Tarika Wilson
The story of Tarika Wilson is infuriating but sadly typical. The young mother of eight was murdered by police during a drug raid in Lima, Ohio. Her infant son was in her arms; he was also shot.
Blacks, under-represented on the police force, are the targets of police brutality and systemic racism.
—"Some facts are known. A SWAT team arrived at Ms. Wilson’s rented house in the Southside neighborhood early in the evening of Jan. 4 to arrest her companion, Anthony Terry, on suspicion of drug dealing, said Greg Garlock, Lima’s police chief. Officers bashed in the front door and entered with guns drawn, said neighbors who saw the raid. Moments later, the police opened fire, killing Ms. Wilson, 26, and wounding her 14-month-old son, Sincere, Chief Garlock said. One officer involved in the raid, Sgt. Joseph Chavalia, a 31-year veteran, has been placed on paid administrative leave."
—"Black people in Lima, from the poorest citizens to religious and business leaders, complain that rogue police officers regularly stop them without cause, point guns in their faces, curse them and physically abuse them. They say the shooting of Ms. Wilson is only the latest example of a long-running pattern of a few white police officers treating African-Americans as people to be feared."
This letter posted on a door in Lima is poignant and powerful:
Blacks, under-represented on the police force, are the targets of police brutality and systemic racism.
—"Some facts are known. A SWAT team arrived at Ms. Wilson’s rented house in the Southside neighborhood early in the evening of Jan. 4 to arrest her companion, Anthony Terry, on suspicion of drug dealing, said Greg Garlock, Lima’s police chief. Officers bashed in the front door and entered with guns drawn, said neighbors who saw the raid. Moments later, the police opened fire, killing Ms. Wilson, 26, and wounding her 14-month-old son, Sincere, Chief Garlock said. One officer involved in the raid, Sgt. Joseph Chavalia, a 31-year veteran, has been placed on paid administrative leave."
—"Black people in Lima, from the poorest citizens to religious and business leaders, complain that rogue police officers regularly stop them without cause, point guns in their faces, curse them and physically abuse them. They say the shooting of Ms. Wilson is only the latest example of a long-running pattern of a few white police officers treating African-Americans as people to be feared."
This letter posted on a door in Lima is poignant and powerful:
The really sad part about it is that she had a chance to put the man selling the drugs out of her home. Until we as black people start turning in the people that are doing wrong, nothing good will come to us.
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The sad part about the whole thing is that she could have either put the young man out, or turned him in for the reward. Until we start demanding that the people around us do better and get rid of those that don't (you break the law, you go to jail), we will always be subject to these things happening.
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the really sad thing here is that a 26 year old woman was killed and her baby shot and severely injured for a few bags of crack & marijuana.
evidently young lives are as cheap as the nickel and dime bags the 'war on drugs' so desperately wanted.
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She had six kids the suspect was aressted downstairs and she was upstairs will ALL of her kids, none of the recorded drug buys were from this house, and she was shot in the back while holding her son im from lima and read the paper everyday even went to school with this lady we here know all the facts
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I am getting worried with all this, I didn't pictured the War on Drugs as a menace for our privacy. We should focus more on effectiveness and avoid such episodes.
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I didn't think that this is still happening now. I thought that this problems were solved, but it seems that I was wrong..
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