This is a standard IMPD procedure following a police involved shooting.
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Marion County coroner’s office manager Marchele Hall identified the slain driver as 15-year-old Andre Green.
Witness Allen Eaton told the Star the series of events unfolded much differently from police’s account.
(AP Photo/Darron Cummings). Stuffed animals and candles are arranged at a memorial for 15-year-old Andre Green Tuesday, August 11, 2015, in Indianapolis.
In a Monday press conference, IMPD Assistant Chief Lloyd Crowe said his officers were attempting to stop a vehicle full of people that reportedly matched the description of a red Nissan that had been carjacked earlier that evening.
Crowe said police had reviewed some of the boy’s social media posts. You don’t have to come to the police.
Activists like Shaun King and the communists driving the “Black Lives Matter” cult do not care about the basic human right to self-defense, and would insist that it doesn’t apply to police, or as the George Zimmerman trial proved, to average citizens, either. Indiana Black Expo President Tanya Bell said it would “provide more transparency for our community”.
“Body cams are also known to reduce officer shootings and deter officers from inappropriate conduct”, Bell said in a joint statement with Dr. Michael Twyman, executive director of Your Life Matters. Police say multiple passengers got out and ran away from police after the crash.
Police Lt. Rick Riddle said officers recovered a firearm but released no details about it, including whether it was loaded. She said a recently completed pilot program was a success that opened the door to the city’s planned, department-wide push for body cameras. The proposed budget for that program will include both city funding and expected federal matching grants for the cameras, Pittman said.
The officers have been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. Crowe said a handgun was found near the teenager, who is the youngest person to be shot and killed by an officer since 12-year-old Tamir Rice was gunned down in Cleveland for playing with a toy gun, Mashable writes.
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In Texas Monday, officials said security footage taken before a college football player was fatally shot by a police officer shows the 19-year-old breaking into a auto and later crashing his own vehicle into the glass showroom. No one was struck by those bullets.
