Texas cops were recently caught on video shooting an unarmed man who had his hands up in the air – surrendering. The whole thing was caught on video, and almost as soon as the incident happened, a local news station did their jobs and aired footage. Now, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Department is losing their collective mind over it, and claiming news that aired the footage is “unethical.”
The Bexar County Sheriff’s deputies who fatally shot a man with hands up, they say, should have had this incident concealed. The Sheriff’s Department says that they do not want the public to express outrage at the shooting, which they call “sensational.”
You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/police-publicly-bash-local-news-station-for-unethically-airing-footage-of-shooting-of-unarmed-man/209196/
So ... it's ethical to shoot an unarmed man, but unethical to show We The People what cops and deputies are doing?
WTF ???
Update: Even if (as the police claim) he was holding a knife, the video we have been allowed to see seems to make it clear that he was no imminent threat to the police when he was killed. And if there was no knife, this man was murdered. Period.
Second Update: A mentally ill man was turned over to police by a hospital in Texas, and they promptly shot him:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32630-police-in-texas-hospital-shoot-patient-in-the-chest
Apparently, police in Texas know only one thing - the use of force in response to resistance. They can't tell a knife from a set of keys or a gun from a cell phone. They can't tell the difference between mental illness and criminality. They can't tell if you need help or are the perp.
Or maybe it would be better to say that any resistance to authority, even if due to mental illness, is now a capital offense in the US, and the cops are judge, jury, and executioner ... and medical and psychological personnel are their willing accomplices (just like they were down in GTMO).
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