From [HERE] and [HERE] Baltimore police released edited body camera footage on Tuesday showing an officer shooting a Black teenager in the back as he fled. The teenager was badly wounded and lost several organs, and police said they discovered a gun with him following the shooting on Thursday.

Witnesses said that police officer Cedric Elleby was sitting on a stoop talking to Mekhi Franklin, 17. In the video another cop is seen standing. Franklin stands and casually and slowly walks away; Elleby followed him.

It is unclear what the officer said to Franklin and the other individual when he approached them because the audio is not on the first part of the video. The cop is walking in the street following the two young men as they slowly walk on the sidewalk.

After one minute and 16 seconds the audio starts: “Come here,” Officer Elleby says to Franklin, to which the teenager replies: “What bro?” Officer Elleby then lunges at Franklin, trying to grab him, but Franklin pulls away and begins to sprint in the opposite direction.

At this point, when the police officer ordered him to stop and he stopped, Franklin had not committed any crime. Nor did police claim he committed a crime or have reasonable suspicion that he did. In order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and that you are involved in the activity. Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate or unclear and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion.

Baltimore Police Deputy Commissioner Richard Worley said Elleby was on patrol in the area and saw Franklin “displaying characteristics of an armed person.” Characteristics of an armed person? No facts were offered to support this assertion; the cop did not see a gun prior to the stop. As such, the cop’s mere unparticularized belief is not a sufficient basis to justify the initial stop, which was therefore unlawful.

Officer Elleby chases Franklin through a grassy area, a back alley, and then nearby the sidewalk in broad daylight. The chase lasted for about 30 seconds.

Officer Elleby shouts at Franklin to stop and put the gun down, after he pulls what appears to be a firearm out of his pants. The gun appears to still be in Franklin’s hand, but the footage does not show Franklin turning toward Elleby or pointing the gun at him during the foot chase. The teen appears to be running as fast as he can away from the cop. Officer Elleby then fires four shots as the teen turned a corner, and Franklin collapses in an alley in front of a rowhome. The gun can be seen laying on the ground away from his body.

An emotional and chaotic scene followed the shooting, with residents arriving at the shooting scene as Elleby and another officer attempted to render aid to Franklin. Voices are heard shouting in the background.

“You just shot him for nothing,” one civilian is heard saying in the background.

Police said Officer Elleby is part of the department’s district action team, which are plainclothes units tasked with “proactive” policing that focus on armed people, making traffic stops and foot chases.

However, the Supreme Court has clearly explained the 2nd Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in public in case of public confrontation. The Court “further confirmed that the right to “bear arms” refers to the right to “wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.” As such, Baltimore’s policy of surveilling, stopping and searching otherwise law abiding Black people for gun possession, a so-called “inalienable right,” is unconstitutional.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office said they are not investigating the shooting at this time, but Mayor Brandon Scott has promised a thorough investigation. Keira Franklin, the mother of the teenager, said this is not the first time police harassed her son.

“This happened previously with the same police officer,” she said.

Legal truths must give way to reality. Police officers so frequently abuse their power that no rational person could make a compelling argument that so-called constitutional rights provide black people any protection from cops or the government in general. Law abiding Black people’s so-called 4th Amendment rights are turned on and off like a light switch in cities controlled by white liberals; Chicago, Milwaukee, NYC, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Washington D.C. etc. Black people’s “freedom of movement” is restricted by cops who stop, search, frisk, detain and arrest them at will. The only thing upholding the 4th Amendment is your belief in it.

Similarly, white liberals have worked tirelessly to make the so-called inalienable 2nd Amendment right to self defense remains illusory especially to Black people living in crime ridden cities such as Baltimore. In fact, liberals in Chicago, DC, NYC, Baltimore, etc are filling the jails with Blacks charged with mere gun possession while simultaneously making very few arrests of persons who used guns in violent crimes. [MORE] When authorities prevent individuals from being able to defend themselves the government becomes accomplices to crime and partly responsible (in addition to the criminals themselves) for victimization. [MORE]

Recent research shows that most people convicted for felony gun possession don’t go on to commit a violent crime, and the majority of those sentenced to prison for gun possession don’t have past convictions for violence. Instead, people who already committed violent crimes are more likely to do so again.

In Chicago for instance, according to the Marshal Project, ‘The racial disparities in this enforcement are glaring. Although Black people comprise less than a third of the city’s population, they were more than 8 in 10 of those arrested for unlawful possession in the timeframe we reviewed. The number of Black people arrested could fill every seat at a Chicago Bulls game and then some; the majority are men in their 20s and 30s.

The consequences of these arrests are long-lasting. If convicted, people face a year or more in prison, depending on the charges. Even without time behind bars, those we interviewed faced damning criminal records, time on probation, job loss, legal fees and car impoundments.

Officials justify the focus on confiscating guns — even if they are not being fired at anybody — as a way of curtailing violence. But these tactics have not substantially reduced shootings in Chicago. In fact, as possession arrests skyrocketed, shootings increased, but the percentage of shooting victims where someone was arrested in their case declined. [MORE]

Your possession of "rights” given to you by a magical government, which functions as your master, is cult belief. Rights are myths. As stated by Dr. Blynd, “There is no freedom in the presence of so-called authority.” The belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self-contradictory; it is contrary to civilization and morality, and constitutes the most dangerous, destructive superstition that has ever existed. Rather than being a force for order and justice, the belief in “authority” is the arch-enemy of humanity.” [MORE]