LRC blog reports the insane story of a father who called the police when his son took off in his truck. The cops followed the boy into a university campus and killed him.

“James Comstock refused to buy a pack of cigarettes for his 19-year-old son, Tyler, and now he’s planning his son’s funeral.

“He took off with my truck. I call the police, and they kill him,” James Comstock told The Des Moines Register on Tuesday. “It was over a damn pack of cigarettes. I wouldn’t buy him none.

“And I lose my son for that.”

Comstock said he’s outraged police shot and killed his son Monday morning on Iowa State University’s campus.”

They fired six rounds into his body in full view of bystanders:

“And why, Shepley asked, did an officer fire six rounds on a campus with innocent bystanders around, simply because Tyler Comstock refused orders to turn off the engine?

“So he didn’t shut the damn truck off, so let’s fire six rounds at him? We’re confused, and we don’t understand,” Shepley said.”

Comment:

As I’ve said before, the militarization of the police was a deliberate program introduced into the US to blur the boundaries between peace-time “policing” and war-time “military action.”

The idea is to normalize war.

The on-off screaming of sirens, helicopters, police cars racing madly through traffic, the raw display of power. (Just as staged leaks about surveillance are a display of the surveilling power of the state).

Campuses were never the safest places in America, what with the booze parties,  rape (real and alleged), military recruitment, dope, traffic cops, muggings, and 24/7 propaganda.

To this you can now add homicide by cops.

Drop out…or drop dead.