African American Political Pundit says today:
The question is crucial. If a reasonable were in the position of being severely beaten during questioning, instead of calmly questioned with his lawyer present, and if police continued to beat said reasonable person until his face looked like hamburger, I can imagine how that reasonable person might take the only weapon he had at hand--the officer's gun--and shoot that officer in order to stop the beating. That scenario is not the known truth of the matter, but the truth of the matter it is a question worth being asked and answered.
I have always assumed that Esteban Carpio was beaten by the police for shooting a fellow officer. Is it possible that Esteban Carpio shot an officer to end a beating administered by police? The question had never occurred to me until it was raised by African American Political Pundit.
In any case, the Providence Police Department has learned, hopefully, that leaving one armed police officer in a room with a suspect charged with murder, when the suspect's family has warned police that the suspect is mentally ill, creates a life-threatening situation for that lone, armed police officer. And maybe, just maybe, police have learned that beating a person until he is unrecognizable is unacceptable, particularly to the person being beaten.
Police may also have learned that questioning a mentally ill suspect without his lawyer present can have negative results not merely for the mentally ill suspect, but also for police officers.
One thing is sure: Police will never credibly tell the public whether they beat Esteban Carpio until he shot an officer, or whether they beat Esteban after he shot the officer. The world might never know, but the Providence Police know, and they know who was most responsible, and how, for the death of a fellow police officer.
As someone who was raised in Boston, and []known the family of Esteban Carpio for many years, I have always thought that he was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Providence Police Detective Sgt. James Allen.
I have always wondered if he was beaten even before the officer was shot.
Read more: http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2010/09/case-of-esteban-carpio.html#ixzz18QFpA5ETIt seems obvious to me that at some point Esteban Carpio was severely beaten about the face by police in Providence, Rhode Island. African American Political pundit wonders whether he was beaten before he shot a policeman and jumped out a forth-floor window or after that.
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The question is crucial. If a reasonable were in the position of being severely beaten during questioning, instead of calmly questioned with his lawyer present, and if police continued to beat said reasonable person until his face looked like hamburger, I can imagine how that reasonable person might take the only weapon he had at hand--the officer's gun--and shoot that officer in order to stop the beating. That scenario is not the known truth of the matter, but the truth of the matter it is a question worth being asked and answered.
I have always assumed that Esteban Carpio was beaten by the police for shooting a fellow officer. Is it possible that Esteban Carpio shot an officer to end a beating administered by police? The question had never occurred to me until it was raised by African American Political Pundit.
In any case, the Providence Police Department has learned, hopefully, that leaving one armed police officer in a room with a suspect charged with murder, when the suspect's family has warned police that the suspect is mentally ill, creates a life-threatening situation for that lone, armed police officer. And maybe, just maybe, police have learned that beating a person until he is unrecognizable is unacceptable, particularly to the person being beaten.
Police may also have learned that questioning a mentally ill suspect without his lawyer present can have negative results not merely for the mentally ill suspect, but also for police officers.
One thing is sure: Police will never credibly tell the public whether they beat Esteban Carpio until he shot an officer, or whether they beat Esteban after he shot the officer. The world might never know, but the Providence Police know, and they know who was most responsible, and how, for the death of a fellow police officer.
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