Cop Nearly Kills Innocent Man In Front Of 7-Yo Daughter.
Recently, True Activist enlightened readers on the various reasons police officers in the U.S. kill more people per day than cops in Norway have in the past decade. In addition to undergoing drastically less time in training, cops in the U.S. are not educated on how to de-escalate situations. Instead, they enter situations with defensive, fear-based mentalities and, as was witnessed in the case of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, oftentimes end up hurting more people than helping.
Recently, the world was presented with another example of this.
A man named Ken Walton was driving around in a rental car with his 7-year-old daughter when an Arizona State Trooper pulled him over. The Facebook post he shared relays that without warning, the situation quickly escalated.
Walton wrote:
"Tonight, I was arrested at gunpoint by an Arizona highway patrol officer who threatened to shoot me in the back (twice) in front of my 7-year-old daughter. For a moment, I was certain he was going to kill me for no reason. I'm alive, and I need to share the story. PLEASE SHARE IT, because I have an important reason for staying up past 1 a.m. to write it down."
The pair was pulled over in Williams, Arizona. Walton thought the reason the officer stopped him was because of a "broken taillight or something," or perhaps because he had been speeding.
When the State Trooper approached the vehicle, however, he didn't introduce himself or explain the reasoning behind being stopped. Instead, he pointed the barrel of a gun at the rear passenger side window where Walton's daughter was sitting. He then demanded that the front driver seat window be opened, a task Walton was having trouble with because they were in a rental car. He explains that the State Trooper screamed at the young girl not to move as she reached forward to help roll down the front window.
What happened next is frightening. Walton relays:
"Somehow I was able to get the window down, and then the officer ordered me to exit the car with my hands up. I did so slowly and with my hands raised as high in the air as possible, and as he came around to the driver's side of the car he screamed at me to face away from him, as if I were doing something wrong. (I didn't know this was the protocol for being arrested at gunpoint.) Then, as I had my hands in the air, he yelled, at the top of his lungs, in a voice I will never forget, as my daughter looked on in terror, "Get your hands away from your waist or I'll blow two holes through your back right now!"
My hands were high in the air as he said this, and I was not in any way reaching for my waist. I was utterly terrified. I've heard stories of police yelling out false things like this before they unjustifiably attack someone as a way to justify the attack, and I thought this was what was happening to me. I braced for bullets to hit me and all I could think of was my daughter having to watch it happen and being left alone on the side of the highway with an insane, violent cop.
Read more at http://www.trueactivist.com/cop-nearly-kills-innocent-man-in-front-of-7-yo-daughter-when-you-find-out-why-youll-be-furious/.
