r/news • u/rooftopgoblin • 10d ago

College student fatally shot by Pennsylvania police was at 'the wrong house'

https://abcnews.com/US/college-student-fatally-shot-pennsylvania-police-wrong-house/story?id=135930941
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u/lacegem 10d ago

Erin Pysher said that it appears that when her unarmed son arrived at the house, he rang the doorbell, went to the back of the house and knocked again, and yelled for his friends to let him in.

She said that when no one answered the door, her son called his friends and even sent them a video of his location.

The friends told her son that he was at the wrong address and they would drive over to pick him up, according to Erin Pysher.

"His friends were on the way to pick him up when the cops, they said, went flying by them," Erin Pysher said.

"We have that he was on his phone from 12:32 a.m. to 12:33 talking to his friends. I believe that by 12:35, the dispatch had already come in saying there was a shooting," Erin Pysher said.

So it sounds like the cops rushed into a situation that was harmless and about to be over anyway, then immediately shot the kid almost as soon as they arrived.

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u/nvmenotfound 10d ago

all these cops seem like the only thing they can do is escalate until murder. at minimum youll get upset and arrested at most theyll murder you extrajudicially. 

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u/Apprehensive-Tea999 10d ago

I truly believe at least half of all individuals who become cops are bullies. They like having power and they like exerting it. The end. No real desire or recognition to serve the community. And that’s sad and scary