Victor Perez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had been in a coma since the April 5 shooting, and tests Friday showed that he had no brain activity, his aunt, Ana Vazquez, told The Associated Press. He had undergone several surgeries, with doctors removing nine bullets and amputating his leg.
The shooting outraged Perez’s family and Pocatello residents, and about 200 people attended a vigil Saturday morning outside the Pocatello hospital where he was treated. Another crowd of protesters gathered outside the Pocatello City Hall building, which also houses the police department, on Saturday afternoon. Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest, though no violence was reported. Many of the protesters held signs with phrases like, “Do better, PPD” and “Justice for Victor,” and passing cars honked in acknowledgment.
“Teen murdered by police” would be a better title.
All Cops Are Bastards
What a stupid headline. He was killed from a police shooting, not from being removed from life support.
Maybe next time a killer is on trail he cpuld just argue that the victim just happened to die later from blood loss, not from the shooting.
I wish headlines were more direct.
“Police killed…” “Teacher raped…” “Politician lied…”
Not “Victim died after police…” “Teacher had sex with underage student…” Etc
newspapers are long in the business of not getting sued.
If you write a story about a rich enough person, they have someone whose job it is to litigate every story about them. It’s automatic. They do something news worthy and all you do is repeat the fact, the lawsuit is on your desk the same day. Doesn’t matter how truthful it is, the lawsuit is there because they are rich.
One of the reasons anti-slapp laws need to exist in all jurisdictions.
Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest
Land of the free
We’ll kill you to keep you quiet about us killing you.
Just a reminder, Blue Lives are supposed to matter less than everyone else. That’s why they sre issued a badge and a gun. They are supposed to put themselves at risk to protect the community. At least, that’s the story we’re told as kids. It’s the justification used to obtain our consent to be policed.
If police are so afraid for their safety that they kill innocent civilians, even by mistake, then they do not deserve our consent. The do not deserve authority over us, they do not deserve the free use of force, and they do not deserve the legal deference provided them by our justice system.
Blue Lives Don’t Matter, or it’s fascism.
They are supposed to put themselves at risk to protect the community.
Besides law enforcement in the US does have some origins from slave patrols.
The Supreme Court is entirely corrupt.
5 out of 9 are anyway.
Stories like this make my blood boil. Nothing will every be right until these thugs are put in jail where they belong. We are a long way from there right now. More than likely they will give them a raise for killing him.
Jail. You’re kinder than I.
Idastan just brought back firing squads. They’ve already used it once iirc.
That said, I feel like jail is a worse punishment. I don’t think cops fair well in jail. I want them to be looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives while in prison. To never get out. To look out the barred window at the world passing them by in their cement tomb.
oh that’s a religious thing don’t get me started
Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest
Hey hey hey now, if you’re going to protest our violence we may get you a whole lot more that, so be careful now!
Those police really couldn’t read the room eh?
Can police even read?
No, they could and that’s the problem.
Gee, I bet he was brown, right?
ACAB.
RIP young man.
In Trump’s America, if he survived, ICE would grab at the hospital and deport him.
WTF do you mean? The child lived and died in Trump’a American. This was by design.
They could deport the body and count that to boost their deportation numbers.
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we need counter snipers badly
I have a pet rock named hsmmurabi I ask in difficult times what to do.
