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Title: Photo Proves Police Covered Up Shooting of Florida Man Carrying BB Gun
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Counter Current News
URL Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/ ... ed-up-florida-man-carrying-bb/
Published: May 31, 2015
Author: M. David and S. Wooten
Post Date: 2015-06-02 09:15:44 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1814
Comments: 20
“He’s a black dude… he’s carrying a rifle!” the 911 caller declared. The incident occurred in Florida, where open carry of a BB-gun is completely legal, just like it is in Ohio where John Crawford was shot. Just like John Crawford, who was killed by Beavercreek police in a Walmart pet food aisle, Jermaine McBean was carrying an air rifle, not a real gun. Unlike some other states, Florida does not classify air rifles or BB-guns as firearms or as dangerous weapons. Instead, the state lumps these weapons in with other non-lethal weapons. That means that even though Florida has a long-standing ban on open carry (unlike Ohio), it does not apply to BB-guns. The 911 caller even acknowledges that the rifle the man he saw carrying, “looks like a .22 or a pellet gun,” but that didn’t matter much to him, the 911 operator or the police who shot him dead. Was race a factor in this shooting? Some say yes, others say it is just about police brutality. Those who believe it was a factor note the descriptions and dialogs related to the man’s ethnicity in the 911 calls. Listen to the 911 calls in the video below from local NBC News… In the second 911 call, the operator asks “is he a black man or Hispanic?” Some suggest that this means the 911 operator was aware of the fact that the Caucasian woman would not have called if the man with the rifle was also Caucasian. After the Florida police fatally shot McBean as he legally walked home with an unloaded air rifle, they claimed that there was no reason why he wouldn’t have been able to drop the BB-gun when they ordered him to. But a new photo has just emerged which proves that McBean had earbud headphones in his ears immediately after the 2013 shooting. This demonstrates that the police have been deliberately lying and covering up this fact. In fact, the earbuds were later found stuffed in the law-abiding citizen’s pockets, proving that police tried to cover up the shooting by tampering with evidence. The first 911 caller also admits that McBean never pointed it (the BB gun) at police or anyone else. Michael Russell McCarthy, 58, said in an interview with NBC News that McBean “had the Winchester Model 1000 Air Rifle balanced on his shoulders behind his neck, with his hand over both ends, and was turning around to face police when one officer began shooting,” NBC News reports. “He couldn’t have fired that gun from the position he was in. There was no possible way of firing it and at the same time hitting something,” McCarthy explained. “I kind of blame myself, because if I hadn’t called it might not have happened.” Civil rights lawyer David Schoen explains that the photo of McBean – which shows him with the headphones in his ears — is evidence of a “cover up.” The woman who took the photo wishes to remain anonymous out of fear of police retribution. The witness who took it, a nurse who asked to remain anonymous, says she pointed out the earbuds to police at the scene, after they rebuffed her offer to provide first aid to the dying man. The homicide detective on the internal review of the shooting told McBean’s relatives that the officers on the scene confirmed he had no earbuds in his ears after family members informed them that he always wore them when he was out walking. “I was highly upset,” McBean’s mother, Jennifer Young, explained. After she saw the photo, “I said, ‘They lied to me. What else have they lied about?'” The shooter, Officer Peraza claims that he fired his at McBean after he “pulled the weapon up over his head and grabbed it and started to turn and point it at us.” “I felt like my life was threatened. I had that feeling like if I would not go home that day,” Peraza claimed. “I felt like I could’ve been killed. My sergeant could’ve been killed. He could’ve shot somebody in the pool area. So as soon as he did turn and point his weapon at us, that’s when I fired my duty weapon.” Sgt. Richard LaCerra, another officer on the scene, says that after McBean fell, he explained with his dying breath that, “It was just a BB gun.” McBean was not deranged, insane, homicidal or suicidal. He held two degrees from Pace University in New York, and worked in information technology at a Fort Lauderdale ad agency. He had no criminal record and did not aim any weapon at law enforcement officers. “They could have just tackled him, or just tased him. Why shoot him three times?” Alfred McBean said. “Criminal charges need to be filed.” The victim’s mother agreed. “He’s very missed, he was very loved and he was a loving and caring person himself,” she explained. “I can’t wait to get justice for him.” (Article by M. David and S. Wooten)
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#1. To: All (#0)
Point anything at me that looks like a firearm, could be a firearm or might be a firearm... while an officer or civilian... and you'll die. I won't just shoot you once... I'll donate every round in my magazine towards your stupidness. Never bring a BB gun to a gun fight.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Michael Russell McCarthy, 58, said in an interview with NBC News that McBean “had the Winchester Model 1000 Air Rifle balanced on his shoulders behind his neck, with his hand over both ends, and was turning around to face police when one officer began shooting,” NBC News reports. “He couldn’t have fired that gun from the position he was in. There was no possible way of firing it and at the same time hitting something,”
You're trying to reason with a fence post - good luck with that.
If this was a "righteous" act of "self defense" as you delusionally claim, - why did the cops lie and try to cover up the truth? After the Florida police fatally shot McBean as he legally walked home with an unloaded air rifle, they claimed that there was no reason why he wouldn’t have been able to drop the BB-gun when they ordered him to. But a new photo has just emerged which proves that McBean had earbud headphones in his ears immediately after the 2013 shooting. This demonstrates that the police have been deliberately lying and covering up this fact. In fact, the earbuds were later found stuffed in the law-abiding citizen’s pockets, proving that police tried to cover up the shooting by tampering with evidence.
He is a bit dense - comes from all those years of being a paid thug for the police state. A real coward too - as is the case with most cops.
Attaboy - LF's submissive leather boy shows up just in time to defend his Dom (Grand Island). Kinky little thing you two got going there sparky. After the Florida police fatally shot McBean as he legally walked home with an unloaded air rifle, they claimed that there was no reason why he wouldn’t have been able to drop the BB-gun when they ordered him to. But a new photo has just emerged which proves that McBean had earbud headphones in his ears immediately after the 2013 shooting. This demonstrates that the police have been deliberately lying and covering up this fact. In fact, the earbuds were later found stuffed in the law-abiding citizen’s pockets, proving that police tried to cover up the shooting by tampering with evidence. As well as defending the lying scumbags who murdered a guy carrying a BB gun who threatened no one.
So he knew the reason he was shot. Meaning, he heard the officers telling him to drop the gun, but since HE knew it was a BB gun, he didn't comply.
Truth is a kinky thing only if you are a libertarian, thief....stealing from your employer by posting when he is paying you to work.
The funny thing is, I never defended the officers use of force. I wasn't there... it's impossible to factually say one way or the other if he was justified to take human life. All I said was this, point anything at me that is or looks like s gun and I'll kill you... what's the matter with that ideal?
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Absolutely nothing....and that is why many LEOs are alive today. Fred is just the resident "Gomer Pyle" ... you can just ignore him. Everyone else seems to do that.
Notice how they never shoot a man carrying a loaded M-14.
Because that's what cops, politicians, the press and the courts do. And now they have been joined by the DA's of the cities, the states and the US as well. I am getting so tired of the lying scum running this Maine and the country.
Yea, it doesn't take much to understand from the content of your posts that you are talking yourself into heading for your breaking point. One can make that happen....then, SNAP!
Let a man point one at them, and...
Unlike you - I am capable of doing both. Don't try and drag this thread off-topic with your ignorant assumptions.
Sure, thief.
The gun wasn't pointed at the cops you cringing coward. Anything that "looks like a gun"? Good god man, you really are a psycho.
Michael Russell McCarthy, 58, said in an interview with NBC News that McBean “had the Winchester Model 1000 Air Rifle balanced on his shoulders behind his neck, with his hand over both ends, and was turning around to face police when one officer began shooting,” NBC News reports. “He couldn’t have fired that gun from the position he was in. There was no possible way of firing it and at the same time hitting something,” McCarthy explained. “I kind of blame myself, because if I hadn’t called it might not have happened.” After the Florida police fatally shot McBean as he legally walked home with an unloaded air rifle, they claimed that there was no reason why he wouldn’t have been able to drop the BB-gun when they ordered him to. But a new photo has just emerged which proves that McBean had earbud headphones in his ears immediately after the 2013 shooting. This demonstrates that the police have been deliberately lying and covering up this fact. In fact, the earbuds were later found stuffed in the law-abiding citizen’s pockets, proving that police tried to cover up the shooting by tampering with evidence.
If he couldn't hear the police, why did he turn around?
The 911 caller even acknowledges that the rifle the man he saw carrying, “looks like a .22 or a pellet gun,” but that didn’t matter much to him, the 911 operator or the police who shot him dead.
#2. To: GrandIsland (#1)
Point anything at me that looks like a firearm, could be a firearm or might be a firearm... while an officer or civilian... and you'll die. I won't just shoot you once... I'll donate every round in my magazine towards your stupidness.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
#4. To: GrandIsland (#1)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#5. To: Fred Mertz (#3)
(Edited)
You're trying to reason with a fence post - good luck with that.
You are correct, in respect that a fence post is smarter than Deckard.
#6. To: Fred Mertz (#3)
You're trying to reason with a fence post -
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#7. To: Gatlin (#5)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#8. To: Deckard (#0)
"says that after McBean fell, he explained with his dying breath that, “It was just a BB gun.”
#9. To: Deckard (#7)
Kinky little thing you two got going there sparky.
#10. To: Gatlin (#5)
#11. To: GrandIsland (#10)
(Edited)
... what's the matter with that ideal?
#12. To: Deckard (#0)
#13. To: Deckard (#4)
why did the cops lie and try to cover up the truth?
#14. To: BobCeleste (#13)
I am getting so tired of the lying scum running this Maine and the country.
#15. To: BobCeleste (#12)
Notice how they never shoot a man carrying a loaded M-14.
#16. To: Gatlin (#9)
stealing from your employer by posting when he is paying you to work.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#17. To: Deckard (#16)
(Edited)
#18. To: GrandIsland (#10)
All I said was this, point anything at me that is or looks like s gun and I'll kill you... what's the matter with that ideal?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#19. To: misterwhite (#8)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#20. To: Deckard (#19)
"and was turning around to face police"
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