Unarmed black man, 19, is shot dead by a
cop and his girlfriend seriously injured
after 'they fled a traffic stop and
reversed towards an officer'—sparking
protests in Chicago
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Emily Crane
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
10/23/2020 1:12:31 PM
A black woman who was seriously injured in a police shooting in suburban Chicago that saw her black boyfriend shot dead this week claims they did nothing to provoke the shooting. Marcellis Stinnette, 19, was killed and his girlfriend and the mother of his child, Tafara Williams, was seriously injured when a police officer in Waukegan opened fire on Tuesday night.
Police have said the car, which was being driven by Williams, fled as a white officer approached them following a traffic stop just before midnight.
The same vehicle was spotted a little later by another officer, according to police.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TLCary 10/23/2020 1:27:49 PM (No. 581896)
Why, Why, Why didn’t the cop just shoot him in the leg like Biden said? /S
The solution isn’t that simple, (unlike Joe).
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Cardsfan 10/23/2020 1:28:40 PM (No. 581898)
Joe Biden would have said to shoot out their tires!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JimJr 10/23/2020 1:30:23 PM (No. 581903)
Driving a 3,000 +\- lb vehicle isn't exactly "unarmed".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 10/23/2020 1:40:24 PM (No. 581919)
Somebody obviously forgot to give them The Talk about not fleeing from the police or trying to kill them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DARling 10/23/2020 1:44:04 PM (No. 581928)
A car coming at you is a serious weapon. Just like five unarmed Antifa or BLM thugs can beat you to death. The dishonest press likes to equate lack of a gun or knife with being poor, innocent and unjustly killed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lftrn97 10/23/2020 2:06:07 PM (No. 581953)
i'm white and years ago as part of ther driving lessons I taught my two daughters that if stopped by the police for any reason they should put the car in park and turn it off, lower their window and place both handson the steerin wheel in the 9 and 3 position and then to follow the officer's directions and remain respectful. Heard somebody yesterday--Juan Williams ?--complain that black parents had to warn their children to do this Warn? How about teach!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
skacmar 10/23/2020 2:21:35 PM (No. 581961)
Drives me nuts when others say "it could have been me!". Really? Would you have put your car in reverse and tried to run down the police officer? These community and political leaders/activists need to think about what they are saying before they speak and sound like total idiots for making excuses about potential criminals.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 10/23/2020 2:33:37 PM (No. 581968)
Chris Rock’s video, “How to avoid an a**_kicking” should be shown in every inner city school.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jimincalif 10/23/2020 2:34:23 PM (No. 581970)
Reversing toward the cop makes the car a deadly weapon. If it turns out that he actually did so, then he was "armed", and the shooting was "provoked". Headline designed to inflame and sell clicks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/23/2020 2:43:30 PM (No. 581976)
I arbitrated a case very much like this one.
the driver, who led the police officer on a 100 MPH chase, went into a dead end street, and tried to use the car as a weapon, backing at a high speed towards the officer.
The officer fired at the car, three times, didn't hit the driver (who had just been released from a mental hospital, and believed pixies were flying around his head.)
The police officer was terminated, and I reinstated him, ordering the payment of one year's back pay, and the purging of the disciplinary action from his personnel file. I suppose I could have ordered a written warning be issued for poor marksmanship - he hit the driver's rear view mirror instead of the driver - but that would be inappropriate.
In this case, what was thrown out of the car between the initial stop and the second stop??
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 10/23/2020 2:51:34 PM (No. 581984)
Wouldn't it be a public service to teach kids in school, at a young age, that fleeing from the police could be hazardous to your health. Seems like a logical thing to do.....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
AltaD 10/23/2020 3:03:56 PM (No. 581991)
Minor point, Waukegan is not a Chicago suburb, it's closer to the WI border or even Kenosha than it is to Chicago.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
moebellini3 10/23/2020 3:10:51 PM (No. 582002)
Why did they run from the first officer. If they stay put and listen to the officer, he is alive today. What do these people not understand.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 10/23/2020 4:05:02 PM (No. 582035)
It took Chicongo 10 & 1/2 months and over 565 homicides to finally find a bLACK life that mattered. Time to call BLM and the Revruns Al and Jesse, Chicongo needs them!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mathman 10/23/2020 4:29:13 PM (No. 582054)
But Black Lives Matter!
You can't fear for your life if someone comes at you with a car!
Really.
Just let them go.
The didnt do nuffin.
Police should be obliged to turn in their guns and surrender. If someone tries to kill them, they should just allow it. Then we would have justice, and no Black Lives would be lost.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 10/23/2020 5:17:52 PM (No. 582077)
The media has convinced some people that resisting arrest is THE way to go - and if it doesn't work out, well, they'll throw a big parade and burn down some buildings, so I guess that makes it all worthwhile. Hard to understand people for whom life is so worthless getting so upset when one of them throws their life away because of their inner rage and hatred of law enforcement. Then again I do understand it. A toddler has no conception of life or consequences. They just want something and they will scream to get it. Imagine a toddler throwing a tantrum when it's mother is hiding from the Nazis breaking down the door, as she desperately tries to stop the baby from screaming. That baby may represent the mental state of arrest resisters. Unable to think, incapable of considering consequences, acting out of pure rage. But we cannot allow them to endanger the lives of others, The tragedy is that none of them learns from these horrific incidents. They just use them to rationalize their irrational behavior.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
msjena 10/23/2020 5:21:31 PM (No. 582080)
This didn't take place in Chicago or suburban Chicago. Waukegan is probably 50 miles from Chicago, close to the Wisconsin border. It would be the exception, not the rule, for anyone from Waukegan to commute into Chicago.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
BillW. 10/23/2020 5:26:10 PM (No. 582084)
What the heck? Chill, people. It isn't even the weekend yet!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Italiano 10/23/2020 5:29:58 PM (No. 582088)
I stopped caring about four or five slimeballs ago.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/23/2020 5:48:13 PM (No. 582094)
In just about everyone of the cases involving Black men being shot by White police officers, two elements seem to always be present, in that the perpetrator first failed to follow the instructions of the police officers, and then just about always violently resisted arrest.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 10/23/2020 6:07:15 PM (No. 582103)
There is a lot of history that when you try to run over a police officer, especially during a chase, the officer realizes that that 4000 lb car hurtling at him is easily as deadly as a bullet, so the officers frequently will shoot at the driver, just like if the driver fired a gun at him.
And the black man was NOT "unarmed" he was armed with a couple hundred horsepower and a ton or two tons of steel and aluminum which would kill the officer dead.
We have a nice children's petting zoo and park in KC named for a female officer killed just this way, perp ran over her and killed her on a traffic stop. There was a pistol match to raise money for the Deanna Rose foundation, and I got first place civilian, and the foundation created the park and petting zoo.
Cars are deadly weapons, proven time and time again.
The headline is a LIE.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 10/23/2020 6:09:43 PM (No. 582104)
https://www.opkansas.org/recreation-fun/deanna-rose-childrens-farmstead/
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Apart from trying to run down the White Hispanic officer, they dundu NUFFIN. Couldn't the cop have just jumped out of the way at the last second? Now The Community is howling in pain!