White St. Louis cop shot black off-duty officer then claimed it was a friendly fire incident

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story


Noor Al-Sibai NOOR AL-SIBAI
22 JUN 2017 AT 18:20 ET

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and local news outlet Fox2Now, a white St. Louis police officer shot a black off-duty officer from his own force after a car chase ended in a crash outside the off-duty officer’s home.

The African American officer, who has not yet been identified, came outside of his home while off-duty after hearing the commotion from a car chase that ended nearby. Despite identifying himself as a cop, the man was ordered to the ground by two officers. He complied, and soon after, they recognized him and told him to get up.

That was when a third officer entered the scene, and because he did not recognize the black off-duty cop and claimed to “fear for his safety,” shot the off-duty cop in the arm.

The Post-Dispatch reported that police are calling the incident an example of “friendly fire” due to the suspects from the car chase firing at police. The paper also reported that police initially claimed that the 38-year-old African American officer, who has been on the force for 11 years, was “caught in the crossfire.”



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/white-st-louis-cop-shot-black-off-duty-officer-then-claimed-it-was-a-friendly-fire-incident/

[angstlessk]

1. At least he ain't dead...bet he supports the cops!

[rogue emissary]

5. If you are referring to the Off-duty officer, he doesn't.

The off-duty officer has an attorney and the attorney has given an interview critical of the white officer.

Below is the interview.

http://fox2now.com/2017/06/22/off-duty-officer-wounded-by-fellow-cop-in-shootout/

[Thomas Hurt]

2. New life threatening situation called off-duty policing while black....

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Not "new". Unfortunately common in cities

and moreso if the black cop is undercover.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/white-officer-kills-black-mistaking-criminal-article-1.372647

https://newsone.com/3078963/off-duty-black-nypd-officers-say-they-are-also-harassed-by-white-cops/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/03/howard-morgan-ex-cop-shot_n_1399834.html

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Prince-Georges-County-Police-Shooting-Suspect-Hit-With-25-Charges-372235001.html

[RVN VET71]

3. jesus christ -- and still the bastards cover up their racist transgressions

We're are a lost nation. I'm sorry, but between the acquittal of Philander Castile's murderer and a million (it seems) other sad sick domestic atrocities, a President who withdraws the United States from the world stage, ceding leadership (to Germany, without a trace of irony), and a majority Republican Party exercising its right to wage a war, not on poverty, but on the poor -- we are no longer even in the running for "Great Nation."

A wealthy, violent, racist nation of gun-toting isolationists, no longer even pretending or trying to be "exceptional."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Yeah, "initially claimed" and all. . . . . nt

[Doug the Dem]

7. Am I the Only One.....

who thinks these racist incidents appear to have increased since Trump's "election"?

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. If black people just agreed to walk the streets pre-handcuffed and wearing

"Hannibal Lecter" masks. A lot of this shit could be avoided.