Wednesday, February 20, 2008

More sources on Anita Gay Shooting, part 3

Again, the news sources brought down on the shooting of Anita Gay CONTINUE to predominantly take Police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss's statements regarding officer Rashawn Cummings' actions as indisputably correct.
One can go through these sources and make one's own conclusions:

- SFGate's 'Neighbors blame cops in shooting death', found at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/18/BAELV4EKI.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

- OFFICER.com's 'California Neighborhood Angry after Police-Involved Shooting' found at http://www.officer.com/online/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=40247

- The Berkeley Daily Planet's 'Police Officer Kills Berkeley Woman' http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-02-15/article/29254

- East Bay Express blog 'Berkeley Police Shooting Questioned' found at
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/blogs/berkeley_police_shooting_questioned/Content?oid=646430

- The Daily Californian's 'Berkeley Police Officer Shoots, Kills Woman' found at
http://www.dailycal.org/article/100441/berkeley_police_officer_shoots_kills_woman



On the positive side with these above sources, it's clear there was no racist or lewd/bestial acts as in Brooklyn's Abner Louima case.


On the very negatively remaining side, officer Cummings shot Anita Gay in the back upon VERY questionable circumstances.
Here is another telling quote of one of the neighbors, taken verbatim from insideBayArea.com's 'Conflicting accounts in Berkeley shooting' found at http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_8294592?source=rss


"The police should be ashamed of themselves," said 55-year-old Channell King, who added she witnessed the incident from the front porch of her house, directly across the street from Gay's apartment building.

"He could have tased her, used rubber bullets — anything than what he did," King said of the policeman, who's been described by neighbors as a young African-American male. Gay was also African American.

"He could have tased her, used rubber bullets — anything than what he did," King said of the policeman, who's been described by neighbors as a young African-American male.

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