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teddy241 posted...

This story has gotten no media attention. Hardly anyone is talking about yet this to me this is worse than George Floyd. At least Floyd had the option of cooperating with officers where as Amir literally had his door kicked in while sleeping and savagely murdered him without ANY chance of surviving/protecting himself. To me this needs to be the center of attention marches need to take place sev1 sound the alarms etc

The big difference is George's murder occurred in public with multiple camera's and witnesses that immediately went public; as I understand it, there is a short video showing Amir's murder, to my knowledge it has not been widely distributed. This will likely play out like Breonna Taylor's murder as the only video will be from body cams and the only witnesses are the officers who committed the offence.

Lokarin posted...

Then the blame shifts to the person who signed the raid approval.

CoorsLight posted...

I do think it's wrong that the higher ups don't get much punishment for this.

I am reminded of the murder of four young RCMP officers in Mayerthorpe (was it really 17 years ago??) They ended up charging a couple of buddies of the perpetrator as he had killed himself after shooting the officers and the RCMP (and the public to a certain extent) wanted blood, but they neglected to charge the individual who knowingly put the officers in harms way, the commander who signed off on allowing these officers to attend the premises in the first place.

See, the shooter had been in an ongoing dispute with his truck dealership (warranty repair or some such, doesn't really matter) so the owner of the dealership decided to use his privileged and standing in the community to coerce the local RCMP into being his repo men. Now if you or I go to the police for a matter like this, we are told "It's a civil matter, not our problem" but because the dealer was a brother, ancient free and accepted, the detachment commander said "Sure, I can give you four officers to storm the wackjobs farm."

The shooter was known in the community as being on the radical right and willing to defend his property with force if necessary; the detachment commander specifically knew what a dangerous man the shooter was but sent his officers anyway hoping that sheer numbers would provide the level of intimidation needed to carry out this unlawful civil action.

The four officers had maybe thirteen years experience between them, with the greenest being three weeks out of the academy. The commander that sent them to their deaths faced no consequences, same for the truck dealer.