A peaceful demonstration took place last night in Brooklyn after police officers shot and killed 18 year-old Khiel Coppin on Monday night. Witnesses claim that cops took 20 shots at the unarmed teenager, one officer continuing to shoot despite shouts of "stop shooting" from fellow officers. The shooting evokes memories of the shooting deaths of Sean Bell in 2006 and Amadou Diallo in 1999.
NYPD is looking into a bullshit phenomenon police officers are calling "suicide by cop." They claim that the troubled teenager was suicidal and purposely induced the officers to open fire on him. It sounds like a bunch of crap because it is. The truth is that police department has stopped even trying to justify their actions, pinning the blame the a dead victim.
Photo: by Damon Winter/The New York Times
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