Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos
Columbus, AL – A graphic video, released as part of a report issued by the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation, shows officer Allan Brown firing eleven shots into the vehicle, after engaging in a high speed chase, pausing only to reload and fire another ten shots into the vehicle as the teens can be heard begging for their lives.
Christian Redwine, 17, was killed in the shooting, and passengers Hunter Tillis and Hanna Wuenschel, both 19 at the time, suffered nonfatal gunshot wounds. It was the first volley, of the 21 total bullets, that struck Redwine in the head and heart that ended his young life, according to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences.
Brown claimed that Redwine tried to use the car to run him over, which caused him fear for his life, and prompted the fatal shots. An attorney representing Wuenschel said Redwine was trying only to back out of a hole. The attorney said Redwine was shot seven times, Wuenschel two or three times, and Tillis at least twice, according to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.
Despite the clearly desperate pleas of mercy from the teens, as Brown unloaded two magazines into their vehicle, a Russell County grand jury found that Brown committed no criminal wrongdoing in the November 6 incident.
Brown can be seen on dashcam video trailing two other police cars also in pursuit of Christian Redwine after reports of a stolen vehicle in Columbus.
Brown can be heard telling the other officers to “let me come around you.”
He then narrates that speeds are approaching 100 miles per hour.
“Dispatch speeds are 98 mph.”
Only two minutes later, Brown again can be heard narrating the speed to dispatch as the Pontiac G-6 he is pursuing appears headed for the highway.
“Advise speed 107 miles an hour.”
As the teens attempt to take an exit at high speeds, Redwine loses control of the vehicle.
“We’re gonna be on Riverchase Road dispatch. He has wrecked out. Wrecked out. He is spinning. Start uh rescue,” Brown reports to dispatch.
With the wheels of the vehicle now spinning in reverse, Brown, who is now on foot, fires his weapon 11 times.
The passengers can be heard pleading for the officer to stop firing.
“No, stop! Please! I got shot!
Please! Please! ”
Brown, instead, paused only to reload his weapon and fire 10 more times.
“Oh my God I‘m shot! My God. Please no. Please! Please!”
By the time Brown had unloaded two magazines, Christian Redwine, 17, was dead, and the two others had both suffered gunshot wounds. In fact, later investigation would reveal that all three teens had been shot in the initial barrage of gunfire.
According to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, the incident began when:
Columbus police said Redwine aroused suspicion when officers saw the Pontiac cruising around closed businesses around 4:30 a.m. near Columbus State University’s main campus on University Avenue.
Checking the tag, they learned the car had been reported stolen by Fred Levins, a friend of Redwine’s grandmother who considered himself to be like a grandfather to the teen. Around 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, Levins noticed it was missing along with his car keys.
When police tried to stop the car, Redwine sped away, initiating a chase that continued into downtown Columbus and crossed the 13th Street bridge into Alabama, where Phenix City police joined the pursuit.
A WLTZ First News investigation revealed Brown was fresh off a suspension for violating pursuit policy last year when this deadly incident took place.
The Russell County Grand Jury cleared Brown of any criminal wrongdoing just two weeks ago, and only days ago he submitted his resignation effective immediately.
According to the Ledger-Enquirer:
Russell County District Attorney Ken Davis said Brown waived his rights and volunteered to testify before the 18-member grand jury, which spent two days reviewing the evidence. Prosecutors did not recommend charges, but asked the grand jurors to determine whether the shooting was justified, Davis said.
Among other witnesses testifying were two more Columbus officers experienced in the department’s training and procedures, and an Alabama Bureau of Investigation agent who probed the shooting, Davis said.
In other words, they brought in a bunch of police apologist “experts” to justify and propagandize the jury into believing that unloading an entire magazine into a car full of teens, then pausing to reload and drop another ten shots as they beg for their lives, was justified.
Perhaps had this officer taken the same training as the Salt Lake City Police Department, which emphasizes de-escalation, and has resulted in them not killing anyone since 2015, these type of incidents would not be accepted and protected as “just doing my job.”
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dashcam-shows-cop-shot-teens-begging/#ecFjfBpLtqjOkKwZ.99
WHERE THE HELL IS REDWINES DADDY??
WILL HE JUST ROLL OVER AND ACCEPT HIS SONS MURDER????
Apparently, he will..!
like I keep saying, they keep choosing the “Right” people to kill with reckon abandon…
If that was my daughter stuck in there with some idiots that stole a car….what a international news story it would become… Where is the righteous retribution by the victims families…
I can only assume they’re getting some sort of payoff or are just subservient slaves…go figure…
‘The Russell County Grand Jury cleared Brown of any criminal wrongdoing just two weeks ago, and only days ago he submitted his resignation effective immediately.’…….If he had just murdered my son he wouldn’t have had to resign
“Brown claimed that Redwine tried to use the car to run him over, which caused him fear for his life,…”
So… this pig is SO RETARDED, he can’t EASILY move out of the path of a moving vehicle???
“Despite the clearly desperate pleas of mercy from the teens, as Brown unloaded two magazines into their vehicle,…”
This is not the reaction of someone ‘in fear for their life’.
This is the reaction of a cold-blooded, psychopathic KILLER.
Tick, tock, scumbags!
It seems that if A): they were not in a stolen car, they surely would not have been shot, B): if they had pulled over right away and surrendered, they may have been arrested, but they wouldn’t have been shot, and C): if when they had crashed they did NOT try to continue to move the vehicle in reverse (to get out of the hole), there is a chance that they still might not have been shot. These young criminals put a lot of people at risk. So, I ask all the Cop haters here, just when is it the punks fault?
Can I legally chase after someone who stole my car at high speeds and smoke them when I catch them? If not your logic sucks.
Steve, get the f#@k off this site, and theirs change your next, Pig f#@ker.
LOL… neither of your replies were there when I started typing mine. That’s how slow I type. 🙁
I figured I had to pull the trigger quick to be first on this one.
All too true, Frank. It’s not just that I type slow, but it takes some thought to formulate exactly how to phrase my replies as well.
Some people are SO stupid, that words seem totally inadequate at times.
Henry used to let some of them reply… just so we could get in a second round of bashing. I think he’s too disgusted with them these days to even do that anymore.
Digger would have had a field day with this one!
“It seems that if A): they were not in a stolen car, they surely would not have been shot,…”
Seriously???
PEOPLE GET SHOT BY PIGS ALL THE TIME IN THEIR OWN CARS.
“… if they had pulled over right away and surrendered, they may have been arrested, but they wouldn’t have been shot,…”
ARE YOU F%&KING KIDDING, MORON????? PIGS SHOOT PEOPLE ALL THE TIME WHO ARE ALREADY COMPLETELY INCAPACITATED… EVEN HANDCUFFED!!!
“These young criminals put a lot of people at risk.”
PIGS PUT EVERYONE AT RISK… OF DEATH!!!
“So, I ask all the Cop haters here, just when is it the punks fault?”
HEY, PIG LOVER… BY WHAT F%&KING AUTHORITY ARE PIGS JUDGE, JURY & EXECUTIONER?????
You’re defending SCUMBAGS who have ZERO F%&KING AUTHORITY TO EVEN EXIST in this country… as per the (null & void/broken contract) Constitution. DULY ELECTED SHERIFFS are the ONLY law enforcement allowed.
Considering who & what you’re defending, you’re OBVIOUSLY either SEVERELY RETARDED, or TERMINALLY STUPID!!!
@SSHOLE!!!
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“Considering who & what you’re defending, you’re OBVIOUSLY either SEVERELY RETARDED, or TERMINALLY STUPID!!!”
Oops!
I left out TROLL.
Steve-It seems that A- you have no heart and B-it’s ok with you that the cop shot at innocent passengers and C-You’re Cop sucker faggot.
Tell you what, Steve, when all of these unauthorized private corporate mafia policing forces are removed and the common law restored, then maybe we will sit down and talk about who is a “bad guy”.
Until then, you are in the wrong f#@king place. Take your system sucking ass somewhere else.
Bye.
You got some waking up to do sir, at least you are here at this site and will get an earful, people have had it with the tyranny and aggression of the foreign occupied country you call America….
The Enforcers of tyranny MUST bare the brunt of the peoples resistance to it.! AND THEY WILL SOONER OR LATER…
Yes, people, especially kids do dumb shit and may get whats coming at a certain level, but how could you ever take any position that this murderer in a costume, claiming authority over others, was justified in discharging his gun at that point.
Please stay here at this site and learn about true freedom and sovereignty. and Ditto to what Frank Face said….!!
While no one is going to argue the legality of the car being stolen, evading police, and attempted escape, there is no justification for this kind of slaughter. These are teens, they do stupid things, and they panic sometimes, making more dumb decisions. There was no need for the officer to go Rambo on them lighting up the car like he was firing on a terrorist tank in some middle eastern country. The car wasn’t going anywhere. He could have shot the tires out being that close. I’m sorry, but I don’t want these psychotic, trigger happy gestapo thugs running rampant in this country. Maybe if you ever personally have an encounter with these “delightful gentlemen”, you’ll change your viewpoint and your obvious worship of them…that is if you survive, which isn’t likely.
Steve, the cops were the far bigger punks and criminals here. Stealing a car is indeed a fairly serious crime, but the police committed the far worse crime: extrajudicial killing and attempted murder for a car theft.
What pig-apologists like you (or maybe you’re just a pig yourself) invariably fail to understand is that it is NEVER the job of the police to punish crime — EVER! It’s the job of the COURTS to determine the extent of guilt and the appropriate punishment for crime. That’s due process, and it’s one of the bedrock principles of this country.
Do you consider yourself an American? Because you’re anything but one if you don’t respect the Bill of Rights, even where criminal suspects are concerned.
Police have no business using any more force than the minimum needed to put the cuffs on someone who is suspected of a (legitimate) crime against people, property, or animals. Clearly more force was used in this case than was necessary. Therefore, a murder was committed.
What should have happened here:
1. The cops surround the car and order the occupants to exit.
2. The suspects are told to lie prone so they can be cuffed and searched.
3. The occupants are led to jail to be booked
4. If gunfire had come from the car, THEN it could have been legitimately returned.
5. If the driver had continued to try to escape, attempt to box him in further with police cars, or continue to chase as needed.
No need for gunshots here whatsoever. That was either cowardice or simple murder.
Cases like this one are why hatred for the cops is so rampant in some circles, and why we generally refer to them as “pigs.” And as bad as this case is, there are numerous far more egregious incidents of police murder and misconduct than this one.
May anyone with a badge rot in hell, and preferably earlier than nature would have had it otherwise. Our lives and rights are cheap to them, so we view them the same way.
Outstanding reply, BMF!
I used to be able to CALMLY lay out the facts like that (and still can on occasion), but my stupid meter kicks into overdrive these days, and since I have no hair left to pull out… I tend to go postal on the terminally stupid ones.
Very well said. THis Brown person is a tyrant psychopath, plain and simple.
Under no circumstances would this pig continue to exist if he shot my child for
no real reason.
-flek
I BET OLE “STEVE” WAS POSTING FROM TEL AVIV…………………………………………..
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