A Texas Pig Fatally Shoots A Black 15yo Jordan Edwards.. Update:Killer Pig gets charged w/ murder...
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The second officer tried to stop a black Chevrolet Impala at the intersection. The car slowly reversed and the second officer pulled his gun and walked toward the passenger side of the car.
As the car started to drive forward, the officer used his gun to break the rear passenger window.
That's when Oliver got behind the officer and fired several rounds into the car as it drove past him.
All they know how to do is Escalate... the first pig used his gun to break the window, so that encouraged the murderer to shoot even more.. they fed off each other
If any one remembers the Oscar Grant murder... 1 pig unnecessarily punched Oscars boy in the gut which prompted the murderer to unnecessarily shoot Oscar.. they fed off each other -
Twitter lmao
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stringer bell wrote: »
This ? was on a bennnderrrr jesus.
Wonder what route they'll take with him in the media: the cop that made a mistake and is sympathetic ("look how scared and sad he is in his mugshot ? this guy can't be a murderer!!") or will they cast him aside cuz his personal life doesn't fit the bill of worth trying to protect... -
atribecalledgabi wrote: »stringer bell wrote: »
This ? was on a bennnderrrr jesus.
Wonder what route they'll take with him in the media: the cop that made a mistake and is sympathetic ("look how scared and sad he is in his mugshot ? this guy can't be a murderer!!") or will they cast him aside cuz his personal life doesn't fit the bill of worth trying to protect...
they'll use the "he's an army vet who fought for our liberties...blah blah blah... PTSD....further blah. He was in fear for his life"
It was already posted on here
then deflect to the victim "was he invited to the party? what's his grades like? how many times has he been in detention? who are his friends? was weed in his system? Let's check his social media accounts... oh he liked a BLM rally photo" as if any of that has to do with the situation that unfolded -
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5onblackhandside wrote: »R.I.P. Jordan Edwards!
I couldn't imagine being this young man's Father and having to hear the news. I would have to ? the cop and try to plead temporary insanity.
" I can't sugarcoat the answer for you this is how I feel....
If somebody ? my son that mean somebody getting killed "
Kung Fu Kenny
If that ? don't resonate!
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Texas? He's walking like that Texas Ranger ?
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But.. but.. All Lives Matter tho.. Right.. Smh.. Once again.. Only in Amerikkka... -
stringer bell wrote: »
Man, save that gif for when we hear - IF we hear - a guilty verdict.
Until then, ? this system.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/07/jordan-edwards-shooting-family-suing-police-texasJordan Edwards shooting: officer and police department sued in teen's killing
The family of Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in a Dallas suburb last weekend, is suing the officer and his police department.
Edwards was black. The officer charged with his murder is white. The teen’s funeral took place on Saturday, a week after he was shot dead in a car while leaving a chaotic house party in Balch Springs.
Lawyers for the Edwards family say police officer Roy Oliver used a rifle to shoot at the vehicle as it was driving away, in violation of federal guidelines, piercing a passenger window and striking Edwards.
Balch Springs police initially said they responded at about 11pm on 29 April to reports of underage drinking. They heard gunshots, and an officer opened fire as a vehicle supposedly backed towards police “in an aggressive manner”.
On Monday, after viewing body camera footage, police chief Jonathan Haber said the vehicle was in fact moving away.
Oliver was fired on Tuesday. On Thursday, a public vigil in memory of Edwards attracted more than 200 people. Oliver was arrested on Friday on a murder charge, on which he posted a $300,000 bond.
The lawsuit, filed on Friday, says police should have known Oliver had “exhibited a pattern of escalating encounters with the public”, including a prosecutor’s complaint about aggressive behavior detailed in personnel records.
Records obtained by the Associated Press showed that Oliver was briefly suspended in 2013 following a complaint about his conduct while serving as a witness in a ? -driving case.
Personnel records from the Balch Springs police department show Oliver was suspended for 16 hours in December 2013 after the Dallas County district attorney’s office filed the complaint. Oliver also was ordered to take training courses in anger management and courtroom demeanor and testimony.
Oliver joined the Balch Springs department in 2011, having been an officer with the Dalworthington Gardens police department for almost a year. A statement from Dalworthington Gardens officials said he received an award for “meritorious conduct” and there were no documented complaints or disciplinary action in his work either as a public safety officer or dispatcher.
Between his employment as a dispatcher and officer in the Dallas suburb, Oliver was in the US army, rising to sergeant through two tours in Iraq and earning various commendations. He served for two years in the Texas national guard reserves. -
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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2017/05/07/jordan-edwards-family-files-excessive-force-suit-fired-cop-city-balch-springs
Edwards' lawsuit describes what his family says happened the night of the shooting:
The boys arrived at the party about 9 p.m. on April 29. They made their way to the backyard, where they spent the evening. About 11 p.m., someone announced that police were on their way, and the crowd began to disperse, according to the suit. The boys jumped the fence to get to their car on Baron Drive more quickly.
When Vidal tried to drive off, he noticed a congestion of cars and police officers behind him. He tried to maneuver out of his parking spot near Shepherd Lane and heard what sounded like gunshots. The lawsuit alleges that as Vidal pulled forward ahead of the officers, he heard someone shout, "Stop the [expletive] car!"
Before Vidal could react, Oliver began shooting a rifle as the teen tried to drive away, according to his stepfather's complaint. Edwards said one bullet struck Jordan in the head with such force that it caused the teen to land on Vidal's shoulder.
Fearing for his life, Vidal drove to a nearby street and called Edwards to tell him that Jordan had been shot, according to the suit. Vidal said several squad cars surrounded them.
Police ordered Vidal to throw his phone out of the car, step out and face forward, away from officers, the suit reads. He was told to move to his left, but he inadvertently moved to his right.
That's when, according to the suit, Vidal heard an officer say, "This [N-word] doesn't know his [expletive] left from his right." The teen told his family that he was instructed to walk backward.
Officers handcuffed Vidal and issued similar instructions to the other passengers in the car, according to the suit.
On Thursday, a Balch Springs police spokesman said department officials were still reviewing video from that night but that they hadn't heard racial slurs on the footage they had watched. -
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Cops can be caught in a lie and still get away with killing an innocent black kid,man and child
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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/05/13/kids-supposed-look-yall-protection-says-mom-jordan-edwards-teen-killed-cop'Our family will never be the same,' says mom of Jordan Edwards, teen killed by cop
Charmaine Edwards will wake up today and rouse her children. Just like she does every day.
But the son who needed the most prodding won’t be in his bed. He never will be.
Two weeks ago, a now-fired Balch Springs police officer shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards as the car he was in drove away from a party. The cop, Roy Oliver, has been charged with murder.
“It’s hard walking past his room, knowing I can’t go in there and fuss at him to get up,” Charmaine told The Dallas Morning News in an exclusive interview.
“Our family will never be the same; the kids will never be the same.”
Charmaine is Jordan’s stepmother. But he called her “mom.” She met him when he was 2 and began raising him three years later with Jordan’s father, Odell Edwards. The couple both work in the trucking industry.
At 34, Charmaine is a mother finding her way after losing her son, a “social butterfly” who loved football and playing outdoors. But now Jordan, in death, has become part of a social movement.
And as his mom, she’s a reluctant voice for the need for change in the way cops use force, especially with black men and boys.
On Saturday, Charmaine, Odell, and their family joined others whose loved ones were shot and killed by police officers at a rally at the criminal criminal courthouse outside downtown Dallas, the building where Oliver's case will wind its way through the justice system. Most at the rally wore red and parents who'd also lost their children joined the family in laying white flowers on the courthouse steps.
Charmaine and Odell briefly spoke through megaphones to address about 200 people gathered.
"I was Jordan's mother and still am Jordan's mother," she said, clutching a board with pictures of her son. "He was killed by Balch Springs Police Department and his favorite color was red and he loved football and we are all fighting for justice."
"Hello, I'm Odell Edwards, Jordan's Dad. His favorite color was red. We called him J Money and we're fighting for justice."
The two tilted their heads together and briefly smiled after talking about their son. Just as quickly, their somber faces returned.
The rally by community activists was intended to pressure the Dallas County district attorney's office to keep its word to pursue a murder indictment and conviction. They also want authorities to release video footage from body cameras and patrol cars and investigate the actions of other officers the night Jordan was killed.
"What I want for my family is I want to have some normalcy back. Before this happened, we were your regular working people. Go to work every day, come home, family vacations. That was our life," she said told The News.
"The thing that I'm wanting to accomplish, I'm wanting to bring awareness that this is an issue. This has been an ongoing issue."
Charmaine recently spoke with Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber when he visited her house.
“Like I told Chief Haber, ‘Our kids are supposed to look up to y'all for protection, but you are the ones that are killing them,’” she said. “‘That’s not OK. If they can’t trust you, then that is an issue.’”
Her kids, black children, all children “should not grow up fearing the police. I try to teach my kids not all police are bad. But look at everything that’s going on.”
Odell has filed a lawsuit against Oliver and the City of Balch Springs in federal court. Jordan's biological mother, Shaunkeyia Stephens, has asked the court to join the lawsuit.
What happened that night
Oliver and a second officer, Tyler Gross, were responding to a call about underage drinking on April 29. They were inside a house where teens had gathered for a party when the officers heard gunfire. Oliver grabbed his rifle from a patrol car as Jordan, his brothers and two friends got in a car to leave the party.
Oliver, a six-year veteran of the force, shot through a passenger window and killed Jordan.
Originally, after speaking to Oliver, Chief Haber said the officer shot his rifle into the black Chevrolet Impala as it aggressively backed up toward officers. Then Haber watched the body-cam video and, on May 1, Haber announced that the car was actually driving away from officers. Haber fired Oliver, who was charged with murder and is free on $300,000 bond.
Charmaine shared just a few details about the night Jordan died. She said her husband got a call from their son, Vidal Allen, but they didn’t understand what happened before the call ended abruptly.
She drove to the police department and didn’t get much information. “We didn’t really find out that it was him [Jordan] and he was deceased until maybe 4 o’clock that morning,” she said.
Charmaine said she had worried in the past about what would happen if her sons were ever stopped by the police. Like all parents of black children do. But it wasn’t always at the forefront of her mind.
“You see this stuff on the news all the time but you never think it’s going to happen to your kid,” she said.
Now, her list of questions for the police seems endless. From the shooting itself to why her other two sons were detained to the police department’s changing story.
“Why? Why did this have to happen to him? I just don’t understand it,” Charmaine said.
She would ask Oliver: “Why did you feel like they were so much of a threat for you to shoot at them?”
“That’s something I will never understand. For them to be treated like animals after that, that’s something I will never understand.”
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He was a loving kid'
Charmaine's voice changes when she talks about Jordan. She’s talking about her son and not a child who was shot and killed by a police officer.
Jordan at 15 was a bigger version of the little boy she first met at age 2. Charmaine said everyone joked that Jordan was her favorite because they clung to each other when he was little.
“He was a busybody,” she said as a laugh escaped. “He was very playful. He was still kind of playful as he was growing up. He was a loving kid.”
Sometimes, he’d climb in his parents’ bed and ask Charmaine to clip his toenails or scratch his head.
He’d watch the TV show Empire in one room and she’d watch in another. “And then we’d get together and discuss what happened,” she said.
And then there’s the bond Jordan had with his father and his brothers, Kevon Edwards, who turned 17 in the days after Jordan was killed, and Vidal, 16. They were both in the car with Jordan when he was shot.
Odell, 37, would take the three boys to play football or basketball or out to dinner. “Just guys, no girls.”
But no one looked up to Jordan more than his 4-year-old sister, Korrie.
“He would always play with her. All the time,” Charmaine said. “For her birthday, she got a Barbie Dream House and she bugged everybody to put the Barbie Dream House together. Everybody.
“And he was the only one who put the Barbie Dream House together for her.”
Instead of going to bed, Korrie would go to Jordan’s room until she fell asleep. Charmaine would then carry her to bed.
Now, Korrie can’t fall asleep alongside her favorite brother. And Jordan’s brothers and father won’t have a fourth for guy talk or ballgames. And Charmaine won’t have someone who shares her sense of humor to laugh with.
Charmaine said that right after Jordan was killed, their kids were sleeping with her and Odell. The lights in the bedroom had to be on.
Now, the kids are sleeping together with the light and sound of a television in the background.
They couldn't keep what happened from Korrie. She started drawing pictures of Jordan with a hole in his head. But she hasn't drawn any lately.
“You don’t understand how many times I break down,” Charmaine said.
“There’s no easy way to get past it. You just got to pick up the pieces and figure out the new normal.” -
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/balch-springs/2017/05/17/balch-springs-officer-used-taser-handcuffed-man-body-cam-footage-showsBalch Springs officer used Taser on handcuffed man, body-cam footage shows
Almost a year before a Balch Springs police officer shot and killed an unarmed 15-year-old, a sergeant used a Taser on a handcuffed man, recently revealed body-camera footage shows.
Balch Springs officials said the sergeant who used the stun gun April 28, 2016, had been reprimanded but was not charged.
The sergeant, James Young, was investigated by the Texas Rangers but no charges were filed, said Balch Springs Officer Pedro Gonzalez. Another officer who witnessed the incident asked supervisors to review the footage.
The Texas Rangers, investigators with the Department of Public Safety, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The video was mailed to KDFW-TV (Channel 4) and published on Tuesday, but it is not clear how the sender obtained it.
The Balch Springs department said it is worried the incident will create more tension between the public and police, who have faced increased scrutiny since April 29 when Officer Roy Oliver fired his rifle into a vehicle of teenagers, killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards.
Oliver, who is white, was fired days later and has been charged with murder in the black teen's death.
"With recent events, we understand we are under the microscope from the public eye, and that is why we will continue to serve our community as we have done in the past," the department said Tuesday night in a prepared statement.
The department's chief, Jonathan Haber, initially said the car Edwards was in was backing down the street toward officers when Oliver opened fire, the chief changed his account after reviewing body-camera footage.
'Better watch it'
In the 2016 video, three officers, who all appear to be white, are seen responding to reports of a man waving a gun in the neighborhood. Marco Stephenson, a black man, is seen kneeling on the sidewalk with his hands on his head as an officer gets out of a squad car.
One officer kicks away what was later determined to be a BB gun as another handcuffs Stephenson.
"Better watch it, Marco," one says.
Stephenson says something about spitting a toothpick in the grass. One officer cuts off the strap of Stephenson's backpack, as the sergeant unholsters his taser and presses it to Stephenson's stomach.
"Don't pull away," an officer says, as Stephenson lies on the ground and is tased again. "You understand? You understand?"
"Don't pull away. You get it? Do you get it?" an officer says.
"Yes, sir," Stephenson says.
"You going to straighten up? Because I ain't playing with you today," an officer says.
Haber told the station Stephenson, 39, is well-known to authorities. But all of the charges are misdemeanors except for the assault of a public servant conviction after he kicked a Balch Springs police officer in 2008.
He also previously pleaded guilty to resisting arrest, criminal mischief and criminal trespass charges, Dallas County records show. He has a pending misdemeanor case in Mesquite for not identifying himself to police.
No charges
Stephenson never faced charges from that day, according to a Dallas Morning News review of court records.
After internal and external reviews, Young was restricted from contact with the public until he completed classes on conflict resolution, anti-bias and how to respond to mental health calls.
"We understand people are upset and angry from the video that occurred in 2016, and we have made changes and corrections to better serve our community," the department's statement said.
The statement does not elaborate about what those changes were.
Young has been with the department for 10 years this go around, Texas Commission on Law Enforcement records show. He left in 2006 for another department after nearly two years with the department but then returned in 2007.
Young was involved in his own shooting incident when a driver tried to hit him with a car as he worked an off-duty job at a bingo hall. But in that incident, the driver admitted he tried to run over the officer.
In 2013, Young, dressed in his uniform, saw a car leaving a Dollar General and asked the driver to stop. The driver instead drove forward toward Young, records show.
Young, who was working security at a bingo hall, stepped out of the way and fired once through the driver's side window. The man, Wayland Deon Thomas, was found nearby at a Mexican restaurant and was taken to a hospital. Thomas admitted he had gone to the the Dollar General to steal, records show.
Thomas pleaded guilty to trying to run over Young and a judge sentenced him to 5 years in prison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmsuhb90uJw
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Study finds nobody was drinking at the party
There was never a reason for Jordan Edwards to be fatally shot by a police officer ― and a new report reveals that there was never even a reason for authorities to be at the party the teen was attending.
No teens were drinking or doing illicit drugs at a house party in suburban Dallas where Edwards, 15, was killed on April 29, a law enforcement official told the Dallas Morning News this week.
A newly released autopsy report also reveals that Edwards wasn’t under the influence when officer Roy Oliver shot him. The officer was responding to a reports that teens had been drinking at a party.
Oliver, 37, was fired and then charged with murder within a week of the shooting.
Initially, Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber said Oliver opened fire on the vehicle Edwards was sitting in because the driver was reversing aggressively toward him. Haber changed his tune after video evidence showed the car driving away from officers.
Oliver allegedly fired his rifle into the vehicle, striking Edwards once in the head. Edwards’ two brothers and two of his friends were in the car with him.
An unidentified law enforcement official told the Dallas Morning News that Oliver and another officer were inside the party just before the fatal encounter, and saw kids carrying energy drinks and sodas. They didn’t find any evidence of underage consumption, except for an empty beer bottle in a kitchen trash can.
“That was a condition of them attending the party,” Lee Merritt, the family’s attorney, told the paper. “If they saw anyone drinking, they had to leave.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mERUGHzws9A
