Quote:Alvarado, who four times was on the cusp of being fired for insubordination, disobeyed a direct order on November 12. He falsified key details of the shooting in his official report. A 14-year-old boy was gunned down execution-style for the venial offense of engaging in an adolescent scuffle, and for compelling an overweight middle-aged badge-polisher to run a few hundred yards. According to the San Antonio Police Department, this is all perfectly acceptable: The department ruled that the murder of Derek Lopez was a “justified” shooting.
I have no doubts of the necessity of a police force. But I cannot stand the idea that so many can get away with killing innocents. So many of the higher ups seem to forget the cops have to obey the laws too. They especially have to adhere to the Bill of Rights. They can't use deadly force on an unarmed kid. Am I wrong to be so outraged? I understand that is Libertarian biased media. But regardless of whether everything in it is true or not, the fact is that a child was gunned down by an officer to which he posed absolutely no threat to. And even worse, the department has ruled this murder justified.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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