Written by: Vandita
Countrywide protests over police killings of unarmed African Americans and racism in US has been extensively covered and debated in both national and international media. Ironically, cases of police brutality on Native Americans, white cops killing innocent unarmed white citizens, get little or no media attention.
Corey Kanosh, the 35-year old member of the Paiute Tribe of Utah, was shot by a Millard County sheriff’s deputy Dale Josse in October 2012 at the end of a high-speed car chase. Family and friends of Corey say he was wrongly suspected of car theft. They add that the deputy shot Corey just seconds after arriving on the scene.
An investigation by the sheriff’s office found that Josse was justified in the shooting. It said Corey was shot after an altercation with the deputy and after he attempted to use his Taser. The conclusion came a day after Corey’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in December, 2012.
Corey Kanosh was unarmed, killed by a Utah cop on Paiute land. Rural police violence is real and racialized. http://t.co/gyO8TzSp1B”
— Grace Dunham (@simongdunham) 9. Dezember 2014
This December, the family members filed a civil lawsuit against Millard County, saying they are frustrated with the lack of information being released in connection with the shooting.
Do you think media is being biased when it comes to reporting police brutality? Is police justified in opening fire at unarmed ‘suspects’? Leave your comments below…
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I think we all need support each other, no matter the race. Reach out and join the other groups!
The police shouldn’t shoot unarmed people. Innocent or not. It goes against everything Criminal Justice stands for and cops like that are an embarrassment to the entire police force. Yes, we have a corrupt police system in my country, but not to that extreme.
Catch 22, kinda.
Police always insist a person they were going to arrest was resisting arrest, as if this justified killing them.
But then people getting questioned by police and arrested when they did nothing wrong have cause to worry and panic, since so many police murder unarmed, innocent people without repercussions.
No need to kill. They just like to kill.
I feel it is just sad all the way around. In rural areas the cops get away with more. It runs on the good ole boy system. Heck where I live for a long time it was the sheriff that was supplying the drugs to dealers. I feel it is time for a revolution……
Yet another example of my point made on another similar report. Things like this have always been happening; the only reason we’re hearing about them now is because the news companies think that this type of thing is what the public wants to hear about.