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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 02:13 PM Sep 2016

Autopsy Finds Black Child Killed By Cops Shot In The Back Three Times

http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/09/19/just-autopsy-finds-black-child-killed-cops-shot-back-three-times/

An independent examiner has determined that Tyre King, the 13 year-old African-American boy fatally shot by Columbus, OH police last Wednesday, was “more likely than not” running away from an officer at the time he was shot. The conclusion would seem to contradict the official police narrative, which holds that King was shot in a confrontation with officers after “he pulled a realistic-looking BB gun on them”....

The Columbus coroner’s office has completed an autopsy of King’s body but the results won’t be made public for at least six weeks. It was this delay that prompted King’s family to hire an independent medical examiner, Dr. Francisco Diaz, who is a professor of pathology at the University of Michigan and works as a medical examiner for Wayne County, MI. In a statement released by the King family’s attorney today, Diaz said that “based on the location and the direction of the wound paths it is more likely than not that Tyre King was in the process of running away from the shooter or shooters when he suffered all three gunshot wounds.”

It is not in question that King was involved in the robbery; indeed his friend Demetrius Braxton, 19, who was with King that night and has since been arrested, said that King “wanted to rob somebody for money.” Diaz’s report, however, confirms the suspicions of many in the community and across the country that the use of lethal force by responding officers was unnecessary and that a story of King aiming his gun at the police had been concocted as a justification. Indeed Braxton’s account of the encounter, given before the results of Diaz’s investigation were reported, similarly contradicts the official narrative. He told the local newspaper that “the cops said ‘get down’ and We got down, but my friend [King] got up and ran … [and] when he ran, the cop shot him.”

The last time we checked, petty thievery does not carry the death sentence in the United States of America. While many will be inclined to somehow argue that the boy deserves it for committing a robbery, consider this. When young white men are convicted of rape in America, like Brock Turner, judges let them walk because they think they deserve a second chance. When young African-Americans commit crimes, they are smeared as career criminals and executed on the spot.
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Orrex

(63,210 posts)
2. Because suspicion of involvement in a minor crime...
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 02:26 PM
Sep 2016

is punishable by summary execution in the street.


Now let's all stand for the national anthem.

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
5. Hell, just looking like what one asshole described as "a big bad dude" will get you shot
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 03:18 PM
Sep 2016

if your skin is the wrong color in America.

bluesbassman

(19,373 posts)
3. As is too often the case we may never know exactly what transpired that night.
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 02:32 PM
Sep 2016

What we do know is that it's pretty tough to be simultaneously pointing a gun at someone and get shot in the back by that person. Seems to me the officers involved forgot to account for that detail in their original narrative.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
9. They didn't forget
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 04:52 PM
Sep 2016

They lied! But it won't matter, because shooting 12 and 13 year old black kids is just another way to lessen the "criminal" population!!!

Wear a badge and you can almost get away with anything, even if there's video!!!

bluesbassman

(19,373 posts)
12. Agreed, but it appears their lie was clumsy, hence the "forgot" bit.
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 05:22 PM
Sep 2016

This autopsy report certainly seems to contradict the initial police narrative so we can hope that there is a legitimate investigation. I know that may not happen, but it's going to be awfuly difficult to justify three bullets in the back.

haele

(12,653 posts)
4. I've been to third world countries where we were told if someone picks your pocket and runs...
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 03:14 PM
Sep 2016

Never yell "stop thief" unless you want them shot (and possibly you) by any of the numerous police armed with semi-automatics in front of you.
In third world countries, being caught around any street crime can be an automatic death sentence - especially to those extraneous and socially disposable poor young adult population that wander the streets for their survival.

Haele

malaise

(268,993 posts)
6. But don't dare kneel in protest
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 03:22 PM
Sep 2016

Just another 'Nword 'murdered in cold blood - how great is that Don the Con??

Crabby Appleton

(5,231 posts)
14. Local news reporting the 3 shots were to the left side
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 05:50 PM
Sep 2016

according to Tyre King family lawyer

http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/tyre-kings-family-hires-independent-pathologist-says-13-year-old-shot-3-times

... (4th paragraph)


Dr. Diaz said King suffered three gunshot wounds with entrance paths on the left side of his body: a gunshot wound to the left temple that exited through the right temple, a gunshot wound to the left collarbone area, and a gunshot wound to the left flank and an exit wound on the right flank.

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