San-Jose Police Fire Rubber Bullets At Protest, Hitting Their Own Racial Bias Trainer In The Testicle…
[WeaselZippers] A black community activist who trained San Jose police recruits on implicit bias for three years was shot in a testicle by a rubber bullet during a recent protest,
...what an interesting experience he’s had. Definitely an accident — after three years of training together, they must simply love him... | prompting the city’s mayor to say that more needs to be done to confront police brutality — but that defunding police will only undermine those efforts.
Derrick Sanderlin, a 27-year-old community organizer, suffered potentially permanent injuries by a rubber bullet at a May 29 protest demonstration, the mayor’s office said in a press release Monday.
Sanderlin, who knows San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia personally, said he was disheartened to see how officers were treating protesters. Video captured by KABC-TV’s news helicopter overhead purportedly showed the moments an officer fired a riot gun at Sanderlin, who had approached with his hands up.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-06-11 |