Victor Perez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had been in a coma since the April 5 shooting, and tests Friday showed that he had no brain activity, his aunt, Ana Vazquez, told The Associated Press. He had undergone several surgeries, with doctors removing nine bullets and amputating his leg.
The shooting outraged Perez’s family and Pocatello residents, and about 200 people attended a vigil Saturday morning outside the Pocatello hospital where he was treated. Another crowd of protesters gathered outside the Pocatello City Hall building, which also houses the police department, on Saturday afternoon. Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest, though no violence was reported. Many of the protesters held signs with phrases like, “Do better, PPD” and “Justice for Victor,” and passing cars honked in acknowledgment.
Nine fucking bullets to stop a kid with a knife. What the fuck are these pigs thinking?
They didn’t even try to de-escalation the situation, or use non-lethal shit to try stop him. Just straight out emptying a magazine on him
Nine bullets that found their mark. In most police shootings it’s only about a quarter of shots that actually hit their intended target. It’s a miracle that nobody else was injured.
Were they treating him like a fucking video game enemy or something?
No they weren’t. In video games when you kill someone you have to think before you do it because ammunition is scarce. This was more of a, so I started blasting kind of thing.
Good point
Activates god mode
Depends on the game, in factorio you have an almost infinite amount of ammunition
People overestimate the stopping power of bullets. Bullets will indeed kill somebody but it’s not instant like in the movies.
There are a lot of variables.
Yes, absolutely. But you you have somebody running towards you with a knife you don’t have time to consider and evaluate all of them. “Are they still moving” is pretty much all the input you can evaluate.
I’m not excusing the cops here. I’m just pointing out the misunderstanding of “why so many bullets” for which I will be heavily down-voted and shouted at.
Only lightly downvoted, nice
# of bullets is always an entirely understandable distraction
Was a firearm drawn? Was it discharged? Don’t care about # of bullets personally, one could kill my loved one just like 10,000 could.
Then maybe bullets aren’t the best way to stop someone with a knife… Pepper spray is pretty much instant, so is a taser. So is a baton to the wrist
They aren’t concerned with actual effectiveness. For attacking them with a weapon the pigs see summary execution as necessary.
Police are trained that it is an “us or them” situation every time they encounter someone. Everyone will try to kill you unless proven otherwise.
They are taught if someone has a knife pulled they will be able to kill them.
Now obviously a severely disabled teen would not be able to rush them before they pulled their weapons. But they are not taught to evaluate or deescalate these situations. They are taught to kill
“iD rAtHeR bE tRiEd By 12 tHaN cArriEd bY 6”
Amazing how police in other countries manage to de-escalate
True, which is why I think we should take away their guns. They want to waste money on toys? Let them get fishing nets and people catchers. Give them tactical weighted blankets
And if they actually need a gun, have them call a unit dedicated to having guns - another tier that doesn’t do traffic stops and wellness checks
Nine bullets that hit the kid they were “aiming” at, who was on the other side of a chainlink fence that his cerebral palsy prevents him from scaling no less. Multiply the number of pigs involved by the magazine capacity of their firearms to find out how many rounds were actually fired.
Both awful shots, and fucking cowardly to boot.
They should be stripped of their authority and paraded through the streets tarred and fucking feathered for what they’ve done.
What they’ll get instead is paid leave, and moved to another precinct upon their return to work, at worst.
The US is fucked from the ground up, all Trump is doing is accelerating the decline, waving the corruption around like a flag, rather than behind closed doors. (Like it’s done everywhere else)
Edit: 4 pigs, guessing 11 round capacity, means 44 rounds expended, to hit with 9.
I have never fired a handgun in my life, and I am confident I could do better than that. The fact that “trained” individuals are this bad is humiliating to those involved.