Posted on 03/10/2015 10:16:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
*A white, Atlanta-area police officer shot and killed a naked and unarmed African-American man who was said to be acting erratically in his apartment complex and possibly suffering from a mental illness, reports Reuters.
This becomes third African-American man to be shot dead by police since last Friday, who either was or seemed unarmed.
In Monday’s shooting, a Dekalb County police officer responded to a caller who said a man was “acting deranged, knocking on doors, and crawling around on the ground naked,” on Monday around 1 p.m. local time, county police chief Cedric Alexander told reporters.
The officer confronted the man, who was not wearing any clothes, in the parking lot, Alexander said at a conference published online by local broadcaster Fox5.
Alexander said the man ran at the officer, who backed up and ordered the person to stop before shooting him twice. Police did not find a weapon at the scene, he said.
Alexander said he could “reasonably assume” the person was possibly suffering from mental illness, given his behavior. He declined to identify the victim, but the New York Times reported that he was 27-year-old Anthony Hill.
Alexander said the officer, who had been with the department for seven years, was equipped with a taser at the time of the shooting. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation would handle Monday’s incident, he said.
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The shooting comes after a string of killings of unarmed black men by police in the United States. Last year, incidents in Fergsuon, Missouri and New York City prompted nationwide protests.
Dekalb County police has already faced protests after an officer shot dead a black man who had called 911 when his girlfriend was stabbed by an attacker in his apartment late last year, according to local media.
Police near Denver last Friday shot dead an unarmed man who was a wanted fugitive. On the same day, an officer in Madison, Wisconsin, shot dead a 19-year-old, prompting some 2,000 students to march in the state’s capital on Monday.
We should just disband all police departments.
Don’t want to die today? Don’t charge at the police, either naked or in full attire.
Vigilantes would spring up within minutes.
A real dick...
Unarmed?
Guy was carrying wood......
Maybe he was a copsucker...
Attacking a cop to get his gun will usually get you dead.
I’m sure he was scaring the horses.
Been done before.
The Left wants to grab our grabs, destroy the schools, destroy marriage, etc.. while totally neglecting mental illness.
The Left thrives on the chaos mental illness brings about...
Cop: “I was in fear for my b@tthole!”
I don’t care what color a person is, the fact that police keep shooting and killing people, even when they have less lethal weapons to choose from, like tazers on their person, is outrageous.
Maybe; in the end every cop has to protect his weapon (with whatever force is necessary).
“Alexander said the man ran at the officer, who backed up and ordered the person to stop before shooting him twice. Police did not find a weapon at the scene”...
Mike Brown didn’t have a weapon either but his ass is dead for attacking a police officer. There is more to the story than is being told.
I believe that; the cop has to protect his gun, and I doubt he killed the guy for sport.
It burned down once before, if you recall your history.
Yeah!...Because our founding fathers vision for this country was that charging a police officer while naked should carry with it a death sentence.
SMH.
So let's make that a reason to be used...then when they no-knock your house at 3 am and you don't realize its the police...they can kill you because they were protecting their weapons.
LOL!
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