bearkat42
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The NYPD is getting sued to explain why over 1,000 pounds worth of police couldn’t stop a young black man from allegedly pulling a gun, leading an officer to open fire.
“And we are supposed to believe, and the city thinks a jury will believe, that somehow this 140-pound guy raises 1200 pounds of policemen, with a dozen trained hands trying to cuff him, and manages to raise himself up to his knees, reach into his waistband, pull out a .9mm Kel Tech pistol, and somehow point it over his left shoulder ay Sgt. Quigley?”
On Sept. 20, 2012, five New York Police Department officers pinned Tyjuan Hill to the ground and a sixth shot him in the back of the head.
Years before the Black Lives Matter movement focused national attention on the questionable killings of black men by police, Hill’s death barely registered beyond Brooklyn where he died.
That won’t be the case on Sept. 12 when a federal trial begins for a civil rights lawsuit brought against the NYPD by Hill’s mother, Carol, in a Manhattan federal courthouse.
Representing Hill are attorneys Philip Smallman and Michael Colihan, who walked The Daily Beast through the last moments of her son’s on the corner of Henry and Huntington Streets in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on a July afternoon.
According to Smallman and Colihan, the city’s Law Department headed by Zachary Carter seems unwilling to negotiate a settlement, and appears ready to go to trial where the lawyers say some very unsettling and disturbing facts and eye witness testimony will become public.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/04/five-cops-held-down-tyjuan-hill-a-sixth-shot-him-in-the-back-of-the-head.html?via=desktop&source=twitter
“And we are supposed to believe, and the city thinks a jury will believe, that somehow this 140-pound guy raises 1200 pounds of policemen, with a dozen trained hands trying to cuff him, and manages to raise himself up to his knees, reach into his waistband, pull out a .9mm Kel Tech pistol, and somehow point it over his left shoulder ay Sgt. Quigley?”
On Sept. 20, 2012, five New York Police Department officers pinned Tyjuan Hill to the ground and a sixth shot him in the back of the head.
Years before the Black Lives Matter movement focused national attention on the questionable killings of black men by police, Hill’s death barely registered beyond Brooklyn where he died.
That won’t be the case on Sept. 12 when a federal trial begins for a civil rights lawsuit brought against the NYPD by Hill’s mother, Carol, in a Manhattan federal courthouse.
Representing Hill are attorneys Philip Smallman and Michael Colihan, who walked The Daily Beast through the last moments of her son’s on the corner of Henry and Huntington Streets in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on a July afternoon.
According to Smallman and Colihan, the city’s Law Department headed by Zachary Carter seems unwilling to negotiate a settlement, and appears ready to go to trial where the lawyers say some very unsettling and disturbing facts and eye witness testimony will become public.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/04/five-cops-held-down-tyjuan-hill-a-sixth-shot-him-in-the-back-of-the-head.html?via=desktop&source=twitter
