Charges dropped for cop who fatally shot sleeping 7 year old girl


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In all of the melee resulting from the shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson, the media has overlooked a number of other very important shootings of unarmed civilians by police officers. One of the most egregious offenses is that of Officer Joseph Weekley?s fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones.


Officer Weekley recently saw manslaughter charge dropped against him, for shooting the 7-year-old while she slept.


?Although I find that the trial court erred in form and substance in granting defendant?s motion for directed verdict, we are barred from reviewing that decision,? Talbot wrote.


The shooting happened just after midnight, back on May 16, 2010.


A SWAT team had conducted a raid to search for a murder suspect. Weekly ended up being first through the door.


There was even a film crew on hand to film for a reality show about murder investigations. Weekley says that another SWAT member had thrown a flash-bang grenade, which temporarily blinded him. That?s when he fired the shot that killed Aiyana who was asleep on the couch in the front room of the house.


Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/11/aiyana-stanley-jones/#


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The second charge "careless discharge of a firearm causing death" was the only thing he should have faced anyway.  It's debatable if you think it should be a felony or a misdemeanor charge (it's a misdemeanor in that state), but that's for the legislature to decide. 

 

He probably should have better control of his weapon and based on the narrative presented to us, it's highly possible that he had his finger on the trigger when he went inside, which goes against basic firearms training, that you should only put it there when you are about to fire, specifically because of knee jerk reactions.  It's a tragedy, but it's hard to argue that he went in there with the intention or desire to kill someone let alone a young girl.  The family will also get a large settlement out of court from the government I'm sure.

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At a minimum: Any SWAT team member should be permanently removed from the force for this offense.

 

yeah, ###### happens.    but firing when blind, should be at least discouraged, but dismissing him from further work in SWAT.

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Ok hold on, its taken a court over 4 years to say not guilty? Or is the media that desperate to spread the hate on the American police its just digging up old things to add a little more fuel to the fire?

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