Mississippi man says family was held at gunpoint until police realized he didn't rob his own home
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GULFPORT, Miss. - Two medical professionals said police swarmed their car Sunday night, handcuffed the newlyweds and pulled guns on their children before determining the family lived in the house a neighbor thought was being robbed.
"I totally think they racially profiled me," said the father, Kelvin Fairley, a registered nurse who happens to be black. "They never would even tell me why they stopped me. From the moment they pulled us over, there were six to seven police cars. They immediately had their guns drawn."
Fairley said the officers told him to get out of the car with his hands up. He kept asking why they had pulled him over, but he said he got no explanation.[/QUOTE]
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He said he offered to show the police his identification, which would have immediately established his address was the same as that of the house reported as being robbed. "They wouldn't tell me what it was about and they held guns on us, even on the kids. And they told us to shut the f--- up. Why would you hold a gun on kids, drag them out of a car and talk to them like that?"
Their 16- and 12-year-old sons, 9-year-old daughter and 12-year-old nephew were with them. Fairley said he was handcuffed and put in the back of a patrol car. His wife, psychologist Natasha Krikorkian, also was handcuffed, he said.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]"Last night, I would have been OK with an apology," he said, "but after what happened at the police department, that's it. My kids are totally distraught.
"They literally cried themselves to sleep last night. That's something nobody should go through.[/QUOTE]
[URL]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mississippi-man-says-family-was-held-at-gunpoint-until-police-realized-he-didn-t-rob-his-own-home/ar-AAuhB6v?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280[/URL]
[URL]http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article181910346.html[/URL]
Lawsuit time.
Sounds like something needs to happen to those cops, cause from what was described, that was incredibly fucked up and unprofessional of them. They could have easily prevented this if they checked the guys identification, a simple check would've proved it was his house. He wasn't a threat, there was no need for guns to be drawn if he wasn't being any kind of threat. Like, could they have even considered the kids at all? Like, did they not think at all what it would've done to them, to see that happen to their own father, who was being accused of being a robber and had guns on him?
[QUOTE=Rocko's;52842927]Sounds like something needs to happen to those cops, cause from what was described, that was incredibly fucked up and unprofessional of them. They could have easily prevented this if they checked the guys identification, a simple check would've proved it was his house. He wasn't a threat, there was no need for guns to be drawn if he wasn't being any kind of threat. Like, could they have even considered the kids at all? Like, did they not think at all what it would've done to them, to see that happen to their own father, who was being accused of being a robber and had guns on him?[/QUOTE]
This is America. Nothing will happen because Cops Are The Good Guys(TM)
e: it's also fucking mississippi, what do you expect
[QUOTE=Luni;52843004]it's also fucking mississippi, what do you expect[/QUOTE]
I expect good character from the boys in blue from anywhere in this great nation of ours, but as with most people now a days it's too much to ask for decency and accountability.
[QUOTE=Luni;52843004]This is America. Nothing will happen because Cops Are The Good Guys(TM)
e: it's also fucking mississippi, what do you expect[/QUOTE]
I'm from the next town over (ie less than 10 miles from where it happened) so I can tell you with some degree of confidance that gulfport pd is typically good at handling this kind of problem.
also idk where you get the idea that mississippi is some backwoods shithole but its not 1910 anymore we've had our shit figured out for at least a couple minutes now.
[QUOTE=Luni;52843004]This is America. Nothing will happen because Cops Are The Good Guys(TM)
e: it's also fucking mississippi, what do you expect[/QUOTE]
Loool. If you think Mississippi is stuck in the 1800s, dumb as bricks, full of incest, and whatever stereotype everyone pulls out of their ass for this state, you're dead wrong. Gulfport isn't some backwater town either, it's one of the major cities on the coast.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;52843303]Loool. If you think Mississippi is stuck in the 1800s, dumb as bricks, full of incest, and whatever stereotype everyone pulls out of their ass for this state, you're dead wrong. Gulfport isn't some backwater town either, it's one of the major cities on the coast.[/QUOTE]
gulfport, biloxi, d'iberville, long beach, pass christian, bay st louis, and ocean springs could be considered one big city in the same way that manhattan, bronx, etc. can all be considered new york city or hollywood, burbank, etc. can all be considered part of los angeles, and by that metric it's size is on par with austin, denver, memphis, portland, or new orleans.
for the record, all the bananas come through the port of gulfport and if anyone talks shit on us im gonna wipe my ass with every single one
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for the record, all the bananas come through the port of gulfport and if anyone talks shit on us im gonna wipe my ass with every single one[/QUOTE]
Didn't know TJ Kirk browsed fp.
Let's also not forget that someone's first reaction to seeing black people in a car at a house was to call the cops on them
[QUOTE=download;52842924]Lawsuit time.[/QUOTE]
Too bad the taxpayers will be footing the bill.
[QUOTE=phygon;52843636]Too bad the taxpayers will be footing the bill.[/QUOTE]
Tough shit, the taxpayers should vote for a more responsible government that will reign in the cops better.
[QUOTE=download;52843664]Tough shit, the taxpayers should vote for a more responsible government that will reign in the cops better.[/QUOTE]
You're acting like that's in the cards the majority of the time.
Cops need to hold *some* level of personal liability when it comes to this shit.
[QUOTE=phygon;52843636]Too bad the taxpayers will be footing the bill.[/QUOTE]
I think taxpayers would gladly pay a few cents each to see shit like this stop.
Better pay for justice than many other shit taxpayers have to pay for.
Also, isn't all government spending from taxpayers?
[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;52843594]This is what baffles me, I [I]doubt[/I] it was a neighbor that called the cops, you'd think they would know the car of the person that lives next to, or opposite them.
And if it was a random person walking or diving down the road then they must have gone "that car full of black people just pulled up near that house, best call the cops!".
Did the cops just assume because it was black people they'd better send 6 squad cars to deal with it.[/QUOTE]
they most likely just knew "robbery in progress - multiple suspects" because that's all that shows up on the display
Mississippi LEOs. Sounds about right.
[QUOTE=Michael haxz;52843030]I expect good character from the boys in blue from anywhere in this great nation of ours, but as with most people now a days it's too much to ask for decency and accountability.[/QUOTE]
Spend a little time in Miss, Louisiana or New Mexico or any other state dependent on a prison based economy, and you'll likely find things are quite different from what you would suppose.
[QUOTE=phygon;52843636]Too bad the taxpayers will be footing the bill.[/QUOTE]
I'd rather be paying the bill for correcting police injustice than paying the bill for continuing rampant police corruption.
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