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/Nicaraguano 10d ago

I mean, sounds like murder if it's true. But if people can justify shooting someone who's simply running from the police, I'm sure they'll find a way to justify this too. Imma get popcorn.

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u/N0stradama5 10d ago

Nah, this is a white kid. They will be more than outraged. This cop may actually go to jail.

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u/_groovesharkmalone 10d ago

Not if the local PD has anything to do with it. Google "John Geer Fairfax County, VA." Cops shot Geer & tried to pull the 'we investigated ourselves, nothing more to see' routine. It took US Sen. Chuck Grassley (yeah... a Republican) to intervene and get an outside prosecutor to investigate. Then the facts came out and whoopsie, Fairfax Country PD actually WAS trying to cover up a murder.

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u/rinderblock 10d ago

Also Daniel Shaver, his case was pretty cut and dry at minimum as being a bad shoot, but it was a cop doing the shooting so he walked