Police shooting victim's alcohol-level was legal

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Police shooting victim's alcohol-level was legal
MITCH WEISS, Associated Press | November 1, 2013 | Updated: November 1, 2013 9:09pm

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A toxicology report released Friday shows the blood-alcohol level for an unarmed man fatally shot by a Charlotte police officer was below the legal limit.

The attorney for the family of Jonathan Ferrell says the report confirms that the 24-year-old former Florida A&M football player wasn't drunk the night of the September shooting. The report also shows there were no illegal drugs in his system.

Chris Chestnut said Ferrell was just trying to get help after he was injured in a car accident.

"This confirms everything we've been saying since the day that Jonathan was killed: That this was an All-American guy who gave a friend a ride home and was just trying to get home himself when he had a car accident. And when he was runs to the officer for help, the officer shoots him 10 times," Chestnut told The Associated Press.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Officer Randall Kerrick is charged with voluntary manslaughter in the racially charged case in North Carolina's largest city. Kerrick, 27, is white; Ferrell is black.


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[ReRe]

1. K&R

Kicking for exposure. This makes me sick. Anyone who says this isn't a police-state is living in a dream world. Totally fucking senseless.

[jtuck004]

2. "Ferrell is black." That should have been written "was black". Now he's just dead.

And it sure sounds like voluntary manslaughter is the lightest charge they could find. This seems to fit within the description of second degree murder.

[SkyDaddy7]

3. The cop will get off...

We have seen this movie many times before!!

[SkyDaddy7]

4. Not only will he get off he will...

Sue to get his job back & win that too. DISGUSTING!!!

[heaven05]

6. and probably get

'worker's compensation' for the emotional injury he suffered shooting this guy TEN times. Fucking pigshit coward disguised as a 'peace officer'.

[cosmicone]

8. and quietly get a promotion in a couple of years n/t

[SwankyXomb]

7. Just another case of bluewashing for killer cops. n/t

[glowing]

5. If Ferrell hadn't been who he was, wonder how this story

would have unfolded in the city? Might have been a tiny blurb about it in the paper... And the autopsy could have been fudged to protect the officer. They can't do that with this man. This time the cops stepped into it. And so soon on the heals of Trayvon Martin... It will become a case the media could become obsessed about and could stir up a hornets nest of hate and sides being drawn.

The way to approach this would be to let justice hopefully prevail for once. And for the community to insist upon re-training for its police officers to be citizen's protection, regardless of color or any "differences".

There's a darkness that has overtaken NC. It oringinates from past, fear, hate, and current economic well being. The people elected theirselves a suicide pact when they let teabagger's into office. Just look at the crazy stuff they have done to since gaining office. The lies and the money dropped into the election races has exacerbated the issues. And instead of seeing crazy for what it is, they have doubled down on it... Hope they can all wake up before it's too late.

[cosmicone]

9. It is not just NC

The Patriot Act gave the cops unlimited powers and a kind of "us against them" mindset where the underlying text is that "white America is under attack" and everyone of color is up to no good.

We see this in Tealiban propaganda, birther propaganda etc. with the subtext being "Obama is not one of us" - as in white. This is the real agenda promoted by groups like ALEC with the "stand your ground" laws.

I think the worst is not over yet.

[stillcool]

10. it makes me wonder..

how many have been swept under the rug. So sad, and so wrong. Really makes me feel helpless.

[passiveporcupine]

11. Is it the ramping up of fear

caused by our "war on drugs" that makes everyone so fearful that even cops now shoot first and ask questions later?

Maybe if we stopped the unequal "war on drugs", blacks would no longer be the evil boogiemen the way so many view them today.

We really need to work on poverty...poverty leads to gangs and heavier drug use. Poverty is bringing this country to it's knees, while republicans keep shouting about greedy welfare queens.

[gopiscrap]

12. nice try cops, blaming it on alcohol