Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Austin, TX — A video of a police killing in Austin, Texas over the weekend — which witnesses referred to as a murder — was reportedly so disturbing that even the city’s mayor was forced to speak out about it. In the video, a man is seen trying to surrender to police with his hands in the air, moments later, he’d be killed by a police officer firing his AR-15.
“Mike Ramos does not appear to threaten but ends up dead. There’s got to be a better way,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler said in a statement on Monday. “I’m very disturbed.”
According to police, they responded to a 911 call on Friday about a man possibly doing drugs in an apartment parking lot. Police Chief Brian Manley said officers were investigating reports of people in a car, including an armed man, doing drugs when they encountered Ramos.
Whether or not that man mentioned in the 911 call was Ramos, remains unclear.
Ramos, a 42-year-old Hispanic man was seen in the video exiting the car when ordered by police. As he gets out, he raises his shirt to show officers that he is unarmed. He is seen in the brief video with his hands in the air trying to talk to police.
“I’ve seen the videos that are on social media, and I understand the concern that those have brought forward in our community,” Manley said.
The entire time, Ramos had his hands in the air. He never attempted to get back in the vehicle and had proven to cops that he was unarmed. Ramos was merely talking with the officers, asking them why they were stopping him. Then, without warning, while Ramos still had his hands in the air, a rookie cop opened fire with a beanbag round.
This likely sent Ramos into panic, thinking he was about to be killed. Sadly, he would be right.
After being shot with a beanbag round for no apparent reason, Ramos tried to get away from the threat. He jumps in the car and attempts to drive off. As he attempts to flee, however, another cop, officer Christopher Taylor opens fire with an AR-15, dumping three rounds into the fleeing man, who was only suspected of being a person of interest in an alleged crime.
The shots killed Ramos, who then crashed his car.
When asked if a weapon was found in the car or on Ramos person, the police chief refused to answer, stating only that: “We have many witnesses that have yet to be interviewed and I do not want to put out information that they may not be aware of that would influence or change a statement that they may make.”
While the chief gives these canned responses, anyone who has been a reader of TFTP knows that if there is a gun involved in the incident, almost every single time, that gun is mentioned by cops in their initial statement. In fact, in their initial statement, they had no problem mentioning the alleged gun they say was reported in the 911 call.
As for the mayor, he says there are many questions still unanswered.
“We must respond to this moment and also to the fear, anxiety and lack of confidence expressed by communities of color,” Adler said. “This incident happens against the backdrop of investigations and assessments of the department that must also be full, transparent, concluded and reported.”
After the killing, protesters took to the scene of the shooting, chanting, “APD are murderers.”
While we can’t speak to all the officers, it appears from the video that at least one officer on the APD has committed murder. The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) of Austin has since released a statement, demanding the chief’s resignation and that officer Taylor be arrested.
“We the members of LULAC District 12 are shocked at the blatant killing of Mr. Ramos,” said Gavino Fernandez Jr., LULAC District 12 leader. “These are too many murders under Chief Manley and enough is enough. ¡Ya basta!”
As the video shows, after he was killed, the woman filming was warned by a male companion off camera not to approach the police.
“If they just shot him for no reason, don’t go near them, because they might shoot you too,” he said.
This is the state of policing in America.
Below is that disturbing video.
can’t watch the video but that pig should die…and the name of the snitch should be made public
If covid19 dont get ya, a swat team/ or crooked cops will here in the ussa. Sorry sons of biotches. Private armies quartered by private corporation AGAINST THE BILL OF RIGHTS…..inside conus.
GET ME aLOT of hemp ROPE….
There was no crime only an allegation of a crime, which under our laws can not ever even be a crime… see the paradox?
He had/has every right to “exit” his vehicle fully armed to the teeth with Grenades hanging from his vest with a 30cal over his shoulder and a desert eagle strapped on his side.
I assume we all had best start arming ourselves accordingly.
Mr. police chief you and yours will be tried for your crimes, so guess you might as well go all in and just start executing anyone at Will anytime…
Oh right you already do, and say you are very upset about it..
Ha
You know I guess people are just going to have to come together in neighborhoods like this and out number and outgun these criminals in costumes engaging in this type of actions.
If they won’t surrender and be placed in their own handcuffs then swift street justice will have to be taken against a gang in costumes actively murdering your neighbors.
The cops do this cause they are trained to do it.. and believe they have the right to do it too, so stop acting like it isn’t standard op protocol u fkn Police Chief POS…!
You are not able to exist under our laws you criminals… where are the constitutional sheriffs at, arresting the standing armies of paid mercs?
At this point in the criminal corporation there isn’t a single peace officer on the land. These sheriffs that think they’re a few notches higher than simply hired cops are acting no different than cops, all one in the same.
Here in the county I live in they want to give 2 drug busting sheriffs raises because they are such good Bill of Rights violators they want to reward them out of the asset forfeiture fund.
I’m certainly no fan of the guy who said this (you can look up who it was if you think it’s important) but not a truer was spoken back when he said it & it’s even more pertinent now –
In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.
And I tried to find the quote but couldn’t by Stalin, I think it was, who said something along the lines of no matter how much the government changes the police will always remain & follow the orders of that government. Basically stating that the police are there to enforce whatever the government tells them to, even if your government is completely taken over by your enemy & no matter how radically out of order or tyrannical.
“...the consequences of this shift of emphasis from the police to the military in the power game were of great consequence. It is true, ascendancy of the secret police over the military apparatus is the hallmark of many tyrannies, and not only the totalitarian; however, in the case of totalitarian government the preponderance of the police not merely answers the need for suppressing the population at home but fits the ideological claim to global rule. For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army. Thus, the Nazis used their SS troops, essentially a police force, for the rule and even the conquest of foreign territories, with the ultimate aim of an amalgamation of the army and the police under the leadership of the SS.”― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Hannah Arendt” sounds like a jewish name. Why didn’t she use the earlier much clearer & more extensive example, and much more pertinent to what’s going on today, of the various murderous & torturous secret police forces used by the Commies in Bolshevik Russia where TENS OF MILLIONS of innocent white Russian people were raped, tortured, murdered, starved & worked to death in gulags? Oh that’s right – because the Bolsheviks were JEWS!!!