Miami Police Shoot Teen 4 times in the Back...
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Miami-Dade police shot a teenage boy four times in the back on Monday morning, leaving him in critical condition and bringing up more questions over gun violence in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting earlier this year.
Officers opened fire on 16-year-old Sebastian Gregory after he allegedly reached for a baseball bat in his belt when an officer told him to "show his hands."
Gregory was taken to Kendall Regional Medical Center where doctors surgically removed three bullets from his middle to lower back, leaving one still in his spinal cord. He remains in critical but stable condition as several of his organs were affected, including his liver, lungs and colon.
The Miami-Dade Police Department did not release any information about the officer involved in the shooting other that he has been on the force for three years. Police added that the officer was on a routine patrol when he saw something shiny sticking out from Gregory’s waistband. They said he was carrying a metal bat.
He was shot in the back...That’s cowardice. A backstab.
- Amalia Gregory, mother of Sebastian Gregory
According to the Miami Herald, Miami-Dade police spokeswoman Aida Fina-Milian said that the officer stopped Gregory because it was "3:30 in the morning; it was a residential area and he had a shiny object."
Gregory’s parents said that the police’s story is too vague. Miami-Dade police have not released an incident report.
"Sebastian was told to get on the ground by the officer," his mother, Amalia Gregory said, according to the Herald. "We don’t know if he twitched or made a gesture, but that’s when the cop shot him four times."
Gregory’s parents were asleep when the shooting occurred and did not know that he had left the house. They did say, however, that it was a normal thing for Gregory to take nightly walks and that many of his friend’s lived in the area where the shooting occurred.
"He likes to think a lot," his brother Juan Gregory said. "So he walks. He carries a bat for protection."
Doctors told the family Tuesday night that Gregory’s blood level was reaching a normal level, but that is still unknown if he will be able to walk again. He has been able to speak with his parents, but tires quickly.
Gregory was also in the first year of being home-schooled, but his parents have not said why he left school.
His family has started the process of hiring a lawyer.
"He was shot in the back," his mother told the Herald. "That’s cowardice. A backstab."
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/05/30/police-mistake-bat-for-gun-shoot-latino-teen-in-back/#ixzz1wOw3hEuF
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? the police thread# infinity.....
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allegedly reached for a baseball bat in his belt
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"A young ? got it bad cuz I'm brown"
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LOL.SuperstarCole wrote: »allegedly reached for a baseball bat in his belt
What part of that makes sense. -
would be surprised if he really did have a bat in his belt..............this was in miami
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Baseball bat in his pant really???? Man ? the police
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so he reached for the bat in his pants with his back turned?
or did he just hear put your hands up and go for the bat?
either way this ? is weird...
didnt a guy in seattle just ? three ppl and then ran outside and was allowed to ? himself. so he had a gun and wasnt shot because the complexion makes the connection -
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the facts are too shady in this situation -
SMH... what ever happened to shooting someone in leg?
dont they got tasers for these types of situations?
four shots? 1? 2? 3? 4? I hate pigs!! -
like i said its gonna be more travon martins bcuz bros dont want to get right n come back 2 the father. but people dont want to hear that tho
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police are above the law end of story
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I know that they claim was dark, but they could not make out that he had a baseball bat in his pants? How could the police consider this kid a threat with his back turned? These police have enthusiastic trigger fingers.
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He carries a bat for protection...I know where he got shot...and that area isn't dangerous at all lol. With that said, the cop shouldn't have shot him
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Florida strikes again
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So wrong on many levels
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they're trained to attempt non-lethal measures first when its someone is armed with a melee weapon
but yo black ass reach in your waist for ANYTHING quick in front of a cop.........sheeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiit........infamous114 wrote: »He carries a bat for protection...I know where he got shot...and that area isn't dangerous at all lol.SuperstarCole wrote: »allegedly reached for a baseball bat in his belt
What part of that makes sense.
this story sounds ? from all angles. maybe this whole mess is just a cover for some other shady ? . it may not be the early 80s but miami is still miami lol
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Miami aint all what it seems..people see the beaches,stores,lifestyle shidd miami is raw as ? .
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Police shot a kid in the back here in Atlanta a year or so ago and killed him. They just had the grand jury thing and they decided it was not enough evidence to prosecute the police and they are back on the streets to ? again. Shoot a ? in the back but not enough evidence to prosecute. That is evidence enough. Man I am just waiting for that correct way to ? me some police and get away with it
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Nothing to see here. He reached in his belt. They probably thought he had a gun and shot him.Officers opened fire on 16-year-old Sebastian Gregory after he allegedly reached for a baseball bat in his belt when an officer told him to "show his hands." -
wait .... why was he ordered to get on the ground??? just because he had something shiny??
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3 30 am walkin around in a neighborhood in Miami is a lil shadyUPTOWN CONNEXX wrote: »wait .... why was he ordered to get on the ground??? just because he had something shiny??
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Damn, I read in the Herald he got shot in the afternoon. Didn't know it happened at 3 in the morning
