Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support
Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support
Relatives say an autistic and nonverbal teenage boy who was shot by Idaho police from the other side of a chain-link fence while holding a knife has died.
Victor Perez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had been in a coma since the April 5 shooting, and tests Friday showed that he had no brain activity, his aunt, Ana Vazquez, told The Associated Press. He had undergone several surgeries, with doctors removing nine bullets and amputating his leg.
The shooting outraged Perez’s family and Pocatello residents, and about 200 people attended a vigil Saturday morning outside the Pocatello hospital where he was treated. Another crowd of protesters gathered outside the Pocatello City Hall building, which also houses the police department, on Saturday afternoon. Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest, though no violence was reported. Many of the protesters held signs with phrases like, “Do better, PPD” and “Justice for Victor,” and passing cars honked in acknowledgment.
Just a reminder, Blue Lives are supposed to matter less than everyone else. That's why they sre issued a badge and a gun. They are supposed to put themselves at risk to protect the community. At least, that's the story we're told as kids. It's the justification used to obtain our consent to be policed.
If police are so afraid for their safety that they kill innocent civilians, even by mistake, then they do not deserve our consent. The do not deserve authority over us, they do not deserve the free use of force, and they do not deserve the legal deference provided them by our justice system.
Blue Lives Don't Matter, or it's fascism.
As an autistic person this scares the shit out of me, and makes me realize just how fucking lucky I am to be alive with the sheer callous evil that I have seen happen towards me and others.
Tired of these morons with tin badges killing with impunity. They say they're afraid of everything, to justify killing. Maybe it's time to give them something to actually fear. Maybe we're afraid of them.
Gee, I bet he was brown, right?
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we need counter snipers badly
so why is that when 5 idiots do something then people scream ACAB all day and night? I am not a cop buy my childhood and current best friend was and he had to go through some fucking shit. he had to deal with suicide by cop, crack addicts just being..crack addicts. idiot people driving around dangerously, bomb threats left and right, angry karens crying about their neighbors and more.
I have a pet rock named hsmmurabi I ask in difficult times what to do.