Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support

[Wonder Why]

Source: Associated Press

An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, his family said.

Victor Perez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had been in a coma since the April 5 shooting, and tests Friday showed that he had no brain activity, his aunt, Ana Vazquez, told The Associated Press. He had undergone several surgeries, with doctors removing nine bullets and amputating his leg.

Officers opened fire within about 12 seconds of getting out of their patrol cars and made no apparent effort to de-escalate the situation.



The officers, whose names have not been released, were placed on administrative leave.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/idaho-shooting-teen-police-autism-c782c70c8738fca0a3cc032941a6f2ce

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Shoot first. Ask questions later.

[displacedvermoter]

1. Protect us from our Protectors

Since 911 we have been told all these law officers are heroes whose actions, no matter how reckless and violent, are in our collective best interests. The killing of innocent people by overreacting cops is just a price we all have to pay.

Only when cops faced the January 6 crowds were we supposed to question their use of force, but just watch how quickly Trump and company spring to the defense of every cop who shoots first and asks questions later now that the he has unleashed the beast on the rest of us.

[The Wizard]

21. Since 9-11 we have been

worshiping uniforms.

[Martin68]

2. I was in fear of my life!"

I thought he'd chew through the fence and stab me! Out-of-control law, trigger-happy enforcement.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Thugs with badges are not selected for empathy or intelligence. . . . nt

[North Coast Lawyer]

30. Yup, they choose thugs.

I failed a psych test at a rather notorious police department because I didn't fit the profile they wanted for "high impact policing." They told me I'd be a better fit for a small town force or a university police department.

[kimbutgar]

4. This is so awful

I have an autistic son who has had melt down and we’ve had to call police not one gun was shown and he immediately backed down seeing the cops.

I think because this kid was Hispanic is why those racist cops shot him. And what cowards there was a fence between Victor and the cops. They wouldn’t even try to talk with him. And I would not be shocked if the orange Hitler invited them to the White House and gives them medals.

[North Coast Lawyer]

31. racism is rampant in many police department

You wouldn't believe what white suspects are able to get away with and not get shot.

[Buddyzbuddy]

5. Since the Justice Dept. is now the Injustice Dept.

there will be more stories like this one. No accountability means more abuse of power.

[electric_blue68]

6. Really horrific!!!

[Evolve Dammit]

7. so tragic and unnecessary.

[58Sunliner]

8. So sad and sick. Mentally ill/disabled are the most common victims of police shootings.

[SWBTATTReg]

20. Yes, this is a very sad fact. For example, if you were profoundly hard of hearing, like me, and a police officer

said to me to do something, I wouldn't hear them. And then, I would get shot. Always my biggest fear.

[58Sunliner]

27. I also have this fear. Born with a hearing loss and can't hear anyone beyond 3 feet away.

[niyad]

9. When I was in college, out of curiosity, I took the local police academy exam.

I failed. According to the rejection letter, I was "not psychologically suited to be a police officer". Cracked me up. And over 50 years ago, they were not quite the violent, militaristic thugs we see far too often today.

[OldBaldy1701E]

23. Too nice and more inclined to be helpful, eh?

Yeah, they don't like those attributes.

[niyad]

24. Pretty much. Apparently, the whole "serve and protect" thing is really

only an advertising/recruiting slogan, not an actual mission statement.

[dchill]

10. "...placed on administrative leave."

That'll teach them!

[Cirsium]

11. Defund the police?

No. Disband the police. Let's start over.

There are rational alternative approaches to public safety.

[OldBaldy1701E]

25. We really don't have to do either.

Just return the police to their original jobs... protecting the business sector.

Form another agency to assist and help the public. Form yet another one to address violent acts.

Each should be on patrol in their areas. Except the ones who deal with violence. They are on standby in case they are needed.

And, here is the kicker. Fund each department as they rank on need. If the 'community ambassadors' get the most calls, they get the most funding. Not funding by department demand, funding by pubic demand.

Also, any and all seizures are held by the state and used where they are needed, not by the department that made the seizure.

Watch how fast things change once their bloated, sacred budgets, current societal position as a defacto monopoly, and their seizures are threatened.

[Cirsium]

28. Interesting

Thanks for that.

Businesses can hire their own private security. No reason for the public to subsidize that.

[OldBaldy1701E]

29. I agree, however there would need to be a 'standard of conduct'.

Better to have an outside agency handling such a thing. One that can be held accountable for its actions.

[Cirsium]

33. OK

I can see that.

[moniss]

12. Notice that the police response to protesters

was to put snipers on the roofs of buildings.

[NeoConsSuck]

32. I was shocked at that too

The police chief had to be responsible for putting snipers on the roofs. The first guy that has to get booted is the police chief.

[asm128]

13. ACAB

FTP

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Sickening

[slightlv]

15. And these are the people who are suppose to protect

us as we exercise our free speech at protests, etc? They're the ones we *don't* expect to throw in with trump and his illegal, unconstitutional orders? That's worrisome!

[Hekate]

16. Peace to that poor child and to his family

[EddieOnTheMesa]

17. Murder Plain to See

Many so called trained professionals with guns takes on a sick young man with a knife. So pathetic it reminds me of the cowardly Uvalde cops.

[Journeyman]

18. "Help! Police!" . . .

There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him. Yossarian smiled wryly at the futile and ridiculous cry for aid, then saw with a start that the words were ambiguous, realized with alarm that they were not, perhaps, intended as a call for police but as a heroic warning from the grave by a doomed friend to everyone who was not a policeman with a club and a gun and a mob of other policemen with clubs and guns to back him up. 'Help! Police!' the man had cried, and he could have been shouting of danger.

~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22

[Clouds Passing]

19. Victor

[The Wizard]

22. Many departments employ military training for their officers.

Keeping the peace and killing the enemy are not one in the same. Military training is focused on us against them. Police should not be an occupying military force.

[regnaD kciN]

26. But the ARE an occupying force...

Their duty is to subdue the black and brown people to keep us whites secure.

[riversedge]

34. May the family find peace.