I will say that I do not think that the police followed all the rules, and it was overkill, and I am sad and mad the police and all the others that are making this ordeal into a springboard to say that something happened because I am this, or I am that. Let me tell you if you want to define yourself has being a __________, well guess what there are white ones to.
Michael Fitzgerald is the only on at the Record who is willing to take issues head on. IF he was not there we would also get these weak convoluted articles written by some of the reporters. Why is everyone so afraid to be a reporter, and take on the issues that are uncomfortable controversial, instead also accepting the status quo.
This article is right to the point: Here is what we do know-the young man was in trouble not for little things like taking candy from a store; but things that you would expect from a much older person, and not a teenager. He used violence in his methods, if you have ever been a party or witnessed a shooting, and then had one pointed at you --you would understand the terror that it causes.
The police did try less than lethal tactics, if you listen to the recording of the incident you can hear the officers setting up spike strips, or preparing to deploy, using legal intervention, and they gave him a lot of room to flee.
I can say is that the officers there upon that shooting seen were yelling on the radio that shots had been fired, and they needed medical right away. They also were thinking about how best to rescue the boy from the entrapment of the building and the car.
What I cannot say is why the Officers fired upon this boy, I am sad that it had to happen, but if he was left to flee he posed a great threat to society--and in cases like this police are allowed to use deadly force under the Garner Rule set by the Supreme court.
Here is where we should take this winding stair way of blame, we should turn it around and put it right back in the parents face or whomever took car of the boy. Society can not raise your children for you, your supposed to teach your children right from wrong, good from bad, and how to always give to people what you expect to get back.
The police did know a few things, and the things they did know were significant--the car was taken from a person under the barrel of a shotgun-not a very good spot to be.
No matter what we are humans and more so, we have share some common link, not matter what race, or characteristics. This was not a shooting that was motivated by anything other then Rivera's actions, he posed a threat, and if it had been me or you in that car we would have been shot to.
Several African Americans hold ranks in the Police department that are above patrol officers, you look at the police department as a whole it is pretty close to being affirmatively correct. The one thing that this should not be about is some false notion that he was shot because he was black or any other reason.
One more time he was shot because he chose to terrorize people, made a reputation for himself, escaping Juvenile hall, gaining access to a firearm and so on. The one statement that I have heard where I really must say I respect is to the Uncle for saying that his nephew was not the best kid, and had some bumps scraps.
I do not care if it was passive acknowledgment that someone in Rivera's family was willing to say he understood, even for a second. I am not for the mentality of once an officer shots they all start to shot, and I think that this is what may have happened, one officer fired his weapon and the other Officers were taken back and thought they were being fired upon, and fired shots as well.
Look at all the Shootings where a person has been shot many times, there are always several officers on the scene. Rather this is not relevant to what I have to say last--Your Son, Friend, Nephew, or Cousin woke up that day, and everything he did to that point was what caused the tragedy to occur, no one was driving a car jacked vehicle, and no one but him decided to flee-what would have happened just Micheal pointed out he careened into some school children, or hit another car--at that speed it would have been devastating.
Ownership begins within, but it must be taught, and each of of process this ability to own our actions--to everyone who does not know what really happened take a step back, think about what your upset about, when it is not hate that should be driving you , but sadness at another young live wasted for no good reason. Please visit this site www.scanstockton.com and you will be able to hear the police radio traffic of the whole event.
Also visit this sitehttp://sjcscanner.com/2010/07/when-can-a-police-officer-use-deadly-force/ read the article about the use of deadly force.
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