A candlelight vigil was held last night in the streets of Lima, Ohio after police raided a home yesterday and murdered 26 year-old Tarika Wilson and assaulted her 1 year-old son, who was left with severe injuries including a severed finger.
Police chose to kill the woman and shoot her son so that they could more easily arrest her boyfriend on a drug possession charge.
Once more: They murdered a 26 year-old woman and maimed her child so that they could make an arrest for drug possession.
Police did not wait for the man to leave the house, as common sense dictates they might do, had they even an iota of compassion or respect for human life. They did not knock on the door with a warrant, as such a relatively minor criminal charge might legally justify. No. They went into a home. The home of a family with children. They threw stun grenades at this family's home and went in shooting. They shot an unarmed woman to death as she held her infant son. Now Tarika Wilson is lying on a coroner's table and her children will live their lives without their mother.
Was it worth it? Was it necessary? Is the world an overall better place today than it was yesterday because six children got to watch their mother get shot to death so that police could shave some time off an arrest?
This is a disgusting a violation of human rights, and one can only guess as to why police were so eager to go in guns-a-blazing. Was it racially motivated, or do the police have no regard for any human life?
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