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Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 12:47 PM Jul 2015

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"
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Jonathan Sanders, Unarmed Black Man, Allegedly Strangled To Death By Mississippi Cop (Original Post) Stuart G Jul 2015 OP
Good grief navarth Jul 2015 #1
What can one say?.."another atocity" "unarmed.",,...?? Stuart G Jul 2015 #2
Horrific. This is what the oligarchs bring us when they pay to generate hate valerief Jul 2015 #3
... PeoViejo Jul 2015 #4
+100.nt Snotcicles Jul 2015 #7
What next, hearing the victums found with bite wounds? nt Snotcicles Jul 2015 #9
Subtext: Armed with dark skin. graegoyle Jul 2015 #5
Good God. historylovr Jul 2015 #6
and, it continues heaven05 Jul 2015 #8
Exercising the horses you own while black Person 2713 Jul 2015 #10
The local paper used a prior mug shot of the deceased in their story madville Jul 2015 #11
Strangulation is used by a majority of serial killers AgingAmerican Jul 2015 #12
So blatantly obvious..this is sick. n/t Jefferson23 Jul 2015 #13
Jonathan... Dont call me Shirley Jul 2015 #14
Will be interesting to hear what the coroner finds cstanleytech Jul 2015 #15
What difference does it make? awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #18
Difference? None but it could explain the part here from Stonewall Police Chief cstanleytech Jul 2015 #23
Maybe Sanders was being uppity? Enthusiast Jul 2015 #16
The killing didn't even stop during the last few weeks of the first good news we've had.... marble falls Jul 2015 #17
The flag coming down awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #19
Your absolutely right: ripping down the Dixie rag is a bone. It gave some desperate.... marble falls Jul 2015 #20
with police heavy arm guards and thick gloves, and pumped up gym roid rage..they can kill by hand. Sunlei Jul 2015 #21
Interesting response from the chief Recursion Jul 2015 #22
No, clearly he was armed with an assault horse. yodermon Jul 2015 #24
kick Liberal_in_LA Jul 2015 #25
It's not the guns. It's the cops. librechik Jul 2015 #26

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
2. What can one say?.."another atocity" "unarmed.",,...??
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 12:56 PM
Jul 2015

Like to read the police report...lots of lies and accusing Sanders of ....
... "attacking the officer.." (my words..not anything known at this time..)

madville

(7,412 posts)
11. The local paper used a prior mug shot of the deceased in their story
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 02:04 PM
Jul 2015

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)
12. Strangulation is used by a majority of serial killers
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 02:47 PM
Jul 2015

Because it is a 'personal' way to kill someone.

cstanleytech

(26,299 posts)
15. Will be interesting to hear what the coroner finds
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 04:13 PM
Jul 2015

but there are other things that could be used to strangle someone that looks similar to a flashlight such as a nightstick.

cstanleytech

(26,299 posts)
23. Difference? None but it could explain the part here from Stonewall Police Chief
Sun Jul 12, 2015, 11:46 AM
Jul 2015

"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.

marble falls

(57,116 posts)
17. The killing didn't even stop during the last few weeks of the first good news we've had....
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 09:40 PM
Jul 2015

in a long time. The killing has to be the very next thing to be tackled.

marble falls

(57,116 posts)
20. Your absolutely right: ripping down the Dixie rag is a bone. It gave some desperate....
Sun Jul 12, 2015, 08:16 AM
Jul 2015

Teabilly politicians a cheap thin veneer of false racial sensitivity, especially Gov Nikki Haley,

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
21. with police heavy arm guards and thick gloves, and pumped up gym roid rage..they can kill by hand.
Sun Jul 12, 2015, 08:22 AM
Jul 2015

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)
22. Interesting response from the chief
Sun Jul 12, 2015, 10:24 AM
Jul 2015
there was no flashlight used to choke anybody -- that's false.

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.
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