Via Twitter a hashtag called ‘PiedmontHanging’ came about. A body has been found hanging from a tree in Piedmont Park. Twitter users are calling this “another modern-day lynching.” It has been reported that the site in which the man’s body was found is known as a meeting ground for members of the KKK.
Police are trying to say this was a suicide and not a murder but with little to no investigation how can they be sure this is the case? People all over the internet are responding to this story.
Source: AJC
I am terrified for my children as a white mother of biracial children how do i explain white police are not a friend and do not protect and serve.. Stay away from the white police my children for your own safety…
yea your right Jae… It was “white Police officers”that hung him. Teach your kids to not trust white police!! that wil be sure to help them in the long run im sure… Dumb shit like this doesn’t help anything. Just uneducated people making prejudice remarks out of some misplaced fear of law enforcement. No matter what color your skin is, don’t go reaching for a weapon when talking to a police officer. whether it’s permitted or not! Teach your kids that and they won’t get shot.
Or maybe you can explain why officers no longer shoot to incapacitate. Seriously explain to me why no white officer when firing at a person of color shoots for the arms or legs? Or are 21st century white officers trained I only use legal force? If you think I’m being racist pull up four cases of non white state law enforcement shooting other non white civilians with lethal intent
no one shoots to incapacitate, that not how officers are trained, we engaged to defeat the threat. PERIOD. Next you’ll ask why we didn’t aim for his hand, or his finger, maybe shoot the gun so it malfunctions. Another person who has no idea whY they are talking about running their mouth about someone elses job they cant do. you shoot center mass.
Sounds like military talk…neutralize the threat…
They need to stop hiring dirty Harry types as cops
Apparently Psyche’s hiring Psyche’s……need new cops…new testing…sorry no vets… Too much pstd risk……
Well why is ur finger on the trigger to begin with. Military training teaches u not to unholster you
Gun unless a real threat. Don’t point your gun at anyone who isn’t a target and don’t put ur finger on trigger until u ready to shoot
Philando Castile was reaching for his license and registration which y’all ask for when you pull us over and got shot and Alton sterling the man who white cops also shot to death wasnt reaching for a gun he was just selling CDs and minding his business and you mean to tell me that it couldn’t have went a different way and that they just had to die because the cops so called saw a gun being bought out …. Yo just stfu you sound dumb as hell tbh suck a dick and go fuck yourself …Im a black man to I don’t even have kids and I would want them to be afraid of y’all to cause y’all are just blood thirsty and trigger ready dickheads
To my understanding it was a asian officer that shot the guy in falcon heights mn for reaching for his id..
Thank u brother .. speak the truth
Smh…laying here on my B day waking up to all of this craziness…All for what…Mr. White Police Officer maybe you can speak on behalf of your clergy. WHY? WHY ARE Y’ALL SO THREATENED OR SHOULD I SAY FEEL THREATENED BY US AS A PEOPLE? US A RACIAL ENTITY. WHAT IS IT THAT Y’ALL FEAR IN US THAT Y’ALL DON’T FEAR IN YOURSELVES. TRUTH BE TOLD WE AS A KIND ARE JUST AS FEAR FULL OF Y’ALL IN BLUE AS Y’ALL ARE FEARFULL OF US COVERED IN DARKNESS. I was raised with respect for Authority. I was raised in the era of if your ever in danger seek the HELP OF A POLICE OFFICER. NOW WHO DO WE SEEK IF WE FEAR POLICE OFFICERS AND THINK THEY’RE OUT TO HARM US NOT PROTECT US. YOUR JOB AS AN OFFICER IS TO SERVE AND PROTECT THE CITIZENS ALL CITIZENS NOT JUST WHO YOU FEEL IS WORTHY OF PROTECTION. HONESTLY I’M SCARED I’M SCARED FOR MYSELF, FOR MY COMMUNITY BUT MOST OF ALL FOR MY ONLY…ONLY CHILD MY YOUNG BLACK RESPECTFUL, EDUCATED, SON. I OFTEN WONDER ABOUT HIM AND HIS FUTURE. I TEACH HIM HOW TO TALK AND CARRY HIMSELF IN PUBLIC AS WELL AS HOW TO GO ABOUT DEALING WITH AND ADDRESSING LAW FIGURES. PLEASE TELL ME MR. WHITE OFFICER WELL DOES HE HAVE A FUTURE OR DO I HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HIM THE NEXT ONE ON Y’ALL TARGET LIST? WE ARE NOT A THREAT WE JUST WANT TO LIVE!
Not everybody has a weapon dumb ass. The law is a disgrace and cops look for any reason to kill a black man. We have the right to bear arms but we dont we carry weapons and shoot cops because we feel we are in imminent danger. Because we damn sure are. Im sure we will go to jail. Your all racist and killing UNARMED black people just because you can. Judgement day will come and you all will be turned to burn in hell. This world is going down in flames and this time the blacks arent going down easy. This isnt the 1940’s anymore. The law isnt here to protect us its here to detain us. How much longer do you think were going to be prisoners.
Talk about dumb shit the video of the gentleman in front of the store shows them removing the gun from his pocket. That arm was not secure and if he had got his hand in his pocket there would have been a cop shot or dead. It does not have to be out of his pocket for him to fire! The man has a violent history which the mom said were petty crimes would love to know what the woman considers violent! One was a sex crime against a child and two charges were for refusing to register as a sex offender. The other was awful but have not seen video from a point before the gentleman was shot just after with him laid back in the seat. It’s interesting to me that the woman was so calmly video streaming yet not even bothering to console her boyfriend who is clearly still breathing. I would be crying my eyes out holding my husband in my arms as he’s taking his last breath and recording not just letting him lie there and die! Have been searching for video that shows prior to shooting otherwise you don’t have the whole story to pass judgement!!!
You are very right. The man for a 14yr old girl pregnant when he was 20. Not to mention his other sex crimes. Also like you said if it was my husband I would be trying to stop the bleeding and not playing 28th my phone videoing an officer who may have saved an innocent child from being sexually attacked in the future. I would be calling 911 if it was my husband. And if I was that woman I sure as hell would not have gotten with the sick bastard to start with. I am a mother of two children. One of which was molested by an 18yr old male last yr. And I will be damned if it wasn’t just a few months later I got the call that my sons father turned him self in to the police for molesting boys. Including his own step son. He’s 33 and told police he often fantisizes about young boys and has been molesting kids since he was a child. I never would have thought that i would be a woman fooled by a child molester. Never would I have thought I would share a child with someone who terroizes other children. I can assure anyone that i know both sides of these sick bastards that feed off our children. How that man’s mother can call his crimes “petty” is beyond me. He is her son yes. But when he’s put there doing the things her son had been doing… You can’t excuse his behavior and call it petty just to make it ok to blame an officer for doing his job. As a mother you have to look at all the facts as heartbreaking as it is. Her son was a very dangerous man, child molester, and multiple felon. Come on now lady. Do I really believe your sons crimes are “petty” and he was a “good” man? Truth is he was a preditor and a thug. Preying on innocent children. If he wasn’t then why has he failed to register as a sex offender for so long? The police officer was doing his job and as a police officer he made a judgement call when he felt he needed to. Of his intent was just to terrorize the man he wouldn’t have bothered asking for his registration. He would have just walked up and shot.
Everybody is saying and asking WHY IS OR WAS SO CALM AND NOT CONSOLING HER DYING BOYFRIEND…..UMMMMMMMMMMMM HELLLLLLOOOOOOO DID Y’ALL NOT SEE THAT THERE WAS A GUN STILL BEING POINTED AT HER AND HER ALLLLRREEEAAADY DEAD BOYFRIEND. I’M SORRY I HAVE MY DAUGHTER IN THE BACK SEAT HELLLL NOOO I’M NOT MOVING TO CONSOLE NOBODY I’M TRYING TO LIVE AND BE HERE FOR MY CHILD. NOW HAD SHE ACTED UP SCREAMING AND YELLING AND GOING OFF YES Y’ALL STEROTYPES OF A BLACK WOMAN…LOUD, RUDE, AND OUT OF CONTROL Y’ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN COMMENTING ON HOW SHE BEHAVED OR CARRIED HERSELF. AHHH HAAA SHE HAS Y’ALL UPSET THAT SHE DIDN’T FIT THE TYPICAL STEREOTYPES THAT Y’ALL LIKE TO PUT TO ALL BLACK WOMEN. SURRRPRIIIISE WE ARE ALL NOT THE SAME AND WE DON’T ACT OR CARRY OUR SELVES ALL THE SAME. Thumbs up Diamond! Great Job!
Yes call 911 to save you from the man in blue who shot you. Hmm
My comment was for the people who said Diamond looked to calm and was playing on her phone. Her calm demeanor may have saved her life. Had she moved who knows the outcome. He still had the gun pointed in the car and his scary ass quivered and told her not to move. Her phone was her ONLY defense.
Why was she handcuffed and put in the back of a squad after her boyfriend was just executed in front of her and her toddler?
Let’s have some compassion for these people instead of looking at their past and trying to justify the murdering of young black men.
So do we look a person past and still hold him accountable for his PAST wrong doings. I thought that was one reason why you ate punished and thrown into jail. I’m sure your not a perfect person all across the board. Think back to when you were a child I’m sure you’ve done something got punished for and had moved on from that. You’ve learned your lesson from it right. Now your older and again your not perfect do I’m sure you’ve done something since then but I’m don’t think your Mom is on the scene or anybody for that matter bring up your past. So the point is his past has nothing to do with him presently being killed for nothing. It’s not fair to make excuses or to find reasoning of justified cause for something that has nothing to do with the other. I’m surprised that regular people would even know infomation like that already and its still early in the incident. Only people in law enforcement would have that type of info at the moment not your everyday citizen. Suspect! Sir or Madame maybe you can reveal to us what was the back crime history of the young Man that sat up in the Church down in Charlston SC for two whole hrs and then decided to shoot it up and kill 9 innocent ppl. Hummmm I wonder what happened to him he’s still alive and protected. Last I saw of him he was being escorted out in a bullet proof vest…REALLY HOW DO YOU KILL 9 INNOCENT PPL BUT GET ESCORTED NOT ARRESTED BUT ESCORTED OUT IN A BULLET PROOF VEST. OHHHH AND THEN TAKEN TO EAT AT BURGERKING? SMH YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS…WHAT’S GOING ON WITH HIS TRIAL AND CONVICTION? HAVEN’T HEARD ANYTHING SINCE ABOUT THAT SHOOTING. YET THIS MAN IS OUTSIDE A CONVENIENT STORE SELLING CDS AND GETS COLD BLOODID MURDERED NAHHHHH THAT’S NOT OK NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT OR TRY TO JUSTIFY IT…IT’S NOT RIGHT!
How on earth can you even compare a man having committed sex crimes against children to a child having done something wrong and being punished and learning their lesson? There is absolutely NO freaking comparison between the two. What you are attempting to do is the equivalent of saying a blizzard is no different than one snowflake. Smfh
Fuck ur dead cop. Not every black man is a killer u racist bitch. Coulda woulda shoulda. If he was draw his gun he woulda before they approached him. He told them he had a again. White ppl are retarded. Im glad its 2016 cause now u fear us. You dont like how it feel do u.