- Target:
- Department of Justice
- Region:
- GLOBAL
To cite just one statistics, police killed more people in the U.S. in April than Great Britain did in the entire 20th century. We have all seen other statistics equally alarming.
It is the nearly weekly videos of obvious killings, from breaking the neck of a young man who did nothing wrong, to killing two teens whose car had backfired and took 62 chasing cars, over 100 cops, hundreds of shots fired at the unarmed kids on a date, the officer who shot 42 times through windshield of stopped car that finally killed them released by judge who found him not guilty, to shooting and then planting evidence of a taser on the body of what had been a fleeing suspect fearful because of owed child support but stopped for a rear light being out, to choking a man to death for selling loose smokes, to .....it goes on and on.
So far, the cop who planted evidence has been charged and the cops who broke the mans neck have been charged. In no other case was a cop even charged for killing an unarmed person.
We, the undersigned, request the Attorney General, chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America, grant police officers the same rights as any citizen.
That is, the assumption of innocence unless found guilty be applied because the officer must have mandatory charges of at least involuntary manslaughter if an unarmed person is killed by police. The justification to be decided in a court of law.
Second, rules, regulations and, if necessary, laws be written and enforced for an extremely limited number of reasons for the use of deadly force. Any form of non lethal force must be used first unless under armed attack.
A guideline could be that unless what the suspect is accused of has the potential for capital punishment, then lethal force cannot be used for apprehension.
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