This article is about a handicapped man, Jeremy McDole, who has been shot for being armed with a .38 caliber. Being in a wheelchair, you can't really do much, so this not only makes the police look bad, but as everyone wondering why. Jeremy was on the sidewalk when the police had their guns pointed at them. When they told him to put his hands up, he didn't go by their word, but rather just kept his hands in his lap. The cops assumed that he was going for his gun that he had placed at his waist, which triggered their reflex to shoot him. Phyllis McDole, Jeremy's mother, was witnessing what was happening and she explained it quite differently. She said that he just had his hands on his lap, and for this reason, she doesn't know why her 28-year-old son has been shot. All she had to say was, "This is unjust."
In my opinion, i feel as is the cops nowadays are taking things to an extent; they're not thinking before they do. Just because these people have a badge, doesn't give them permission to do whatever they want. These cops are supposed to be protecting us from crime, yet they're focusing on the less important, that have no reason to be getting attacked from them. I honestly feel that we really can't trust cops anymore. What will they do for us? Yes, they're trying to keep us safe, but they're really doing it wrong. I read another article and watched a video of about 4-5 cops beating down a 16-year-old boy for J-walking. This boy was doing what everyone else does. yet they chose a child to beat down. He wasn't even doing anything wrong. What I don't understand is why it's so hard to choose the right people for this job and what kind of logic these cops have going through their head.
Delaware police shoot man in wheelchair - CNN.com. (n.d.). Retrieved September 25, 2015, from http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/25/us/delaware-police-shoot-man-wheelchair/index.html
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