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Title: Police gun down man in cold blood for not having busfare.
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URL Source: http://trentslist.org/trents-blog/6 ... d-blood-for-not-having-busfare
Published: Jul 19, 2011
Author: Trent
Post Date: 2011-07-20 01:21:04 by wudidiz
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. People, please make this video viral. This bullshit has to stop. Demand Justice!!! Poster Comment: http://www.ktvu.com/news/28573517/detail.html SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police shot a man in San Francisco's Bayview District early Saturday evening. The man died later that evening from his injuries. The incident occurred around 4:45 p.m. on Third Street and Oakdale Avenue when a 19-year-old man, who was believed to have been carrying a gun, was shot and collapsed on the sidewalk, police said. A police spokesman said the shooting began after two uniformed officers conducted a fare inspection on a Muni light rail vehicle. They detained the man on the platform, but he fled on foot. During the foot pursuit, police said the suspect fired at the officers, and the officers fired back. Witnesses had a different story and said police overreacted. As the man was running he had his hands up in the air, and then hit the ground when he was shot, one witness said. Police maintained that the man had a weapon and they searched the area for the firearm. One bullet casing lay on the street, and police said it came from a gun that did not belong to the police officers. Police said witnesses could have taken the victim’s weapon when the man collapsed, or the suspect could have thrown the gun somewhere during the pursuit. The suspect was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and he later died from those injuries at 7 p.m. The officers were not injured. Within hours of the shooting, an anonymous video popped up on YouTube that showed not only the chaos of the shooting scene, but what the person who posted the video claimed was a silver handgun lying 20-feet from the mortally wounded teenager. In the video, a large crowd that gathered near the scene, along with several police officers who roped off the area. A close look at the lower right corner of the video revealed a shiny object. In the video, a person in a hooded sweatshirt picked it up. Later in the video a person wearing a gray hoodie picked up something that appeared to be a cell phone. Police still haven't found the gun the suspect was said to be firing. The two police officers involved in the shooting were placed on paid administrative leave following the incident. The shooting is being investigated by the homicide detail, the internal affairs officer-involved shooting, the District Attorney's Office and the Office of Citizen Complaints.
"Whatever the truth may be in regards to after-the-fact claims that Kenneth Harding was a murder suspect, it has no relevance to the on-the-spot decision by police to fire (multiple times) on a bus fare scofflaw. Murderers are entitled to a trial, not execution in the streets. This extreme excessive force completely undermines community relations with police, is racially divisive"
Kenneth Harding is still alive in this picture... the officers standing around him did nothing to help him with his injuries.
News Article: http://www.ktvu.com/news/28573517/detail.html
This video was captured at another angle.
July 16, 2011 in San Francisco, CA.
San Francisco Police (SFPD) shoot and killed a man after chasing him for not having bus fare.
The man who was killed by the police, was shot in the neck after being chased for not having his bus fare! The man was shot SIX times by the police.
San Francisco Chief of Police Greg Suhr - (415) 553-1551
San Francisco Police Community Relations Unit - (415) 734-3280
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#26. To: wudidiz (#0)
Portent of things to come. In a short time, this won't be much to get bent out of shape over, relatively speaking. You can multiply what you see here by several orders of magnitude. Arm up. Make your plans. Be ready to move.
The wife tells me that it is against police policy to allow protests against police brutality and that it gives them permission to exercise more of the same. She was being kinda sardonic in her answer.
#28. To: titorite (#27)
There's an etymological redundancy if I've ever seen one. "Police" and "policy" come from the same word. Police policy is whatever the police say it is & they can make it up as they go along, don'tcha know. ;]
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#27. To: randge (#26)
Replies to Comment # 27. it is against police policy
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