An unarmed 17-year-old boy was shot three times and killed by police in Pennsylvania while running away from officers.
Antwon Rose was shot by a cop in East Pittsburgh Tuesday night as he tried to get away from a traffic stop during which the driver was arrested.
“They're not even saying stop,” Rose's aunt Mica Tinsley told the Post-Gazette after watching a video of the shooting. “They just started shooting, and he fell. He didn't make it far.”
Police pulled the car over because it matched the description of one that had fled the scene of an earlier shooting where a 22-year-old man was wounded, the Allegheny County Police Department said in a statement.
“They're not even saying stop,” Rose's aunt Mica Tinsley told the Post-Gazette after watching a video of the shooting. “They just started shooting, and he fell. He didn't make it far.”
Police pulled the car over because it matched the description of one that had fled the scene of an earlier shooting where a 22-year-old man was wounded, the Allegheny County Police Department said in a statement.
CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN and DAVID BOROFF
My take:
They're cutting them down left and right. The cops don't need a reason just an opportunity. They thought the kid was this, they thought the kid was that but you don't shoot to kill someone unless you KNOW it's the person you're willing to take a life from. When the people with the gun value a person's existence less they're more willing to take their life and and this racism shows day after day, week after week and again in Pittsburgh. This loose cannon Judge, Jury and Executioner on the street has got to stop.
Acquittal after acquittal after acquittal the police learn nothing and they won't until they know for certain there is a very serious consequence to their willingness to take a life when they only thought.
How long does this have to go on until it stops?
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