California city to pay $5m to family of Willie McCoy, who police shot 55 times
The 2019 killing of the 20-year-old rapper raised scrutiny of Vallejo police department, which has a history of brutality
A California city has agreed to pay $5m to the family of a 20-year-old who was sleeping in his car when police approached and shot him 55 times in 2019.
The city of Vallejo, north-east of San Francisco, said in a statement on Wednesday that the city council approved the payout to the relatives of Willie McCoy, an aspiring Bay Area rapper fatally shot by six officers in a case that sparked national outrage. McCoy was in his car at a Taco Bell on 9 February 2019 when the police arrived and quickly fired a barrage of bullets into his vehicle.
Police claimed McCoy had “moved his hands downward” toward a gun, but body-camera footage did not capture that and instead appeared to show that he had been startled awake and moved his hand to scratch his shoulder. The footage also showed that officers had not tried to wake him or announce they were police before pointing firearms at his head. Before McCoy awoke, officers said: “If he reaches for it, you know what to do,” and “I’m going to pull him out and snatch his ass.”
My first thoughts are Wtf is going on in that area where the cops are so bloody trigger happy? Then I read they are just out and about executing people without consequences is mind blowing.
Then they commemorate each kill with bending their badges is heart breaking and disturbing.
Is this the part where the gun nuts take on the police department under their 2nd amendment rights?
This would seem to fit into a tyranny scenario they are on guard for?
I do fear the opposite with the advertised "dictator" for a day would emboldened many to kill as many people they don't like for a day too.
What you described about someone taking on the police department kinda happened about 11 years ago:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_and_manhunt
I remember the manhunt briefly making the news, but I don’t remember them covering his motivations, just his actions.
What a disturbing read from a single individual at large running amok. Can't imagine what would happen if it was one of these home brew militias groups.
Seems like he was trying to report excessive force against the force. What a terrible outcome for the innocent daughter of the former chief and then the civilian victims of the police force being nervous of their own shadow:
Every one of those officers involved should have been charged with reckless endangerment at a minimum.
When trying to clear your name, you NEVER start by executing your lawyer's daughter and her husband.
He wasn't just taking on police
He was police.
It should be 1 million dollars per unjustified shot and should be paid by personal insurance policies held by officers as a condition of their employment.
I still don't get why doctors trying to save someone's life needs insurance but an officer that has a deadly weapon as their "tool" doesn't.
Fascism
One thing police like to do to get a promotion is slamming their squad cars into people that their chief doesn't like in their jurisdiction.
Works every time.
You'd think that with how expensive police bullets tend to get these days that they would stop * expending them so frivolously.
They're spending taxpayer dollars. They dont give a fuck about costs. Same with §1983 lawsuit payouts