In almost all police shootings, there are going to be people who will say anything to make the cops look like cold blooded killers. This is especially true when the cop is white and the person he shot happens to be black.
In this particular case, 'witnesses' would have us believe that the cops gunned down an ‘unarmed’ choir boy.
YOU MEAN THE WITNESSES LIED?
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
July 18, 2011
There was a police shooting in the Bayview District of San Francisco on Saturday that had the potential to go a little bit sideways. The cops shot a guy who was both shooting at them and running away, or at least that’s what they said. I saw a couple of witnesses interviewed on TV who swore blind that the man was unarmed and the cops shot him down like a dog. It was a little awkward because the cops couldn’t find the gun, at least at first. Modern forensics are very good and I have no doubt it would have shown the suspect fired a gun recently, but for some people that isn’t good enough.
In any event someone sent some cell phone video to the cops that showed the gun. The news reports are a bit thin and sort of imply somebody picked the gun up at the scene and the cops have since recovered it from the person who “borrowed” it. It’s sad to think that there are people (a lot of people) out there who will lie on the cops just to cause trouble, but it seems to be true.
Turns out the dead guy, Kenneth Harding, 19, was a parolee from Washington who was wanted for two murders up there and was on parole for sex offenses. He was wanted in the murder of a 19-year old woman and her unborn child and the shooting of three other people in Seattle. Sounds like a nice guy, doesn’t he?
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