Thursday, August 20, 2009
6 cops, 59 shots, 43 wounds, 1 dead man in Tennessee
...meanwhile, on Monday at a President Obama event about a dozen people in Phoenix, Arizona were walking around with guns including assault weapons.... (check video)
Alonzo Heyward (pictured above) carried a rifle around his low-rent Chattanooga neighborhood one day last month, ranting about suicide and ignoring the pleas of friends for hours before six city police officers surrounded him on his front porch and decided it had to end.
His father says Heyward told the officers, "I'm not out here to hurt anybody."
But police, who tried unsuccessfully to disarm Heyward, fired 59 rounds to kill him on July 18. The medical examiner found 43 bullet wounds in his chest, face, arms, hands, legs, buttocks and groin. Police contend Heyward was a danger to others and threatened the six officers.
Heyward, a 32-year-old moving company employee, was black. The six officers are white. They were temporarily placed on administrative leave but have since returned to work.
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Their shift wuz ova an they wanted ta go home. They killed that boy.
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