JHFC. Does it never stop? Does it ever stop getting more tragically absurd?
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach police say an 18-year-old died after being shocked with a stun gun as he resisted arrest for spraying graffiti.
Chief Ray Martinez told the Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/... ) that officers spotted Israel Hernandez-Llach painting graffiti on an abandoned fast-food restaurant early Tuesday. Martinez said the teen ran, but was eventually cornered. He said Hernandez-Llach then ran at the officers and one shot him with a Taser in the chest. The teen went into medical duress and died at a hospital.
The teen's friends told the Herald that Hernandez-Llach was originally from Colombia. His teachers at Miami Beach High School said he was a talented artist and photographer.
And this is just one of the insane things that happened today. The killer of Ramarley Graham, a police officer who followed the young man into his house minutes after Ramarley entered (so not in hot pursuit) without a warrant, who terrorized Ramarley's grandmother, who opened the bathroom door on Ramarley and then shot him dead, will not be re-indicted because of "lack of evidence."
A grand jury has decided that there wasn't enough evidence to support manslaughter charges against the officer who shot and killed Ramarley Graham and ruled against a second indictment.
Officer Richard Haste was previously indicted, but a Bronx judge had thrown out that indictment. The judge said the assistant district attorney made an accidental mistake to grand jury, which voted to indict him.
And in Oakland today.
a 1-yr old was killed with his father in a hail of bullets by unknown assailants.
...someone opened fire through the window of an East Oakland home where 17 members of an extended family were staying.
When the shooting stopped, 20-year-old Andrew Thomas lay dying near his 1-year-old son, Drew Jackson. The boy, mortally wounded, died before sunrise at a hospital.
No, today was not a good day to be watching the news.
8:18 PM PT: Oh FSM, FSM.
A 95-year-old war veteran died after being Tasered and hit with bean bag rounds by police for threatening care home staff.
Police say that John Wrana, who lived in a Chicago care home, was brandishing his cane and a knife before officers shocked him and hit him with bean bag rounds.
http://www.usaprepares.com/...
Hat tip to Kossack kith from the comments.