Houston grand jury clears cop in shooting of unarmed black man.. Smh...
Options
stringer bell
Members Posts: 26,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/23/houston-grand-jury-clears-police-officer-jordan-baker/20818025/
Houston panel clears cop in shooting unarmed man
A grand jury in Houston on Tuesday cleared a Houston Police Department officer in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American man.
The Harris County, Texas, grand jury had been meeting for months to consider whether to indict veteran police officer Juventino Castro for the January shooting death of Jordan Baker.
The decision comes after months of protests over police officers in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y. being cleared for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, both unarmed black men.
The family of Baker, 26, was anxiously awaiting the decision on Tuesday along with a handful of protesters. Baker was wearing a black hoodie at the time of the shooting, and his family has argued that he was profiled by Castro.
When the shooting occurred, Baker was at a northwest Houston strip mall that police said had been the site of a string of robberies. The Houston Police Department said Baker was looking in windows when Castro, who had been on the force for 10 years, approached him.
Baker struggled, ran away and then allegedly put his hands in his waistband and charged toward Castro. That's when Castro shot and killed him.
Baker was later determined to be unarmed.
Castro was working an extra job as a security officer for the mall at the time and was in his HPD uniform.
"Justice for Jordan that's all my mind and heart can focus on right now," Janet Baker, the victim's mother, said at a rally on Sunday night.
On Monday in Milwaukee, protesters also took to the streets after the district attorney there announced he would not bring charges against an ex-police officer who shot Dontre Hamilton 14 times after getting into tussle with him in a downtown park.
Hamilton, 31, had a history of mental illness. The officer in that incident, Christopher Manney, was fired by Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn for failing to follow department guidelines for dealing with mentally ill people.
Comments
-
"Baker struggled, ran away and then allegedly put his hands in his waistband and charged toward Castro. That's when Castro shot and killed him."
Same story, different day, same result!
-
-
Texas is racist. Nothing to see here.
-
Can't even keep up w/ all these unarmed killings........
-
Damn I'm in the H too smh
-
Same ? ? . And I'm supposed to feel sympathic to some cops.
-
The fact they're getting cleared by a grand jury is saying even more about the white civilian views of us which we already knew but them backing the cops behind this ? unanimously makes this fight that much tougher.. Takes It to back in the day when whites got off every time for this ? and we were getting killed just for looking at them..
-
Bartholomew_Jenkins wrote: »Texas is racist. Nothing to see here.
? like this happening all over this country....where ever white folks reside at its racist.... Can't just single out states any more.
