I hope this follows those officers for the rest of their lives. May they never rest or have a moment of peace.
I watched the body camera footage. These officers showed flagrant disregard for the mental health crisis referring to him before they even saw him as “some kind of bipolar schizo”.
Walking in the room they instantly escalated to shouting orders at a person who is clearly already distressed and unaware of the situation, they taze him without warning, he panics thinking they are going to murder his mother and hugs her, “Don’t shoot my mom,” trying to shield her from them. The mother hugs back, “Don’t kill my son.”
It plays out almost as a joke, like officers decide to kill these people the moment they ask not to be killed.
For a moment they break away and the boy stands unmoving, they taze him again, this agitates him and he take a single step forward with the scissors. The officer fires, the boy stops. The officer fires again. The boy stands there unmoving. The officer fires again. The boy stands there unmoving. The officer fires again. The boy collapses.
These police officers deserve to be given a fair trial in an unbiased system*, but i think in reality nothing will happen until the next boy is killed. We’ll say the same things. Then the next boy is killed. Etc.
*The United States does not have an unbiased system to process cases like this against the police.
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