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Showing Original Post only (View all)Black Man gets in a serious car accident---seeks help--- get's shot and killed by a Police officer. [View all]
Un-fucking-believable. Cop has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.A North Carolina police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after he shot and killed an unarmed man who may have been looking for help early Saturday morning, officials said.
Local media identified the victim as a former football player for Florida A&M University.
Jonathan Ferrell, 24, appeared to have survived a "serious" car accident sometime after midnight when he knocked on a Charlotte woman's door about a half-mile away, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney Monroe told reporters at a televised news conference Saturday.
To her surprise, it was an individual she did not know or recognize," Monroe said. "She immediately closed the door, hit her panic alarm, called 911."
He added, "It was quite possible he was seeking assistance based on his accident."
Three officers responded to the call and spotted Ferrell. In the initial account police gave local reporters, Ferrell acted aggressively, and one officer tried to use a Taser on him.
He immediately charged toward the three officers, one in particular," Monroe said at the afternoon news conference. "That officer in particular fired his weapon several times, striking the individual multiple times.
"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/la-na-nn-charlotte-shooting-20130914,0,4692259.story
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Black Man gets in a serious car accident---seeks help--- get's shot and killed by a Police officer. [View all]
trumad
Sep 2013
OP
The behaviour of the cops and their supporters in this country has become increasingly
gopiscrap
Sep 2013
#126
He was a star football player at college too..just got engaged and just moved to the area..
HipChick
Sep 2013
#16
"The guy was banging on her door furiously in the middle of the night." No shit??!! Could that maybe
Ghost in the Machine
Sep 2013
#39
It was reasonable to call 911 - They were needed no matter the reason for him pounding
gollygee
Sep 2013
#84
I posted about this earlier..lynching never went away,it got morphed into murder by police
HipChick
Sep 2013
#10
If you remove the quotation mark right before the URL then the link in the OP will work
Tx4obama
Sep 2013
#24
This is f*cked up. The Mercenary Class is out for themselves, and out of control. ~nt
99th_Monkey
Sep 2013
#32
I called 911 on a white guy who was pounding on my door in the middle of the night
gollygee
Sep 2013
#59
If a bloody stranger of *any* race woke me up at 2:30 AM pounding on my door,
Nye Bevan
Sep 2013
#52
It's not uncommon to pretend to be in an accident in order to invade someone's home.
Dash87
Sep 2013
#83
How many times did you have someone knocking on your door in the middle of the night?
LisaL
Sep 2013
#87
Zimmerman supporters like to say why didn't Trayvon run to neighbors or call police.
Hoyt
Sep 2013
#80
It was bad enough on DU, but on sites where anyone could post, the Z supporters posted awful things.
Hoyt
Sep 2013
#119
This thread is depressing. We are apparently a nation too scared to have any humanity.
Comrade Grumpy
Sep 2013
#106
How sad and so senseless, they're suppose to be trained for crying out loud.
Jefferson23
Sep 2013
#115