New Jersey Officer Is Quick On The Trigger



When a NJ officer spotted a gun in a vehicle he had pulled over, a chain of event began that ended in an unarmed man dead. The officer ordered the driver out of the car, making Jerame think that he should get out of the car. Jerame Reid proceeded to get out the vehicle, had his hands on his chest, when he was shot without warning. He made no threats or aggressive movements, and he was unarmed. However, police statements supposedly say that the officer never ordered Jerame out of the car. Witness testimony from the scene offers a different perspective:

Witnesses said…Reid, described as the passenger…was shot after he was ordered to get out of the car. Denzel Mosley, 17, said he watched the scene unfold from the attic of his house, which is on the corner of the street in front of where the shooting happened. He said both of Reid’s hands were in “plain sight” and he didn’t see a gun. “They were telling him, ‘Get out the car,’” he said. “They (police) was like ‘Stop!’ and they started shooting.”

Middle School Officer Doesn’t Like When Her Authority Is Challenged, Assaults Girl

Here we see another police officer escalating a situation, simply for failure to comply. How many people are going to get shot or beat by an officer before we stop making it a crime to not comply with an officer? In the video, the officer asks the girl to come down the stairs, presumably to go to class. The girl walks down and past the officer, and starts to walk away. The officer grabs the girl’s arm and throws her into a door and start’s to wrestle her. This gets the girls two cousins to come to her rescue, resulting in them being pepper sprayed. Here’s the key to this story, the girl was walking away as she was assaulted by the officer. What makes officers think it’s okay to put hands on people when they haven’t done anything wrong? Between two humans, that’s called assault, whether you’re an officer it’s not. An officers state-granted authority doesn’t mean we are required to respect them. This is where the disconnect starts between officers and regular citizens. We have to earn respect where we work, they however expect it everywhere. Remember, power corrupts.

Colorado Officer Fired For Using Police Equipment To Stalk A Woman

An officer for Fort Collins PD in Colorado, was fired for allegedly using agency resources to stalk a woman. He didn’t do much to hide it, visiting the woman at her home and work while on duty. While this officer does face charges, as much as three years, it brings about an important question: Do officers have too much access to our information? Let’s say you accidentally cut off someone in traffic on the way to work, and that person ends up being a police officer. All he has to do is write down your license plate number, and then he can go to work and have access to where you live, if you’ve ever been arrested etc. All it would take is some careful planning for him to set up a sting on you, if he was so inclined. There should be more policies in place for access to personal information, that much is a fact.

Conclusion

In all but one of the events featured here, the officers were “justified” in their actions because of the catch-all “failure to comply”. Which is a horrible law, because it presumes that all officers’ commands should be followed at all times. The way I see it, an officer could come up to any one, give any command, and then proceed to legally arrest him. If that’s possible then we live in a police state.