That is, during an art festival in an area where much of the graffiti being written is legal.

DEMZ's graffiti wasn't legal. That said, the Wynwood district is the street art and graffiti center of the world during Art Basel.

That's just a little bit of context here.

But you don't chase and then run over a suspect for a low level misdemeanor.

Just adding to you comment a bit, hope that's ok.

Stop killing our sons!!!!

There is something horribly wrong with the law enforcement community in our country.

It's got to stop.

Reminds me of the coroner's report from the early '60s. Black civil rights worker was found hanged after being shot and stabbed. Coroner ruled the death as "natural" because it's only natural that a n*****r that was shot, stabbed and hung would die.

We haven't come very far, have we?

Why don't we have an emoticon for a pile o'poop?

💩💩💩

Shot himself in the back 9 times with a bolt action rifle.

That will bring you around to seeing it their way.

But maybe he looked like a demon from hell and was charging the car?...what else could the cop do but run him over for fear of his life?...did you ever think of that?
Cigarette sellers and taggers are punishable by death.

Why, our fine, upstanding police would never lie!!

Unbelievable.

Another unnecessary death. Over graffiti.

Jumping in front of bullets and cars sent their direction by cops

and he was Latino. Makes sense to me.

and had the cop slapped the light on top?

i know the unmarked cars here. gray crown vics with m license plates. usually a pizza light, sometime ram bars, big antennas.
you think a young tagger doesnt know an unmarked cop car when he sees one? srsly?

the dumbest place to be is in the street.

People often run when chased down by the unknown...

would be a better strategy than running in front of the car. I know it isn't possible, at this site, that the policeman could be right.

You go on believing in the mythical honest cop. Your eyes are just lying to you.

Obviously you just know the cop is right, so no reason to even talk about it with you right?

It's impossible for the cops to be always wrong. Do the logic!

Running the kid over?

and jumping in front of the car. I don't believe that cops are above lying to save their asses. I don't have much faith in LEO. Actually, I think there are probably plenty of people that would try to get away with killing somebody with their car with this lie.

I lived in Miami when this happened. I'm white, and I had a bad personal experience with some dirty City of Miami cops. I don't know how bad it is now, as I moved away 20 years ago, but back in the 80's and early 90's there were parts of Overtown and Liberty City that the cops wouldn't even go in at night. *IF* they did go in, they had most of the force with them... along with a couple of SWAT teams.

The Metro-Dade cops were a different story, most of them were pretty cool. My best friend's father was Metro-Dade. When he pulled over a drunk driver he'd tell them "you have two choices... you can get in the car with my partner and I'll drive your car home, or you can get in the car with both of us and go to jail". I also got stopped on 2 occasions and had a bag of weed on me... the Metros just took my weed, dumped it out on the ground, spit on it and ground it into the street with their shoes then looked at me and asked "do you still want to smoke that?" I said " no sir, I think I'll leave right there with you." They said "good answer, now get in your car and get the fuck out of here".

Peace,

Ghost

You know, Graffiti, selling loosies, carrying a BB gun, "waving" a sword around, jaywalking and having an attitude... All added to the death penalty list if you are a minority.

Jeez.. get with the program.

NO DOUBT this young man flung himself in front of the car!

murder are as pathetic as they are

Strange things these young men do. They even try to convince arresting officers they can't breathe.

-- Mal

So he allegedly jumped out in front of a moving car?

Yeah, right.

If these fit on DU (I probably should resize)...

This incident happened during one of the most prominent US art festivals (Art Basel), and Wynwood is the center of graffiti and street art during that festival. Basically, there were dozens of people openly writing graffiti in Wynwood when this happened, most of it legal.

It takes real talent to be able to make art on the side of a wall like that.

Those artists should be hired to paint murals on ugly old concrete store buildings to liven up run down shitty looking places.

I hope he can recover and can still do his art.

When will this senseless killing by cops stop? They are out of control.

How do these animals get jobs where lives matter?

having a great deal of difficulty seeing how this could be anything other than a blame-worthy homicide by the driver. Unless you're trying to pin the victim against something (hopefully not a police 'tactic'), why would you be so close and so fast as to cause fatal injury, no matter how the victim moves or changes direction?

Although this is a complete WAG, I would not be at all surprised to hear that the officer was trying to 'trip' the victim with the car, or to pin/block him in such a way that he couldn't escape...

They have no fucking shame and just lie and lie and lie. The Blue mafia.

You will see it at least every two or three episodes. It is actually a strategy cops use, and they seem to think it's even OK to use, on video, with a camera crew. It boggles my mind.