Family wants police charged in New Orleans killing

[Joanne98]

Source: CNN


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As fireworks exploded over the Big Easy on New Year's Eve, 22-year-old Adolph Grimes III pulled up to his grandmother's home near the French Quarter after a five-hour drive from Houston, Texas.


Adolph Grimes Jr., with grandson Chris, wife Patricia and his son's fiancee, Shae Whitfield, want answers.

1 of 2 Grimes, who relocated to Texas with his fiancée, Shae Whitfield, after Hurricane Katrina, couldn't wait to get home with their 17-month-old son, Chris, and ring in the new year with friends and family.

"He made it at 12 o'clock exact, with a second to spare," said his father, Adolph Grimes Jr.

Three hours later, Grimes lay dying on the sidewalk half a block from his grandmother's front door, with fireworks giving way to the hue of flashing police lights.

The Orleans Parish coroner said Grimes was shot 14 times, including 12 times in the back.

Grimes had just walked out of the house and was in a car waiting for his cousin, according to family members, when nine plainclothes officers -- part of an undercover narcotics task force driving around New Orleans on New Year's Eve -- surrounded Grimes' vehicle.

Shots rang out; New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Grimes shot at police first.

The Grimes family disagrees, saying police executed a loved one as he ran for his life.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/09/new.orleans.shooting/

[CBGLuthier]

1. All across the nation

Black men are being slaughtered and shot by cops every day

Almost as if they are saying, "Don't get uppity about Obama. Things here are the same as it ever was".

I don't think there will ever be justice in this world.

[WriteDown]

2. This is the NOPD so I'm suspcious....

but I'm also suspicious of this.

"Grimes did have a gun. His family and the lawyer, Jenkins, said he had a legal permit to carry the weapon. Authorities also said they found a shotgun and extra ammunition in the car's trunk."

[AndyTiedye]

6. How Could He Have Shot at the Police With A Gun That Was Still in the Trunk?

[WriteDown]

8. The shotgun was a 2nd weapon. nt

[smiley]

7. My father sometimes keeps a shotgun and ammo in his truck.

He's a hunter and shoots skeet. Does that make him a criminal? No.

Obviously since this was found in the trunk of the car it wasn't being pulled on the police.

[WriteDown]

9. The shotgun was a 2nd weapon. nt

[ReadTomPaine]

3. Bingo. This will get worse before it gets better.

the nature of LE in this country is going to need an overhaul from its rotting head down to its filthy feet, and it will have be dragged kicking and screaming every bloody step of the way.

[Baby Snooks]

15. Bush's greatest legacy...

The law is above the law. That is Bush's greatest legacy. Whether on the streets of Washington or Baghdad or New Orleans, the law is the law and the law is above the law. Might makes right.

[EFerrari]

4. I wonder how many young black men were killed or wounded that night.

[1776Forever]

14. Here is an article from Columbus OH - 3 shot there - For years shooting a gun at midnight was OK

My Dad would shot his shotgun every New Years for years back in the 50's and 60's. It then became illegal in most places and not too many did it after that. It looks like it is still done in some places as a tradition. Too bad that some got shot from doing this and it looks like the man in New Orleans didn't even have a gun. Terrible!

...............

Columbus police charge 2 after New Year's gunfire

By Associated Press

POSTED: 02:28 p.m. EST, Jan 02, 2009

http://www.ohio.com/news/ohiocentric/37008609.html

COLUMBUS: Columbus police have charged two people wounded by officers after they failed to put down guns they'd been firing into the air, apparently to celebrate the New Year.

Police said today that a 27-year-old woman shot in the arm has been charged with one count of discharging a firearm within city limits.

Police say a 27-year-old man shot in the leg has been charged with one count of discharging a firearm within city limits and three counts of aggravated menacing.

A third case in which a man was shot in the arm remains under investigation.

Police say in all three cases officers reported they found suspects shooting weapons into the air. The officers said they fired when multiple orders to drop the guns were ignored.

COLUMBUS: Columbus police have charged two people wounded by officers after they failed to put down guns they'd been firing into the air, apparently to celebrate the New Year.

Police said today that a 27-year-old woman shot in the arm has been charged with one count of discharging a firearm within city limits.

Police say a 27-year-old man shot in the leg has been charged with one count of discharging a firearm within city limits and three counts of aggravated menacing.

A third case in which a man was shot in the arm remains under investigation.

Police say in all three cases officers reported they found suspects shooting weapons into the air. The officers said they fired when multiple orders to drop the guns were ignored.

.......

The news reported the people said there were no warnings given.

[KamaAina]

5. Great. Now NOPD is creating its own murder cases for themselves not to solve.

As if they weren't doing a good enough job not solving the ones they didn't create. :eyes:

[Shardik]

10. Nine UNDERCOVER officers come up to you in the dark...

Hmmm. And 48 casings found afterwards?

12 of the 14 hits were IN THE BACK???

[my2sense]

11. Looks like open season on young black males

And these are just the incidents that we KNOW ABOUT.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. K&R...

truly disgusting.

[soulcore]

13. I too would defend myself with deadly force...

...if approached by plain-clothes officers who failed to identify themselves.

Sounds like he tried to defend himself against people he didn't know were cops, got shot twice, ran, and was then executed from behind.

More "protection and service" from America's finest!

[rhett o rick]

16. Is ridding the country of narcodics worth this kind of price? nm