On Saturday July 16th,2011
"When police stopped a teenager stepping off the T-train yesterday to show his transfer as proof he’d paid his fare – $2 at most – he ran from them. They shot him as many as 10 times in the back and neck, according to witnesses. For many long minutes, as a crowd watched in horror, the boy, who had fallen to the sidewalk a block away, lay in a quickly growing pool of blood writhing in pain and trying to lift himself up as the cops trained their guns on him and threatened bystanders.
Having killed the boy at 4:44 p.m., according to the San Francisco Chronicle, in broad daylight at the main intersection – Third Street between Palou and Oakdale – in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco’s last largely Black neighborhood, the police seemed eager to terrorize the community. They waited and waited and waited as the teenager stopped moving but continued breathing before eventually setting him on a gurney and taking him to the hospital, where the Chronicle reports he died at 7:01 p.m."
By Willie Ratcliff for the San Francisco Bay View
1 comments:
We have one side of the story above. It's not a pretty picture on how the police work; they could have shot the "boy" (Kenneth-19) only once to disable him IF and only IF he shot at them first. Then, he should have been helped immediately!
Then there's the other side, as it turns out. The "boy" was a convicted pimp who raped a much younger child (13) when he was 17 in the Seattle area. Does not seem to be a nice guy. Was a suspect in the shooting death of a 19 yr-old girl, where someone fired a gun into a crowd ...
Perhaps, he deserved what he got?
On the other hand, did Kenneth harbor anger at the injustice he received growing up? If so, that is understandable to SOME extent, but IF he had a gun and used it to avoid exposing his rap sheet, well, then maybe the end justifies the means, in this case.
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