[DECEMBER 4, 2014] Police were investigating the death of a 21-year-old transgender woman who was gunned down while pounding on the front door of a Compton home seeking help.
Deshawnda Sanchez was shot around 4 a.m. Wednesday on the porch of a home near Wilton Place and 62nd Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
“She was definitely at that door pounding on that door seeking help,” LAPD Detective Christopher Barling said.
The occupant of the home came outside after hearing multiple gunshots but it was too late.
A neighbor’s surveillance camera captured part of the incident. Police were not releasing the video which apparently showed someone pulling up to the house in a vehicle, getting out and running up to the porch. The figure could then be seen running back to the vehicle and driving away, police said.
“The footage, it was heartbreaking,” said Diana Williams, the victim’s sister
Detectives believe Sanchez was running away from a robber when she was shot, but said they were not ruling anything out.
“Deshawnda is a transgender female. At this point we cannot say it’s a hate crime but we have not ruled out that as being a possibility,” Barling said. [source]
This is so tragic. My heart goes out to her and those she loved. I hope Deshawnda gets the justice she deserves. #TransLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter
this hits close … i have two friends who were friends of hers … another bright light extinguished for no reason
We need to protect black childhood, at all costs. Fuck cops who see unarmed black children as aggressors, fuck every human being who ever sexualized a black child, fuck every teacher who ever dismissed a black child’s intelligence.
There seems to be some misinformation on tumblr, mixing up two different cases of police violence this week and saying an off-duty cop was killed while grabbing an inhaler. To clarify:
Please boost this so people understand that these are two separate stories.
faineemae are you gonna take some responsibility for this colossal mixup and the gross spread of blatant misinformation or nah
Judge Drops Involuntary Manslaughter Charge Against Cop In Aiyana Stanley-Jones Shooting
Judge Drops Involuntary Manslaughter Charge Against Cop In Aiyana Stanley-Jones Shooting
Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against the Detroit police officer accused in the 2010 fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, reports the Detroit Free Press.
As previously reported by NewsOne, Officer Joseph Weekley failed to follow his training when he stormed a house looking for a murder suspect with his finger on the trigger and shot Aiyana who was asleep on the couch, according to prosecutors.
All sides acknowledge that Aiyana Stanley-Jones’ death was not intentional. But prosecutors say Officer Joseph Weekley’s actions were a crime because he handled his submachine gun in a reckless manner.
“You have to use ordinary care in the exercise of your duties,” prosecutor Rob Moran said. “He didn’t follow ordinary care. … If he didn’t pull the trigger, Aiyana would be alive.”
Here’s the opportunity to prove that black girls lives matter as much as black boys lives.
Where is the national movement against this judge who dropped the charges against the cop who killed seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she lay on a couch in her home? Where is the demand from the people that the cop be locked up?
A cop who was frontin’ for the cameras of the reality series that was being filmed at the time, who was all gassed up on that “Look at me! I’m a cop on TV” shit and wound up killing our baby girl.
They charged him with some bullshit-ass, slap-on-the-wrist “involuntary manslaughter” and not even that shit could stick.
Baby girl is dead.
And there’s not a whisper or a tear.
I don’t believe it when people say they love black girls.
I have zero evidence of that assertion.
(H/T Kristen M. Muldrow)
holy FUCKING SHIT
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
A COP KILLS A 7 YEAR OLD LITTLE CHILD WHO WAS SLEEPING ON A FUCKING COUCH
AND DOESN’T EVEN GET INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
we need to do something about this.
A few years ago, when I was waiting in line at Chipotle, there was a white male cop walking through the restaurant with his food to go. When he passed by a table with three young black children (they were around 5-7 years, they looked very young) that were laughing and enjoying dinner with their family, he stopped, stuck his finger in their faces, and said, “I’ll definitely see you guys later in life”.
He then left, smiling and holding himself up like he had just won something. The children were no longer laughing, and their mother looked like she wanted to cry. It was so disgusting, what he did. These people were just trying to have a nice dinner with their children. The children were just laughing and playing together. They weren’t doing anything different from any other family sitting down eating in that Chipotle.
For a cop come up to A FIVE, SIX, SEVEN YEAR OLD CHILD and basically tell them in so many words that he’ll be taking them to jail someday is just so fucking wrong on so many levels, and it was all because they were black.
Cops don’t go around pointing their fingers in five year old white children’s faces, criminalizing them because of their appearance. The racial bias that cops have against black children is very, disturbingly real.
A comment by insaneteacup added to this post about ingrained racial bias and how the police and corporate media routinely criminalize black youths (via odinsblog)