There’ll by no means be a time when seeing police get away with taking a life received’t infuriate us as a individuals. We’ve seen sufficient. We’ve heard sufficient. We’ve had sufficient. Sadly, legislation enforcement officers will doubtless by no means say that THEY have had sufficient of killing us.
Based on The Telegraph, three Washington County Sheriff’s deputies in Macon, Georgia, Rhett Scott, Henry Lee Copeland and Michael Howell, have all been discovered not responsible of homicide after a 2017 incident the place they tased Eurie Martin, a Black man, to demise.
A neighborhood resident dialed 911 to report Martin, who suffers from schizophrenia and coronary heart illness, as a suspicious individual after he requested her for a cup of water following a 30-mile stroll from his house in Milledgeville to Sandersville. When the deputies arrived on the scene, they are saying that Martin was “uncooperative” and tried to flee them throughout questioning. An altercation ensued and the taser was deployed and Martin would ultimately die in police custody.
Through the trial, the jury couldn’t be satisfied that the tasing instantly resulted in Martin’s demise. The coroner’s report cited cardiac arrhythmia as the reason for demise however didn’t point out the taser. Attorneys for the deputies argued that they’d no prior information of Martin’s bodily and psychological well being circumstances previous to participating him. Like so many Black of us who have been killed by police, Martin had a harrowing realization that demise was imminent and yelled out: “They’re killing me! They’re killing me!” as his last phrases earlier than dying moments later.
If there may be any silver lining to this story, it’s that after years of being insulated from penalties by the “stand your floor” statute, the Georgia Supreme Court docket reversed that call and made approach for justice to be served. Hopefully, that call units precedent for different “blue lives” who attempt to skirt accountability sooner or later.
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