Friday, January 16, 2015

I hereby charge Timothy Loehmann and the Cleveland PD with the murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice

Rss@dailykos.com (shaun King)
Thursday, January 08, 2015, 7:04 pm
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When unarmed black men like Kendrec McDade and Amadou Diallo and Akai Gurley were killed by police, we were told to "wait for the facts to come out." Since then, we've learned that waiting for the facts is code for us to shut up and ignore the facts that actually are already available while the so-called American justice system prepares to railroad senseless victims and their heartbroken families so that reckless police can be exonerated.
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While we waited for the facts in the murder of college student Kendrec McDade at the hands of Pasadena police officers Jeffrey Newlen and Mathew Griffin, they somehow successfully convinced the district attorney that they both saw and heard Kendrec shoot at them, multiple times, even describing the flash from the muzzle of his gun, in spite of it being determined that Kendrec not only was unarmed that night, but had never touched a gun a day in his life.
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While we waited for the facts in the murder of Amadou Diallo, officers somehow convinced a jury of their peers that Amadou Diallo's wallet struck so much fear into them that they, out of necessity, fired 41 shots at him on the doorstep of his home.
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While we wait for the facts to come out in the shooting death of Akai Gurley, the officer who shot him, Peter Liang, now claims that the bullet "flew out" of his gun as if it had a mind of its own and that Liang and his partner, instead of aiding the man they shot, opted to text their union reps and ignore the calls of the ambulance searching for Akai's location for nearly seven crucial minutes.
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In the shooting death of 12-year-old  Cleveland boy Tamir Rice, we can not, should not, must not fall for this line of "waiting for the facts" to come out. The facts are out.
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Tamir was shot, recklessly.
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Fighting for his life, he was ignored, heartlessly.
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Immediately after the shooting, the police lied, repeatedly.
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And we now learn that warning signs and official statements that officer Timothy Loehmann was completely unfit for duty were swept under the rug, consistently.
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