After an independent autopsy showed that Zachary Hammond was shot by
police from behind, the family of the unarmed South Carolina teen is
wondering at the lack of national outrage in this case. Hammond was
white.
According
to the police in Seneca, South Carolina, an officer shot Hammond “in
self-defense” when the teen allegedly tried to run him over with a car
during a drug arrest. An officer approached Hammond’s car in the parking
lot of a Hardee’s restaurant on July 26, after an undercover officer
arranged a marijuana buy with the teen’s date, 23-year-old Tori Morton.
The initial police report mentions finding a bag of marijuana on Morton –
who was charged with simple possession – but makes no note of the
lethal shooting.The official autopsy confirmed Hammond was shot twice, but did not say from what angle. Hammond’s family arranged for an independent autopsy, which showed the 19-year-old had been shot from above and behind, suggesting that the official police story was inaccurate.
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I am outraged.
ReplyDeleteI am not white.
I am an American.
There will be a reckoning.
Count on it.
RIP, and with justice Zachary.
I'm outraged-that's why I posted this story.
DeleteYou have it right-we are Americans.
The problem is that when white kids get killed-there's near zero media coverage.
When a black kid gets killed the social justice warriors,race hustlers,and the professionally outraged are on cable and network news shows blathering about it for days,and blaming white supremacy,racism,white privilege,microaggressions,and whatever other made up terms they are using at the moment for the death-rather than blaming the psycho who pulled the trigger.
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