Naeschylus Vinzant was nobody’s angel. His rap sheet, which dated back to 1994, included arrests for attempted homicide, assault and felony menacing. In August 2014, he was arrested on a domestic violence case on suspicion of assault, theft and violating parole.
He was out on parole again on Friday March 6, and was wanted for violating the terms of that parole. This was when Vinzant, who was unarmed, was fatally shot by Aurora Police officer Paul Jerothe.
It has been two weeks now, and the Aurora Police Department has offered no explanation as to why it was necessary for Jerothe to shoot Vinzant.
Why?
(Here is their Facebook post naming Jerothe as the shooter. And here is their only other update on the episode.)
Had someone other than a member of the punitive priesthood been accused of taking Vinzant’s life, he would have been apprehended immediately and shamed relentlessly by the media. However, Jerothe’s status as a police officer evidently affords him special immunity.
According to the Denver Post:
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-killed-unarmed-man-information-police-released-is-he-record/#46d8x3s29tz4xmX4.99
He was out on parole again on Friday March 6, and was wanted for violating the terms of that parole. This was when Vinzant, who was unarmed, was fatally shot by Aurora Police officer Paul Jerothe.
It has been two weeks now, and the Aurora Police Department has offered no explanation as to why it was necessary for Jerothe to shoot Vinzant.
Why?
(Here is their Facebook post naming Jerothe as the shooter. And here is their only other update on the episode.)
Had someone other than a member of the punitive priesthood been accused of taking Vinzant’s life, he would have been apprehended immediately and shamed relentlessly by the media. However, Jerothe’s status as a police officer evidently affords him special immunity.
According to the Denver Post:
“Investigators allowed officer Paul Jerothe six days to ‘decompress’ before talking to police about the killing of Naeschylus Vinzant. ‘He needed time to process what happened,’ said Jerothe’s attorney, Marc Colin.”
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-killed-unarmed-man-information-police-released-is-he-record/#46d8x3s29tz4xmX4.99
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