LA - Cops unload on unarmed man attempting to "flee" in car, killing 6 y/o boy

[Sola_Fide]

Collateral damage in the war, folks. Move along.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Cops: Gunfire was exchanged.
Nope.
Cops: He had a warrant out for his arrest.
Nope.
Cops: He backed his vehicle into the police car.
Nope.

http://www.kplctv.com/story/3044735...icer-involved-shooting-that-killed-6-year-old

From the article:

According to Col. Edmonson, officers involved in any officer-involved shooting are given a "day or two to rest and get sleep" before being interviewed for the investigation. As of 2:45 p.m. Thursday, the officers involved had not been interviewed. There is a question if the City Marshals had jurisdiction at the time of the shooting.

As I'm sure any Mundane who just blew away a six year old would have been given, poor darlings.

 

[phill4paul]

From the article:

According to Col. Edmonson, officers involved in any officer-involved shooting are given a "day or two to rest and get sleep" before being interviewed for the investigation. As of 2:45 p.m. Thursday, the officers involved had not been interviewed. There is a question if the City Marshals had jurisdiction at the time of the shooting.

As I'm sure any Mundane who just blew away a six year old would have been given, poor darlings.

S.O.P. Noone breathing down their necks in the immediate aftermath screaming "Admit you did it. We got evidence, you scumbag!" while hitting them with phone books.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...ot-Us-vs-Them-quot-mentality-of-the-blue-line

 

[osan]

Poor little guy.

Now there's an understatement.

Prediction: they will skate.

Yes, not much in the way of a feat of clairvoyance, but I just had to write it. No doubt the officers will be praised for their depthless bravery in defending the donut shops of the world from evil six year old punks, so obviously bent on wreaking havoc and destruction.

 

[osan]

My prediction, the boy's father will be charged with murder, even though a cop pulled the trigger.

This nation is so fucked up I can barely wrap my head around it anymore.

Once again I suggest the people of that community very quietly hunt the murderers and dispatch them without compunction or the least hesitation. Make sure the local cops know exactly what has happened to their fellows and why, along with the warning that any further misbehavior will be met with equal justice and resolve.

If we don't put an end to this, it will in fact never end, but rather only get worse.

 

[mrsat_98]

http://www.copblock.org/146175/louisiana-cops-arrested-for-murder/

It has just been announced by CNN news that the two officers who shot and killed six year old Jeremy Mardis, Officers Norris Greenhouse Jr. and Derrick Stafford, are being charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.

Earlier today we reported on the incident, which happened on Tuesday. Officers pursuing Chris Few regarding a warrant fired into his vehicle, which also was occupied by the man’s six year old son. Both occupants were hit, and the child died from the injuries on the scene.

The two officers involved were initially cleared of wrongdoing in the incident, which happened in Marksville, Lousiana. Chris Few was not armed and it is not known why officers fired upon him, considering that he presented no immediate danger to officers or fellow citizens.

“Jeremy Mardis, 6 years old; he didn’t deserve to die like that,” Louisiana State Police Col. Michael Edmonson said of the incident which left the child with five bullets in his lifeless body.



His father is still in the hospital.It is not known whether the officers knew there was a child present when they tried to murder his father.There has been a lot of buzz and outrage regarding the killing which likely forced authorities into the rare position of charging their own with their crimes. What do you think, is the momentum for justice in police killings starting to catch up to cops, or is this just an incident to placate the public who are becoming fed up with the ever-increasing number of killings by law enforcement?

 

[Suzanimal]

Cops Who Killed 6-yo Boy Lied About his Dad Having a Warrant & Gun – He Had Neither

Marksville, LA – On Tuesday, November 3rd, 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis was tragically gunned down after being unwittingly thrust into a police pursuit. Now, officials are acknowledging that there may have been no justification for the officers’ actions.

Initial reports claimed that Jeremy’s father, 25-year-old Chris Few, was being served a warrant by Ward 2 City Marshals. However, police now admit that Few was not only unarmed when officers opened fire, but may not have had a warrant at all.

During a press conference Thursday afternoon, Louisiana State Police Col. Mike Edmonson said:


“We have no evidence of any gun found in his car,” When asked about Few’s alleged warrant Col. Edmonson replied; “I am not aware of one but I have not been provided with anything that says otherwise.”

Upon being reached for comment regarding the existence of warrants for Mr. Few, the Clerk of Court for the City of Marksville stated they had “nothing” and that they had never had any warrants out on him, according to KATC TV.

Chris’ step-father, Morris German, has also been vocal in his disbelief of the original police account. He said that he strongly doubted his stepson was armed and that he could not believe he would flee authorities with his son in the vehicle.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/po...-gun-killed-6-yr-old-son/#KEoMiVUUxxgzc7OZ.99

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/po...-gun-killed-6-yr-old-son/#KEoMiVUUxxgzc7OZ.99

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

Cops Who Killed 6-yo Boy Lied About his Dad Having a Warrant & Gun – He Had Neither

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/po...-gun-killed-6-yr-old-son/#KEoMiVUUxxgzc7OZ.99

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/po...-gun-killed-6-yr-old-son/#KEoMiVUUxxgzc7OZ.99

Goons lied??? Please, tell me it isn't so!!

 

[torchbearer]

http://usuncut.com/news/cops-killed...ing-relationship-assistant-district-attorney/


One guy was charged with rape previously

 

[Suzanimal]

Goons lied??? Please, tell me it isn't so!!

Shocking, I know.

 

[Scrapmo]

His father is still in the hospital.It is not known whether the officers knew there was a child present when they tried to murder his father.There has been a lot of buzz and outrage regarding the killing which likely forced authorities into the rare position of charging their own with their crimes. What do you think, is the momentum for justice in police killings starting to catch up to cops, or is this just an incident to placate the public who are becoming fed up with the ever-increasing number of killings by law enforcement?

I use to think the scales were tipping against the police. I could see public opinion becoming vitriolic, even amongst the most conservative of my friends and families, real law and order types.

But I was ignoring the fact that the media is better at propaganda then we will ever be at advocacy and education of rights. All it took was a few dead cops stories and a shift of narrative, i.e.. making police violence a racial issue instead of a liberty issue, and now the public is firmly galvanised once again in their proper political, social and ethnic backgrounds.

Public opinion are trees swaying in the wind and the media is a hurricane.

 

[pacodever]

Marksville resident: ‘It’s crooked around here’

http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2015/11/07/marksville-resident-s-crooked-around-here/75394192/

When asked about why the police would have been chasing Few, whom residents said had no criminal record with the state, several residents suggested an argument that had taken place between Few and Jeremy’s mother. Residents said Few had recently gained custody of Jeremy, and the mother sent in a tip to the police out of anger.

Residents also speculated about whether the boy’s mother was having an affair with a local law enforcement officer, who then initiated the chase from revenge.


According to Jeremy’s obituary, the mother, Katie Mardis, lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

 

[phill4paul]

Cop Was Stalking Man’s Fiance’ Before Pulling Him Over and Murdering His 6-yo Boy

Marksville, LA — More information is coming to light about the two Marksville City Marshals, who ruthlessly shot to death a 6-year-old boy as he was buckled into the back seat of a vehicle.

Officers Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse, Jr. are currently being held, each with a $1 million bail for the murder of Jeremy Mardis and the attempted murder of his father, Chris Few.

Few’s attorney, Mark Jeansonne said Monday, that the body camera video shows the father of this 6-year-old autistic boy who was shot to death in his car, had his hands in the air and did not pose a threat.

After it was revealed that the officers had fabricated a story about Chris Few having an outstanding warrant and being armed, the family is left wondering why in the world he was stopped in the first place.

Couple their lies with the fact that Few’s attorney said he had his hands up during the stop, and a dark and ominous scenario begins to unfold.

Until now, there was still no logical reason for the stop, leaving everyone wondering why these officers went after Few at all. However, all that changed when Few’s fiancée came forward about her relationship to one of the murdering cops, Norris Greenhouse, Jr.

According to the Advocate, Megan Dixon, Few’s fiancée, said this weekend that Few had a previous run-in with Greenhouse. A former high school classmate of Dixon, Greenhouse had started messaging her on Facebook and had come by the house Few and Dixon were sharing at the time.

“I told Chris, and Chris confronted him about it and told him, ‘Next time you come to my house I’m going to hurt you,’ ” Dixon said.

Now that we know Few told Greenhouse to leave his fiancée alone, we can establish an alleged motive for the stop. Could it be that Greenhouse and the three other officers involved in the stop were abusing their authority to harass a man for being protective of his fiancée?

We’ve certainly seen far worse reasons for police officers to pull people over. However, this time, an officer’s alleged abuse of power ended with the death of an innocent child.

On Monday, Jeremy Mardis was laid to rest in Mississippi. As members of his family watched the tiny casket get lowered into the ground, their hearts were heavy with grief.

This grief, while incredibly real and horrendous, could have also been prevented. Greenhouse and Stafford had an atrocious history that should have ended their careers in law enforcement far before they were able to murder a child. But they were not fired. Instead, their issues were ‘resolved’ and they were allowed to continue their tyranny.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-stalking-mans-fiancee-murdering-6-year-son/#JqO8FW87oVEC0AjM.99

 

[tod evans]

Could it be that Greenhouse and the three other officers involved in the stop were abusing their authority to harass a man for being protective of his fiancée?

Dead children are of no consequence when it comes to a kops dick...........

 

[phill4paul]

Seems like the judge was running his own extortion ring....

Inside small-town Louisiana feud that led to a 6-year-old boy’s police killing

For years, people in the tiny Louisiana town of Marksville watched the feud between their mayor and local judge like some kind of daytime soap opera, with varying degrees of frustration and bemusement.

Then came the Nov. 3 shooting that killed a 6-year-old boy. Suddenly, the petty small-town bickering began looking more tragically sinister.

Why in the world, residents ask, were deputy marshals — whose main job is serving court papers for the judge — out there chasing cars and shooting up suspects? How did one of the deputies — who had been charged twice for aggravated rape and racked up a string of lawsuits for excessive force — even get hired? And how did a speck of a town like Marksville wind up with a shadow police force on its streets?

“It’s pretty clear to me that if this feud didn’t exist, those marshals wouldn’t have been there that day,” said one former city official and resident of more than three decades who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing a gag order in the case.

“We’ve watched the both of them fight for years. . . . But I don’t think anyone imagined something so petty would lead to something so tragic.”

Marksville City Marshal Derrick Stafford. (AP/Louisiana State Police/AP)
Jeremy Mardis was the youngest person shot and killed by law officers so far this year, according to a Washington Post database tracking such shootings. Amid a national debate over police use of deadly force, the killing of an autistic 6-year-old sent shock waves nationwide.

Louisana State Police said they’re still trying to figure out why deputies were chasing an SUV driven by Jeremy’s father, Chris Few. Few was not armed and was not the subject of any arrest warrant.

When the chase ended, the two deputies — Derrick Stafford, 32, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23 — fired at least 18 bullets into Few’s SUV, police said. Five shots hit Jeremy, a first-grader strapped into the front seat beside his father. Few was critically injured; his attorney told reporters he was recently released from the hospital.

Two police officers who work for the mayor arrived during the shooting; one of them was wearing a body camera. The footage “is one of the most disturbing videos I’ve ever seen,” said State Police Col. Mike Edmonson.

“It troubled me as a police officer and as a father. There’s no reason that boy deserved to die like that,” Edmonson said. Few’s attorney told reporters the video shows the father with his hands in the air as the deputies open fire.

Stafford and Greenhouse have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder. A judge overseeing the case has issued a gag order, prohibiting those involved and potential witnesses from talking to reporters.

Since then, information about the case and Marksville more generally has slowed to a trickle, with folks in town refusing to talk openly about almost anything. In private interviews, however, many blamed the long-running feud for Jeremy’s death. It may not have directly caused the shooting, they say, but it created the bizarre circumstances that made it possible.

Marksville City Marshal Norris Greenhouse Jr. (AP/Louisiana State Police/AP)
With a population of 5,500 and a median income of $26,700, Marksville is small, rural and relatively poor. Like most towns in Louisiana, it has a local marshal, an elected position with no police training or experience required.

The marshal’s job is to serve court papers: subpoenas, warrants, notices of nonpayment. For years in Marksville, the marshal has been a local bus driver, Floyd Voinche Sr., who carried out his duties with one full-time employee and one part-timer, according to a statewide marshals directory.

But sometime in the past two months, that changed.

Mayor John Lemoine told reporters that Voinche’s office bought two used police cruisers, hired several part-time deputies and started patrolling the streets and issuing tickets like regular city police. In a September letter to Louisiana’s attorney general, Lemoine asked whether the marshal’s sudden expansion of duties was legal.

Voinche has refused to explain his actions, issuing a terse statement citing a Louisiana law that empowers deputy marshals “in making arrests and preserving the peace.”

“The statute gives us the same authority as a sheriff,” said Joey Alcede, a marshal in Lake Charles and an official with the state marshal association. Having marshals take on the duties of city police is highly unusual, however, Alcede said.

According to several current and former city officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of violating the gag order, Marksville’s marshal began issuing traffic tickets to generate money for the city court. The court’s funding has been the focus of a furious battle between the mayor and City Judge Angelo Piazza III since last year.

“No one really took it seriously, until recently. It was like watching two bullies fighting,” said one resident who has known both men for decades.

Piazza, 57, has reigned over the Marksville city court for more than two decades. A Civil War buff known for hauling authentic cannons to reenactments, Piazza sued the city in 1997 over funding. When Lemoine, 63, a mechanic and auto parts shop owner, was elected mayor in 2010, he announced plans to tighten up Marksville’s budget, and war fully bloomed.

“Lemoine put a microscope on City Court,” Piazza told the local paper, the Avoyelles Journal, last year. Piazza said the scrutiny added new costs and bureaucracy, even as Marksville police started issuing fewer tickets, dramatically reducing his court’s income.

Then this summer, Lemoine sharply cut the court’s budget — including the judge’s salary. Piazza filed suit. Piazza declined to comment for this story. Lemoine and Voinche did not return repeated calls for comment.

The feud polarized the town’s law enforcement community. “You have officers siding with the judge and marshal, and others with the mayor,” said one longtime elected official.

At one point, the mayor was arrested after an argument with police. One of the arresting officers was Stafford, and afterward the mayor tried to get a civil service oversight board to investigate him.

Both Stafford and Greenhouse were moonlighting as deputy marshals when they opened fire on Nov. 3. Stafford was a Marksville police officer; Greenhouse is a reserve Marksville officer and deputy marshal in neighboring Alexandria. It is unclear when or how they joined Marksville’s newly expanded marshal service. Many have questioned Stafford’s hiring in particular.

“This is a guy I think a lot of us would have trouble hiring,” said a law enforcement chief in a neighboring jurisdiction.

Stafford has been charged twice with aggravated rape in nearby Rapides Parish. According to the indictment, one 15-year-old victim said Stafford committed rape on the victim’s birthday in 2004. In a separate incident, a second victim said Stafford committed rape in 2011.

In 2012, the charges were inexplicably dropped. In court documents, the attorney listed as representing Stafford is Piazza, the same judge he now works under as a marshal deputy.

Monique Metoyer, who prosecuted the rape case, declined to explain why the charges were dropped. But she confirmed that Marksville’s judge served as Stafford’s lawyer.

Stafford has also been accused in civil court of using excessive force; at least five lawsuits are currently pending against him. The accusations include throwing an already handcuffed woman into a back seat and using a stun gun on her, breaking the arm of a 15-year-old girl, and arresting a man in retribution for filing a formal complaint against Stafford for yelling at his family.

Greenhouse has been accused alongside Stafford in two excessive force cases. And in an example of the messy overlap common in small town government, Greenhouse’s father works for the local district attorney, who had to recuse himself from prosecuting Stafford and Greenhouse in the shooting.

Greenhouse also appears to have a personal connection to Few and his girlfriend, Megan Dixon. Dixon told the local Advocate newspaper that she went to high school with Greenhouse and that he had recently messaged her on Facebook and stopped by the house where she lived with Few.

“I told Chris, and Chris confronted him about it and told him, ‘Next time you come to my house, I’m going to hurt you,’ ” Dixon said.

With the gag order in place, it is unclear when authorities will release additional information about the shooting, including the body camera footage. No trial date has been set. Equally unclear is what happens to the newly expanded marshal service.

Meanwhile, the family of Jeremy Mardis held a private funeral for the first-grader last week in his hometown of Hattiesburg, Miss. Under a chilly gray sky, the family placed his small coffin inside a hearse and headed to nearby Beaumont cemetery to bury him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...7-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html?tid=sm_tw

 

[Occam's Banana]

“We’ve watched the both of them fight for years. . . . But I don’t think anyone imagined something so petty would lead to something so tragic.”

Whether it concerns the death of a single innocent child or a so-called "world war," that quote serves as one of the most eloquent and excellent summaries of the State that I have ever heard ...

 

[Anti Federalist]

Fucking CopLand

 

[Weston White]

So now the story meshes, this was a "love-triangle" gone awry.

18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.


42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights

Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

 

[torchbearer]

death penalty. never really liked the idea until today.
Neither thug could secure bail. The one guy connected with the ADA almost made bond with his family's property. But a law preventing the DA's from using their own property to bail someone out prevented it. Nepotism comes to bight you right back in the ass. So these thugs get to sit in jail until trial. has a date even been set? if this is louisiana tradition, they'll wait 6 months before getting one.

 

[phill4paul]

death penalty. never really liked the idea until today.
Neither thug could secure bail. The one guy connected with the ADA almost made bond with his family's property. But a law preventing the DA's from using their own property to bail someone out prevented it. Nepotism comes to bight you right back in the ass. So these thugs get to sit in jail until trial. has a date even been set? if this is louisiana tradition, they'll wait 6 months before getting one.

I imagine it will take at least six months to find a prosecutor that doesn't have a "conflict of interest." Although, that's never stopped them before.