Jonathan Sanders, Unarmed Black Man, Allegedly Strangled To Death By Mississippi Cop
Source: Huffington Post.
The Huffington Post | By Sebastian Murdock
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is looking into the case of an unarmed black man allegedly strangled to death by a white cop this week.
Jonathan Sanders, a 39-year-old Stonewall resident, died last Wednesday evening following an altercation with an officer. Sanders -- who owned horses and a buggy -- was exercising his horses when he was approached by officer Kevin Harrington.
Sanders' attorney, Stewart Parrish, says that Harrington pulled Sanders off his horse and strangled him between 10:30 and 11 p.m. that night, WTOK reports. According to the Guardian, Parrish is making the allegations based on the accounts of family members who witnessed the incident. Charita Kennedy, Sanders' girlfriend and mother to their 1-year-old son, told WTOK that Sanders was not violating any laws when Harrington confronted him.
The Guardian and other outlets reported that Parrish said family members told him a flashlight was used to strangle Harrington, but Stonewall Police Chief Michael Street has denied those allegations. He told the Guardian that "there was no flashlight used to choke anybody -- that's false."
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This really speaks for itself..."unarmed black man"
navarth
(5,927 posts)Another atrocity. Words fail me.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Like to read the police report...lots of lies and accusing Sanders of ....
... "attacking the officer.." (my words..not anything known at this time..)
valerief
(53,235 posts)across the airwaves.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)graegoyle
(532 posts)historylovr
(1,557 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)add to list
madville
(7,412 posts)and made sure they included his arrest record, yeah no bias there. Does it really have any bearing on this incident that the deceased has prior convictions for domestic violence, disturbing the family peace, sale and possession of cocaine, sale of counterfeit substances, etc. and was currently out on bond for an arrest for cocaine possession?
Plus they are already framing the family member witnesses as unreliable, making sure to point out that they claim he was strangled with a flashlight and now the police chief and the family's own lawyer are stating that the flashlight story is untrue.
They don't mention any video unfortunately.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/07/10/death-involving-stonewall-miss-officer-investigated/29952949/
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Because it is a 'personal' way to kill someone.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)cstanleytech
(26,299 posts)but there are other things that could be used to strangle someone that looks similar to a flashlight such as a nightstick.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Another cop "legally" killed a black man.
cstanleytech
(26,299 posts)"He told the Guardian that "there was no flashlight used to choke anybody -- that's false." "
Soon as I read that I though "uh huh then if it wasnt a flashlight that was used the next closest thing police have are their nightsticks so he probably used that and the police chief is just playing word games to try and buy time probably so they can find a way out of this for the cop.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)marble falls
(57,116 posts)in a long time. The killing has to be the very next thing to be tackled.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)is a bone thrown to the masses to shut them up. The root cause is still there
marble falls
(57,116 posts)Teabilly politicians a cheap thin veneer of false racial sensitivity, especially Gov Nikki Haley,
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)sickening how police departments start to discredit all witnesses, like to get away with killing a person is their main job focus.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)If it's that specific and categorical a denial, I imagine that much is true: it wasn't a flashlight the officer used to choke him, and the chief is trying to keep focus on that one discrepancy.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)(sad that I need this, but: )
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)Mississippi. Wow.