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Chicago police kill mother of five and 19-year-old university student

Chicago police kill mother of five and 19-year-old university student

Yes, they were Black. Suppose they could have from been another racialized group. The "agitated" young man was armed with a ... baseball bat. The middle-aged woman was killed completely by accident.

The other very sad and outrageous thing is that these stories have become almost routine...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/26/chicago-police-shooting-t...

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Submitted by NDPP on December 27, 2015 - 11:59am.

"Violence is as American as cherry pie."

H Rap Brown

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Submitted by lagatta on January 30, 2016 - 5:38am.

Here is an update from Chicago that the Onion couldn't even have made up. A Chicago cop is suing the family of a black teenager he killed. Yep, it seems to be the same incident:

City officials apologised for the death of Bettie Davis, 55, but have said Quintonio LeGrier's shooting was justified.

Remember, the agitated young man was armed with a basebal bat. Yes, you can kill someone with a baseball bat, but police are supposed to know how to deal with this kind of situation involving people in mental distress.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Chicago-cop-to-sue-family-of-black-t...

That was a summary of a longer story in French, from Agence France Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/201601/29/01-4945230-un-...

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Submitted by Pondering on January 30, 2016 - 10:37pm.

I hope that Sammy Yatim didn't die in vain and that tragedy leads to cops understanding that their guns do not give them licence to kill.

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Submitted by monty1 on January 31, 2016 - 12:28am.

Pondering wrote:

I hope that Sammy Yatim didn't die in vain and that tragedy leads to cops understanding that their guns do not give them licence to kill.

I better or we will be as bad as the land of the gun in a few years. The momentum to get in bed with the US that was created by Harper can't be stopped quickly with our change in government.

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