The Incomplete Cynic

statehate:

18goingon80:

Images of last week’s fatal police shooting in Miami Beach have been released.

Here you see footage recorded on a cell phone by Narces Benoit.
The police are surrounding a car driven by Raymond Herisse. Then they started firing at the 22-year-old.

Herisse was killed, three officers and four bystanders were injured.
Benoit and his girlfriend, Ericka Davis, are accusing authorities of destroying evidence and intimidation.

They say the only reason this video is still around because they were able to hide a memory card before authorities smashed the phone that captured this incident.

Yeah, police smashed the bystander’s HTC EVO, then threw it at him for daring to record them as they murder someone. Luckily, the bystander was able to pull the memory card from the phone and slip it into his mouth, then recover the video. 

Of course, all news accounts of his story begin with mentioning that the victim here had a criminal history, but when you do a little more digging, you find that all of his previous encounters with “the law” were for non-violent drug offenses.

Boy am I glad this pot-smoking killer, err…maniac, no…umm…person who does drugs and harms no one is dead and off the streets so he can’t continue to wreak havoc on society — shit, that’s not right either…

(via laliberty)