- Posted by Christopher on August 17, 2008
Once again, the AJC has chosen to use its headlines to cast police activity in a negative light:
Looks like a real travesty, doesn’t it? When you read that, what’s your first assumption? You assume that the article is about how the police shot an innocent bystander who just happened to be at the scene of the crime.
A silent alarm was tripped, and when the responding officer arrived, the boy fled on foot toward a minivan registered to his mother, Bolton said. After a brief tussle, the youth allegedly jumped into the vehicle, threw it into reverse and nearly hit a second officer who had just arrived.
The second officer’s patrol car was hit, and the first officer fired at the teen, hitting him “more than once,” Bolton said. The boy was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston and is expected to recover from his wounds.
In other words, officers shot a burglary suspect who was trying to murder them. But you won’t read that in the main stream media, will you?