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Another Portland Area Police Shooting
Oct. 24th, 2005 12:56 pmThis man was a very close friend of one of my former co-workers. Reading things like this makes me sick on several levels. One, on the obvious, "when is this going to end?" level. Secondly, I feel sick that we as a UU community have not developed our own anti racism work, so how will we (as a society) ever get past things like police shootings?
On September 8, 27 year old Fouad Kaady was involved in a car crash that resulted in his gas tank exploding. He caught fire, and frantic, ran out in the street. Police in the vicinity, investigating the accident, shot and killed Kaady.
Today a grand jury cleared the police officers of any criminal wrongdoing.
Read this original article from Oregonian staff writer Stuart Thompson. As usual, the victim is depicted as crazed.
Another article from the perspective of family and friends.
The police initially claimed that Kaady was armed with a shotgun. But no weapon was found on the naked, bleeding, burnt man.
I am so sick of this. I have a natural respect for authority, and have never committed a crime - I have even considered attending police academy myself - and yet whenever I see a police car driving alongside me, or slowing down so that I'll pass it (so they can run my plates), I get nervous. I get very, very nervous. Why should so many of us live with this fear?
On September 8, 27 year old Fouad Kaady was involved in a car crash that resulted in his gas tank exploding. He caught fire, and frantic, ran out in the street. Police in the vicinity, investigating the accident, shot and killed Kaady.
Today a grand jury cleared the police officers of any criminal wrongdoing.
Read this original article from Oregonian staff writer Stuart Thompson. As usual, the victim is depicted as crazed.
Another article from the perspective of family and friends.
The police initially claimed that Kaady was armed with a shotgun. But no weapon was found on the naked, bleeding, burnt man.
I am so sick of this. I have a natural respect for authority, and have never committed a crime - I have even considered attending police academy myself - and yet whenever I see a police car driving alongside me, or slowing down so that I'll pass it (so they can run my plates), I get nervous. I get very, very nervous. Why should so many of us live with this fear?
