Los Angeles police murder a 14-Year-Old Girl
The shooting death by Los Angeles Police of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who died in a changing room of a Burlington Outlet store while with her mother trying on a dress for her coming 15th birthday celebration, is an atrocity beyond comprehension. I don’t care what kinds of excuses are made by the cop or cops who fired shots, one of which tore away this young girl’s life as her horrified mother had to watch and desperately try to save her. There is simply no possible justification for firing police guns in a crowded store.
I cannot even bear to
try and imagine the agony her family is now suffering, especially listening to
the tired police excuses and lame platitudes that always accompany such all too
frequent monstrous acts by America’s centurions.
News reports quoting
police officials say that the police were called because a man was attacking a
store customer with a “heavy duty” bike lock and “threatening to destroy store
property.” That in itself doesn’t sound terribly scary or grounds for the use
of police firearms, especially with three officers on the scene at the time.
There were also reports of shots fired, the police claim. But even if that were
the case — and no gun was recovered from the attacker, who was also killed by
police bullets, nor were there any reports that he fired at police or had a gun
in his hand when he was killed — police should not be excused for firing their
weapons in “self-defense” or to put a stop to a situation in a situation where
there are crowds of people in the potential line of fire.
‘She had big dreams’: parents of Valentina Orellana-Peralta speak out
The primary responsibility of the police is and must always be protecting the public. Period. Their primary responsibility is emphatically not protecting property, and it certainly is not protecting themselves. Police wear or should wear, body armor on duty, and they must, as a part of their acceptance of the job of being a cop, accept the responsibility to put the safety of the public before concerns about their own lives…
https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/28/the-lapd-murder-of-a-14-year-old-girl/
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