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Crackerass peckerwood cops shoot unarmed black couple
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2019-04-22 at 4:51 PM UTC
Moment cops open fire on unarmed black couple near Yale campus as they sat in car singing along to R&B singer Avant because police wrongly believed their vehicle had been involved in a robbery
Stephanie Washington, 22, and her boyfriend Paul Witherspoon III, 21, were shot at by Hamden police officer Devin Eaton and Yale police officer Terrance Pollack
The couple were sitting in their vehicle and were singing love songs to each other at the time of the attack
Authorities believed that the vehicle that the couple was driving had been involved in an armed robbery of a newspaper delivery person
Both officers have been placed on leave while an investigation into the shooting is ongoing
Black Lives Matter movement and students took to the streets to peacefully protest the shooting claiming the duo were targeted because they were black
Protests erupted on the streets of Connecticut after video surfaced of a police officer opening fire on a vehicle being driven by an unarmed black couple last Tuesday.
Stephanie Washington, 22, and her boyfriend Paul Witherspoon III, 21, were shot at by Hamden police officer Devin Eaton and Yale police officer Terrance Pollack as they sat unarmed in their car near Yale university's campus in New Haven. Protesters believe the duo were targeted because they are black.
Authorities believed that the vehicle that the couple was driving had been involved in an armed robbery of a newspaper delivery person at a local Hamden gas station around 4am, CBS News reports.
The two departments then caught up with the vehicle - which was being driven by Witherspoon.
Surveillance footage shows the moment the responding officers jumped our of their SUV and fired multiple rounds at the couple last Tuesday.
During the shooting, Washington was shot in the face and has since been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, according to university officials.
Witherspoon was left unharmed.
In the CCTV video, police officer Devin Eaton is seen leaping out of the police car and raising his gun towards the vehicle.
He then begins to fire multiple shots at the unarmed couple after Witherspoon abruptly gets out of the vehicle before running away from the car towards the end of the street.
Video from inside the couple's vehicle shows that prior to the shooting, they had been enjoying each other's company and were singing songs to each other. They had been singing 'Nothing In This World' by R&B singer Avant and Keke Wyatt.
Officer Eaton has been placed on administrative leave while an investigation into the shooting is ongoing. Pollock was also placed on leave, as standard protocol for any instance when a Yale officer discharges their weapon.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6946347/Police-officers-open-fire-unarmed-African-American-couple-Connecticut.html
Sickening. They should've known better, I mean who in their right mind begins acting sketchy and making fast movements around officers of the law in a dark area? Ridiculous. -
2019-04-22 at 5:05 PM UTC
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2019-04-22 at 5:08 PM UTCguy looks like he opened fire almost as soon as he got out of the car, but if they were sitting there 'singing songs to each other', why are they parked in the middle of the road?
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2019-04-22 at 5:11 PM UTCoh, they weren't. I just noticed the car rolled to a stop right at the beginning of the video, which means the singing video was likely from earlier in the night. impossible to say whether they did anything to prompt the shooting but that video being spun as 'moments before' seems highly suspicious
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2019-04-22 at 5:12 PM UTCThey should be grateful, if i were a nigger, death would be a mercy.
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2019-04-22 at 5:28 PM UTC
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2019-04-23 at 11 AM UTCLol I thought it was 6
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2019-04-23 at 11:57 AM UTCThey only hire officers who fail the IQ test. They like them dumb as tree stumps, because then they are less likely to move on after costly training (which they are way too stupid to use anyways). A court upheld the policy, as all applicants were treated the same - in that they all had an equal chance to fail the IQ test.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/too-smart-to-be-a-cop/ -
2019-04-23 at 12:09 PM UTCLooks like a black cop...black on black shooting...nothing to see here, move along.
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2019-04-23 at 1:11 PM UTCSo if you ever try to get a job as a police officer, remember, never pass the IQ test.