Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Monroe, LA– On Tuesday, a Ouachita Parish jury somehow returned a verdict of not-guilty for West Monroe police officer Jody LeDoux on charges of negligent homicide. A six-person jury returned the unanimous verdict after less than a single hour of deliberation.
LeDoux plead not guilty at his arraignment on in 2015, for negligent homicide after shooting and killing homeless veteran, Raymond Keith Martinez, 51.
On the evening of December 5, Martinez was attempting to go into a convenience store that he frequented. The store employees would often call the police to have him removed when he would ask people for spare change outside. The owner of the store alleges that on this evening, he told the victim that he could not come inside the store because he was intoxicated.
“He (the store owner) stated that officer got out of the car and told him to get his hands up,” the police report reads. “He stated that he did not hear the suspect say anything and the suspect turned to reach inside the paper machine, at which time the officer shot him. He stated that he did not hear the suspect say anything to the police. He stated that while the suspect was on the ground he observed a black cellphone by his hand.”
Those who knew him described Martinez as harmless. He was someone who wouldn’t hurt a fly- but with a drinking problem stemming from his past.
“He said when he wasn’t drinking he had to remember and he didn’t want to remember. He never bothered anybody,” someone from the neighborhood he stayed in told KTVE.
LeDoux maintained throughout the trial that he had no other options but to kill the unarmed Martinez. And, unfortunately, a police apologist jury bought his words.
“I couldn’t wait any longer,” LeDoux testified on Friday.
“I felt like he was going to shoot me at that point,” said LeDoux referring to the point when the harmless and unarmed Martinez grabbed his cellphone.
As the New Star reports, during his closing statements, defense attorney Michael DuBos told the jury they had the opportunity to stand between a police officer and danger — to help an officer in trouble.
However, as the video below shows, the only person in trouble was Martinez.
The video, which is a composite from two security cameras, shows it was only seconds from when the officer approached Martinez with his weapon drawn until the victim was fatally shot. The man was posing no threat to anyone. The entire clip is only one minute and thirty seconds long.
After he was killed, Martinez was remembered by friends and relatives at his grave site. He was once again described as peaceful and harmless, as mourners expressed their confusion as to why his life was taken.
“He didn’t provoke nobody out of anger, or steal or anything like that. He was loved by everything and everybody. We also know there is a problem with the West Monroe Police Department. Major problem. Whether they like it or not, they’ve got a cold blooded killer in their force,” one mourner told KNOE.
It is truly heartbreaking how many veterans survive war only to come home and be killed by our troops in blue.
Only a couple of weeks after Martinez was killed, Nicholas McGehee, 28, a celebrated purple heart recipient, was killed after his wife called 9-1-1 for a medical emergency.
On Mother’s Day in 2014, Tommy Yancy, 32, a veteran who suffered from PTSD and served in Afghanistan and Iraq in the 259th Field Service Unit following the 9/11 attacks, was savagely beaten to death, in horrific brutality caught on camera.
Last year, we reported on new documents which show that the Palm Springs Police Department admits they were at fault in the death of Allan ‘AJ’ DeVillena II, a High Desert Marine who was shot to death on Veteran’s Day weekend.
In all of these cases, just like LeDoux’s — the officers walked. Where is the outrage from the nationalists for these men? Sadly they are silent, because standing against the state is only okay when it’s directed against whatever divisive puppet is in the white house.
For cowardly gunning down an unarmed man, LeDoux will now be celebrated as a hero and the US government has the audacity to call this ‘justice.’
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-killed-veteran-not-guilty/#P3MG9xIWZIwYJ2fT.99
ITS TIME TO ARREST AND TRY THESE ARMED THUGS UNDER OUR JURISDICTION………… THE ADMIRALITY KEEPS “CUTTING EM LOOSE…………………………
“ITS TIME TO ARREST AND TRY THESE ARMED THUGS…”
Past time, but that’s beside the point.
As far as trying them, they’ve already been tried… but a faulty verdict was rendered. Trying them again would be double jeopardy.
Relying on the video evidence alone, it was a clear-cut case of premeditated murder. In cases such as this, where the perpetrator was erroneously allowed to go free (in SPITE of all the evidence proving guilt), I believe it is best to simply skip the ‘formalities’, and implement the execution phase.
For the sake of expediency, naturally. 🙂
“The man was posing no threat to anyone.”
Hence the reason the cowardly pig was ‘in fear for his (miserable, worthless) life.
“It is truly heartbreaking how many veterans survive war only to come home and be killed by our troops in blue.”
Define OUR.
I sure as hell don’t claim ’em!