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Jilly_in_VA

(10,877 posts)
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 10:31 AM Sep 2022

'There was no warning' Pallbearer killed by officers at West Virginia funeral

Jason Arnie Owens helped carry his father’s casket to the hearse, then turned to embrace a relative. He never made it to the cemetery.

As mourners gathered outside a northern West Virginia funeral home on Aug. 24, two plainclothes officers with a fugitive warrant swooped in from separate vehicles, called Owens' name and shot him dead, spattering his 18-year-old son's shirt with blood as horrified loved ones looked.

"There was no warning whatsoever,” family friend Cassandra Whitecotton said.

In the blink of an eye, stunned friends and family already mourning one member lost another. Now, they want answers — not just why Owens was shot but why the encounter happened the way it did.

Law enforcement officials aren't explaining much right now, citing an ongoing investigation. Owens, 37, was wanted on a fugitive warrant, but the U.S. Marshals Service hasn't said what it was for. The agency also said in a statement that he had a gun when members of a fugitive task force approached. Multiple witnesses contend that's not true.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/nation-world/pallbearer-killed-by-officers/507-7ab152ef-3af9-48ba-8521-f541644996a6

I would have thought better of the Marshals Service.

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'There was no warning' Pallbearer killed by officers at West Virginia funeral (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 OP
Marshalls are cops Miguelito Loveless Sep 2022 #1
when white people have guns they always seem to make it out alive samsingh Sep 2022 #2
Well... atreides1 Sep 2022 #3
Well, past precedent is why we immediately assume.... Ferrets are Cool Sep 2022 #9
Pigs are pigs, for the vast majority. lark Sep 2022 #4
I'm afraid I agree, lark. Even the so-called "good cops" participate in the coverups and the wall of Martin68 Sep 2022 #16
Notice that more and more white guys are getting this treatment. Yoyoyo77 Sep 2022 #5
that is why BLM matters to white people DBoon Sep 2022 #6
They got the memo... 2naSalit Sep 2022 #7
The Marshall's motto "I don't care." lame54 Sep 2022 #8
Marshals are just as bad as cops. Not all are bad, but MANY are just thugs in uniform. flying_wahini Sep 2022 #10
Look for the thin blue line to get real thick now. multigraincracker Sep 2022 #11
Sounds like an execution IronLionZion Sep 2022 #12
they knew the coffin was loaded dembotoz Sep 2022 #13
I am horrified how this went down! pazzyanne Sep 2022 #14
It was an execution. Some days I just don't know how this country can ever redeem itself... Hekate Sep 2022 #15
My computer just got hacked. 3Hotdogs Sep 2022 #17

samsingh

(17,900 posts)
2. when white people have guns they always seem to make it out alive
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 10:42 AM
Sep 2022

black people are killed on imaginary guns

a good number of cops are stone cold racist killers.

Martin68

(24,597 posts)
16. I'm afraid I agree, lark. Even the so-called "good cops" participate in the coverups and the wall of
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 01:38 PM
Sep 2022

silence that protects the "bad apples." They are all bad apples now. Police culture has to change on a nationwide basis before this will be solved. The cops are thugs who protect each other more than the public.

Yoyoyo77

(299 posts)
5. Notice that more and more white guys are getting this treatment.
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 11:25 AM
Sep 2022

For one the guy the cops beat the hell out of in Arkansas was white too. Once someone develops a bad habit it's hard to escape even if you might exempt this person or that from your anger if you feel pissed at Jim or Joe or Jenny Sue. That older white lady with Alzheimer's that those cops in Colorado were convicted for beating up is another example.

DBoon

(23,052 posts)
6. that is why BLM matters to white people
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 12:10 PM
Sep 2022

If police can shoot "other people" in cold blood, they will eventually target you.

2naSalit

(92,665 posts)
7. They got the memo...
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 12:18 PM
Sep 2022

You have to hit a few white folks so you can both-siderism it. If they start hitting whites then the racism has cover in the public's eye, hoping that will get the media to stop reporting on it.

flying_wahini

(8,006 posts)
10. Marshals are just as bad as cops. Not all are bad, but MANY are just thugs in uniform.
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 12:56 PM
Sep 2022

I hope they go to prison where they belong.

multigraincracker

(34,068 posts)
11. Look for the thin blue line to get real thick now.
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 01:11 PM
Sep 2022

They will back fellow gang members to not give up gang protection.

I was told by a Sheriff with a Phd that "Professional Courtesy” is how it all starts and would not allow that in his dept. Great man, Sheriff Richardson and he passed away a few years back. If you ever hear those words come from a LEO, report it.

IronLionZion

(46,964 posts)
12. Sounds like an execution
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 01:16 PM
Sep 2022

Since Jason Arnie Owens is white, and police believe in equal opportunity killings in less diverse states like WV, police brutality should matter more to all sorts of people.

Federal police like the US Marshals get a hell of a lot more training than local sheriff's deputies, so they should be less trigger happy.

pazzyanne

(6,601 posts)
14. I am horrified how this went down!
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 01:20 PM
Sep 2022

Seems this action could have been conducted somewhere other than during a funeral and in front of family members!

Hekate

(94,623 posts)
15. It was an execution. Some days I just don't know how this country can ever redeem itself...
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 01:37 PM
Sep 2022

… from the violence and madness.

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