many cops today exactly the kind of people who should NOT be cops?
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)This cop is crazy.
Can you say
Suspension without pay
Internal Affairs investigation leading to a Criminal Court trial.
A Civil Court trial on behalf of the shooting victim asking for a huge seven to eight figure lump sum payout from this alleged "Police Officer" or his Insurance Company.
shanny
(6,709 posts)Do police forces have a "cowardice" prerequisite?
They shoot for no reason
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)Today is October 17, 2018...14 months ago..
The city has taken its time in releasing this. The young man was totally unarmed.
Quixote1818
(28,929 posts)Fucking ridiculous!
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)If you link to the story below, you will get full background information about the shooting...
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/16/chicago-police-shooting-video-ricky-hayes/
appalachiablue
(41,127 posts)The Intercept, Oct. 16, 2018, 'Chicago Finally Releases Video of Police Officer Shooting Unarmed & Disabled Ricky Hayes.'
Chicagos Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, today released video footage of the August 13, 2017 shooting of an African-American teenager named Ricardo Hayes by police officer Khalil Muhammad. Viewed against the backdrop of the recently concluded trial of officer Jason Van Dyke for the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, the release of the Hayes video is an occasion to ask what has and has not changed since the release of the McDonald video in the fall of 2015 precipitated a political upheaval and demands for reform.
At the time of the incident, Ricky Hayes was 19 years old, but apart from his height, everything about him was childlike. He is developmentally and intellectually disabled. He looks like a child and has the mind of a child. A ward of the state, he lives with a caretaker in a neighborhood on the far south side of the city. According to his lawyer Gabriel Hardy, Hayes frequently sneaks out of the house and has a history of getting lost out in the city. At roughly 1:25 a.m. on August 13, 2017, his caretaker checked his room and found that he wasnt there. She immediately called the police to report him missing. About half an hour later, police officers arrived. The caretaker filled out a missing person report and told the officers about Hayess disabilities.
In a civil suit against Muhammad and the city of Chicago, Hardy alleges that multiple surveillance cameras recorded Hayes as he wandered his neighborhood. Dressed in shorts, a short sleeve shirt, and sneakers, he can be seen skipping and singing to himself. At about 5:00 a.m. Muhammad, who was off-duty and was driving his own pick-up truck, saw Hayes and began chasing him. At one point, he drove his truck up on the sidewalk within a few feet of Hayes. Frightened, the boy ran away. The officer continued the pursuit.
Eventually, Hayes stopped running and stood motionless with his hands at his sides on the front lawn of a house. What happened next was captured by a surveillance camera mounted on that house. Muhammad pulled up and stopped roughly 20 feet from Hayes. Sitting in the cab of his truck, he opened fire with his service weapon, striking Hayes in his chest and arm. Wounded, Hayes again ran away. Muhammad pursued him in his truck, caught up with him, and ordered him to lie face down on the ground. Muhammad then called 911 and requested an ambulance. -More,
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/16/chicago-police-shooting-video-ricky-hayes/