Before It’s NewsDay after day police seem to feel using excessive force is the way to protect the communities they serve.
Joseph Jennings is the latest example, on Aug 25th Joseph Jennings was brutally shot by police in The Orscheln Farm and Home parking lot on 2008 Princeton St in Ottawa, Kansas.
Joseph Jenning’s aunt Brandy Smith and her husband were present. Mr Smith was a arms length away when the police threatened to shoot him if he didn’t back off. Brandy Smith told KCTV 5, that her husband backed off and police attention turned back to Jennings, that’s when one officer yelled “Bag Him” and proceeded to shoot.
Ottawa police were called about 7:50 p.m. Saturday to Orscheln Farm and Home at 2008 S. Princeton St. on a report of a person reportedly armed with a gun.
However, the family of deceased 18-year-old Joseph Jennings, said there was no gun. Ottawa Police have not confirmed that Jennings was armed either.
Ottawa Police Chief, Dennis Butler, said the officers did what they were trained to do. ”They reacted based upon the training that they’ve been given from the academy,” Butler said. “We were thankful that no officer was injured from protecting themselves from risk of great bodily harm.”
Jennings was described as a “really good boy” by family members. But he also suffered from depression, anxiety, and had horrible seizures which led to him becoming suicidal.
Two days before being shot 16 times by police, he tried to take his own life. He released the following statement on his Facebook page prior to ingesting 60 pills.
“Tonight is the night goodbye everyone!!!!! It was truly a good ride! And I’m sorry for who I might of hurted (sic) and people that I may of offended, But I love all my family and I hope you don’t hold this against me.”
Coincidentally, the two officers that were involved in the shooting of Jennings were also present when Jennings was taken to Ransom Memorial Hospital to be treated for the overdose, according to Jennings’ aunt, Brandy Smith.
Only 3 hours after leaving the hospital Jennings walked to Orschein Farm & Home. Smith said he was there on a suicide mission and when she saw how officers were handling the situation she immediately tried to intervene. ”I told them it is Joseph Jennings. He is suicidal. He is upset, don’t shoot him,” she said.
My husband was going to tackle him. He was within arms reach. They said to get back or they were going to shoot him, Too” Smith said.
Today in America you are 29 times more likely to be murdered by a cop than a terrorist!
Why all of a sudden is there so much of the same story playing out across cities all over America? When did we submit to living under a police state where our public servants seem to be out side the law? The streets of America are changing, it would appear that life no longer viewed as sacred as it once was. Protect and Serve?
Bag ’em? The use of that expression tells me they’re not even seeing us as human anymore.
Nope, just an animal to put their game tag on. Hopefully they will also become prey.
He looks white. Why was that not in the report?
Hang every one of these pig cops! 😡
”They reacted based upon the training that they’ve been given from the academy.”
That training is twisted, warped and designed to turn peace officers into killing machines and their bosses into sociopaths. Time for the police brass to wake up to the fact that they are nothing but tools of the America Haters in the federal bureaucracy… useful idiots, as it were, who have been propagandized to accept being robocops instead of people working with troubled people. Time to wake up to the race-baiting coming from the highest echelons.
All part of the grand scheme to set up the USA for a “civil” war where everyone who isn’t a government employee is the enemy.
Ottawa Police Chief, Dennis Butler, said the officers did what they were trained to do. ”They reacted based upon the training that they’ve been given from the academy,” Butler said. “We were thankful that no officer was injured from protecting themselves from risk of great bodily harm.”
These “officers” are no longer servants that protect the public. They are terminators that seem to more than enjoy their job. When human life is no longer viewed as something valuable, we’re all in big trouble.
Agreed.
I’m afraid we’re already “all in big trouble.” Have been for a while, now. 🙁
We’ll see how brave they are when the enough people say enough is enough. They are way too trigger happy. To all the idiots! Do you really still believe we are free? Taxed and oppressed on a daily basis and if you even fart in the wrong direction? You are either in ICU cuffed to the bed or in the morgue. These assholes are way out of control. That’s what we get for falling asleep at the wheel for so long.
Excuse me but are they not terrorists by the very definition?
Saw another article about a black cop killing a white teen in Utah.
This, from the MSM…
Only ONE cricket? lol
i dont understand the lack of revenge/justice.
if that had been even a friend of mine – never mind family,
it would have been time for the sequal to “assault on precinct 13”
dont people get angry anymore?
hell – just reading these things makes me angry enough!
Time in America to shun the police. Don’t send your kids to school on cop day. They ask turn your back and put your hands on your head, they stop to eat move away and to a different table away from them. Just shun them publicly. No need to deal with such.
I live in Kansas and always felt like its a relatively safe place to be as far as excessive police force. Then I read this. I also read this morning the the Sedgwick County Sheriffs office got an MRAP… Guess there is no city or state thats safe from the none sense.
Leaderless resistance with the common goal of ending this overt tyranny might be a good idea.
-flek