Monday, June 20, 2011

100 shots?


22 year old Raymond Herisse, shot to death while sitting in his car, by Miami police on May 31 during Urban Beach Week. Police say they found a gun in his car after they killed him and made vague references to an unnamed witness who said that Raymond was shooting at the cops. The remaining question is why the police tried to destroy videotaped evidence.
In the meantime, the ”big” press agencies maintain an alarming silence around this scandalous event, demonstrating that, in the country that continuously accuses the nations it attacks of violating human rights, skin color alone justifies a death sentence.
Not one word has yet been published by the international press agencies, which are so prone to broadcasting the minor incidents that happen in countries who confront the American imperial power, about the execution in Miami of a 22-year-old-Haitian man by 12 police officers who fired on him 100 times while he was unarmed in his car.
In Miami itself, the local press — characterized by its blind cooperation with calls from law enforcement — has diverted public attention with a controversy over a cellphone, whose owner was filming the savage police intervention that ended with the death of young Raymond Hérissé.
Apparently the murder of this son of a humble Haitian immigrant doesn’t interest anyone, including those holders of power in this city with their persistent traits of racial hate and segregation.

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I don't know the all the details surrounding this incident, the article mentioned something about him crashing into a police barricade and fleeing into a crowd.  Sounds like it has a lot of moving parts, with the cops attempting to destroy evidence and dude being unarmed as far as I can tell, but 12 cops, 100 shots?  WTF?

Has anyone outside of Florida seen or heard this in the papers or on the evening news?  How is this not a bigger deal I wonder?  All the attention Tracy Morgan's getting for telling a joke, all the attention given to Weiner's Weiener, all the vitriol directed at LeBron James, yet I haven't heard a peep about this in the national media.  I guess cops shooting at an unarmed Black man 100 times is no big deal?

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