Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Andre Green, alive ...
Late Sunday night, 15-year-old Andre Green was shot and killed by police in Indianapolis, Indiana. He appears to be the youngest victim of police violence
since 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police in Cleveland this past November.
Tragically, we do know this much...
Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
The officers who struck the suspect will be placed on paid leave as police investigate the shooting, which is standard procedure in any officer-involved shooting.
Investigators have not yet found the other passengers of the car.
IMPD Lt. Richard Riddle said he does not believe the cars involved were equipped with dashboard cameras. IMPD officers are not currently wearing body cameras, as a pilot program that tested them ended last month.
In other words, body cameras or dashboard cameras simply aren't a priority in this department and we are left to believe whatever the police tell us about why they just absolutely had to kill this young man.
While the police claim that Green was attempting to hit them with a stolen car and that they shot in the car as an unavoidable last resort, without these cameras, we'll likely never know the full truth. And Green isn't alive to say what his intentions were.
We also know that police officers, like Ray Tensing in Cincinnati, Ohio, are perfectly willing to say that their victims were "dragging them" or about to run them over with a car, even when it just wasn't true. Only because the body camera was rolling did we learn the truth that Officer Tensing concocted his entire story.
After the year we've had, with protests across the nation regarding police brutality, any police departments that don't yet have body cameras, don't have them because they don't want them. It's a mess and it's getting worse.
