Comments by "" (@kellygreenii) on "ABC News" channel.

@herbiehusker1889 Naah. In my experience most people who talk about "race wars" are racists who *really* want an excuse for one. The media is simply calling attention to the blatant double standard in policing. I just find it interesting how many of you are ready to sacrifice other people's lives just so you dont' have to change your world view. Sad.
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@casey_6261 "Mistakes were made.' Only the officer gets to go home to her family, and the worst consequence she's likely to face is losing her job....before she goes out and gets hired by someone else. Wright went to the morgue and gets buried by his family. Because he got pulled over for an expired tag (in the middle of a pandemic)...and ran away from a BENCH warrant for failure to appear in court for marijuana possession. Oh...and its illegal for police to shoot someone for running away (its why they're trying to spin this as an accident).
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Not really. There is a very strong case of manslaughter/negligent homicide. Someone not being able to tell the difference between a 9mm handgun and a taser makes any reasonable definition of negligence. The reason why police seldom go to prison is because of qualified immunity and collusion between prosecutors and police. So what typically happens these days is that the officer either never faces charges...or gets OVERcharged (usually for murder)...then gets acquitted because prosecutors can't meet the standard for conviciton....and juries don't get the option to convict for a lesser crime. If a DA had the stones to charge this officer with manslaughter or negilent homicide she'd be in *serious* trouble. Because you'd be able to mount a strong case for it. She shot a fleeing suspect (cant' do that, its illegal)....and the camera footage suggest that she failed to tell the difference between her handgun and her taser.
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@featherpony I've already said what he did wrong. He had an expired tag (punishable by traffic ticket...I know because I had to pay such a ticket years ago)....and he had an outstanding MISDEMEANOR BENCH (issue by a judge) warrant for failure to appear in court on marijuana possession. (likely punishable by a FINE for a first offender)....which he ran away from (another MISDEMEANOR). In short, he had no history of violence, and there was no justification for the use of lethal force. In fact, to respond with guns in this situation was both unwarrnated and illegal. Since they had his license (and the address on it) they simply could have gotten into their car and followed him...or waited for him at home. This was NOT about public safety, this was about asserting CONTROL...and it unnecessarily cost a man his life...and its going to cost that city a LOT of money for wrongful death. I guarentee you had Wright been a white kid from an affluent neighborhood, this same behavior would have NEVER ellecited a violent response by police. Never mind a lethal one.
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Nothing dumb about this. You can’t allow a President to pick-and-choose what laws he follows. What parts of the Constitution he pays attention to.
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@josephmarc5137 Its not an either or proposition. You're just looking at a ONE Congressional committee of House of nearly 500 members. What giving the APPEARANCE of "nothing getting done" is that Mitch McConnell is basically a "filibuster" of one. Any bill that he doesn't like never even gets a floor vote in the Senate. But what Trump is doing HAS to be confronted if we wish to keep our democracy.
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@Axis. Try learning what the phrase actually means, before using it as a buzzword. "Defund the police" means you stop using police as the way to deal with every social problem. Like drug addiction and mental illness. Instead you invest in health care and social work systems that are better equipped to deal with these things humanely.
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No. The joke is a veteran police officer who can't tell the difference between a 9mm and a taser. And shoots someone for running away from a misdemeanor arrest (Supreme Court says you can't do that).
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@anonymouscitizen2732 Wow. Your mother must be so proud of her handiwork..... the one thing that she DOES get credit for in my book is that SHE has enough integrity to understand the severity of what she did...and the moral compass to have RESIGNED. Rather than try to defend what she did. Try to learn from her example....
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Wow. Clueless. This was an illegal shoot. The Supreme Court ruled that you cannot simply shoot someone for failing to comply with a police order and running away. The fact that it was a bad shoot (legally) and not just a bad-LOOKING shoot...is why they are trying to spin this as an accident. An accident where a veteran officer apparently can't tellt he difference between her 9mm and a taser. I do not feel sorry for her at all. At BEST, someone is dead beause of her unspeakable negligence and incompetence.
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@wtchone5954 Okay. I'm going to just assume that you're a troll and not a sociopath, and I'm just not going to play along.
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@featherpony ..and now starts the character assassination and the gaslighting. The police can only justify the use of force based on what they knew at the time, and the behavior in front of them. But this is how police misconduct gets justified. You put the victim on trial, based on information that the police didn't know at the time. Read my lips. I don't care if he murdered his mother, and buried her in the backyard. What was done to him was NOT justifiable based on his actions at the time....the situation at the time...and the information the police knew at the time. The job of the police is to arrest people so that they can be tried and punished by courts. Not shot like dogs in the street.
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@featherpony He deserves to have his constitutional rights. Like every US citizens.
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Good advice for the police to follow.....
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