This story sounds too much like what supposedly happened in the Sean Bell incident.
It is being reported that officers tried to contain several fights in the parking lot at Finnegan’s Grill, but Danroy Henry wasn’t involved in any of those fights when an officer asked him to move his vehicle, which was parked in a fire lane.
Danroy Henry, 20, (pictured above), a junior defensive back studying at Pace University campus, stepped on the gas, knocking a Pleasantville cop onto the hood, according to police.
A second cop tried to pull the officer off the hood but was knocked to the ground, when Henry continued to accelerate, the officer clinging to the windshield pulled out his gun and fired several shots, police said.
A passenger, identified as Brandon Cox, 20 – a childhood friend of Henry’s and a running back for Stonehill College, which beat Pace 27-0 in Saturday’s homecoming game – suffered a minor gunshot wound.
A third passenger, Desmond Hinds, a 21-year-old receiver on the Pace team who is from Stamford, Conn., was unhurt. The two cops were treated for minor injuries.
Hinds’ father, Desmond Hinds Sr., said the young men weren’t involved in the fight and called the shooting “senseless.”
“There were no guns or drugs or knives in the car and now somebody is dead for no reason,” he said. “They didn’t even know about a fight. They were waiting for two of their friends … There was no reason to fire shots.”
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This is very sad, and I’m sure there’s more to this story.
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My GF is a student at the pace westchester campus and was 10 feet away and saw the whole thing. she said the stories being reported are totally wrong!!! Danroy did not keep driving, he stopped. He didnt do nothing wrong. these cops were pigs and Justice must be served!!!!
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@Ebony, that means your gf knows what happened 1st hand. i heard there were many witnesses. can’t wait till all the facts come out.
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@BigBelly – even still, there are many ways to STOP a moving vehicle w/o killing a person dead!
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@Mrs, yes and the cops shot him in the face! c’mon now, that was excessive.
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@Ebony., don’t somebody have this on video? somebody showed the video to the news. a bystander videoed what happened.
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@Random, there is alot that wasn’t mentioned,
they don’t even mention the friend of his who ran to his aid who they tazzed. There are alot of eye witnesses who saw this whole thing happen, and trust me, their stories will make all the difference.
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@Ebony., after all that action, sounds like the officers are trying to justify firing the shots. Seems funny that they were only “slightly” injured2. What do the surviving players,and other witnesses say? That’s what I wanna hear. I wanna hear from the survivors.
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So there was a group of unruly patrons, and one patron was trying to leave the place and you shoot him? Did he commit a crime or kill anyone? They could’ve just let him leave and pulled him over within few blocks! Not sure parking a car on a fire lane warrants to get shot..
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This sounds like the police version of the story. This is BullShit.
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of course it is @Q, don’t know why the cops shot him at all!!!
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Oh hell yeah this is bullshit! when I heard it on the news i knew it had to be more 2the story. i agree with trace’s heading, “cops are killing our black men”
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If they asked the boy to move his vehicle out of the fire lane? what did they expect him to do? he had to move his car in order to comply? story doesn’t sound right and if it it doesn’t sound right, 9x out of 10, it isn’t true!!!
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Let the facts come out and let the chips fall where they may. cops sound trigger happy esp. against the niccas. this is just all kinds a wrong!!!
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If the cops accounts are true than there will be several signs to support their truth. If not the lie will not prevail!!!! period!!!!
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GTFOH…the cops lyeing as usual, whenever cops are directly involved in incidents like this you have to take what they say with a grain of salt. The police generally have far to much discretion concerning who gets charged with what and the information that gets released. this story has bullshit written all over it.
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TOO BAD, MAY HIS SOUL RIP; AND YES @TRACE THIS IS SIMILAR TALE LIKE THAT OF SEAN BELL, A YOUNG BLACK MALE, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY AN INNOCENT CITIZEN WHO ALSO WAS ACCUSED OF TRYING TO RUN OVER POLICE OFFICERS!! VERY SAD!!!
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“@TRACE THIS IS SIMILAR TALE LIKE THAT OF SEAN BELL”
@Cameo, that’s because the devil does NOTHING NEW just another idea and strategy for killing black men and getting away with it. damn right this is the same incident just a diffent victim.
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R.I.P. to dude wow. this shit is crazy.
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Does anyone remember the woman about a month or so ago, who was pulled over in Nassau County & then took off when the cop got out of his patrol car? Well, if I remember correctly, she hit two cops with her car, went through three towns while the cops pursued her. Then she rammed 18 different squad cars before she was stopped & arrested. Now why wasn’t she shot to death? Oh wait, she was a white woman, my bad!
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@Adam, i remember that and the bitch is still alive. they didn’t kill her.
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“There were no guns or drugs or knives in the car and now somebody is dead for no reason,” he said. “They didn’t even know about a fight. They were waiting for two of their friends … There was no reason to fire shots.”
Notice how the father made that clear, the cops will have a very hard time trying to justify their actions. Can’t wait to see hos this will unfold.
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“Hinds’ father.. called the shooting ‘senseless.'”– Uhm, no. Senseless is having a cop knock on your window and then you hitting the gas, tossing one cop onto your hood and then almost running down two more. THAT’s “senseless”.
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@Annonymous, that is the cops version of what happened. hence we will await the real truth.
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Ashanti, how can they say it was senseless? I understand that they are hurting from their loss, but the kid RAN OVER a policeman! He had to have been doing something he wasn’t supposed to, otherwise why would he try to drive off with a police officer on his car?
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@Angel-hair, 1st off, don’t address me. why? cauz I don’t like you. read Ebony’s comment #2 above and GTFOH!!!!
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father of Pace student killed by cops wants answers
“Someone told me he hit one of the cops. I don’t think someone deserves to die for that.” wow this story is so tragic ontop of unreal!!!
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I agree with BQ., This is almost the identical situation that happened in the Sean Bell shooting a few years ago. Somehow the other occupants walked away with millions from the city in a settlement.
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@keisha, because the cops were found liable in the civil suit. they all trigger happy bastards!
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Rest In Peace young man.
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More cops murdering innocent black men. What’s new? and wow..
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Shades of Sean Bell. Popo out of control!!!
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First of all, it is a tragedy when a young person lose their life in this manner. But a few questions must be answered, Why did the car speed away when the kids were approached by the officers. Not to say that cops don’t step outside their boundaries from time to time, but I was raised to respect law enforcement, if a cop approaches you, you respond to his requests. If this story is true and the officers acted using proper protocol, then what got the kid killed was his fault. We are living in a generation of kids that are being taught to question all authority, not respect, that is why these mindless tragedies occur. As far as the cops firing so quickly, when you have a 3,000 bullet coming at you, or you are on the hood of a car speeding away, your only defense is to use deadly force, after all, the person driving the car was using deadly force, intended or not. I say all that to say this, if and I say if the facts are correct, then we need to wake up and teach our young generation better.
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@Valerie Perry, RIP sad story, tough to make an opinion either way with the details as reported above, regardless it does not take away from this tragic event.
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@valerie, Standard police practice is to approach a stopped vehicle from behind the driver on the driver’s side. Had this procedure been followed, the officer would not have been hit by the car as it either backed up or accelerated forward. This reeks of the same cover-up as the gunning down of a young Black man, coming out of a club after his bachelor party, in Flushing, Queens, NY, two years ago. It will be interesting to see what the cameras on the patrol cars actually taped and what the by-standers claim actually went down.
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Man I feel bad for everyone involved in this one. If the cops was in uniform then the kid should have stopped his car. I feel bad for the cop that killed a kid. I feel TERRIBLE for the parents. When you send your child to college you have the greatest hopes for them and this is something that doesn’t even cross your mind… RIP.
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@Fab1, something is very fishy about this story. I am sorry for the young man’s family, but a fair question would be why he decided to speed off if the officer just wanted to speak with him and kept at a fast pace? Obviously he tried to allude the officers but why? Another senseless death that should have never happened
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damn right something’s fishy @ Fab1…The cops shoot to kill when the person is a young black male and that’s never ok. yet that’s what happened.
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Sad story. The family has to live with this death etc.
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Yet one has to wonder what was the young man thinking when trying to get away from the cops and almost or actually running over another officer? If things pan out as reported, it was a good shoot for the cops, bad for the young man. One went home and the other didnt! Again, when the nice poh-lice person says STOP, they mean STOP! Don’t be foolish
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@Audrey, the cop had not been hit and was on the hood, he was hit by the side mirror and then shot. They fired eight rounds and four hit the kid. They then pulled him out of the car and handcuffed him and stood on him while he was on the ground bleeding, and the cops pointed their guns at and kept people back who were trying to reach him and try to stop him from bleeding.
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@Ebony, If it is going slow enough for cops to “get hit” and stay on the hood, and other cops to catch it on foot, then it is going slow enough to get a car type and a license plate, even a description of the driver. The cop’s goal was to stop the car from leaving, and they succeeded. It sounds more like a college kid probably knows he should have not been there, or may have been involved and was trying to “sneak” away, vs. Speed away.
Again, story does not hold water.
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either way damn! why shoot the kid.
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EXACTLY! why shoot??? get the plate…let the car go…why the focus on this car? why kill a young kid? it’s troubling…i hope the truth is exposed. cops need to stop using deadly force with such little reason.
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why not shoot his tires@Mrs, i don’t know why they didn’t opt instead to shoot out the tires…look at the bullet holes in the windshield…they shot him point blank in the head/face…there must have been other options to stop him…This is bullshit and i’m pissed from reading and hearing this.
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@Mrs., Police are far too quick to use deadly force, in so many instances. and this is one of them.
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@Ballen, not sure why shooting the tires was not an option instead of getting in front of a moving vehicle. But I am not a police officer and I wasn’t there. It is a shame to always, only hear one side of a story. This is some st8 bullshit tho-wow.
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@Audrey, Fact is look at the damn hood of the car and windshield. Do you see any damage other then bullet holes? The answer is no. If this young man hit a police officer going at a high rate of speed there would be damage of this and there isnt.
Bring in the Feds before the police bully or intimidate witnesses and alter the evidence.
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@Audrey, really? We only have the policemen’s story; we’ll never hear the student’s story, because he is dead now!
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@Civil, there’s waaay more to the story. The student’s friend spoke.
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What seems to have happened here is that the NYPD police culture has spread like a cancer to this little town.
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This guy was probably leaving the scene and minding his business. and we all know that cops don’t ask question, they just start shooting. Please black men, don’t run, just stand their and be arrested. All of us black people know that cops are out to kill us, and we also know that cops are the biggest criminals in the world. They say this guy tried to run over 2 cops?. This is the same EXCUSE the cops used when they brutally killed Sean Bell.
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We have only the cops’ side of the story people.
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@Nicole – And they ALWAYS tell the truth, RIGHT? GTFOH!!!
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@Nicole and the the story doesn’t make sense. I’m not here to judge the story but any one who takes police reports at face value is a fool.
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this will be an interesting case, or a very cut and dry case. Its sad that a young guy is dead regardless of if he was a danger to the officers or not.
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Once again, the police will be dishing out millions in lawsuits for the unsuspecting passenger who got shot by the trigger happy cops.
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ABC news stated that 50 cops came to the scene! It just doesn’t make sense, but one thing I’m sure the cops will cover this up- welcome to walking Black or Latino in Westchester ………… Young Black male with a promising future lost it all to a bunch of racist cops…….. all I have to say is where’s the evidence of what these cops are claiming …..I wanna hear about the evidence.
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they should have shot out the tires and arrested him. anything was better than killing him.
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I AM SURE THAT THIS IS JUST ANOTHER CASE OF A WHITE COP SHOOTING A BLACK MALE!!
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I think the ATM cameras probably filmed this incident and we will see and hear about it real soon.
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Didn’t they have time to step out of the way? Anyway, this story is about to go national and will defintely include racial accusations.
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Just saw the story on the news and those students @Pace are very upset by this incident. i’m sorry but the cops didn’t have to shoot in order to get the boy to stop, all they had to do was shoot the boys wheels out not TAKE HIS LIFE!
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Very sad.
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it’s heartbreaking this whole story…what happened to this young man…was just wrong!
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I’m just disgusted by this story. really I am. I cant believe another young black man is dead at the hands of polie officers behind some bullshit that coulda been avoided. 😦
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Welcome to the land of the free, where police have a license to kill American citizens.
Google Eirk Scott. murdered by Las Vegas police.
“Erik Scott, an Army veteran and graduate of West Point with an MBA from Duke University, was gunned down in cold blood by 3 Las Vegas, NV police officers at a Costco.”
http://the-classic-liberal.com/erik-scott-murdered-las-vegas-police/
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I think the kid was leaving.
Under the circumstances; I’d have left too.
They’re going to have to do a good bit of convincing the investigators that what the kid did needed to have the Cops pull their guns and start shooting!
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The po-po NEVER say they were wrong. I want to hear what the witnesses have to say. Certainly CAN’T trust the po-po on anything. So sad, a young life lost.
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RIP….What a sad story.
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While I don’t necessarily think the police officer’s actions where out of line, the point is a young man lost is life needlessly.
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The police story differs from the witnesses at the scene. The witnesses said that the car was in a fire lane as the student was waiting to pick up a friend from a homecoming celebration. The police officer tapped on the window, and the student thought he was telling him to drive off. The police officer ran in front of the car, and began shooting. There were many witnesses (white students, not that it should matter, but it will) that said that the police shot for no reason. The students that witnessed the event were very emotional, and detailed in their retelling of the tragedy.
There is always a rush to judgement when it comes to African American males.
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@Ashanti, and it still doesn’t constitute fatally shooting him. They only know how to aim for the head and chest now days? what was so wrong with aiming for the boys tires?
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This was a stellar student, who’s coach, and friends, were speaking highly of him.
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@Olivijah, that’s what raises the red flag. they speak highly of him, yet he was trying to escape police.
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@Angel-hair, Just not rolling down the window should not be a death sentence. The student thought the police was telling him to drive because he was standing in a fire-lane. I can’t say that I wouldn’t have done the same. African Americans should not have to guess how the police will react to them in otherwise benign situations, but alas, we do…….
And, what about it “raises a red flag?” All accounts said that the student was a stellar student, vouched for by friends, neighbors, relatives, teachers, and coaches. The Pace Coach commented that “he was the best athlete on the team.” So, pray tell…Where’s the “red flag” again?
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@angel-hair, eyewitnesses gave a different reaction regarding the actions of the police. where the fuck are you living in a bubble???
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@Brown & Adriane, so yall think the cops just killed him for no reason that’s pathetic.
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@Angel-hair, Yes!!!!!!!!!! I think they committed murder and this is NOT the first time the cops have killed someone outside of the law. especially a black man.
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@Angel-Hair, I think any reasonable person would question the actions of cops involved in any fatal shooting. OR are you naive enough to think a lot of police officers aren’t corrupt. That many are also hypocritical and get into bar fights, drive drunk and smoke pot while arresting others for doing the same…..
Most cops pick and choose how to enforce the law. Whenever a young person is gunned down by cops you should demand a very in depth investigation into the matter.
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@Angel-hair, the car was parked on the crosswalk, when the policeman knocked on the window the driver thought they wanted him to move the car, so he did.
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This case sounds very similar to Sean Bell. I aree with you Tracy!!!
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Bad judgment by the cops. Have any of you seen the video?
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@Jesse, Yes…I remember Mr. Bell’s murder.
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This is murder, plain and simple!!!!
The police should not shoot first and ask questions later. This is bullshit!!!
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@2Thick, truth is, just because the Police write it in a report doesn’t make it so. Something is not right about this info. I have a hard time believing the student was surrounded by police and just chose to speed off. He knew they had gu.ns and probably knew they would sho.ot. Something very important is not being disclosed here. Condolences to the family.
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I agree @ Starr, and now the police department is in charge of investigating itself. I’ve seen this story a thousand times.
it always ends the same. Another innocent life ended because of scared racist trigger happy cops.
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This young man was executed end of story. the police behaved belligerently and unprofessionally. From being in a no-parking zone to being dead, for what? The cops are wrong here.
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I agree Civil, cops can and do act belligerently, because they have the law behind them. And if you are black they can get aggressive very quickly due to racial prejudice. Most young black men have probably had a run in or two with police due to nothing more than racial profiling, and as a result, they may well panic if they are stopped even if they know they have done nothing wrong because of the way that cops behave towards them. The incident is really unfortunate, for both the police and the victim.
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Hey Civil, I co-sign.,the cops behaved in an overly belligerent and completely unprofessional way. They’ve killed an unarmed man, a college student who was out with his friends.
There is no excuse for this.
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Oh please. The guy runs down a police officer, the officer shoots him, and this is about race?
Some of you people need to get real.
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Hey dumb ass Anonymous!!!!
Who said he ran down a police officer? Oh yeah the police who shot him. Yeah lets believe them and not question why a 20 year old college student with no warrants or record would decide to run down a cop for the fun of it. Lets just assume the passengers are liars. Im not sure why they would lie they have nothing to gain from it. But the police who have to explain why a 20 year old kid is dead would never shade the truth. GTFOH!!!!!!
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@ANONYMOUS, NO JUSTICE NO MOTHERFUCKIN PEACE!!!!!!
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I’m going to ask Tracy to *BAN* All ANONYMOUS posters here at the ceo’s blog. that’ll fix this dumb shit from those hiding behind their stoopid azz comments.
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@those who oppose!!!!
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. MY opinion bitches!!!!
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@Anonymous, i got ya *bitch* azzhole and will stick it in ya mouth if necessary!!! RESPECT belong to those BRAVE enuff to IDENTIFY themselves and not come here and spew their hate mtherfer!!
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@Civil, i gotta IGNORE this bullshit coming from this azzhole. i aint going there. a young black man was killed and that saddens me and that’s my focus here. fuck the fuckery coming from this annonymous azzhole.
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