Written by: Cassius Methyl at theantimedia.org
In Cañon City, Colorado, two people were shot by police in just 6 days.
This is a very small town that barely has any crime. It should be surprising that police are killing people here, in a place with virtually no crime rate compared to places like LA, Oakland, or Chicago.
“About 9 a.m. on Thursday officers were dispatched to the 2000 block of east Main Street on reports that a man had a knife and was making threats. Officers searched the area, eventually locating the man who led them on a “short foot pursuit,” police say.
The pursuit “ended with the subject turning and charging the officers making threatening gestures. One officer fired his handgun and the subject was struck.”
The man, identified as Brandon Atencio of Colorado Springs, was shot on the 500 block of Orchard Avenue and taken to St. Thomas More Hospital in Cañon City where he died. Carlette Brocious, the Fremont County coroner, said Atencio was pronounced dead about 10 a.m.
Another incident with scarce details, and shady, seemingly unlikely circumstances occurred on Monday in this small Colorado town.
An unidentified man was killed by police on Monday ‘after robbing a police supply store’ and allegedly stabbing an officer.
Whether or not the circumstances described were true, we will surely never see proof illustrating why these cops had to kill these people. These are just more incidents of police killing people, going under the radar of the media and our collective awareness.
As long as police think they can do this, kill anyone who barely resembles a threat, facing no consequences afterwards, they will do it.
At this point, it is just getting ridiculous. Are of these cops irrationally paranoid? Do they just not care, knowing they won’t face consequences for these killings?
Please share this with as many people as possible; people who have witnessed the recent nationwide protests unfold in opposition to events just like this, people who are familiar with our epidemic of police brutality and murder, and those who are unaware. However at this point, few people are unaware of the epidemic of police killings. We have to keep publicizing these incidents or they will just keep coming.
99% USA White Police are KKK Members known Fact thanks to Worldwide Police aka Anonymous
Right, I think you should check your information there bud. Thats a pretty far fetched statement
That is very believable with all the unarmed African Americans that are getting shot these days.
99% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Cops guns need to be taken away in this country.
I grew up in Canon City; my parents were cops there. It is a prison town with 9 facilities in the county. My dad hid behind his badge and bible to be a horrible person who should have been locked up in prison for his illegal behavior. That being said, I was released when I was 18 years old (actually moved away and went to college). It’s a beautiful town with some really rotten, some really racist, and morally corrupt human beings. Oh yeah, the KKK was really big there in the early 20th century and the current junior high school on Main Street (once the High School) has the corner stone dedicated to the city by the KKK. Look it up, it’s all true.
crim rate is so hard to find right, i got this one: http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Canon-City-Colorado.html
how weird 2011 is missing… ya know 2001 is missing too so i guess it makes sense then
that city is got some crazy ups and downs
I grew up there too, also moved away at 18. I remember my brother getting clan meeting flyers put on his very Redneck looking truck in the mid to late 90’s. We had very few black people in our community. I remember in the late 90’s or early 2000’s a black teen being murdered by some storage sheds. There was no community uprising or ananything. Just an excuse like it was a drug deal gone wrong or something of that sort.
My home town, lot of shady shit, meth monkey heaven. I am not at all surprised.
Seriously? The author of the article thinks that a man charging at you with a knife “barely resembles a threat”? What kind of idiot wrote this?