Charges Dropped For Cop Who Fatally Shot Sleeping 7-Year-Old Girl

[Czolgosz]

Only Government on High can get away with "searching" for somebody using flashbangs and bullets. Praise be.

 

[alucard13mm]

THIS is the case people should protest over. an innocent child killed. NOT some thug, robber or dumbass.

This is what I'm talking about. It's probably easier to win people over when people can sympathize with the victim more. Police supporters are not gonna sympathize with a thug. This was a clear case where someone innocent of any crime was killed for no reason... just for sleeping.

 

[Cissy]

Thank God the child slept when the State swept down upon her, and sent her into the arms of the angels.

To the state, there is no limit to the number of sleeping seven year old children who could be sacrificed in its unyielding pursuit of unauthorized plant ownership.

Seems reasonable really, when you think about it.

Yep. The Enemy must smile indeed every time a child is killed because someone *might* possess a plant which the Good Lord put on this Earth.

If the plant in question were, say, lettuce, more people would realize the silliness of the exercise.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Steve Fishman, Weekley’s attorney, claimed that even though he did not dispute that his client pulled the trigger and killed the girl, “there is absolutely no evidence, none, that’s in the least bit credible, that Officer Weekley knowingly created a danger or, more importantly, intended to cause injury.”

Contrary to the shyster, I think that busting in on homes at oh-dark-thirty with grenades and submachine guns is absolutely credible evidence of "knowingly creating a danger" and "intending to cause injury."

But then, I'm a sane person ...

Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

Goons gonna goon... In this case the gooning becomes fatal to an innocent little girl... WHY NO PROTESTS??

 

[CPUd]

For those who don't know, this is actually the 2nd trial, and the decision is already under appeal:

This could be a precedent setting case if the Court of Appeals hears the case and reverses the judge's decision, David Moran said.

"If the judge sufficiently articulated her reasoning, it is highly unlikely that an appellate court would substitute its judgment," Richard Krisciunas, a University of Detroit Mercy law professor said.

But, he said, it's possible that an appellate court could disagree and reinstate the charge.

The prosecution said Thursday they have no more witnesses to call in Weekley's trial. Weekley is on paid leave with the police force.

Weekley will not testify, Fishman said Friday. Weekley testified during his first trial that ended with a hung jury in June 2013.

The first one ended in a mistrial, over this point:

After a mistrial was declared, a juror, who asked not to be identified, told the Free Press what happened as the panel tried to come to a decision.

One of sticking points in deliberations at that trial was the word "willful."

Some of the jurors thought the involuntary manslaughter charge was appropriate, but many didn't because of the willfulness that's implied, the juror told the Free Press last year.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc.../weekley-trial-aiyana-stanley-jones/16636179/

 

[Christian Liberty]

We are overdue for "Crashland" and "RonPaul4Prez2014" to take their victory lap.

If I understand correctly (and I could be wrong) Crashland agrees with us that all of the stories we are posting are in fact abuses, he just doesn't necessarily think these abuses represent the police as a whole. While I don't agree with this view, I think its more a difference in interpretation of data than a moral difference (he's also not an anarcho-capitalist IIRC, which means he probably sees government police as INSTITUTIONALLY legitimate. I don't.)

RP4Prez, on the other hand, is a blatant state worshipping troll.

"Every attack on an officer of the law is an attack on our state, our country and civilized society," Corbett said in a statement. "The incident in Blooming Grove shows, once again, that our first responders face constant danger in order that the rest of us may live in peace and safety."

See, these types of quotes are even more blatantly and obviously wrong than Chris Cantwell type "all cops are the devil and should be shot" thinking is wrong. And really, its these types of quotes that lead to these types of thinking, and Eric Freins rising up all over the place.

"our first responders" are too often the criminals. It is the height of foolishness to suppose that government courts can keep government agents accountable.

It is these types of lies, screamed over and over into the ears of the victims, that leads to the rise of cop-killers like Frein, and ultra-fringe libertarians like Cantwell. I don't agree with it, but I do get it.

And it isn't going to change by repeating more propaganda.

 

[acesfull]

Officer Joseph Weekly, AKA John Wesley Hardin

Hardin, A notorious old west outlaw, was accused of killing a man for merely snoring...

Acesfull

 

[Crashland]

If I understand correctly (and I could be wrong) Crashland agrees with us that all of the stories we are posting are in fact abuses, he just doesn't necessarily think these abuses represent the police as a whole. While I don't agree with this view, I think its more a difference in interpretation of data than a moral difference (he's also not an anarcho-capitalist IIRC, which means he probably sees government police as INSTITUTIONALLY legitimate. I don't.)

Yes, that pretty much sums it up. I'm not quite sold on anarcho-capitalism, although if I keep listening to people like FreedomFanatic then maybe someday that will be different lol

THIS is the case people should protest over. an innocent child killed. NOT some thug, robber or dumbass.

Absolutely. It's not like there's a shortage of good choices for cases to protest. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and more recently, the Tamir Rice shooting that just happened in Cleveland is a great one that very obviously shows a problem with police protocol. There were no other people around, the kid was clearly not an immediate danger to anyone, and the police car just blindsides him and he's shot within 2 seconds, and it's even captured on video. But of course the one bad choice, the Michael Brown case, happens to be the one that everyone got their hearts set on from the very beginning.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Okay. I'm waiting to for someone to say she did this to herself.

Maybe this will work. Once upon a time from Obama's spokesman (Gibbs):

"I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father if they are truly concerned about the well being of their children"

 

[aGameOfThrones]

I'm supposed to hate Eric frein.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Relevant - http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...n-–-attorney&p=5718210&viewfull=1#post5718210

Beyond discussion with regard to this resignation, and what may follow, Ben also discusses with civil rights attorney, Patrice Sulton, the Eric Garner case, as well as the case in Detroit regarding 7 yo Aiyana Jones who was killed in 2010 by a swat team officer upon entering her home. That officer was cleared of any wrong doing over the weekend. Also discussed are officer mounted cameras.

Nuts and bolts of the discussion here is a broken justice system.

 

[phill4paul]

Update: No retrial: All charges to be dropped against Detroit cop who fatally shot sleeping child

Prosecutors will not seek a third trial for a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a sleeping child during a raid on a house in 2010, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said on Wednesday.

Jurors in October were unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Officer Joseph Weekley, the second time that a trial against the officer in the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones ended in a mistrial.

Worthy said prosecutors informed the girl’s family on Wednesday they would not seek a retrial and would move to dismiss the case on Friday.


A Wayne County judge granted Weekley a directed verdict on the more serious felony charge of involuntary manslaughter during the trial, a decision prosecutors cannot appeal.

Jurors were unable to reach a verdict on a misdemeanor charge of reckless discharge of a firearm against Weekley.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/...-detroit-cop-who-fatally-shot-sleeping-child/

 

[tod evans]

"Just-Us"

 

[buck000]

Sad.

Time to go civil suit on that hero.

 

[Sola_Fide]

THIS is the case people should protest over. an innocent child killed. NOT some thug, robber or dumbass.

Agree.

 

[Christian Liberty]

The police have gotten out of control as a standing army. They are more dangerous than they are good.

I like this as a possible incremental step:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/12/gary-north/disarm-the-police/

 

[Mani]

Jones was struck in the head by a bullet during the raid and prosecutors argued that Weekley had been wilfully negligent. An attorney for the officer said the gun discharged when Jones’ grandmother grabbed it.

WTF is up with this story, it's so full of vagueness.

This was a fucking reality TV show and A&E had the cameras rolling. Where is the video tape? It never came out, EVER.

And if the grandmother grabbed the gun there would be finger prints on it, why the hell didn't they use that as evidence??? Cops would certainly use that. And why wasn't the grandmother shot dead, we have people "lunging for a cop's weapon" everyday who are dead 10 feet away from their alleged "lunge" so how the fuck did SENIOR CITIZEN GRANDMA lunge and make it all the way to the cops without 45 bullets in her body and somehow wrestle a fucking SWAT team cop with a gun and end up shooting the child???


How is that believable in any way!?!?


AND yet there's video tape!!!


This is the most fucked up case in the history of cases.

And yet this is the case no one cares about. No one's outraged or rioting over a SLEEPING CHILD, not a dude or possible thug with his hands up, a SLEEPING CHILD. If you can't get outraged over the most innocent person murdered ever, then how will you ever be outraged???



Oh wait...Chris Kyle just killed another brown terrorist...OK that was awesome let's eat more popcorn....

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Of course.

 

[donnay]

SMDH.