11-yo called the police and they shot him, and now they're trying to take her other kids away
11-yo called the police and they shot him, and now they're trying to take her other kids away
After arriving at the Murry family home, police instructed everyone inside to come out with their hands up. Nakala Murry says that's when Aderrien emerged from around a corner, running toward the door. Capers then opened fire.
Dear lord, talk about victim blaming. They shot the kid because his mom and her boyfriend had domestic violence issues? FUCK THAT. The reason the kid was shot because ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS.
IMO the most salient point of the article:
Carlos Moore, the attorney representing the Murry family, told NPR that the court-filed petition is "outlandish" and suggests the move by the court is retaliation for her ongoing lawsuit against the City of Indianola over her son's shooting.
"I believe they are just harassing her," Moore said. "She is a single mother and she does not deserve this pure harassment."
Without even opening the article, I'm going to guess this woman is a person of color.
Opens article
Why am I not surprised?
no one is ever safe from police violence. not the victim, not the witnesses, not bystanders, not children, not people following commands, not unarmed people with their hands in the air, no one.
WTAF? I'm at a loss.
How can this still surprise you in 2024? Like, what expectation did this defy?
My ex was from Indianola.
You can’t expect a cop to show up and not shoot a black person. I mean, that’s just not how it’s done in the catfish farming capital of Mississippi.
I dunno. I feel like if you're asking your 11 year old kid to call the cops for you and shit gets fucked up, is it a you problem not a police problem if they're responding to a situation where they apply an appropriate level of response not knowing who is who in that hot moment.
It's horrible that the kid was in the middle of it - - but where was the parent?
This seems to me that police need better domestic dispute training, but tragic as it is ,things move so quickly in a situation like that.
Too bad the boyfriend doesn't have unlimited funds but really I don't think the police department is at fault.
If you think that's an appropriate level of response, you're delusional and way too influenced by your country. See how police operates elsewhere. Here in Spain they don't shoot people even if they're armed, unless they start shooting first basically. There are other ways to control a situation, but in your country they have gone mad with power and they are too afraid to save lives by risking their own safety.
They're not afraid to do it; they don't want to and that's officially not their job according to the supreme court.
Not to say they aren't filthy violent cowards, but it doesn't even get to the point where cowardice enters the equation.
How did the USA get itself into this kind of situation where police routine just shoot innocent people as an 'appropriate level of response' since they don't know 'who is hot'? These stories come up all the time. Police get spooked by something, and people get killed because of it. Sometimes its an acorn; sometimes it's someone walking too fast wearing a hoodie; sometimes it's someone who closed their car window 'suspiciously'; and very often, the thing that makes the cops freak out and murder someone is just the sight of the person who requested help.
"Warrior Training". John Oliver has a great piece on it here, NSFW language.
It's a 30 minute watch and 100% worth it.
The police are absolutely at fault for, you know, shooting an 11 year old who was complying with police orders.
It doesn't matter who called the police or where the parents were or what they were doing, the police shot an 11 year old who was attempting to do what the police were telling him to do.
This stems from a lot of different things, but my expectation would be this was the #1 component:
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/03/black-boys-older