I thought I’d share this story because there is so many interesting angles in it:
The police department announced Friday that a narcotics officer and his sergeant have been stripped of their guns and put on desk duty amid an investigation of the officer’s fatal shooting of an unarmed drug suspect within a few feet of the suspect’s grandmother inside the family home.
The measures came after the New York Police Department backed away from an initial account saying that the officer had struggled with 18-year-old Ramarley Graham at the door of a bathroom. Police said a bag of marijuana was found in the toilet, suggesting Graham was trying to flush it away before the gunfire erupted…The shooting stemmed from an NYPD investigation of street corner drug dealing in a Bronx neighborhood. On Thursday afternoon, a police observation team identified Graham as a potential suspect and radioed to other officers that he “appeared to be armed,” Kelly said. In a later transmission, the officers mistakenly reported that “they observed the butt of a gun in the waistband of (Graham),” he added….A search of the apartment failed to turn up any weapons.
Now I’m not the guy who second guesses the cops no matter what they do. They’re investigating drug dealers and they allegedly saw the suspect was armed. I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt to assume if the guy struggles with you he’s trying to get his piece out of his pants to shoot you.
The battle looks clean from the incomplete facts presented…but what about the WAR? This was all about a bag of plant clippings. They suspected he was armed because they suspected he was selling plant clippings. People engaging in the illegal trade of drugs NEED at some point to do acts of violence against people because they cannot rely on the methods people doing honest work do for fraud, theft, and breech of contract.
For a bag of plant clippings. Can we rethink this for a second? Oh and then there’s this:
It was third time in a week that police had fatally shot a suspect: On Jan. 26, an off-duty NYPD officer killed a carjacking suspect during a shootout in Brooklyn. And on Sunday night, an off-duty detective shot a 17-year-old after police say the teen and another suspect hit the officer with a cane and tried to rob him in Brooklyn while he was walking to catch a subway to work. Neither of those officers was put on restricted duty.
In a fourth shooting involving the NYPD on Tuesday, a gunman shot an officer in the head after the officer responded to a report of shots fired in Brooklyn, police said. The shooter was caught about two hours after and was charged with attempted murder, they said. The wounded officer is expected to recover.
For a place that’s so “Safe” thanks to all their gun control there seems to be a LOT of criminals with guns, and a lot of cops shooting people.
Its almost like….nahhhh!
