Cop gets away with murder of sleeping 7 yr old black girl in Detroit

[Malraiders]

The Aiyana Jones murder that weekley lied to justify his killing.





http://filmingcops.com/charges-dropped-for-cop-who-fatally-shot-sleeping-7-year-old-girl/

[badtoworse]

1. Would it have been more or less of a tragedy if she were of some other race?

[CincyDem]

2. It's a tragedy no matter what. But...

...you can be sure that no cops would be dropping flash-bangs while breaking through the front door of a home out in Bloomfield Hills. You can be sure the situation in a "white neighborhood" would have been far less adversarial from the get go and so, the odds of shooting a little white girl sleeping on the couch go way way way down - not because she's white but because she lives in the "white bubble" where everything is just a little more sane...and that little more sane adds up to everyone going home safe and sound.

[Iggo]

4. A-yup.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. Well said!

[marble falls]

22. .... and drug usage is about equal per capita white/black, why are black males the....

most likely to get arrested for drugs, shot by police "mistakenly", sent to long prison sentences for drugs? The design may not be racist, but it certainly seems like the results are. It doesn't matter what you think the impact would be if a victim were white. The fact is like it or not, admit it or not that its highly unlikely flashbangs are set off in a middle class white neighborhood. Call it a perk of white privilege.

You certainly got it right.

[frazzled]

3. Oh, that is low

Next time a cop kills a sleeping white child while storming a house during a raid that is being filmed by a television crew, you can answer that question yourself.

I think I'll be waiting a long, long, long time to hear your answer.

[Recursion]

5. Looks like you will:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=265083

[malaise]

10. About time

I was going to start a thread last night that's things were getting from badtoworse at DU

[Derek V]

11. Lower than low! How low? THIS LOW!

[Orrex]

12. One can't help sensing the similarity

to this case, at least in terms of there being no real accountability.

Not sure what the now-banned poster was trying to suggest. Guess we'll never know.

[Malraiders]

6. If she were White the cops would see it as more tragic, I'm sure.

[sabrina 1]

19. Do you think the unlawful, unnecessary death of a little girl is a tragedy? That is what this OP is

about. Police killings of US citizens, men, women, children, dogs, the mentally ill. All are not just tragedies, they are crimes. Crimes that are rarely prosecuted for reasons we need to find out.

[Blue_Tires]

20. It just seems to happen to a certain ethnic people a bit more often than others...

so one might argue this is the latest episode of a much wider statistical trend...

[pnwmom]

21. No. But what are the odds it would be a black girl compared to a white girl?

It matters that it is more likely for black people to die at the hands of police.

[Recursion]

7. At least the prosecutor tried the case; it looks like this was a court error

If I'm reading the appeal court right, it's saying "the motion to dismiss shouldn't have been granted, but we aren't authorized to reverse it because of double jeopardy". It's awful, but at least the state seemed to recognize that...

[Malraiders]

9. That's a bit confusing since this would be weekley's third trial. n/t

[Dreamer Tatum]

14. "murder" actually has a legal definition

I wish people would use the term correctly.

[11 Bravo]

18. Agreed. It is not automatically "murder" each time ...

a person loses their life at the hands of another.

[uponit7771]

15. Stupid cop fires his gun while blinded by a flash grenade and gets off with misdomeanor...

... another figment of our immagination

[B Calm]

16. Little Princess murdered for no reason, sad. . .

[savalez]

17. This says it all: