They ain't Friendly Johnny Flatfoots anymore. Now they are fire-away fascistas!
"NYC police kill unarmed teenager; Officers mistook youth's hairbrush for a handgun, authorities say" by Associated Press November 14, 2007
NEW YORK - An unarmed, mentally ill teenager could be heard cursing and yelling, "I've got a gun!" during a frantic 911 call made by his exasperated mother before police arrived and killed him with a 20-bullet barrage, according to a tape of the call released yesterday.
Police officials said that although the woman had said her son didn't have a gun, Khiel Coppin gave five officers no choice but to open fire after he suddenly charged them outside her home with a black object in his hand. It turned out to be a hairbrush.
Five officers had no choice but to blow the kid away, even after his mother said no gun?
How about taking him to the ground? WTF?!
Our cops have run amok!
Tasering and blowing people away is easier, and therefore the preferred course, huh?
The 17-minute altercation began about 7 p.m. Monday when officers arrived at the Brooklyn home in response to a report of a dispute involving a gun. The mother, Denise Owens, had summoned a psychiatric intervention team earlier in the day, saying her son was suicidal, but he left before the team arrived, Kelly said.
In the 911 call, while the emergency operator took down the address in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a male voice was overheard in the background, saying, "I got a gun and I'm going to shoot you."
When a 911 operator called back about five minutes later to ask Owens for a description of her son and the weapon, she told the operator, "He does not have a firearm," a second transcript shows.
"I'm flipping out," the mother added. "I can't handle this."
When officers arrived at the home, they said they encountered Coppin inside with knives. They backed off and ordered his mother and younger sister outside.
The teen began screaming from a first-floor window at his mother and officers before climbing out the apartment window and crossing a sidewalk toward the officers while holding the hairbrush in his hand, police said.
So he was walking toward him, huh?
Couldn't have just shot him in the leg to disable him?
The officers backed up and ordered him to stop, police said. When the teen refused and kept approaching them, they began shooting from a distance of 5 to 7 feet, police said. Police said eight of the 20 bullets struck Coppin, who was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Sort of like point-blank range, huh? They mistook a brush for a gun that close?
I AM FUCKING OUTRAGED at SANCTIONED STATE MURDER, dammit!!!!!!
WAKE UP, AMERICA, and NEVER EVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!!!
Look at what happens to you when you are unarmed!!!!
The victim's brother said the media had distorted Khiel Coppin's background.
"He is a human being," said Joel Coppin. "What we want is simply justice. . . . We don't want headlines. We want justice for Khiel so every young black man in the city will never go through this again."
That's right! FIVE COPS BLEW AWAY A GUY at POINT-BLANK RANGE!!!
I guess five-on-one is still an unfair advantage for the kid, huh?
Cops must be doughnut-eating fatties then, if 5 of 'em can't get a kid to the ground.
Oh, and his mom told them there was no gun, remember?
Police said two of the shooters were Hispanic and three were white.
A neighbor, Bernice Sanders, said she looked out her window Monday night after hearing the police order someone, "Get down!" She also described seeing officers with their guns drawn, taking cover behind a car.
"The boy did not respond to them," she said. "Next thing - gunshots, 'Boom, boom, boom.' The young boy is laying on the ground. They handcuffed him on his back."
They handcuffed him AFTER they blew him away, huh?
But the police are your friends, Amurka! They are a bunch of jackbooted, murdering thugs is more like it!!!
What has happened to America's once-fine police?
When did they become paramilitary assassination squads?
The killing of an unarmed man in a hail of police gunfire brought back memories of previous high-profile cases: a 50-bullet barrage that killed the unarmed Sean Bell on his wedding day in November 2006 and the 1999 killing of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo, who was hit by 19 of the 41 shots fired by police in the Bronx."
Yeah, FASCISTA POLICE NOTHING NEW in N.Y. City!
Sig Heil, you fucking mass-murdering government!!!!!!!!!!!
