Imagine a far-left activist/youtuber who spends most of their time railing on the DNC. Who sends hecklers to Pelosi's speaking events, and who has been repudiated by pretty much the entire Democratic leadership. But this person has done a couple events with Bernie Sanders, who he gets along with.
And this is depressing, but not shocking, and nobody would be surprised if he got away with it. Should be a massive issue resulting in sweeping reforms, but instead it's Friday.
I highly doubt he's going to get away with it. Something like that can't just be swept underneath the rug. Considering the words out and state troopers are investigating this, something's going to happen. They better charge more than this manslaughter. That's two lives this fucker wasted.
www.mirror.co.uk
A 22-year-old woman killed by police was shot 17 times after she became convinced her ex-boyfriend was trying to kill her.
Jada Johnson, from North Carolina, was killed in front of her two-year-old daughter at her grandparents home in Fayetteville on July 1.
A bullet crashed into the right side of Ms Johnson's head which injured her 'scalp, brain, and skill', according to autopsy and toxicology reports revealed today.
The mum-of-one was also shot multiple times to her shoulder, right forearm, right hip, right arm and torso.
A skull fracture was created after a second gunshot and drugs were found in her system at the time of the shooting, the report concluded.
Ms Johnson had 0.32 mg/L of methamphetamines in her system and a number of unidentified pills were found in her possession.
Officers tried to disarm the firearm from the woman
The fatal incident happened when officers were called to Ms Johnson's grandad, Rick Iswanski, just before 10pm on July 1 at their home in Fayetteville.
Police said they were responding to a potential burglary when they were dispatched to the scene.
However, according to her grandad, Ms Johnson had only just been released from hospital after suffering from a mental illness crisis.
Mr Iswanksi told CBS17 : "She thought they were here to kill her and they wound up murdering her right in front of us."
The heartbroken grandfather added: "I saw her face and her eyes."
She was reportedly trying to escape from an abusive relationship that night when she thought her boyfriend was trying to access the grandfather's house to try and kill her.
He admitted: "She thought they [the boyfriend] was here to kill her."
During the tragic incident Ms Johnson took out her gun and threatened to kill herself.
The victim's grandad has hit out at the police for their treatment of Jade
A police officer wrestled her to the ground and another officer shot Ms Johnson multiple times in front of her two-year-old daughter and her grandparents.
Fayetteville Police Department's Assistant Chief James Nolette said: "Officers gain control of the handgun, at which point the struggle went to the ground and tragically officers discharged their firearm."
Police officers Zacharius Borom and Sergeant Timothy Rugg were suspended on full pay as an investigation into the incident took place.
However, Mr Iswanksi believes their granddaughter was not a threat as she did not verbally threaten them.
He said: "The officers were not threatened verbally. Yes, there was a gun, but it was down.
"When she put the gun down, they should have tased her, bean-bagged her, took her down then. Why didn't they do it then?"
Police say the officers tried for over an hour to get the woman to put the gun down but she failed to comply.
Assistant Chief James Nolette, from the Fayetteville Police Department, said: "For over an hour the officers pled with this young lady, tried to get this young lady to put this weapon down. Tried to get the help that she wanted."
North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation were asked to look into the case which stated Sargent Rugg tried to disarm the mum when she attempted to get a drink.
But as he went to get the gun there was a dispute, according to the report.
The grandfather rejected this, he said: "There was no wrestling. No struggle. There was nothing like that."
Since the conclusion of the report, Mr Iwanski said he wants police to treat people with mental health better and hold officers accountable for their actions after joining a non-profit organisation focused on dealing with people during a mental health crisis better.
He said: "My real goal is accountability for the murder of my grandchild in front of me, and her grandmother, and her baby.
"I'd like to see justice for her and I think the officer who killed her needs to go to jail."
That describes like every good democratic operative. The first one that comes to mind is David Hogg.
Why are the bits about her having drugs in her system, unidentified pills in her possession and being armed buried so far into the article?More unnecessary murder from, at best, no mental health awareness or expertise yet again.
Woman, 22, shot 17 times by police after fearing her ex was trying to kill her
Jada Johnson, from North Carolina, US, was shot dead multiple times in front of her two-year-old daughter and her grandparents at their home in Fayetteville on July 1
Because drug possession and consumption is not an automatic death sentence? Neither is suffering from mental illness?
Did you read it, or skim for keywords you could use to defend the police and condemn the victim? Because I find it hard to believe you read it with that take.
She wasn’t killed for bring on drugs or having a mental health crisis. She was killed after a struggle for her gun. Fighting a cop over control of a gun leads to bad outcomes.
I read the article. And the article doesn’t mention that she was armed, that she threatened suicide with her gun or that the cops spent over an hour trying to get her to put down the gun until the end.
Yes, it does. I read the article, so I can confirm that all of these things were in fact mentioned in the article. This is also the story given by the cops themselves and the grandfather of the victim, who witnessed the whole thing, disputes their version of the events. It's their word against his, and sorry not sorry but the word of a cop ain't worth shit, especially given how often they've been caught falsifying reports and getting away with it.
And the families of victims as well as eyewitnesses have been known to lie. Everyone lies, whether deliberately or inadvertently through faulty memory, misunderstanding or preexisting biases.
"So what if the cops are liars? Victims are liars too! Everyone's a liar, so you can't judge anyone for lying!!!"
Right here. You know this isn't 4chan, and we can all see your post history, right?
The sentence "During the tragic incident Ms Johnson took out her gun and threatened to kill herself. " appears 271 words into the body of the article. Following that sentence, there are 342 words remaining in the body of the article. Last time I checked, mentioned less than 50% of the way through and not mentioned "until the end" are entirely different. If you had "read the article" as claimed, you would have known this (roughly, of course), so either you lied about reading it and were just ignorantly making things up or you lied about the content
Sure, but this is America, where merely being near a cop also seems to have bad outcomes quite often too.
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