Posted on 04/01/2011 8:15:33 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Today, a memorial was created at the Jasco Food Mart at Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Woodrow Wilson Avenue where the officer shot and killed 47-year-old Connell Lindsey Thursday night. He reportedly had a knife and was threatening the manager.
Councilman Kenneth Stokes, who represents the area, says he has received several complaints about employees at this store in the past saying they've threaten customers.
"This location has been accused of everything from cheating patrons and having a bat. Also, they have a button and lock you in there and beat you with a baseball bat,” comments Stokes.
But, not everyone involved believes the police officer acted in self defense or to protect others.
"He didn't have no weapon or nothing in his hand," claims Charles Green, Lindsey’s brother-in-law.
"He had a knife in his hand and said I kill you," argues the store employee.
Surgit Singh says Lindsey was intoxicated when he arrived at the convenience store. Green says he saw the shooting. He claims Lindsey was sober when the store manager accused him of slashing his car tires.
"He (Lindsey) started walking and he got about five to six feet away with his back to them. This man came out of the store and started cursing," recalls Green.
Singh says when police arrived, officers ordered the manager back into the store. Police say the officer told Lindsey twice to drop the knife. And, when he didn't, the officer shot him. But, Green says things happened differently.
"I heard four shots, they say it was two. How is that justified? That's senseless force, it is un-necessary killing," exclaims Green.
Stokes says he disappointed that the JPD officer used deadly force.
"We paid thousands of dollars for tasers. Why not use a taser?
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Sounds like god riddance to bad garbage to me.
That doesn't narrow it down much.
It could be any city or town in the USA on any night of the week.
Nevertheless, the black criminal gets a memorial and will soon be considered a saint. The police are demmonized and will peobably become involved in a legal action for wrongful death.
Black people nationwide will continue to complain that police seem to be sluggish when answering calls about violence in black neighborhoods.
I was going to post exactly what you did. There is an MLK blvd in a local city here and it is a toilet too.
Right! My fiancé works at that gas station (we met shortly after this happened) and they are actually some really cool people. I am black too and he his punjabi. Black people are so quick to throw up everybody else is racist but when im in the store with my fiancé the customers always come in being rude and cursing them out, throwing around racist slurs, and calling them bitches.. Some of them hardly speak english. I just love how the are all trying to make them out to be the bad guys
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