[RoadRash]

Fucking idiot. Liberal tears. This guy got what he asked for. Play the race card and suck on Hillary's rotten cunt

[kellyhound]

Police in San Leandro in the Bay Area shot S. T. on Saturday afternoon after he wielded a baseball bat inside a local Walmart. A video shot by a bystander captured two officers pointing their weapons at him holding a bat near the doors on the Walmart floor.

The footage appears to show one of the officers deploying a Taser after he had dropped the bat on the floor and was lying on the ground. One witness is heard shouting, “Don’t shoot him no more!”

Police said one of the officers hit him with a bullet in the upper torso, and the officers tried to use their Tasers multiple times during the confrontation.

Lee Merritt, an attorney for the victim’s family, said he was going through a mental health crisis on Saturday afternoon, and that he has previously suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar depression. “He was shot after he had become completely helpless and no longer represented a threat,” Merritt told.

Merritt said he wasn’t sure yet whether police shot the victim with a Taser or bullet after he was already down, and that an autopsy was now underway.

Merritt also alleged that the officers provided insufficient care once he was shot. “Their job, according to standard operating procedures, was to get him help. He had been seriously wounded and was suffering from a mental health crisis. They had to treat him quickly. They did the opposite and exacerbated his injuries,” Merritt said.

The San Leandro police department said the victim had not complied with officers’ commands to drop the bat and had walked toward police. At this point, one officer discharged his Taser “which was not effective”, according to the department. Then, police said, the officer fired his gun at him, hitting him in the “front of his upper body”. Seconds later, another officer discharged his Taser at the man, according to the department. He died at the scene.

His family is calling for charges against the officers. Merritt, who represents families of those killed by police in federal litigation, said the officers should face homicide charges for targeting him after the threat was “neutralized”. He said police should have de-escalated by clearing the Walmart, surrounding him and trying to talk him down, instead of quickly using lethal force.

The San Leandro police chief, Jeff Tudor, said in an interview that the “pop” heard on the video after the victim was already on the ground came from a Taser, and that it was too early to speculate whether that shot had hit him or whether it was justified and in line with department policy. One officer was initially “trying to deescalate the situation and grab the bat”, Tudor said, adding, “It’s very tragic.”

On Sunday, Tudor publicly acknowledged that the shooting had upset many. “Our community is hurting right now,” Tudor said in a Facebook video. “But protecting the sanctity of life is extremely important. I know there are a lot of questions and concerns.”

Few details have emerged about the victim since he was killed. Merritt said he had three children, including an 11-year-old, and that he leaves behind three siblings. “I hope they don’t see their father executed like that,” Merritt said.

He added that he “was best known for trying to make people laugh”.

The fatal shooting happened just south of Oakland, in a region where residents for years have organized Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality and police shootings.

Last year, California adopted the strictest law in the US limiting when police can kill, dictating that law enforcement must “reasonably believe … deadly force is necessary to defend against an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury”.

Typically, courts across the US have long ruled that shootings are justified if officers claimed they feared for their lives and were acting in self defense, a bar that advocates have said was too low and allowed police to kill civilians with impunity, particularly unarmed black Americans.

[diamount]

why da police hate blacks?

[Martano666]

Can you blame him? I mean I'd want to die if I lived in US too.
Y'all dang merica jesus dang old gawd trump traylor gun shootin duns did it.
Hahaha. Shithole.

[soja]

Originally Posted by Martano666 ↗

Can you blame him? I mean I'd want to die if I lived in US too.
Y'all dang merica jesus dang old gawd trump traylor gun shootin duns did it.
Hahaha. Shithole.

sounds like you know nothing about America except maybe what the left wing media and political elites want you to believe.

America is actually the greatest country in the world. It is safe, it is prosperous, and it is beautiful. It is also the only country in the world that protects free speech. When you say things like I have quoted you saying, it makes me think you are probably the same type of person you are criticizing in your post, you are just wearing a different color shirt. And wearing that shirt does not make you any better than the idiots wearing the other colored shirts.

just saying

[wynncraft]

Originally Posted by foxracing ↗

3rd world garbage are destroying our great country

wait i thought the diseased was also an american?

[OxVortex]

Where were the zoo keepers? On break?

[fapfapfap]

Originally Posted by sojalemmi ↗

sounds like you know nothing about America except maybe what the left wing media and political elites want you to believe.

America is actually the greatest country in the world. It is safe, it is prosperous, and it is beautiful. It is also the only country in the world that protects free speech. When you say things like I have quoted you saying, it makes me think you are probably the same type of person you are criticizing in your post, you are just wearing a different color shirt. And wearing that shirt does not make you any better than the idiots wearing the other colored shirts.

just saying

Don't try to make sense of the nonsense Martano posts.

[OxVortex]

Originally Posted by sojalemmi ↗

sounds like you know nothing about America except maybe what the left wing media and political elites want you to believe.

America is actually the greatest country in the world. It is safe, it is prosperous, and it is beautiful. It is also the only country in the world that protects free speech. When you say things like I have quoted you saying, it makes me think you are probably the same type of person you are criticizing in your post, you are just wearing a different color shirt. And wearing that shirt does not make you any better than the idiots wearing the other colored shirts.

just saying

America is like a communist country owned by the Central bank. Do you know who owns that Central bank? Are you even aware that your Humpty Dumpty President is also colluded with Israel and Zionism? America is OWNED by Israel, dude. Your President is a SHAM, a front man puppet. He doesn't control the FULL NARRATIVE.

[OxVortex]

Trump is seriously a comedian, you can't take this guy seriously at all. He's a snake.