Sunday, July 10, 2016

DA DECIDES TO NOT CHARGE RICHMOND COP

By Bob Walsh

The District Attorney has decided not to charge a Richmond (CA) police officer in the shooting death of a black man in 2014.

Officer William Jensen came into contact with Richard Perez III outside a liquor store on September 14, 2014. A fight ensued during which Perez apparently/allegedly tried to grab Officer William’s service pistol. Williams managed to maintain control of his weapon and shot Perez to death.

There is some surveillance footage and some bystander cellphone video that tends to support Officer Williams. The city has already paid $850,000 to the dead guy’s family.

The family and their mouthpiece all assert that the whole thing is a cover-up and that the officer shot Perez for no particular reason. None of them witnessed the incident personally of course, but they do not believe that Perez tried to snatch the officer’s gun. They offer no basis for that belief.

EDITOR’S NOTE: If the surveillance footage and bystander cellphone video tend to verify the officer’s version of the Perez shooting, why in the fuck did the city of Richmond shell out $850,000 to his family? What a waste of taxpayer money!

1 comment:

bob walsh said...

It's simple Howie. It happened in CA and the dead guy was black, so OBVIOUSLY the cop was wrong. Facts have very little to do with it.