Atlanta-area police shoot dead unarmed and naked African American man

[99th_Monkey]

Atlanta-area police shoot dead unarmed and naked African American man
*Dekalb County police say Anthony Hill, 27, was ‘acting deranged’
*Police chief says the man ran at an officer before he was shot dead
Tuesday 10 March 2015 * Jessica Glenza * The Guardian


The Georgia bureau of investigation has opened an inquiry into the police shooting of a naked, unarmed and possibly mentally ill man on Monday in DeKalb County.

Anthony Hill, 27, was shot by a police officer at The Heights apartment complex where he lived, just east of Atlanta. Police arrived and encountered Hill after a 911 caller reported a nude man wandering the complex and “acting deranged”, at about 1pm on Monday, according to DeKalb County police.

A seven-year veteran of the county police force responded to the call. Hill, who was black, reportedly ran at the officer who ordered him to stop before shooting him twice in the upper torso. “The caller reported the man had taken off all of his clothes and was just running throughout the entire complex during the time we received the call,” the DeKalb County police chief, Cedric Alexander, said in a press conference. Alexander said the officer, who has not been named, was suspended pending an investigation.

Hill was “running around” the complex, “crawling around on the ground naked” and hanging off of balconies when police arrived, according to Alexander. On Twitter, activists picked up the man’s name as a hashtag in calls for change, and others reported he may have had a history of mental illness.

The shooting comes on the heels of a police shooting in Wisconsin, where a 19-year-old unarmed man was shot by police over the weekend, prompting several days of protests.

DeKalb County police have faced criticism over their response to other 911 calls. In January, police shot a man who called 911 after coming home to find his girlfriend stabbed. The man allegedly confronted a police officer, who he thought could have been the intruder, with a gun only to be shot himself, according to local media.

Alexander said the investigation was immediately handed over to the Georgia bureau of investigation “as a result of what’s going on here, across this country”.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/10/atlanta-police-shoot-dead-unarmed-african-american-man?CMP=fb_gu

[ND-Dem]

1. he was naked, so no fear he had a weapon, right? why did they need to shoot him again?

[hifiguy]

2. Why not just throw a net over the guy, literally,

and haul him off to detox or for a psych evaluation?

50 to 1 says the kkkop will walk after a suspension with pay and donuts.

[marym625]

3. I heard this yesterday

And all I could think is, what kind of excuse will this murdering pig use? Can't use the "he went for his waistband excuse.

For Anthony Hill

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. latest excuse is "he was reaching for officer's gun"

[marym625]

11. I didn't see that one coming

Evidently, he had a very long reach.

Will this ever end? Will the impunity ever stop? Will racist, pos, steroid filled, murdering pigs ever stop using a gun as their only option?

How is it that we've allowed this to be commonplace? It's just so horrible. How do we continually allow cops to continue to murder a person because of the color of their skin and prosecutors to excuse it?

[Ilsa]

4. How hard could it be? I'm beginning to think it's

Laziness on the part of LE -- they don't want to get their hair messed up or their clothes dirty with a tackle.

[99th_Monkey]

5. "they don't want to get their hair messed up or their clothes dirty with a tackle." ,, AND

a PAID VACATION for as long as the "investigation" lasts, weeks if not months.

[Throd]

6. What's up with the war on grammar?

Atlanta-area police shoot unarmed and naked African American man to death.

Sloppy police work. Sloppy journalism.

[morningfog]

9. Seriously. I was asking "why did they shoot a dead man?"

Whether he was armed was secondary to the point that he was dead. If you have to read it twice, it is poorly written.

[NV Whino]

10. It's easier to shoot a dead man I guess.

[marym625]

12. a comma

Between dead, unarmed. Might help. I didn't read it that way either

[daredtowork]

7. naked man

I foresee the return of the "gay panic" defense. If the police officer was white, there will be an additional racist wink and nudge to the argument.

[marym625]

13. bastards.

[Deertoil]

14. A lot of killing in ATL recently.

One just today, around time President Obama was visiting not too far away.
Unarmed father of 4 shot, killed outside Atlanta Kroger
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/police-investigate-shooting-northeast-atlanta-krog/nkSHs
Video footage in link below has shots of the murderers who have yet to be caught.
http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/surveillance-video-search-for-suspects-in-fatal/vDKN56/
Victim was white, guy in video black but there appears no racial motive, just robbery. As if that even matters to his four children and wife. All they know is a husband and father who will never come home. “Josh was a hell of a good guy with four kids. Really sad,” Shelton said.