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"A Troubled Man and 20 Police Bullets in Brooklyn" by AL BAKER
A troubled 18-year-old man. A furious family argument inside a first-floor Brooklyn apartment. A 911 call. Then, in the darkness, 20 bullets fired by five police officers. The 18-year-old is fatally wounded. The police say he was holding a hairbrush.
The episode unfolded in about 14 minutes in the apartment, an alley next to it and the sidewalk in front of it on Monday evening. The victim, Khiel Coppin, was struck by 10 of the bullets fired by the police and was later pronounced dead at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, the authorities said.
Standing with Mr. Coppin’s mother, father and siblings outside the morgue where they had just identified his body, Paul Wooten, a lawyer for Mr. Coppin’s family, also disputed the contention by some officials that Mr. Coppin provoked the shooting as a means toward his own death, a phenomenon known in law enforcement circles as “suicide by cop.”
Yup, the fucking fascista cops and society are ALWAYS BLAMING the VICTIM!
FUCK YOU, you FUCKING GOD-DAMNED MURDERERS!!!
MURDERERS!!!!!!!
Some witnesses disputed the police account, and others asked why the police were unable to subdue the man without killing him.
Because they DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE! They JUST KILL YOU now!
A group of residents from Bedford-Stuyvesant marched to the 79th Precinct station house to express their displeasure.
Mr. Coppin’s mother, Denise Owens struggled with her son’s psychiatric problems. He took antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs, and had been admitted to Kings County Hospital Center’s psychiatric ward, officials said.
At 7:08, the officers called the emergency service unit, whose officers are trained in the use of nonlethal restraining equipment and tactics.
So WTF happened, you god-damn murderers!?
Captain McEvoy called for the hostage negotiation team. A lieutenant on the scene also called for technical assistance and response unit. In the next moments, the officers in the hallway heard Mr. Coppin moving a gate that covered the bedroom window. Officers in the street began yelling that Mr. Coppin was going out the window.
At 7:18, a sergeant on the scene reported Mr. Coppin’s location outside the window over the radio. Mr. Coppin dropped four feet to the sidewalk. He walked through an exterior gate and marched toward officers in front of the building — officers who had not been facing him inside. Captain McEvoy ordered five officers in front of the building — two officers and a sergeant from the housing bureau, and a sergeant and detective from the 79th Precinct — to back up and take cover, which they did, behind police cars.
Mr. Coppin ignored the orders to stop, show his hands and get down on the ground. Witnesses said Mr. Coppin had his right hand under his black sweatshirt and was holding an object, with his left hand on top of his right hand. He reached under his sweatshirt, pulled out the object and pointed it in the officers’ direction as if he were aiming a gun.
The police officers opened fire. No gun was recovered.
But the hairbrush was.
The officers range in age from 35 to 45, and each one has at least 10 years in the department. One of the officers fired six times, one fired five shots, two of them fired four times. The detective, the only one in plain clothes, fired once, using a revolver.
A spokeswoman for the city’s medical examiner’s office said Mr. Coppin was shot in the chest, his right hip, the back of his left forearm, the front of his right and left knees, and the back of his left leg. He also suffered three wounds to the left thigh and one to the front and another to the side of his right ankle.
So Why TF did they have to BLOW HIM AWAY, huh?
Yeah, our cops love us and want to protect us!
FUCK THAT, you fucking god-damn fascistas!
Don't you EVER come near me!
There were angry outbursts in the neighborhood yesterday.
At one point, Mr. Coppin’s friends, acquaintances and others marched to the 79th Precinct station house to protest the shooting of an unarmed black man nearly a year after another black man, Sean Bell, was killed in a hail 50 police bullets in Queens.
The demonstration at the station house was led by a man waving a brown hairbrush.
Calvin B. Hunt Jr., the man, referring to the number of police bullets:
“How many?"
The crowd of about 100 people answered:
"Twenty shots.”
And they will all get off, like usual.
These fucking cops should be PUT TO DEATH!!!!!
Just like they put Mr. Koppin down!
FUCKING GOD-DAMN FASCIST PIGS!!!!!!!!
At the building where Mr. Coppin lived, several people described officers swarming in the street, their guns drawn, focusing on Mr. Coppin.
Un-fucking-god-damn-believable!
INTO PRISON, Rambo fucks!!!
Yup, bunch of fascista cowboys we got as cops!!!
A woman who witnessed the shooting but declined to give her name held her hands high to imitate how Mr. Coppin was holding his hands up as he stood in the window as police yelled for him to get down, though she could not see if he was holding anything.
One woman: “I spent the majority of the night on the bathroom floor, terrified. I’m a mother. Do you have any idea how it feels to know that I stood there and watched another mother’s child get shot?”
How would YOU FEEL about cops BLOWING AWAY YOUR KID, readers?
Gee, if you are for the cops, maybe you wouldn't mind fielding a barrage of 20 bullets with your body, 'eh, assholes?
Well, I say, FUCK the FUCKING FASCIST SECURITY FORCES!!!!!
FUCK YOU, shitters!
