In Houston, Texas, on July 9, 2014, an off-duty officer shot a black man. What makes this case stand out from others is the fact that after the man was shot twice, he was left bleeding out for 15 minutes on the ground, after which it took over an hour for him to reach an emergency room , where he promptly died an hour after arriving.
Not only is that questionable, but so are the circumstances for which the man was shot. The report says that Mr. Goodridge had been trespassing in the fitness center of an apartment complex that he had been evicted from. When the officer tried to handcuff him, he pulled away, ran outside to the parking lot, where he supposedly attacked the officer, who, "fearing" he would be lose his gun to the man and be shot with it, shot Mr. Goodridge two times. The victim's brother said that his brother had never been in a fight in his life, and he has questioned the police officer's report's validity, as he rightly should.
What adds to the terror of situations like these, are that the police officers involved can just fake their reports of the events, and the true stories can end up never being heard.
For articles and video footage on this incident, click the links below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/us/charles-goodridge-police-shooting-houston-texas.html?ref=topics
http://mic.com/articles/126614/this-dashcam-footage-shows-police-failing-to-attend-to-a-black-man-who-was-just-shot
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