Colorado deputy shoots and kills man who popped an anti-anxiety pill

[sdmikev]

@deedub

Hopefully the body cam footage results in federal civil rights charges for this murderer, despite the POS DA trying to sweep it under the carpet.

I sure hope so. I shared this story in a previous post (which is all too frequent, unfortunately) but I’ll share a link to it here as well.

Man arrested for pointing finger at cops, then starves to death in jail

The ability for police departments to deal with people suffering from mental illness is basically zero. In 2019, the local PD executed a mentally disabled man in our neighborhood. Three cops could not deal with one 125 pound man weilding a shovel, FFS. So he was shot by one of them. I mean, this is FROM the PD statement - “As the officers entered the backyard area to determine the location of the man, he quickly emerged from an outbuilding, holding a shovel. The officers gave the man verb…