Victor Perez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had been in a coma since the April 5 shooting, and tests Friday showed that he had no brain activity, his aunt, Ana Vazquez, told The Associated Press. He had undergone several surgeries, with doctors removing nine bullets and amputating his leg.
The shooting outraged Perez’s family and Pocatello residents, and about 200 people attended a vigil Saturday morning outside the Pocatello hospital where he was treated. Another crowd of protesters gathered outside the Pocatello City Hall building, which also houses the police department, on Saturday afternoon. Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest, though no violence was reported. Many of the protesters held signs with phrases like, “Do better, PPD” and “Justice for Victor,” and passing cars honked in acknowledgment.
Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest
Land of the free
We’ll kill you to keep you quiet about us killing you.
Bake 'em away, toys.
What a stupid headline. He was killed from a police shooting, not from being removed from life support.
Maybe next time a killer is on trail he cpuld just argue that the victim just happened to die later from blood loss, not from the shooting.
newspapers are long in the business of not getting sued.
If you write a story about a rich enough person, they have someone whose job it is to litigate every story about them. It’s automatic. They do something news worthy and all you do is repeat the fact, the lawsuit is on your desk the same day. Doesn’t matter how truthful it is, the lawsuit is there because they are rich.
Time we started making anti-money instead. The more you invest per period of time, the less privileges and opportunities you are allowed depending on how much anti-money you’re saddled with until you die.
Oh, you don’t like that this penalizes tall poppies? I am a tall poppy. The rich cut ME off. Why? Because I was never rich but I had skill and talent and I hate people who abuse authority. Because the rich don’t care about tall poppies, they care only about THEIR legacy. Fuck the shears and the gardener, everyone.
One of the reasons anti-slapp laws need to exist in all jurisdictions.
so why is that when 5 idiots do something then people scream ACAB all day and night? I am not a cop buy my childhood and current best friend was and he had to go through some fucking shit. he had to deal with suicide by cop, crack addicts just being…crack addicts. idiot people driving around dangerously, bomb threats left and right, angry karens crying about their neighbors and more.
How many corrupt cops did your friend take down? If the answer is zero your friend is just as much of a bastard as the corrupt ones
There aren’t any here so… How could he have?
So you’re friend helps hide corruption?
Bullshit.
Can’t believe you cheated on you significant other man. That’s some bullshit
That’s terrible! There should be an investigation!
However, as a fellow internet commentator, I will stand in solidarity with my cheating brother no matter what. I support the creation of social structures that give him special privileges. Cheating should not be grounds for divorce, but only when it’s an internet commentator.
What he did was terrible. Don’t you dare treat him like the rest of the common rabble.
Trying to divert attention from yourself is a weak-assed response.
Take it like a man dude.
I’m just saying I know a guy who cheated on his wife so that means you did too. That’s the logic here.
You seem to have responded to the wrong person.
Your friend chose to be a cop. He was not forced to become one.
He should choose his next job with care, doing the research he should have done before picking law enforcement.
Nah that’s a dumbass take. He was in the military for 2 terms (8 years), became a cop, became a detective, retired.
Dude spends his free time playing Warhammer 40k. But everyone just wants to assume he’s an asshole I guess because of some guy 2,000 miles away.
Nah, that’s a dumbass take.
How so?
It’s ‘ACAB’ because plenty of cops like your friend could be a perfectly honorable and righteous individual, but the policing system as it is deployed incentivizes the use of force and violence. They have developed a militant culture seperating them from ‘civilians’.
ACAB.
we need counter snipers badly
RIP young man.
In Trump’s America, if he survived, ICE would grab at the hospital and deport him.
WTF do you mean? The child lived and died in Trump’a American. This was by design.
They could deport the body and count that to boost their deportation numbers.
Tired of these morons with tin badges killing with impunity. They say they’re afraid of everything, to justify killing. Maybe it’s time to give them something to actually fear. Maybe we’re afraid of them.
The officers, whose names have not been released, were placed on administrative leave.
Anonymity and a paid vacation for a lead amputation of a neurodivergent teen. And then they add insult to injury by posting up fucking snipers. I can’t say anything else that won’t get me a ban…
I can’t say anything about else that won’t get me a ban…
This is Lemmy, you have to worry less about banning for some stuff. But you do have to worry about things being really difficult to delete (potentially impossible, if any instances are maliciously recording things). And even upvotes and downvotes are public information in a Federated system.
That wasn’t hyperbole. That train of thought shouldn’t see the light of day.
“Teen murdered by police” would be a better title.
As an autistic person this scares the shit out of me, and makes me realize just how fucking lucky I am to be alive with the sheer callous evil that I have seen happen towards me and others.
I have a pet rock named hsmmurabi I ask in difficult times what to do.
These cops are bastards
All cops are bastards.
Hey man I’m holding out hope for one good apple.
But I’m also waiting for seasons 7-9 of the expanse.
Maybe I should just shit in my other hand and actually have something.
A person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child?
In the US, absolutely. Fortunately it doesn’t have to be that way, however I do not think there is any coming back from the police being the direct successors of slave patrols. Best for the states to just separate into several nations and eventually form some sort of EU-like economic pact, otherwise North America will be the new Africa.
Stories like this make my blood boil. Nothing will every be right until these thugs are put in jail where they belong. We are a long way from there right now. More than likely they will give them a raise for killing him.
Jail. You’re kinder than I.
Idastan just brought back firing squads. They’ve already used it once iirc.
That said, I feel like jail is a worse punishment. I don’t think cops fair well in jail. I want them to be looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives while in prison. To never get out. To look out the barred window at the world passing them by in their cement tomb.
oh that’s a religious thing don’t get me started
Those police really couldn’t read the room eh?
Can police even read?
No, they could and that’s the problem.
Purge has started, eyy? /s
What the actual shit? That is an insane thing to suggest, even for trump.
/s
Unless…
