The case of Musician,
Corey Jones death by officer, Nouman Raja, stuns kin, as reported in the Pam Beach Post
Tuesday October 20, stuns all of us as well.
Here is a young black man from a respected loving family doing all the
right things and admired by all. Getting
paid in cash and coming home late from gigs with expensive drums in his car,
his licensed gun was his protection. Unfortunately he
might not have been experienced in using it, or perhaps he was too fearful that
fateful morning.
Along comes this plain clothes
man cop, Raja, who approached this young frightened man stranded off the
road about 3 AM waiting for a tow truck to help with his disabled vehicle. Raja
had no badge on him to show this frightened young man he was safe. Instead, with no witnesses, nor cameras, the
young man was shot by the cop about 100 feet away from
his car.
Now let’s evaluate the
situation. The plain clothes man cop was
originally employed by the police department and had previous incidents of
failing to obey by the rules. He was
demoted to the Palm Beach Gardens department with a $10,000 reduction in pay to
do surveillance work. Two comments were contradictory.
The officer at first said he approached Jones vehicle thinking it was
abandoned. Then he said Jones approached
the cop. Does that make sense?
Now the FBI is getting involved.
It is like a boxing match with a 160LB man fighting with a 250LB heavy weight
and the referee is making the decision as to who won.
The bottom line is, new
laws must be made that all police officers including plain clothes men and security
guards, must wear cameras whether they carry a gun or not.
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