Stupid Fucking Cop

"A suburban Dallas police chief acknowledged Monday that an officer who fatally shot a black 15-year-old in a moving vehicle fired as the car was driving away — not as it reversed toward officers, as the department had previously asserted.

Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber told reporters that police video contradicted his department's original statement about the Saturday night shooting of Jordan Edwards. Edwards, a high school freshman, had gotten into a vehicle with four other teenagers to leave a house party as police were arriving to investigate an underage drinking complaint, according to his family's attorney, Lee Merritt.

Police first said the vehicle backed up toward police at the scene "in an aggressive manner." But Haber said Monday that police video shows the vehicle was instead "moving forward as the officers approached."

Before Haber's update, Merritt and the teen's family held their own news conference, during which Merritt accused police of "offering facts that they believe paint a picture that would justify the unjustifiable." He later told The Associated Press that Jordan's shooting brings to mind the high-profile deaths of other black people after police encounters that have sparked outrage and protest in recent years, but that this case stood out for its "sheer recklessness.""

People have to realize, you cannot take back firing a gun. No matter what you fire at. Especially police who have every right to do so, but should exercise real common sense. What kind of training are the police getting these days? And...apparently it's not working. What I think we're getting is total wash-out morons who have nothing else to do, and a police force that needs anyone. Damn.

The other thing...Black folk need to learn, they can't be running like that. I'm not sure how many examples you can draw up, but it doesn't seem to end well. And I know they were just teens. But I remember being 15 and being pulled over by cops with my temps and freaking the fuck out. But I didn't fucking drive off. That's what we call escalating the problem. Many argue that it is ingrained now the distrust of police. I get that. But...the culture has to change somewhere. And forcing police to adjust isn't a bad idea, but meet them halfway.