Bossip
Video
Here
we
go
again…
Source:
Nakala
Murry
Apparently,
it
was
obvious
enough
that
Indianola,
Mississippi,
police
officer
Sgt.
Greg
Capers
had
done
wrong
when
he
responded
to
a
domestic
disturbance
by
shooting
an
unarmed
11-year-old
Black
boy
in
the
chest
that
Capers
was
suspended
without
pay
for
what
he
did.
Somehow,
however,
it
wasn’t
as
obvious
to
a
grand
jury,
because
it
has
been
decided
that
Capers
will
not
be
charged
criminally
for
the
egregious
shooting
of
Aderrien
Murry.
According
to
CBS
News,
a
Sunflower
County
grand
jury—in
the
same
state
where
cops
jailed
a
10-year-old
Black
boy
for
urinating
in
public—
decided
Thursday
that
an
11-year-old
Black
boy
nearly
being
killed
by
a
cop
who
fired
shots
for
no
discernable
reason
wasn’t
worth
said
cop
facing
criminal
charges.
At
this
point,
it’s
hard
to
tell
if
Capers
gets
to
walk
away
without
charges
because
police
officers
almost
always
get
the
benefit
of
the
doubt
or
because
the
adultification
of
Black
children
is
as
American
as
apple
pie,
baseball
and,
well,
the
violent
and
systemic
persecution
of
Black
people.
(Either
way,
it
smells
like
racism
no
matter
how
Black
Capers
happens
to
be.)
Let’s
just
take
a
quick
look
at
how
we
got
here,
according
to
the
Murry
family’s
attorney,
Carlos
Moore.
From
CBS
News:
On
the
evening
of
the
shooting,
Nakala
Murry
asked
her
son
to
call
police
around
4
a.m.
when
the
father
of
one
of
her
other
children
showed
up
at
her
home,
Moore
said.
Two
officers
went
to
the
home
and
one
kicked
the
front
door
before
Nakala
Murry
opened
it.
She
told
them
the
man
they
called
about
had
left,
and
that
three
children
were
inside
the
home,
Moore
said.
According
to
Nakala
Murry,
Capers
yelled
into
the
home
and
ordered
anyone
inside
to
come
out
with
their
hands
up,
Moore
said.
He
said
Aderrien
Murry
walked
into
the
living
room
with
nothing
in
his
hands,
and
Capers
shot
him
in
the
chest.
That’s
it.
That’s
the
uncontested
story
of
Capers
shooting
Adderien.
The
cops
were
called
for
a
domestic
disturbance.
They
kicked
in
the
door
like
they
were
there
for
a
known
killer
or
domestic
terrorist,
instead
of
a
man
who
was
neither,
as
far
as
they
knew,
and
was
no
longer
at
the
home.
And
despite
being
told
the
man
they
were
called
for
wasn’t
there
and
that,
besides
the
mother,
there
were
only
children
in
the
house,
Capers
came
in
red
hot
and
fired
a
shot
that
could
have
taken
an
innocent
child’s
life.
TF
you
mean
Capers
wasn’t
charged?
“While
the
grand
jury
has
spoken,
we
firmly
believe
that
there
are
unanswered
questions
and
that
the
shooting
of
Aderrien
Murry
was
not
justified,”
Moore
said.
“We
are
committed
to
seeking
justice
for
Aderrien
and
his
family.”
As
we
previously
reported,
the
Murry
family
has
filed
a
$5
million
federal
lawsuit
against
Indianola,
the
police
chief,
and
Capers
alleging
that
Indianola
failed
to
properly
train
the
officer
and
that
Capers
used
excessive
force.
According
to
CBS,
the
family
plans
to
file
a
second
lawsuit
to
pursue
claims
under
state
law
next
month
in
Sunflower
County
Circuit
Court.
Hopefully,
Aderrien
and
his
family
will
receive
every
cent
they’re
asking
for,
but
the
question
we
should
be
asking
is
how
a
police
officer
gets
to
become
a
sergeant
without
being
properly
trained.
Maybe
it’s
not
the
training.
Maybe
it’s
by
design
that
cops
are
simply
more
aggressive
when
dealing
with
Black
citizens
and/or
suspects.
And
maybe
that’s
why
the
“justice”
system
works
so
hard
to
protect
them.
Anyway,
Capers’
future
with
the
police
department
is
still
uncertain.
According
to
his
attorney,
Michael
Carr,
the
only
way
he
can
return
to
work
is
if
the
Indianola
Board
of
Aldermen,
which
voted
to
put
him
on
unpaid
administrative
leave
in
June,
votes
to
let
him
return.
