Free Thought Project – by Andrew Emett
San Diego, CA — A judge ordered the release on Tuesday of surveillance videos that captured San Diego Police Officer Neal Browder shooting a mentally ill homeless veteran to death. The unarmed man had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and PTSD after serving in the Afghan army and being held captive for two months by a Mujahideen group.
On April 30, Officer Browder responded to a call concerning a homeless man harassing people in a parking lot. Newly released surveillance videos show Browder pull up in his cruiser to confront 42-year-old Fridoon Rawshan Nehad. After failing to turn on his body camera before arriving, Browder can be seen exiting his vehicle before immediately firing at Nehad.
Instead of brandishing a weapon, Nehad had been twirling a pen in his hand when the officer suddenly shot him. After watching the surveillance video roughly two dozen times, nearby KECO employee Wesley Doyle stepped forward declaring Browder did not bother to use his Taser or give Nehad any physical warning that he was about to shoot him.
“He did not even get into a shooting stance,” Doyle wrote in his declaration. “The shooting appeared to be unprovoked; Officer Browder appeared to shoot Fridoon hastily.”
After Doyle stepped forward, Nehad’s family filed a complaint accusing Browder of depriving Nehad’s civil rights, assault and battery, negligence, and wrongful death. According to the complaint, Nehad had been serving in the Afghan army when a Mujahideen group captured him and tortured him for two months. In the years following his release, Nehad was diagnosed with numerous mental illnesses as a result of his captivity.
“Fridoon battled against his illnesses for years. He was intelligent, learning new languages (German and French) and taking classes on computer programming, linguistics and literature,” the complaint read. “Fridoon was loved. His family spent years and countless hours helping him cope with his PTSD and mental illness.”
Although the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice have launched an investigation into the fatal police shooting, San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis announced that her office has decided not to file criminal charges against Browder. Even though District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, SDPD Chief Shelley Zimmerman, and an attorney for Browder fought to keep the videos suppressed, U.S. District Court Judge William Hayes ruled last week that the officials had no right to keep the videos hidden from the public and Nehad’s family.
Due to the fact that Nehad did not raise the pen in an aggressive manner nor lunge at the officer raises the question why Browder felt the need to kill him less than three seconds after exiting his patrol car. Instead of providing help to an ally, we as a society have once again turned a blind eye to those suffering with mental illnesses and have allowed another life to be sacrificed to the state.
After surviving two months in an enemy torture camp, this veteran came home only to be executed by an American cop.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/newly-released-video-shows-cop-killing-mentally-ill-homeless-man-holding-pen/#thSSV1hw83XVIgrZ.99
Another officially sanctioned murder and the standard attempted cover up. Almost every day now, the pile of bodies grows. Hope you all are keeping your lists up to date. If the system fails, you DO have a duty.
When you are dealing with police it is best to say absolutely NOTHING if at all possible, and do NOT look at them. YOu don’t have to answer any of their questions or look at them. They are backed up toilets, as Mark Koernke says. Why talk to a toilet. When they make contact with you they are looking to escalate and at least arrest you if they can, and even kill you. That depends on how much of a steroid junkie the cop is. These are horrible insane, drug crazed, damaged people with abandonment issues. Main thing is to keep yourself alive and free, because in the years to come your country is going to need you. At that time the odds will be more in your favor. Nuff said.
Oliver Goldsmith — “He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again”
Another cop-murder, which will go unpunished – and of course his camera was turned off, but they didn’t know about this surveillance vid.
AM radio 760 has a phony ‘patriot’ host who pretends to be some ‘hard-hitting expose journalist’, when, like most shills, ALWAYS points out the government’s wrong-doing, but ALWAYS threads in the ‘official lie’ as “real”.
He’s big on the ‘government knew’ crap of 9/11, but it really, truly was 19 extremists.
So yesterday, him and his lackey associates ALL supported the police here, and how the suspect was ‘fast strolling’ and the cop ‘just had to shoot’.
A shame such lackeys have such immense power, while truth is suppressed.
A clip from this shill’s page:
“Slater is a true believer in capitalism and the Constitution. He invites everyone on his journey to understanding America. Using the writings and examples of our founding fathers and the guidance of our nation’s most brilliant free market economists, you will walk away ready to “spread the word”.”
http://www.cbs8.com/category/211525/mike-slater-show
I’m going to challenge him to on on-air discussion of 9/11, and ask him to answer a dozen or so questions to expose him for the lackey-parrot he is.
Holy crap, that db’s site is horrific and telling of how dangerous those of his ilk can be. “Crusaders”? Jooish holyhoax surviving war hero stories? Wounded deputy support groups? Again, guys like this will be used to whip up the mindless sheeple who follow the mantra of “with us or against us” and easily be used to train their weapons on US.
Good luck, Gemini, and give him hell. Hopefully something will click in between some listeners ear. One can hope?
Nothing to see here. Just another psychotic pig executing someone on a whim. It happens all the time now.
“I feel like killing people today. It’s a good thing I have this silly tin badge that means so much to the brainwashed, and gullible people around me”.