Thursday, May 06, 2021 10:50:10 AM
Mississippi Cops Kill Baby in Barrage of Gunfire
As if we need any more evidence of police officers being reckless with human life, here's an especially horrifying story out of Mississippi and Louisiana.
Another report of the event:
https://nypost.com/2021/05/05/father-used-infant-son-as-human-shield-in-shootout-with-cops-report/
(A heartless father accused of abducting his infant son used the boy as a human shield during a shootout with Mississippi police, according to a report.)
Eric Derell Smith, 30, allegedly kidnapped 4-month-old La’Mello Parker on Monday after police say he fatally shot his ex-girlfriend, Christin Parker, 32, and her 26-year-old nephew, Brandon Parker, near Baker, Louisiana, WALA reported.
Police shot more than 20 bullets at a car in which they knew there was a four-month-old baby, killing the child along with his father, Eric Derell Smith.
Smith, of Baton Rouge, was suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend's nephew and his ex-girlfriend and fleeing with the couple's child on Monday.
"Our top priority is locating that child safely," East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said in a press release.
Police did eventually locate the child safely.
Then they killed him.
Authorities had been notified that Smith was driving east on I-10 near Gulfport, Mississippi, prompting police from Gulfport, the Harrison County Sheriff's Office, and Mississippi Highway Patrol to begin chasing him.
After Smith drove into a highway median and got stuck, police began shooting.
Another motorist, Patrisha Ramos, took a video of the incident:
"That baby didn't have a chance at all in that situation and it's terrible," Ramos told WLOX.
"At least give the person in the car either a chance to get out or surrender or something. Especially if there was an innocent life in that car."
According to a press release from the Biloxi Police Department, Smith was exiting his car when police started shooting. Yet this isn't apparent from the video.
"It's possible that the driver—the baby's father who has just kidnapped the baby after murdering the mother/ex and her relative—shot at the cops.
The video is unclear," tweeted Fordham University law professor John Pfaff. "But they KNEW the baby was there. They are supposed to be trained for this. A 20-shot fusillade? At a hostage?"
In typical fashion, some media outlets have refused to assign agency or blame for the child's death to law enforcement.
"Baby in suspect's car during I-10 police pursuit dies," read a Biloxi Sun Herald headline. "A murder suspect and his kidnapped baby son die after police shootout in Mississippi," reported CNN.
video: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article251154119.html
"A baby boy died from injuries suffered when Mississippi police gunned down his murder-suspect father," NBC News tweeted, sharing an article titled "Baby boy killed during attempted arrest in Mississippi."
https://reason.com/2021/05/06/mississippi-cops-kill-baby-in-barrage-of-gunfire/
As if we need any more evidence of police officers being reckless with human life, here's an especially horrifying story out of Mississippi and Louisiana.
Another report of the event:
https://nypost.com/2021/05/05/father-used-infant-son-as-human-shield-in-shootout-with-cops-report/
(A heartless father accused of abducting his infant son used the boy as a human shield during a shootout with Mississippi police, according to a report.)
Eric Derell Smith, 30, allegedly kidnapped 4-month-old La’Mello Parker on Monday after police say he fatally shot his ex-girlfriend, Christin Parker, 32, and her 26-year-old nephew, Brandon Parker, near Baker, Louisiana, WALA reported.
Police shot more than 20 bullets at a car in which they knew there was a four-month-old baby, killing the child along with his father, Eric Derell Smith.
Smith, of Baton Rouge, was suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend's nephew and his ex-girlfriend and fleeing with the couple's child on Monday.
"Our top priority is locating that child safely," East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said in a press release.
Police did eventually locate the child safely.
Then they killed him.
Authorities had been notified that Smith was driving east on I-10 near Gulfport, Mississippi, prompting police from Gulfport, the Harrison County Sheriff's Office, and Mississippi Highway Patrol to begin chasing him.
After Smith drove into a highway median and got stuck, police began shooting.
Another motorist, Patrisha Ramos, took a video of the incident:
"That baby didn't have a chance at all in that situation and it's terrible," Ramos told WLOX.
"At least give the person in the car either a chance to get out or surrender or something. Especially if there was an innocent life in that car."
According to a press release from the Biloxi Police Department, Smith was exiting his car when police started shooting. Yet this isn't apparent from the video.
"It's possible that the driver—the baby's father who has just kidnapped the baby after murdering the mother/ex and her relative—shot at the cops.
The video is unclear," tweeted Fordham University law professor John Pfaff. "But they KNEW the baby was there. They are supposed to be trained for this. A 20-shot fusillade? At a hostage?"
In typical fashion, some media outlets have refused to assign agency or blame for the child's death to law enforcement.
"Baby in suspect's car during I-10 police pursuit dies," read a Biloxi Sun Herald headline. "A murder suspect and his kidnapped baby son die after police shootout in Mississippi," reported CNN.
video: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article251154119.html
"A baby boy died from injuries suffered when Mississippi police gunned down his murder-suspect father," NBC News tweeted, sharing an article titled "Baby boy killed during attempted arrest in Mississippi."
https://reason.com/2021/05/06/mississippi-cops-kill-baby-in-barrage-of-gunfire/
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