Phoenix Police Kill Man in Parked Car, Igniting New Protests

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/phoenix-arizona-police-shooting-garcia.html

The fatal shooting of a man in a parked car by Phoenix police officers over the weekend, captured on video in gruesome detail, is fueling a new round of protests against violent policing tactics.

The video showed several uniformed officers surrounding a parked car while pointing their guns at the man inside the vehicle. One of the officers shouted at the man, threatening to shoot him.

Then, in front of witnesses who were recording the episode, the officers unleashed a volley of gunfire. The victim was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to a statement by the Phoenix Police Department.

The shooting in the city’s Maryvale neighborhood comes at a time when cities around the United States are grappling with anger over the deaths of African-Americans and Latinos at the hands of the police. Elsewhere in Arizona, the police in Tucson came under scrutiny in June over the killing, also captured on video, of Carlos Ingram Lopez.

[jimfields33]

1. This is absurd

The cops know they are being rightfully scrutinized and still they are doing this? WTF!!!!!

[Nevilledog]

2. Blue Privilege

[jimfields33]

4. You can say that again.

I’m so on the fence of defunding police and this certainly doesn’t help matters. More are going to say defund police not change police. I know democratic supporters want to be careful with defund and I get it. But it just may go mainstream if this crap keeps up.

[Kingofalldems]

12. Nice try but there will be no mainstream effort to defund the police.

[jimfields33]

13. If there are more and more of these there will be!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are being watched and still killing.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Trump and his MAGAts are just dying to have that as an issue.

Won't happen though. Too bad.

[jimfields33]

15. Progressive change is hard. I know.

[JonLP24]

21. It is a local issue anyway

This isn't a Trump issue though.

The movement to defund the police has been supported by activists for decades.[6] In June 2020, the "defund the police" slogan gained widespread popularity during the George Floyd protests.[7] Black Lives Matter, Movement for Black Lives, and other activists have used the phrase to call for police budget reductions and to delegate certain police responsibilities to other organizations.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] While the slogan became popularized in 2020, the movement to reduce police presence in communities has been supported by activists and intellectuals for decades.[6][14] In Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about "abolition-democracy", which advocated for the removal of institutions that were rooted in racist and repressive practices, including prisons, convict leasing, and white police forces. In the 1960s, activists such as Angela Davis advocated for the defunding or abolition of police departments. The End of Policing, written Alex S. Vitale, was published in 2017, and it has been called "... a manual of sorts for the defund movement."[15][16][17][18][

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police

What may work for one local city may not work for another.

[2naSalit]

11. They have declared war on We the People...

They won't stop until we make them. They are daring us to make them stop.

[malaise]

3. WTF?

This is clearly deliberate

[in2herbs]

5. The Maryvale area in Phx is known for its gang-related activities which often devolve into violence.

[Nevilledog]

7. Guess we'll see who's telling the truth with the bodycams.

Don't be surprised when they all mysteriously malfunctioned.

[Voltaire2]

9. And the splain.

Must have been a bad guy so fire away.

WTF.

[BComplex]

6. I know people are in shock when this happens, but they might want to think

to aim their cameras. It doesn't help that the video is rolling if you're looking at the pavement.

I'm so friggin' sick of this. The cops need to be fired. Did you hear all those bullets flying? You'd think they were in a damned war zone instead of a neighborhood.

[in2herbs]

8. It is often referred to as a war zone even though in a neighborhood setting. The hospital in the

area uses a lot of security in and around the hospital.

Don't misread my posts -- I am pro defunding the police and I, too, am sick of police abuse.

[Voltaire2]

10. Then why do you keep offering a justification?

[jayfish]

19. Looks Like Things Are Getting Back To Normal.

Buffalo officers back on the payroll and black men getting shot while in/on their own property. What a squandered opportunity.

[in2herbs]

20. Stating the reality of what the neighborhood is like is not asserting justification for

police actions.

[Alex4Martinez]

16. THIS NEEDS MORE ATTENTION.

...

Link to tweet

[WestCoastYellowDog]

17. The "victim" was pointing a gun at the officers and was wanted for aggravated assault

The Democratic Party cannot become the party that wants dead cops.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ktar.com/story/3369059/phoenix-police-release-body-camera-footage-in-officer-involved-shooting/amp/

[Nevilledog]

18. That little video doesn't show what you think it does.

That's the police dept trying to get out in front of the story.

Let's wait until the bodycams of the officers actually involved in the shooting.

Should be plenty of that, seeing as they talked to him for for a bit before shooting.

And no where, no where, is there confirming that this was the guy the police were looking for. The original story says he wasn't even the suspect.

[JonLP24]

22. I don't want bad cops or bad police departments

I don't want anyone to die which is why there is protests when someone dies in police custody. Please don't misunderstand what BLM is asking for.