If you think you hate the media enough, I've got bad news for you.
Check out this headline from The Guardian, along with the photo used in the story, and then check out bodycam footage and what REALLY happened.
Here's NBC:
LA Times is even more egregious:
So, the photo and headline tell the story of a poor young, mentally challenged black kid who was probably out pruning some bushes when a mean old policeman showed up in his yard and shot him dead.
Here's what really happened.
[Warning: Graphic]
This man-sized teenager with a freaking hoe/scythe charged at and tried to murder a police officer!
With a scythe!
That's the tool the Grim Reaper uses, in case you aren't aware of the deadly possibilities.
But if you ask the media, or more accurately if you don't ask any questions and just let them set the narrative, that's not the picture you get.
You get a sweet young black man gunned down by a presumably racist cop. He was autistic, they say, and autistic people should be forgiven if they have strong emotions that cause them to hack an officer into bloody pieces.
The family called the cops because the boy was threatening his family members, and then when the boy turned to kill the cop and was shot the family decided that the police were too quick to shoot.
A lawyer for the family said Gainer was a cross-country runner who had autism and said the fatal shooting did not appear to be warranted.
The sheriff's department released 911 audio and partial body-camera footage to the Guardian on Monday, but the clips do not capture the moment of the shooting, and a spokesperson declined to release additional video.
The young man looked like a clear threat to the officers and the people in the family. If they were afraid for their lives, there's no reason the cops wouldn't be as well.
The family had two choices, deal with it themselves and risk their lives or call the cops and let them risk their lives. They're the ones who brought the cops into the situation and now they are questioning the actions of the police.
"There are great questions as to whether it was appropriate to use deadly force against a 15-year-old autistic kid who was having an episode," said DeWitt Lacy, a civil rights lawyer representing the family. "We need to see the video and the moment of the shooting … but it doesn't seem like anyone was in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury."
This is just so ignorant of life and death situations police can find themselves in.
"Having an episode" is used to excuse all sorts of violence. A lot of people have watched too many action movies and think the police can just kung-fu a deadly weapon out of someone's hands. If you don't understand why someone would shoot to stop an attacker at close range - after trying to flee! - then you do not understand anything about force-on-force scenarios and should just be quiet.
As Wade said above, the cops had the choice to save their lives and be called a racist or risk death. And given the way everyone knew this story would come out, I don't think there's any reason to think the cops acted rashly.
Just another example of our country being a media-controlled nation.
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