Post by Barnaby Cuthbert on May 12, 2015 17:43:38 GMT -8
3 Dead in Police Shooting Gone Wrong
New reports out of Bremerton, WA. reports a police officer shooting 3 black men in a stop and frisk search gone wrong. The men were unarmed, and officers apparently mistook the cell phone in one of the men's hands for a gun.
In the report, the man, Daniel Storell, is seen riding his motorcycle into a housing complex while talking on his cell phone with his two associates, Rafferty Gaines and Morell Williams. Then reportedly a deputy pulled up behind them, rode over a patch of grass, and stopped. Cell phone in hand, Storell hops off his motorbike and takes about two steps towards the officer, who had gotten out of his car.
Storell then turns around, the report describes, as if to run, and is shot four times by Bremerton County Sheriff’s deputy Barry Klein. Only about five seconds had elapsed. The other two men attempted to leave via their motorcycles, and each in turn were shot twice.
Storell had a bag of weed in his pocket at the time. County coroners believe he was paralyzed from the waist down from the shooting before dying shortly afterwards.
Separately, an investigation released last month by the Bremerton Times found that local police had been accused of unfairly profiling local African American bikers since a recent report of a home invasion in their precinct.
The video footage out of the Bremerton's 1st precinct also suggests that other officers might have played a role in the aftermath of the shooting.
“He starts backing away,” Klein says in a in-precinct video obtained by the Bremerton Times, speaking to another unidentified officer. “I said, ‘Get on the ground, get on the ground.’”
“I got your back man,” the fellow cop told Klein. “I got your back. Hey, you hear me?”
New reports out of Bremerton, WA. reports a police officer shooting 3 black men in a stop and frisk search gone wrong. The men were unarmed, and officers apparently mistook the cell phone in one of the men's hands for a gun.
In the report, the man, Daniel Storell, is seen riding his motorcycle into a housing complex while talking on his cell phone with his two associates, Rafferty Gaines and Morell Williams. Then reportedly a deputy pulled up behind them, rode over a patch of grass, and stopped. Cell phone in hand, Storell hops off his motorbike and takes about two steps towards the officer, who had gotten out of his car.
Storell then turns around, the report describes, as if to run, and is shot four times by Bremerton County Sheriff’s deputy Barry Klein. Only about five seconds had elapsed. The other two men attempted to leave via their motorcycles, and each in turn were shot twice.
Storell had a bag of weed in his pocket at the time. County coroners believe he was paralyzed from the waist down from the shooting before dying shortly afterwards.
Separately, an investigation released last month by the Bremerton Times found that local police had been accused of unfairly profiling local African American bikers since a recent report of a home invasion in their precinct.
The video footage out of the Bremerton's 1st precinct also suggests that other officers might have played a role in the aftermath of the shooting.
“He starts backing away,” Klein says in a in-precinct video obtained by the Bremerton Times, speaking to another unidentified officer. “I said, ‘Get on the ground, get on the ground.’”
“I got your back man,” the fellow cop told Klein. “I got your back. Hey, you hear me?”