At that point, police said Dunton fired six times from a 9-millimeter, striking Officer Edwards three times - once in the left arm (in and out), once in the left side (bullet is lodged in right abdomen), and once in the left back (bullet is lodged in the chest).
Edwards and Dunton were approximately 15 feet apart. Six shell casings from the shooting officer's gun were recovered at the scene.
The question that I have is this was it necessary for Officer Edwards to have been shot at 6 times and hit 3 times, did Officer Dunton, who is white, hear Office Edwards say that he was an officer and if the police officers and the Sergent that was in the car wittiness the whole confrontation before just automatically setting out to kill this Black 25 year old police officer. Was the shooting excessive?
Are police officers using the shoot now and ask questions later only when it comes to black men? Would this had been the same scenario if both officers were white? So does it just come down to race once again? While in 2009, we find ourselves still in a color aroused society in these United States.?
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I dont think we need to ask that question of if the scenerio was different. More chances out many if the situation were two white cops I'm sure Officer Dunton would have heard Officer Edwards identify himself as an officer.
Its unfortunate that We have to imagine ourselves a better outcome.
It's more than likely that Edwards i.d.-ed himself as an officer however Dunton could only see a criminal brandashing a firearm. This event is as important as the issues we face in the black community hitherto intercommunity crime.
I wish Africas' decendants would wake up understand that this country wasn't founded for us to be equal, much less a thriving part of the country. I refer to the term ALL AMERICAN. As all American as Apple Pie, Baseball, and ¨pretty¨ white people with Blonde Hair and Blue Eyes.
It must be a higher level of pride within our community that crime must be beneath who we are, so that atrocities like this have no excuse to be made.
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