LYING ABOUT POLICE SHOOTINGS

Every now and then we have some pretty egregious lying going on when the Police view themselves as being under scrutiny. This time it deals with a fatal police shooting five years ago in Vancouver. Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "New video of police shooting sparks calls to reopen investigation". What isn't disagreed upon is that an individual with mental problems was swinging a bicycle chain and lock at police officers. He was shot at a total of nine times by one police officer out of the five or six present. Several of the shots hit the man and the ninth was to the head and was fatal.

Here's where the whole police story and police witnesses become very strange. The man was crawling on his hands and knees and was unarmed. There were multiple police officers present presumably with batons, pepper spray etc. The man had already been shot multiple times. HE WAS UNARMED! HE WAS CRAWLING! Nevertheless the coup de grace was a shot to the head of an unarmed, badly injured individual. At that point the lying begins. The officer claims he thought the citizen was armed. The Police Complaints Commissioner was unable to determine if excessive force had been used. No charges were laid and everything was swept under the carpet until this new video surfaced taken by an out of province tourist at the time. Police assault and brutality takes place pretty much everywhere. It takes place in Toronto and it takes place in Waterloo Region. Clearly it takes place throughout the United States (remember Rodney King among many others). Police abuse of authority and power will only end when those in charge (politicians) decide it will. Not one second sooner.