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Charlotte. CMPD Officer Brentley Vinson was the man who killed Keith Lamont Scott in 2016. He was not charged and continued working as a CMPD Officer despite the clear risk he posed to the safety of the public.
In 2020, we find out Harold Easter was detained and brutalized during a traffic stop and died in custody shackled to the floor while he suffered heart attack after heart attack.
Guess who was one of the five officers involved.
Are you angry yet? - Nada
Guess who was one of the five officers involved.
Are you angry yet? - Nada
A very dangerous pattern exist in law-enforcement, and qualified immunity allows for cops to get away with murder... if you kill someone your actions and the facts should prove self-defense in trial not your job.
In a regular job setting you are only allowed to make so many “mistakes”. What we’re seeing today is setting precedent for years to come. If police officers are held to a higher standard in society, it is time they are held to a higher standard in the court of law.
Power does different things to different people. Many people do whatever they can get away with, police officers under the right circumstances can get away with almost anything. When we see someone brutalized by police, we immediately assume that they did something wrong... why?
What have we allowed in our society to where unarmed men, women and children are killed by the same members of society that are supposed to “protect” them? Continuously programmed to receive these acts of violence as normal and necessary to preserve law & order.
Self defense is the only thing that allows for a “gray area” of justice, in any other aspect if you kill someone it is at the very least manslaughter. I’m not debating the specific legal ramifications, but that police officers can literally get away with murder.
And get away with murder more than once... public opinion mostly from folks who will never have negative interactions with the police regardless of their own actions, stand idly by while citizens are brutalized by cops who become judge and jury.
