Monday a Denver police officer fatally shot a man who was holding a marker pen, which the officer mistakenly believed was a knife, officials said on Monday. Two of the city's officers were responding to a 911 domestic dispute call.
According to the Guardian newly released body-camera footage of the killing of Brandon Cole, 36, on 5 August shows an officer firing two shots at the man who was on the sidewalk. A young child and a woman were standing close behind the man as the officer fired at him and he fell to the ground.
The man's wife begged for them not to shoot her husband. Mr. Cole got out of his car. one officer tazzed him without effect and he charged the female officer, thinking he had a knife. She shot him dead. He had been holding a magic marker.
Too many times police officers use deadly force on unarmed individuals with or without provocation. These situations happen quick. it took only forty seconds from the arrival of the police until Mr. Cole was shot dead. Forty seconds.
Denver police six montgs at the academy training for the field and another two months on the street, however confrontations with many individuals result in police violence, which is understandable considering that their training comes from Shin Bet. The Zionist security force has been an integral part of repressing the Palestians under the Occupation. In Palestine the IDF and police treat the Arab populace as an animals in the ghettos of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Shoot to kill.
Police in the USA trained by Shin Bet regard any individual as a potential life threatening terrorist.
Americans call any confrontation such as that of Mr. Brandon Cole as suicide by police.
I call it manslaughter at best and murder in truth.
At one point the occupation mentality has to change.
Until then Shoot To Kill will be the cops' mantra every time out of their cruisers.
America despite what Trump supporters want is not Nazi Germany.
Not yet.
