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What exactly do you think that proves? Name one cop (ONE) that's been killed because of anything BLM has said or done. Find just ONE looting.

Put up or shut up.

Shocking Video Shows Cop Gun Down Unarmed Teen in the Back as He Ran Away
This video epitomizes why Chicago cops are frantically trying to destroy all incriminating data against them.
By Free Thought Project / The Free Thought Project
January 15, 2016

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Chicago, IL (RT) — Lawyers for the city of Chicago, Illinois have dropped objections to the release of surveillance footage that shows the police shooting a black teenager in 2013. Cedrick Chatman was killed as he fled officers who stopped him for car theft.

Surveillance camera footage (5:36 mark in the video) shows Chatman bolting from the car, and one of the plainclothes officers pointing a gun and firing in his direction. When the camera pans over to the other corner, Chatman is lying motionless the ground.

US District Court Judge Robert Gettleman lifted the protective order on the recordings on Thursday after lawyers for the city said they would no longer oppose the release in the interest of transparency.

“I went to a lot of trouble to decide this issue, and then I get this motion last night saying that this is the age of enlightenment with the city and we’re going to be transparent,” said Gettleman. “I think it’s irresponsible.”

Chatman, 17, was shot on the afternoon of January 7, 2013, in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. According to the police report, Officers Kevin Fry and Lou Toth stopped the silver Dodge Charger that Chatman was driving because it matched the description of a car that had been reported stolen. As two officers in plainclothes approached, Chatman bolted from the car and ran down Jeffery Avenue.

Fry said at one point he saw Chatman turn around and point an object at the officers. He fired four shots, hitting Chatman twice. Attorneys for Chatman’s family said that the video contradicts Fry’s account, and that the teenager never turned around.

The object in Chatman’s hand turned out to be a black box containing an iPhone. Police believe the box was obtained in the carjacking, according to Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), which had ruled the shooting justified.

“The video supports Officer Fry’s observation that (Chatman) was pointing a firearm at Officer Toth,” the final IPRA report said, concluding that the “use of deadly force was in compliance with Chicago Police Department policy.”

However, that finding only came after the firing of a senior IPRA investigator, who originally said the shooting had not been justified. Lorenzo Davis said his last performance review accused him of “a complete lack of objectivity combined with a clear bias against the police” and said he was the only supervisor who refused to make“requested changes as directed by management in order to reflect the correct finding” in cases of officer-involved shootings.

Davis, who reviewed the surveillance videos during the course of his investigation, told the Chicago Tribune in November that he never saw Chatman turn toward the officers.

“Cedrick was just running as the shots were fired,” Davis said. “You’re taught that deadly force is a last resort and that you should do everything in your power to apprehend the person before you use deadly force. I did not see where deadly force was called for at that time.”

The shooting was captured on a police surveillance camera, a camera outside a nearby convenience store, and a camera near the South Shore High School. Lawyers for both the city and the Chatman family agreed that the footage was low quality and showed the events from a distance. City attorneys nonetheless argued that the release of the recordings could inflame the public and interfere with the proceedings in the family’s lawsuit.

Police said that Chatman and two others, Akeem Clarke and Martel Odum, robbed a man who was selling a cell phone. Chatman drove off in the victim’s car, while Clarke and Odum kept the cash from the robbery. They were each sentenced to 10 years in prison last September for robbery and unlawful vehicular invasion, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The police initially charged Clark and Odum with Chatman’s death as well, but dropped the charges later.

An attorney for Chatman’s family said the release of the video would show a systemic problem in the city, coming in the wake of revelations about other cases involving police shootings of African-Americans.

“This is a bomb that’s about to drop in the city of Chicago, where everyone suddenly realizes the system is broken,” Brian Coffman told DNA Info.

Chicago has been in turmoil since last November, when a Chicago PD officer was indicted for first-degree murder in the fatal October 2014 shooting of a black teenager. Officer Jason Van Dyke fired 16 shots into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

The initial cover-up of the McDonald shooting incensed protesters, who shut down the city’s main street on several occasions in subsequent months. Among their demands is the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former White House chief of staff.

Emanuel has refused to resign so far, but has fired both the police superintendent and the head of the police investigative agency. In December, the US Department of Justice announced a civil rights investigation into the Chicago PD.

It proved that BLM is an organization as racist as the KKK if not more so and by selling the idea that the police are looking to killed blacks in cold blood are placing the lives of both blacks and the police at unneeded risks.

Bullshit. How in the heck does it do that? Cops are shooting UNARMED, UNRESISTING YOUNG BLACK males. Who do you blame that on? BLM?????

Some time in the past, they operated on BRM's brain, and he now sees everything backwards from the facts. Blame it on the doctors.

LOL how many phony accounts do we have here to be able to do a 9 votes down within minutes of my last posting?

Poor BLM supporters that feel the need to have phony accounts available as I stated they have a lot in common with white racists such as the KKK.

Gee! Two people gave you a thumbs up. Things are looking up!

LOL and I from time to time when I find rarely that I had agree with you and had given you an up vote as a result.

I hardly ever give down votes and it take a real interesting person that feel the need to made up phony accounts just to do votes downs.

Well if he have a knife in his hand and did not drop it so as long as he have such a edge weapon it does not matter if he had his hands up or not.

Yes, it does matter that he had his hands up. Most people around the world knows what that means - except you. Not surprising.

"IF" but he didn't.

Let me post this video one more time of how my local police force rook care of a guy who THREW a big knife at a cop while evading an arrest on foot. No one got shot an the crook got ten years:

Charges dropped against 6 Ferguson protesters
Source: Associated Press

Charges dropped against 6 Ferguson protesters

Updated 11:54 am, Friday, January 22, 2016

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Charges have been dropped against six activists who were arrested during a protest in Ferguson, just as their trial was about to begin. The case was expected to include allegations of police brutality, claims of missing evidence and discussions about the shortcomings of body cameras.

The charges had included property damage, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and third-degree assault. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1nD9Isk ) reports that Ferguson prosecutor Stephanie Karr dismissed the charges Thursday without explanation.

Later Thursday, the defendants filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Ferguson destroyed evidence and violated the constitution.

Protests were common in Ferguson after the August 2014 fatal shooting by a white police officer of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed. Officer Darren Wilson was not charged in his death, but the unrest prompted a U.S. Department of Justice report in March criticizing police and municipal court practices.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Charges-dropped-against-6-Ferguson-protesters-6776970.php

Not when there is a damn knife in those hands my silly friend as he is not a bit less deadly with his hands up or down.

But what the hell I guess you think that cops should disregards their training and allow a nut to gut them,

Charges were dropped against Lois Lerner also. All politics, and more using race to control the narrative. In short, Black people are just a tool for progressives. They could give a **** about them.

Well the so call leadership of the black community for a number of generations now had proven that they do not care for the young black men welfare.

BLM leadership is just the last version that people like Jackson and Sharpson had ridden to power and wealth two generations ago.

Here is the next generation of such leadership.

There are many options open to police against one with a knife in their hands.
Think, before you shoot to kill!

Have you seem training films on how to handle a man with a knife if you are armed with a gun?

Any space within 20 feet of yourself you are in deadly danger from the man with the knife gutting you before you can get your gun into play.

We do not paid cops or anyone else to get their stomach cut open with a knife.

But perhaps all those experts are wrong so you can tell us all how to deal with a knife wielder and your background for doing so,

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYEttnuZez0
Who killed Jimi? This reaches back to my beginnings.

Are you experienced? Gone before his time! The world needs Jimi now...

Footsteps dressed in Red...

Thats not the only reason you aren't a cop. Thank goodness!