Ailing Vet Killed By Police

Ailing vet shot to death

By Allen George

 

     Kenneth Chamberlain’s

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 African American Kenneth Chamberlain, 68, was shot and killed by a white policeman. The killing occurred in November after police came to a call that Chamberlain had made by setting off his medical alert device. Chamberlain called a health center saying the police were at his door and he was not sick. He is then heard to ask the police to leave

 Next the police shot a Taser and were trying to get in. At one point Chamberlain said "shoot me, shoot me, mother (expletive), shoot me” The police then forced their way in after a Taser failed. Photos show forced entry and blood. Then the officer shot at Chamberlain when he tried to resist.

 This is what his son, also named Kenneth, had to say "He feared for his life," and "He kept asking them to go away and that he didn't need their help." He said his father was an old man who was sick and said police were not justified in forcing their way in when he had committed no crime. His niece Tanya said "I heard my uncle begging and pleading them to please leave him alone," "I could begin to almost hear fear in his voice." Chamberlain was a former marine who had respiratory problems so severe he couldn’t walk down stairs

Tanya also asked to talk with him, but police refused. Chamberlain’s family believes that he was treated differently because he was black. They said they could hear one of the policemen call him an N-Word. This is a tragedy and we hope the family the best. 

Source:http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/04/justice/new-york-chamberlain-death/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

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