Couple killed by police for sleeping in their car while black.

[MrScorpio]

Parents on a Date Were Asleep in Car When Cops Arrived and Killed Them Both



Inglewood, CA — On Sunday, police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Manchester Boulevard around 3:10 am. When police arrived, they engaged in a 45-minute long standoff before opening fire on the man and woman inside the vehicle, killing them both.

In the news release on Monday, following the shooting, police claimed that the woman in the car had a gun. Scott Collins, a spokesman for the Inglewood Police Department said that the couple refused to obey the officers’ commands to exit the vehicle. The officers then feared for their safety and opened fire on the car — killing the couple.
The woman was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting, and the man succumbed to his injuries after paramedics transported him to a local hospital, according to the LA Times.

The shooting seemed like an open and shut case until the next day. Mayor James Butts, while responding to questions about the shooting, opened up a huge can of worms — both the man and the woman were unconscious.
For at least 45 minutes, police attempted “to rouse” them in an effort “to de-escalate the situation,” said Butts.
After admitting that the couple was asleep, Butts quickly defended the officers, noting, “Obviously at some point they were conscious because somebody felt threatened.”

However, that notion has yet to be proven and is particularly unlikely due to the fact that not a single officer received so much as a scratch, nor did the couple have any reason to be violent.
Both of the victims were parents; Kisha Michael, 31, a single mother of three sons, and Marquintan Sandlin, 32, a single father of four daughters.

Michael’s twin sister Kisha stated the obvious when she said that it’s possible that Kisha merely passed out on the way home from their night out.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/parents-date-night-passed-car-police-showed/#W25qrt0m3MrLpolm.99

[PatrickforO]

1. Yes, a sleeping couple in a car is a VERY escalated situation.

Gosh, how can we be surprised the officers 'felt threatened' and opened fire? The couple was BLACK, after all.

[PatrickforO]

2. It is sad they left seven children when they were shot for being black.

[rocktivity]

3. If they were both passed out and couldn't be roused for 45 minutes,

why couldn't the woman have been disarmed if they saw a gun? And why wasn't medical help summoned?


rocktivity

[sakabatou]

6. I'm confused by that too

[MrScorpio]

22. Cops are notorious for attacking people who are undergoing medical emergencies too

Being sick in a cop's presence is all too viewed as being engaged in an illegal activity.

[MariaThinks]

27. the police are murderers and liars.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Horrific

[Iggo]

5. Okay, cop-lovers. Let's hear it.

[Nye Bevan]

8. The only reason I would defend this

is if they had gotten out of the car and pointed a gun at the cops. But nothing in what I have seen has suggested that that happened. At this point it sounds like murder.

I wonder if there is bodycam or dashcam video?

[elias7]

28. This one doesn't sound defensible, but as long as you're going to be obnoxious about it,

presumably, their collective charge of 7 children were being taken care of, although being irresponsible parents does not justify what sounds like cold blooded murder.

[Iggo]

36. Cops are murdering people.

But I'm obnoxious.

Shame on me.

[Ed Suspicious]

7. For fuck sake. When is it going to end?

[pacalo]

9. OMG.

For at least 45 minutes, police attempted “to rouse” them in an effort “to de-escalate the situation,” said Butts.

After admitting that the couple was asleep, Butts quickly defended the officers, noting, “Obviously at some point they were conscious because somebody felt threatened.”

[femmedem]

12. That first sentence would be worthy of The Onion if actual people hadn't been murdered. n/t

[pacalo]

14. Agree -- this is so over the top.

[Takket]

26. if only they had not "escalated" the situation by being asleep.

if they were white, cops would have seen them not moving, woken them up, been genuinely concerned for their well being, had a good laugh over the whole thing with them, and offered them a ride home if they were drunk.

[MH1]

10. Cops need to work on their credibility. This shit does not help.

(and yes, OMG for the couple and their children. This is terrible tragedy for people who apparently did nothing wrong.)

I tend to support cops in general in theory. At least the concept of law enforcement and the idea that MOST cops are decent people trying to do a difficult job.

But HOLY FUCK that outlook gets challenged by shit like this.

That whole department needs to get retrained in how they engage in various types of situations.

[Catherine Vincent]

11. Maybe they were passed out because of carbon monixide?

Gosh this is very sad.

[postulater]

37. That's possible.

The night of my high school graduation (almost 50 years ago) a couple in my class fell asleep in one of their driveways and never awoke. Even sadder their car's exhaust had just been repaired by another classmate.

[TeamPooka]

13. Wake up! We need to kill you now! nt

[Arazi]

15. This shit has to stop dammit

The police are completely out of control. Black Lives Matter

[Glimmer of Hope]

16. I just don't know what to say anymore. Seven children orphaned.

Are the police that ill-equipped to deescalate a situation with two unconscious people?

[Iggo]

17. Seven children orphaned. Zero murderering cops arrested.

Fuck.The.Police.

[Glimmer of Hope]

18. There is no excuse. I wonder if there is video?

[Iggo]

20. If only there was some of these good cops that I keep hearing about.

Elusive, they are.

[Stuart G]

23. If there is one good cop in that crowd...whi is willing to tell the truth.

The truth will come out...He will have to quit that job...but what is more important????

Very very sad.

.I hope there someone to tell the truth.

[KamaAina]

19. Another installment of Larry Wilmore's "$#*! Black People Can't Do".

[Boxerfan]

21. I pretended to be "passed out" during a police check.

I was a passenger & it was years ago. I was drunk but still having too much fun.

When a cop pulled up to see what was up-I decided to play passed out. As a passenger it would not be a violation & I was scared. I survived-I remember that much.

Just saying they may have been afraid for their lives-and you can never trust the "official" story that much has become self evident.

[JI7]

24. sleeping while black

[Stuart G]

25. After the video of the cop shooting the man running away..

The official story don't mean shit.

That cop had everything planned out, the whole set of one lie on top of another..except that someone was recording everything as he set out the lies..putting the gun in a certain place..getting everything set..and so on...

everyone here knows that scene and the person who took that, was very smart to take the video out of the area, (I think it was in one of the Carolinas) to the New York Times..to protect the video and himself..

as I said, ..the official story don't mean shit...

[BarbaRosa]

29. My money is on a lapel cam malfunction/turned off.

[Go Vols]

30. Thats way fucked up.

[xfundy]

31. I'm tired of this fucking planet.

[Rex]

32. So why didn't the cops move toward the car and look to see what was going on inside?

Much easier to just murder two people in cold blood? There is no law that I know of that says it is instant capital punishment if you fall sleep in a car.

[Egnever]

33. What is making the police so scared?

I think we need to get to the root of that or this crap will never stop.

[Nevernose]

35. Melanin (n/t)

[dixiegrrrrl]

38. Thread winner. n/t

[etherealtruth]

34. If they could not rouse them for 45 mins why the eff wasn't EMS called?

I would be concerned rather than "threatened if I couldn't rouse people.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

39. MURDER

justice?

[Liberal_in_LA]

40. kick

[Solly Mack]

41. Damn

For at least 45 minutes, police attempted “to rouse” them in an effort “to de-escalate the situation

Uh...

Uh...


"de-escalate" what fucking situation?

How the fuck is someone sleeping a "situation"?

And if they felt something was wrong, why didn't they call for medical help during those 45 minutes?