EddieMurfee
Rookie
All over a $2 Bus Fare 
SFPD Ruthlessly Shoots and Kills Unarmed 19yr old ... [Video] NSFW
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Would be nice to have a back story before the shooting but if it was unjust I kind of wish the mob of people attacked the cop who did it
All over a $2 Bus Fare
This is 2 years old homie but it still makes me mad.
When police stopped a teenager stepping off the T-train yesterday to show his transfer as proof he'd paid his fare -- $2 at most -- he ran from them. They shot him as many as 10 times in the back and neck, according to witnesses. For many long minutes, as a crowd watched in horror, the boy, who had fallen to the sidewalk a block away, lay in a quickly growing pool of blood writhing in pain and trying to lift himself up as the cops trained their guns on him and threatened bystanders.
Having killed the boy at 4:44 p.m., according to the San Francisco Chronicle, in broad daylight at the main intersection -- Third Street between Palou and Oakdale -- in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco's last largely Black neighborhood, the police seemed eager to terrorize the community. They waited and waited and waited as the teenager stopped moving but continued breathing before eventually setting him on a gurney and taking him to the hospital, where the Chronicle reports he died at 7:01 p.m.
"Why should you die for a transfer?" asked a witness known as Tiptoe in the crowd of hundreds of residents that soon gathered in the plaza at the Oakdale/Palou light rail stop. "Justice will be brought!" hollered one man repeatedly in a booming voice as the crowd shouted at the long line of police in riot gear standing between them and the dying youngster. "I saw the riot squad fly by me on Palou yesterday -- five trucks in all," wrote Bayview resident Sherry Bryson on Facebook.
As usual following police murders, the San Francisco Police Department came up with an excuse. The Chronicle relayed it: "As the officers tried to detain the man, he took off running and drew a gun, police said," according to staff writer Joe Garofoli. "When the suspect shot at the officers, they returned fire, fatally wounding him," he continued, quoting SFPD Sgt. Michael Andraychak.
None of the many witnesses I spoke with yesterday saw the young victim either holding or shooting a gun and firmly believe he was unarmed. ABC7's Carolyn Tyler balanced the police claim that they shot the youngster in self-defense by interviewing Trivon Dixon, who said: "He was running. How could he be a threat in retreat? And he wasn't running backwards, turning around shooting. He was in full throttle, running away from the police. I don't see in any way how he could be a threat to the police." 17 July 2011.
I thought this was new, but there were a few threads on this when it happened....
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
Somebody grabbing the gun and taking it was caught on video and the dude was wanted for shooting a pregnant woman, so it's messed up but there isn't any reason to feel sorry for him
Source?
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
Suicide King
#OldBlack
This is why I love America.
The stories don't add up.
1. Witnesses saw cops shooting and not the victim. Cops claim different.
2. Witnesses say he didn't pay the fare and jumped it was the reason the cops came after him. Cops claim different
3. How did he have enough money to be in Seattle but not enough for a catch the fare?
4. They claimed another person picked up the gun and ran but why wasn't the person identified and arrested for aiding a crime?
5. The last article said he was recently released from jail but how recently?
6. The cops claim they have his record but only one mentioned anything of a record...a sex charge...
Sounds like the cops created fabrications behind a murder, even if he was a person who was already in jail.
Suicide King
#OldBlack
The stories don't add up.
1. Witnesses saw cops shooting and not the victim. Cops claim different.
2. Witnesses say he didn't pay the fare and jumped it was the reason the cops came after him. Cops claim different
3. How did he have enough money to be in Seattle but not enough for a catch the fare?
4. They claimed another person picked up the gun and ran but why wasn't the person identified and arrested for aiding a crime?
5. The last article said he was recently released from jail but how recently?
6. The cops claim they have his record but only one mentioned anything of a record...a sex charge...
Sounds like the cops created fabrications behind a murder, even if he was a person who was already in jail.
Why would you entertain this guy? His insight is garbage most of the time since I can remember.
Actually the response is for anybody...not just him.
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
The stories don't add up.
1. Witnesses saw cops shooting and not the victim. Cops claim different.
2. Witnesses say he didn't pay the fare and jumped it was the reason the cops came after him. Cops claim different
3. How did he have enough money to be in Seattle but not enough for a catch the fare?
4. They claimed another person picked up the gun and ran but why wasn't the person identified and arrested for aiding a crime?
5. The last article said he was recently released from jail but how recently?
6. The cops claim they have his record but only one mentioned anything of a record...a sex charge...
Sounds like the cops created fabrications behind a murder, even if he was a person who was already in jail.
well you can continue your speculation, i think the facts and sources are pretty clear
LOL @ #3, you must not be from the hood afterall
San Fran is a hood?
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
that station is in the hood, but i was just referring to any hood, people travel hood to hood all the time, broke ass fuk
Right so what did he travel in to get to seattle broke as fukk?