J_L_Thornton Oct 24, 2019

5'4" and 109lbs, frightened and desperately running away, and the officer felt "threatened" enough to murder a child in broad daylight because he simply suspected him to be part of a gang.

Is this what America is now? Are we ok with police officers skipping trials and deciding who is guilty and deserves death? It would appear that it clearly IS what America is now as the department deemed the officer innocent of any wrong doing.

Why would the child be afraid of the police, you ask?

Watch the video and see for yourself. One officer just shoots a child in the back of the skull, and the next officer kicks his ragdoll limp body over and handcuffs him. They provided no aid, simply murdered a kid because they themselves had decided, WITHOUT A COURT OF LAW, that he was guilty and deserves death, and murdered a terrified kid that barely weighed a hundred pounds in broad daylight because THEY were supposedly frightened of HIM, and then LET HIM DIE instead of trying to assist at all.

And then the department deemed the officer did nothing wrong.

WHY OH WHY would any child be completely terrified of grown men that have that kind of deadly power and wield it with such disdain for life? Against a CHILD. How anyone could feel safe in Fresno now is beyond me.

It used to be that I didn't understand why people were afraid of police as all of my own experiences have been generally pleasant. But now I've seen way, way too much to ever see them the same way again. Oh, I'm sure they'll be nice to middle aged white lady me. But I'll never wonder why anyone else might freak out and run, or why entire communities may turn against officers and fear the people that are SUPPOSED to be protecting them.

This officer decided with no court, no judge, no jury of peers, no legal process at all, he decided this child was guilty of a murder and therefore created this high risk stop. He created this situation, and murdered this child. And after that, his peers deemed him innocent.

No. This needs a REAL day in court with citizens as a jury. They can watch that kid run away and get kicked over, seemingly lifeless, and STILL BE HANDCUFFED.

You know what broke my heart the most? I saw the video first. I assumed the child was dead instantly from how limp he was when the second officer kicked him over and handcuffed him.

To read and find out the child WAS STILL ALIVE and that some aid might have been rendered is completely horrifying and repugnant. He was shot and just flopped around like a piece of garbage by the men he was terrified of, clearly unable to move at all, that broke my heart and made me want to vomit.

And that's what a jury needs to see, so ACTUAL justice can take place and the power mad lunatic that murdered him can be taken off of the street and stripped of the power that he is clearly unfit to weild, and do his time for the murder he committed.