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“I had already explained to the teacher that it was a toy,” Elliott said. “I told [Lindaman] that it was a toy. She admitted that she knew it was a toy but Isaiah’s safety was of the utmost importance.”

Elliott said that she couldn’t believe that the school administration had escalated the situation without informing her or her husband.

“An hour and a half after receiving [the teacher’s] email, I found out that the police were on their way,” she said.

According to a redacted copy of the incident report obtained by KOAA News, the teacher told Lindaman “she assumed it was a toy gun but was not certain.”

At the time, one of her son’s classmates was also at their home for virtual lessons.

After the vice principal’s call, Elliott said that she told her husband, Curtis Elliott, who had briefly left their home, to “turn around and go straight home.”

 

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Just fired, not arrested and charged, they were just too fearful for their lives when the suspect picked up a taser and pointed it at them after it had no affect on him and they'd already shot him 3 times.

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/09/11/911900516/4-houston-police-officers-fired-over-fatal-shooting-of-nicolas-chavez

 

Four Houston police officers have been terminated for their involvement in the fatal shooting of 27-year-old Nicolas Chavez in April.

The Houston Police Department announced the firings Thursday and released body camera footage of the encounter.

Multiple officers were on the scene the night Chavez was shot to death. They fired a total of 24 shots at Chavez — only three of which were deemed "objectively reasonable," Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a news conference.

"The discharge of those 21 shots for those four members of the Houston Police Department are not objectively reasonable," Acevedo said. "I believe that anyone that watches this tape, that sees this, would see that they had a lot of opportunities and a lot of other options readily available to them."

The department has said that officers were responding to a "suicide in progress call" and used a combination of lethal and nonlethal rounds to try to subdue Chavez. Police said he had a blunt metal object that was initially thought to be a knife but later found to be a piece of metal rebar.

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12 hours ago, Chairslinger said:

Has it been mentioned around here that a popular fever dream going around the rightwing bubble is that Antifa caused the wildfires with chopped down telephone poles?

 

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Police departments have begged the public to stop inundating their 911 lines with baseless rumors claiming anti-fascist activists are behind the catastrophic blazes.

 

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