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2 Black Cops Must've Lost Their Minds If They Thought They Could Get Away with Killing a White Man in the System of White Supremacy. Louisiana Deputies Quickly Charged, Shot Man to Death in Car

Scholar Alex Vitale explains, “there is now a large body of evidence measuring whether the race of the individual officers affects their use of force. Most studies show no effect. More distressingly, a few indicate that black officers are more likely to use force or make arrests, especially of Black civilians.” Conversely, it is rare for a black police officer to use excessive force against a white person. In fact, according to Anon, in the history of modern law enforcement there have been only a handful of instances of a black police officer shooting or killing an unarmed white person. This is not surprising but it is absolute proof that the black individual operating within a system of white supremacy cannot mistreat whites even if he or she is wearing a uniform, a badge, and carrying a gun." [MORE]

JPSO deputies Isaac Hughes, 29, and Johnathan Louis, 35, turned themselves in to police Monday following the shooting incident Wednesday in Marrero

  • The officers are charged with one count of manslaughter each in the killing of Daniel Vallee, 34

  • Vallee was sitting in his parked SUV on Wilson Street when he was shot

  • The officers had been responding to a noise complaint coming from a known neighborhood 'crack house,' police said Monday during a press conference

  • The ex officers suspected Vallee's vehicle had a 'switched license plate'

  • When Vallee refused to exit the vehicle and started the car, officers drew their weapons and began to fire at the car's windshield several times, killing Vallee

  • The incident was caught on the officers' bodycams, which led investigators to discern the two didn't have the right to use deadly force during the encounter

  • The pair are currently incarcerated in county jail and will appear in court

From [HERE] Two sheriff’s deputies in Louisiana have been arrested on a count of manslaughter and fired after police officials said they fatally shot an unarmed man inside a parked vehicle last week.

Sheriff Joseph P. Lopinto III of Jefferson Parish said the officers’ use of force “was not justified” after they shot the man, Daniel Vallee, during a standoff with the police early Wednesday in Marrero, La., just south of New Orleans.

The shooting happened around 2 a.m., when the police, responding to a noise complaint in the area, found Mr. Vallee inside a vehicle parked in front of a “known crack house,” the sheriff said during a news conference Monday night.

Officers repeatedly ordered Mr. Vallee, 34, to exit the vehicle, but he refused, the sheriff said. During the standoff, which lasted about 12 minutes, Mr. Vallee locked the doors and eventually started the vehicle’s engine, according to Sheriff Lopinto.

“That, of course, escalated the situation,” he said. “Numerous of my deputies drew their weapons at that point in time, expecting him to try to take off.” [MORE]