1y ago

Police stopped Brad on his morning walk for wearing a hoodie. Ten minutes later, he was dead

www.abc.net.au

CCTV caught Brad's final moments before he was shot after being stopped for wearing a hoodie

Alternative title: NSW cops murder a kid because he ran home when 4 people in plain clothes pile out of a car and accost him. For wearing a hoodie.

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The inquest heard that due to shortages, only Officer B took a body camera that day, but did not wear it for any of the searches he conducted. He told the inquest his priority was “to get out of the car quickly due to the way Bradley was walking”.
If we ever want to be able to have a just police force, this sort of thing needs to be considered sufficient evidence of intent to commit a crime. Either you have a body camera on, or you are a civilian, not a cop
The whole the article is incredibly damning; an illegal stop, a "proactive policing" policy which can so obviously only ever lead to injustice, violation of the right to walk away, targeting without sufficient evidence, police lying about callouts on the radio
- Yeah like the consequences on one side: idk a kid with a can of spraypaint gets away? maybe worst likely case someone runs off with a handbag of replaceable, material, things.
  OTOH a child is murdered under shady circumstances and the killers get off due to lack of evidence.
  
  maybe worst likely case someone runs off with a handbag of replaceable, material, things.
  I think you're seriously understating how scary something like that can be to the victim, to be honest.
This was such a harrowing read. In a just world, they'd all be up on manslaughter charges.
I am sure in 2 years they'll be able to retire with PTSD on workers comp.
- Yeah it's terrifying. A government agency with a monopoly on violence doing something as ruthlessly as if it was a gang hit.
  I really appreciate how the abc broke the story.
If an officer's 'mental health condition' is so severe that they can't testify in court, MAYBE THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE A FUCKING GUN.
- being fair, they might be traumatised from watching their partner murder someone. They should probably testify against them in that case though
  
  No, fuck that.
  Try that as anyone but a cop.
  Sorry yeronner I can't face trial, the trauma of being arrested for murder is impacting my mental health, you'll just have to let me go.
I was amazed to find this happened in Australia, not the USA. What a shitshow.
- nsw pol are complete bastards. Murdered a 90 year old with dementia cause she was armed with a walking frame and knife. Patrol the streets with drug dogs that indicate based on handler not drugs (and even aside: wtf?), strip search tweens illegally, stop music festivals by charging organisers a few hundred thousand to cover the costs of stop and searching random people.
  Completely cooked force. My BIL is one of them and I really mean it when I say they're all fucking cunts.
  
  They have neither the warmth nor depth of a cunt.
- Yeah same as someone who lives in Australia
  I thought this shit would never happen here
  
  Oh. What's it like being fucking retarded?
The murderers were suspicious because Brad was “wearing a hoodie on a hot day”? WTF? It was 23 Celsius. That’s 73 Fahrenheit. I’m in a hoodie with the hood up until it’s at least 26 Celsius because I’m fuckin cold!

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