by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has given a green light to police officers to use deadly force against drivers if police suspect they might pose a danger to others with their car.
In refusing to hear an appeal in Gordon v. Bierenga, the Supreme Court has let stand the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that granted qualified immunity to a Michigan police officer who shot and killed a man in a drive-thru lane at a White Castle after observing the driver make a series of traffic violations that nearly caused collisions. Although Antonino Gordon had not caused an accident or injured anyone while being observed or followed in his car by the police officer for almost 30 minutes, the Sixth Circuit concluded that police can use excessive force preemptively against a driver if they fear he might endanger others.
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“Cops who feel empowered to act as judge, jury and executioner are not making America any safer,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “This is yet another chilling reminder that in the American police state, ‘we the people’ are at the mercy of police officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with those they were appointed to protect.”
In April 2018, a police officer in Royal Oak, Mich., observed Antonino Gordon, who was driving a BMW, merge lanes quickly after turning onto a busy road and later make a sharp left turn into a White Castle parking lot, and drive opposite the designated flow of parking lot traffic before getting into the drive-thru. The officer parked diagonally in front of Gordon’s car to block him from leaving the drive-thru, and approached Gordon with his gun drawn. Gordon drove at a relatively low speed in reverse and bumped the car behind him, pulled forward into the officer’s rear wheel, backed up again, and then turned his wheels away from the officer who had his gun pointed directly at Gordon and yelled for Gordon to stop. As Gordon drove away, the officer fired four shots, striking Gordon twice and causing him to lose consciousness, drift across the center lane of a busy road, and crash into an oncoming car. Gordon later died at the hospital.
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