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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 08:54 PM Oct 2014

Eight Police Officers Fired 46 Times at My Mentally Ill Son for Holding a Pen Knife

Milton was a homeless, mentally ill African-American man, who was born on April 25, 1963, in Saginaw, Michigan. He was a community worker, and he was always there speaking out for those whom he considered the weak, for those who did not have the strength to speak for themselves.

He had a mental disability that became apparent as a young adult, from when he was probably 24 or 25. But in spite of this, he lived his life independently and with freedom."

He always would say everybody has equal rights. That was one of his songs that he sang all the time. So he exposed violations and campaigned for redress for people that he thought were victims.

Milton took action to ensure and promote equal rights, and that was part of his training that he got from working with Rosa Parks. He was always addressing institutional racism. I admired him for that.

Being an avid reader and a researcher, he was knowledgeable about oppression, particularly violence towards poor people, people of color , the homeless, and those who struggled with mental illness.

For him to be shot at 46 times and hit 14 times by all white policemen, it really raised questions in my mind. How they circled him and assassinated him. One policeman, after he was on the ground, turned him over, handcuffed him, and put his foot on his back."

Disturbing video at link: https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-free-speech-racial-justice/eight-police-officers-fired-46-times-my-mentally



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Eight Police Officers Fired 46 Times at My Mentally Ill Son for Holding a Pen Knife (Original Post) damnedifIknow Oct 2014 OP
To be fair, they only hit their target 16 times so, obviously, their marksmanship sucks Xipe Totec Oct 2014 #1
Death dealers. Lined up in a firing squad just to make sure he was butchered properly. Rex Oct 2014 #2
this is the act of a firing squad Agony Oct 2014 #3
Cops are no longer willing to take ANY risk to stop from killing someone. Cowards. nt Logical Oct 2014 #4
explain again why institutionalizing the mentally is bad. pansypoo53219 Oct 2014 #5

Xipe Totec

(43,872 posts)
1. To be fair, they only hit their target 16 times so, obviously, their marksmanship sucks
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 09:02 PM
Oct 2014

Do I really need to put this thingie here for the humor impaired?

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. Death dealers. Lined up in a firing squad just to make sure he was butchered properly.
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 09:04 PM
Oct 2014

Police state? Yeah, for some it is.

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