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What are we supposed to think when police officers shoot and kill an “armed” Black person who virtually all non-cop eyewitnesses say was not armed? There always seems to be an expectation that we side with law enforcement—as if cops don’t have all the same incentive to save their own arses by lying that civilians have.

How are we not to believe that 15-year-old Jaheim McMillan wasn’t murdered when he was shot by a Mississippi police officer who says he pointed a gun at him when eyewitnesses keep saying they didn’t see a gun at the time the teen was fatally shot?

Mississippi police shot and killed 15 year old JAHEIM MCMILLAN as he exited a family dollar. Multiple eyewitnesses say he was unarmed with his hands up when police shot him 8 times in the head before handcuffing his lifeless body. His family and witnesses have been silenced pic.twitter.com/ZtyugT92mn

— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) October 13, 2022

As we previously reported, Gulfport Police claim Jaheim had pointed a gun at officers before one shot him.

“McMillan turned both his body and his weapon toward the officer,” Gulfport Police Chief Adam Cooper claimed. “The officer fired at McMillan.”

October 6th 2022: #JaheimMcmillan 15 year old UNARMED BLACK CHILD, murdered by police! Shot in the head with his HANDS UP! THEN placed in handcuffs while dying! 😞 why is nobody talking about this?! pic.twitter.com/C06Nh7xHft

— Carolina⚜Conjuress (@SenseiLaveau) October 12, 2022

Jaheim’s mother, who wasn’t there at the time, said she saw a video on social media with an alleged witness claiming Jaheim complied with officers’ orders and that she wasn’t armed. Now, a mother repeating the claims of someone she saw on a social media video is not going to convince any rational person all by itself, but when the person in said video is just one of a multitude of people—including another teen who was in the car Jaheim was in during the altercation—who are disputing what only police officers say they saw, one would have to be a staunch “back the blue” bootlicker to think that’s not worth looking past what’s in a police report.

Now, a video has surfaced showing people who were at the scene just after the shooting all saying that Jaheim had no weapon and that the cop shot him for no discernable reason.

EXCLUSIVE: Our team obtained cell footage of the aftermath of police shooting of 15 year-old Jaheim McMillan by Gulfport Mississippi Police.

Eyewitness BERATES OFFICER for shooting Jaheim with “nothing in his hands” and “POINT BLANK!”

Chief says “End of year” for bodycam pic.twitter.com/0ysMhJBERO

— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) October 17, 2022

In the video, several voices can be heard berating the officer who shot Jaheim, with one repeatedly calling him a “piece of sh**.” One alleged witness can be heard explaining to an officer that the victim was shot “point blank” and that he had “nothing in his hands.”

Listen, there are always multiple sides to every story. But when it appears to be the police versus everybody else, it’s just really hard not to believe the “blue wall” isn’t hard at work. It’s hard not to believe cops aren’t just trying to sweep another Black life under the rug.

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