From News 12:
More than 100 people held a protest outside the Bridgeport Police Department Tuesday, one day after a police-involved shooting left a Bridgeport man dead.
“We want answers, and we want justice,” the crowd chanted.
Dyshan Best, 38, was a CDL truck driver who had just returned from a trip to Arkansas to attend the funeral of a childhood friend when he was shot to death Monday night, Best’s family told News 12 Tuesday.
“He was a loving, caring and devoted father who did not deserve to be shot dead in the street. He was running away from the officers, not towards them,” said Tatiana Barrett, Best’s niece.
The shooting took place in a driveway in the 1400-block of Kossuth Street, just before 6 p.m. Monday, police said in a statement.
Officers had responded to reports of a fight on East Main Street – “possibly involving people in possession of firearms” – and they chased Best on foot after seeing him “bail out” of “a suspect vehicle,” according to the statement.
Full report here
So there lies the question? Why was he running away from the police? If he did nothing wrong then why run?
I think the question lies within your question.
I don’t think anyone is saying/assuming he didn’t have a reason to run form the police. Based on this report and comments about Dyshan’s past and was turning himself around. So it is fair to say he was into stuff (criminality) in his younger years. It is also fair to say he ran because he didn’t want to get arrested.
It is also fair to say since he had a job as a truck driver and helped out/support his community he didn’t have any arrest warrants.
It is also fair to say since he was a truck driver who just came into the Port to attend a funeral and was going leave he wasn’t active in the stuff he was as younger man.
My best assumption he was strapped, and didn’t want to busted for it. That reason to run.
That alone can get it can get very complicated politically, to say the least. (if that’s the case) I mean, every time there’s a street shooting/gun violence all the pols come out with lip service, talk about how things need to change and what needs to get done, Then leave until the next one, for the most part.
While people do strive and work for thinks to get better in the streets in their community, there is a reality out there in that street game. However, their has to be a undersigning, out side of the politics that there is a reality for the officer who they expect to make that changes. That a tricky, politically beast to balance without coming off disingenuous.
The real and un-bias question is what this shooting justifiable that the officer felt a real treat deadly threat. I will say that life threat situation will be very subjective.
I mean look how subjective your statement is in the justification without any real facts. I ran form the police. Are you saying the cop shooting in my back would be warranted? Shit, you problem run for the police in your day.
The body cam will provide come context to the situation that lead up to the shooting and the shooting. If you are honest and far with yourself it won’t be that hard to come up with a informed honest opinion.
Thought, this has a political element, being a police shooting it will and does get convoluted. JS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGYVhvRXEsk&list=PLLsjr_hqBHTISQ-j0iD0sCyK3ixS2AoHn&index=10
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Good points Robert Teixeira! Sounds like you took your meds today.
If Police Footage turns out to show there was a gun, John Marshall Lee and the NAACP, will try to argue, that the video was produced by use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The NAACP is planning to challenge AI technology. They claim that AI means African Intelligence NOT Artificial Intelligence , and are planning suing the Technology industry for reparation.
Meds, please! The present of a gun doesn’t constitute the justifiable to shoot and kill someone. I will contest it elevates the situation. But come on Speedy you don’t need meds to have a coherent mind sit to understand that. I know you special but you can’t be that “special” 🙂
Say what you will about NAACP and the Black Live Matter movement regarding police shootings, it has created a level of policing in America where blacks are not inherent victims. Whites and Latino on the hand, well, form my understanding, shit, they made an unknow classification to down play their numbers. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
To be fair while some outrage was clear on the matters, others seems fair, on past incidents, base on the political environment. I do believe you have to give the officers the benefit of the doubt considering the community calls on the to prevent/stop the gun violence in the community when a body’s drop. For some reason, will in the political arena, community acknowledge, witness the violence, death, and carnage association with gun street violence in the communities. But blinded demonization when it come to the people who put on the bulletproof vest, give them a gun, and ask, entrust, them to combat it, protect it for the community, that requires an arrest.
By no means am I say cops are Saints, To me they are gangsters in a uniform who keep order in chaos. We all know cops can be dicks and over reaching at times, power and authority over others does that to people.
However I like to think, Port’s PD has going better and evolved in dealing with the community and policing it. I am also sure the body cams were a major contribution. Ron B, can you imagine if those cams could have capture your era in policing?
While I do believe this is a tragic situation for both. You have a death person and the lost and pain to those who truly love Dyshan and will mourn the lost of him being part of their life.
In reality, you would be considered lucky to have a handful of people in this world who will truly miss you after a week. Your mother know doubt, if you came for a loving/caring one. The rest maybe variables. Your Father , siblings, spouse, kids. grand parents, maybe a true friend or two. Again if you’re lucky.
The flip side of is this is the cop, They too have family, friends love ones. Cops wake up every day and to work, like every one body does, No? Well mostly everybody. SMH I don’t know the circumstance of in the shooting. Of if it was justifiable or a misguided arrest that ended in a shooting that took Dyshan life.
I like to think the Port moved past such intentional needless acts of police violence that causes death or bodily hard in making an arrest in the community they are policing and serving to protect. I don’t believe the incident was intentional, in nature. It’s not like it was plotted or planned. That doesn’t mean it was justifiable and the officer didn’t preform the duties accordingly that cause the death of another person. Everybody fucks up in their actions.
In that video, I seen Sen Gomes. ‘didn’t someone speeding hit him that took his life. Things happens, this happened. Everybody says they wants fairness and justice. While I am sure that farness and justice well be subjective, in nature. You have to ask how much of that “subjectiveness” in “vengeance” or “injustice”
But, since we, public folks/ comment sections contributions don’t real know, common wisdom would say wait to hear what the investigation reports says that they put out. What evidence is presented before demonize the process, the cop or victim.
(Question the cop being white though. Generally speaking, when a cop is in a incident like this where a black person is the victim the indented of the cop is release relatively quickly.) SJ
I understand there’s a planned protest, according to Doing It Local. While politics is always at play the demonization that tends accompany such things.
If fairness and justice is what is truly being sought, having outsiders who never knew, meet, Dyshan then to seek demonization for personalness or politics relational of there presents. Personally I would have a mass silent/visual, candle protest. Sometime saying nothing is more powerful than saying something.
It kind of puts the politics aside, for the most part, that says we are here, and we want accountability and truth. We wait your findings. That’s inline with MLK, activism philosophy. Malcolm X philosophy might be the stick.
Since the Chief is black, the carrot maybe a better choice to see if MLK dream have bear any fruit. JMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz-in-5xfR4
P.S You may be right about the IA thought, considering how far it has come. Damn you internets 🤣
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