Operating with Impunity
Operating with Impunity
A hospital is no safe space from murderous cops and their narrative.
Minneapolis cops shot another young Black father on Sunday. Officer Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the thin blue line, claims she couldn’t ascertain the difference between her taser and her loaded gun when she drew down on a guy with unpaid fines totaling a whopping $346.
To throw salt in the wound, the Minneapolis police decided to hoist a Thin Blue Line flag above the Brooklyn Center precinct to reinforce their mission statement of destroying Black lives and protecting white property.
That the police once again whoopsie’d away another Black life roughly ten miles from where that same department murdered George Floyd last summer was enough to deal me 10,000 psychic points of damage.
But of course the Columbus cops had to try to one-up their murderous colleagues in Minneapolis by fatally shooting a man in an emergency room.
Let’s see how the CDP’s chief water-carrier reported the news, via abc6onyourside.com:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Police are investigating a deadly officer-involved shooting at Mount Carmel St. Ann's hospital in Westerville after officers and a suspect with open warrants exchanged gunfire in the emergency room area.
Westerville Police Chief Charles Chandler told media at the scene that the suspect was being held for pickup at the hospital for Columbus Police after it was discovered the suspect had open domestic violence warrants and a weapon under disability warrant.
The suspect was receiving medical attention at the time after reportedly passing out inside a vehicle.
Gunfire was exchanged between Columbus Police officers, St. Ann's security, and the suspect in the emergency room area, Chief Chandler said. It is not clear how the suspect obtained a firearm during the transfer of custody from Westerville Police to Columbus Police.
Another masterclass in stenography by taking the police narrative and presenting it as fact in news articles before the facts of the case are known.
The sentence of, “It is not clear how the suspect obtained a firearm during the transfer of custody from Westerville Police to Columbus Police” is doing massive amounts of work.
Either the suspect is a warlock who magically conjured a glock and fired on police or they were inept and missed his gun when they searched him before initiating the transfer.
Either way, the cops decided to shoot it out with a patient in a hospital at the risk of civilians, doctors and nurses.
I’m sure a lot of people will think the suspect deserved to die because he had warrants for domestic violence and possessing weapons under disability. But that falsely pretends that police officers are the judge, jury and executioner in this country. Many of them like to pretend they are but that doesn’t actually make it true.
Look how ABC6 bends over to protect the police. It’s an “officer-involved shooting” where “officers exchanged gunfire.” They’ll use passive voice to protect the murderous cops while also taking their word that the suspect fired on them after magically producing a gun in an emergency room. We don’t even know the victim’s name and yet the bootlicking media is already pushing the cops’ narrative.
The police in all corners of America operate this way because they know they can get away with it. Meanwhile, we delude ourselves into thinking we’re the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” If this shit happened in any other country we would call it a police state. We need to understand that and operate like we do, because the cops are already one step ahead of us while controlling a state monopoly on violence.
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