Another case of police "overkill" WHERE ARE THOSE TASERS ?

 Donn Marten   August 26, 2014
Kansas Police Shoot Suicidal Teenager Sixteen Times

     By Police in Ottawa, Kansas gunned down an 18 year old over the weekend, pumping sixteen bullets into his body in yet another example of police overkill. Ottawa, a small town in northeast Kansas (population 12,646 per the last census) and the birthplace of former Democrat presidential candidate Gary Hart who was brought down by a 1987 sex scandal, is hardly the place where one would imagine such an incident going down. It is small-town America, like Mayberry along the banks of the Marais des Cygnes River but in a country where the police have been allowed to run amok  and are tacitly encouraged to resort to violence rather than to deescalate, such shootings can happen anywhere at any time.
The victim, a suicidal teenager named Joseph Jennings was shot down like a dog by police in a hardware store parking lot. There was an initial report that Jennings may have had a gun but appears to have been unarmed. Kansas City television station KCTV reports:

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