Tuesday, February 17, 2015

More of the police state.

This was written in an e-mail today to me from an older white guy.

" ...Right now,anyone that resists arrest is in for a bad day! I am all yes sir and no sir."

The subject line of the e-mail was "Grins a plenty." People are afraid of the police and are developing behaviors to reduce their risk of death.

February 17, 2015
By Olivia Laughland

About 10 years ago, (click here) Antonio Zambrano-Montes arrived in Pasco, Washington, in pursuit of what his family simply describes as “a better future”. He left behind a village in the municipality of De Aquila in the southern Mexican state of Michoacan. It was reportedly a place with no roads and no shops to buy clothes, where residents would travel by horse and cart to the next town to buy basic provisions and most worked as farm labourers.
He brought with him his wife and two daughters to the city of around 70, 000 people, in America’s north-west....

The 35-year-old Washington orchard worker who was born in Mexico was shot dead at 5pm on Tuesday after he was found throwing rocks – one described as "softball sized" – at vehicles on a busy intersection in Pasco. Police said that after "low-level force" failed to bring him under control and the deployment of a Taser had "no effect", officers fired on the suspect after his "threatening behaviour" continued.