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Video shows California police fatally shooting teenager who was reported kidnapped (www.theguardian.com)
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Revealed: Savannah Graziano, 15, shot by sheriff’s deputies in 2022 while unarmed and following instructions to move toward them

Archived version: https://archive.ph/EWcb9

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[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I've been on an anti-police posting thing for more than a few years now. I've had some shitty interactions with police in my life that has driven my empathy and compassion for them down down down lower than a badger's ball-sack.

It is exhausting. I am tired. My anger has been subsumed by a sadness that anger can no longer carbonize, and none of social media has made anything better.

I and others have gotten more brash towards LEO online and irl, and LEO has escalated in lethality.

I am out of ideas. I am out of yelling and screaming and giving the finger to the police.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The BLM uprisings didn't go nearly far enough.

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I agree. But I am without a group of support. And the never-ending inquisitions that the police labeled "investigations" protecting their need to murder, assault, and abuse has driven me to despair.

Even their training admits that "a kill" creates their strongest and best sex of their lives.

And look at how police respond to being asked not to kill so much: like we are trying to steal their erections.

There is no solution except burn it all down. And I cannot and will not do that.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I remember this was really fishy in how the police reported it at the time, and it seemed pretty clear that this was likely. I hoped it could be proven eventually.

I have my doubts that we'll see repercussions for the cops who pulled the trigger, but this is an encouraging development.

The article does include this at the end:

The California department of justice is investigating the case under a law requiring inquiries into police killings of unarmed people.

So maybe there will be justice?

Edit - video and audio from 2022 https://abc7.com/hesperia-shootout-savanna-graziano-unarmed/12281788/

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So maybe there will be justice?

I wouldn't count on that. They're going to justify it as confusion during a shootout.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

I would hope it's very much a steep hill to climb when you want to justify killing the subject of an Amber Alert due to confusion during the shootout.

I get your point, and I know that's the standard MO, but not killing the person you were sent to rescue seems like a priority that even police should be able to understand. Hell it was a popular 80s video game.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 16 points 6 months ago

2 years to finally own up to obvious incompetence.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago

The "oh no" from the chopper says it all.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago

Don't forget to stop at Krispy Kreme on the way home fellas. Free coffee for the boys in blue..

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

why the fuck does america still have sheriff departments in the first place?

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

as always, pigs become pigs because they want to kill with impunity. if they wanted to help people they'd have become EMTs or something

[–] ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

That's clear cut murder. For my own sanity I will assume the cops who shot her are in jail.