Police officer shoots, kills naked teen in Austin, TX

[usuallylurk]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/a...ficer-36816408

Long story short - a naked teen boy was in some type of a situation - he was unarmed (probably obviously) -- he charged toward a police officer, who shot and killed him.

This is going to raise some hackles...

[nudeM]

I read the article. Amazing they ended the article explaining that both were black. Journalism has become the 'go-to source' for information concerning political agendas. Sad

[natureboy1776]

I remember reading the very same story about three years ago, linked from a different nudist forum. I wonder if it happened again or they recycled an old story. Either way it's distressing.

[usuallylurk]

I remember reading the very same story about three years ago, linked from a different nudist forum. I wonder if it happened again or they recycled an old story. Either way it's distressing.

No, dateline was February 9, 2016. I saw it in a crawl the other night while watching the election returns. The story has been downplayed. Obviously - with other similar incidents, the media is soft-pedaling this.

There was a police shooting incident in Philadelphia a few weeks back where someone tried to "assassinate" an officer while sitting in a cruiser; a similar one occurred in Boston where a known drug dealer allegedly began a shootout with police, and was shot and apprehended.

The unusual thing about both of those shootings = if someone fires upon a police officer, up to now it had been standard procedure, to return the fire, and shoot to kil". In both of these incidents, the police went out of their way to NOT do that.

You would have thought - in this case - but, it was a black officer who fired on a black youth - so... who knows.