QuoteAtlanta Officer Kills Black Woman, Injures Child, Following Breastfeeding Argument
In a continuation of the ongoing police scandals rocking the country, 28-year-old Latoya Smith has been pronounced dead following an incident this afternoon in Atlanta, according to multiple local media outlets. This closely follows the recent shooting deaths of Tulsa resident Terence Crutcher and Charlotte resident Keith Lamont Scott which have thrown the nation into turmoil resulting in violent demonstrations.
According to eyewitness accounts, Latoya was sitting on a bench in the neighborhood of Marietta Street (recently named one of America?s 25 most dangerous neighborhoods) waiting for the bus when her infant child began crying insistently. Knowing that her baby was hungry Ms. Smith began to breastfeed her daughter, Layla. She was then approached by a police officer, later identified as Michael Eaton, who requested that she stop feeding the baby in public as it was ?indecent?. Ms. Smith refused to comply with the directive and told Officer Eaton that she wasn?t doing anything illegal. Officer Eaton again insisted that she stop and threatened to arrest her for indecent exposure. Ms. Smith calmly responded to the Officer that he could not arrest her because breastfeeding in public wasn?t against the law.
?He got so mad at her?, said Tyrone Webb, who witnessed the unfortunate altercation. ?He started yelling at her, saying that he was the police, and that she didn?t know s**t about what was against the law. He got all red in the face, pointing his finger right at her nose. She just sat there and kept feeding the baby calm as could be, being real polite and reasonable. Someone else tried to chime in and tell him he was wrong and he told the lady to shut up and mind her business.?
As the argument transpired the bus approached and Ms. Smith stood up and moved Layla to her other arm, momentarily exposing her whole breast to the Officer and other onlookers. Ms Smith then clipped her breastfeeding bra shut and went to get on the bus with her baby.
Sandra Parker, another witness to the incident, described what followed next: ?He screamed at her to stop and told her that she was under arrest. When she ignored him and kept walking toward the bus he grabbed her by the back collar of her shirt and violently yanked her backwards. The poor baby just toppled out of her hands. She hit the ground and the poor little thing just started bleeding from her head. At that point, Latoya became extremely upset and the officer was clearly taken aback. She moved forward aggressively when he pulled out his gun and shot her twice, right there on the street. It was the most horrifying thing I?ve ever seen!?
Onlookers grabbed the injured baby and attempted to staunch the flow of blood from her split head. Officer Eaton is reported to have made the statement to the crowd that ?it was an accident but you can?t resist arrest?. Layla was transported to Marietta Central Hospital.
Officer Eaton has been placed on paid leave pending a full investigation. The police department has issued a statement expressing their concern regarding this ?unfortunate? event and states that all citizens must comply with orders to submit to arrest peacefully so that accidental injuries can be avoided.
Local community leader and Smith family friend Harold Jackson has called for the arrest of Officer Eaton on charges of murder, calling his actions a travesty of justice. The Smith family has not yet commented on the death of their daughter.
My blood is boiling
This is sick
I'm actually tearing up
i tried to google the officer, with no success
you have a link to this
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oh its goin tha fck down
What the fuck is the media trying to do
http://baltimoregazette.com/atlanta-officer-kills-black-woman-following-breastfeeding-argument/
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...I dont even know ...
Is This s fuckin real? :diddraispoot: oh shit is about to get real
I don't even have words. Like .... this just doesn't even seem real
Lmfaoooooooooo bitch I am fuming. This article is from 2014 but several news outlets published it like it was a few days ago.
WTH?!!!! 2014
Lemme perch on Google for the tea
yea i was searchin' &...nothin' on it
:diddraispoot:
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/babydead.asp
They fucking tried it and my dumb ass just posted the shit without fact checking.
This isn't real bavi.
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Marg was PISSED!
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biiitch
as a parent!...shit was bouta go DOWN! 🚼🍼
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yeah usually a dead bvy causes an uproar, and nothing popped up immediately so...
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But! The line about the bby toppling out her hands kinda made me think ..... and ki
Quote from: Tinker Hell on September 23, 2016, 11:25:42 AM
biiitch
as a parent!...shit was bouta go DOWN! 🚼🍼
hhjjj nigernathan still breathing?
Quote from: BENTLEY! on September 23, 2016, 11:26:24 AM
But! The line about the bby toppling out her hands kinda made me think ..... and ki
you see
This is why as a race we can't have NICE things
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn all I saw was red until Preme said something about a link :dead:
Quote from: COCO on September 23, 2016, 11:26:40 AM
Quote from: Tinker Hell on September 23, 2016, 11:25:42 AM
biiitch
as a parent!...shit was bouta go DOWN! 🚼🍼
hhjjj nigernathan still breathing?
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i was fucking upset
This can't be real.
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Don't play with me
Even if it's old, it's still upsetting.
Have a Whitney moment faggot
:omgwatshappening:
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these fags tearing up on a fake story
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theres a tub in this thread?
yeah, you walked right past it as usual
So is it not real at all or just old?
Push him in
Quote from: Margeaux. on September 23, 2016, 11:24:23 AM
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/babydead.asp
They fucking tried it and my dumb ass just posted the shit without fact checking.
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you know what
Quote from: Margeaux. on September 23, 2016, 11:23:00 AM
Lmfaoooooooooo bitch I am fuming. This article is from 2014 but several news outlets published it like it was a few days ago.
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I was too upset until I tried to verify the story. Huffington Post. No story. Surely CNN would have it. They're headquartered in Atlanta. Nope. No story. I searched "Atlanta News" and the first thing I see is "FAKE Story: Story about officer killing a nursing woman is NOT REAL."
I'm still crying
Quote from: D.I.E.G.O. on September 23, 2016, 11:36:03 AM
Even if it's old, it's still upsetting.
It was never real. If this was ever real, we would have known all about it.