[mostly black] Jury Recommends Only 2 Years of Jail for "Frightened" White Portsmouth Cop [untrained in nigger teen combat] who Murdered Unarmed Black Teen by Shooting Him in Face after alleged "shoplifting" stop @ walmart

From [HERE] A Virginia jury convicted a white police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, William Chapman, who was accused of shoplifting. The jury recommended he serve two-and-half-years in jail.

A Virginia jury has convicted a white police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, William Chapman, who was accused of shoplifting.

The former Portsmouth police officer, Stephen Rankin, shot Chapman, 18, in the face and chest outside a Walmart store last year, after a security guard reported a theft from the store.

Rankin was charged with voluntary manslaughter on Thursday and now faces between one and 10 years in prison. The sentencing phase of his trial began immediately. The jury recommended two-and-a-half years behind bars. 

“I think this is a terrible tragedy. I wish it had never happened. I wish none of it had every occurred,” Ranking testified after being found guilty, reported Associated Press. “I can’t begin to fathom how much pain that family is going through. I wish I could have done more to keep him alive.” [more here on the psychopathic racial personality] 

No video exists of the killing that took place on April 22, 2015, and testimony conflicted on the details, but most witnesses said Chapman had his hands up.

Prosecutor Stephanie Morales said the officer could have used non-deadly force.

Rankin was trained in mixed martial arts during a five-year stint in the US Navy, but he argued in court testimony that he “wouldn’t have been able to win an unarmed fight” against the teen. At 5’8”, Chapman was two inches shorter than Rankin. He weighed 187 pounds with his clothes on, and Rankin said he weighed 160 pounds at the time. [160 pounds butt naked. But 200 pounds including his loaded belt of weapons, radios & other high tech race soldier doodads. But he was never trained in Nigger teen combat so naturally he pulled out his automatic and shot the teen in the face]. 

The officer “brought a gun into what is at worst a fist fight,” Morales told the jury, which deliberated for nearly two days before returning its verdict.

The jury, eight black and four white, did not convict on the first-degree murder charge prosecutors had sought.

Rankin testified that he calmly approached Chapman to discuss the shoplifting accusation and was preparing to handcuff him when the teen refused to comply with his orders, and a struggle ensued. He said he used his stun gun on the teen, but Chapman knocked it away. They then faced each other from a short distance.

Rankin said that was when he drew his gun and commanded Chapman to “get on the ground.” He claimed Chapman said “shoot me” several times before charging at him. Rankin said he experienced “tunnel vision” at that point, and fearing for his life, fired twice to stop him.

“I had no reason to think he was going to stop attacking me,” said Rankin. “I was scared.”

Gregory Provo, the Walmart security guard, testified that Chapman never charged the officer, but did say Chapman raised his hands boxing-style and said, “Are you going to f**king shoot me?” before Rankin fired at him.

This was not the first fatal shooting for Rankin. The Guardian reported that four years before his confrontation with Chapman, Rankin was cleared of wrongdoing when he fired 11 times at an unarmed burglary suspect, Kirill Denyakin. In that incident, Rankin claimed the man charged at him while reaching into his waistband with his hands.

Trial prosecutors were barred by the judge from telling the jury about Denyakin.

When Rankin was indicted on the second shooting, he was fired from Portsmouth police.

[Keep the Inside of Your Car Clean] Dumbass Orlando Cop Detained White Man 10 Hours After Mistaking Donut Crumbs for Meth with Fake Roadside Test

From [HERE] Ignorant, bored [crime is low, watch your back] Orlando cop: "I recognized through my 11 years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic," the idiotic officer wrote in her report.

The white driver let her search the car, and she found more chunks, which two roadside tests showed were crystal methamphetamine.

Daniel Rushing was arrested, charged with possession with a weapon, strip-searched and jailed in December.

The 64-year-old Orlando man told officers he’d never done drugs in his life, and the crumbs were from his Krispy Kreme doughnut.

Weeks later, a state crime lab proved him right.

“I kept telling them, 'That's … glaze from a doughnut. … They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth," Rushing told the Sentinel. [MORE]

White Prosecutors Claim Baltimore Cops Sabotaged Freddie Cases

From [HERE] After a string of high-profile defeats, the prosecutors who were unable to win convictions of police officers in the death of Freddie Gray defended themselves on Thursday and sharply accused the city’s Police Department of undermining them.

At a news conference the day after their boss, Marilyn J. Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore, announced she was dropping charges against the three officers who still awaited trial, the lead prosecutors — both seasoned lawyers — said the police had failed to serve search warrants for the officers’ personal cellphones. The lawyers also echoed a charge made in court that a detective assigned to the case was sabotaging it. 

They disputed a contention by critics that they rushed to bring charges, and said they never doubted their theory of the case — or whether they had the evidence to win. 

“There was sufficient evidence for a rational juror to convict,” Michael Schatzow, deputy chief state’s attorney, told reporters crowded into a conference room in Ms. Mosby’s downtown suite. “We believed in these cases, and we were prepared to fight very hard for these cases.” 

The appearance by Mr. Schatzow and Janice Bledsoe, a deputy state’s attorney, was the first time the prosecutors — who like all the lawyers, defendants and witnesses had been subject to a strict rule of silence imposed by the judge — spoke publicly, outside the courtroom, about a case that has torn apart this city and drawn national attention.

The two appeared worn out and at times exasperated — “When it comes to frustration, I plead guilty,” Mr. Schatzow said — but offered a remarkable look into their thinking, and the potential conflicts between the police and prosecutors who usually work together. 

It is “extraordinarily unusual” for prosecutors to publicly criticize the police, said David Jaros, a law professor at the University of Baltimore. He said the trials highlighted the need — as Ms. Mosby suggested at her news conference on Wednesday — for independent investigators and prosecutors to handle police misconduct cases.

“There is something problematic,” Mr. Jaros said, “when police officers are asked to investigate themselves and when local prosecutors are involved in these highly politicized, high-profile prosecutions.” [MORE]