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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/08/baseballer.shot/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

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"(CNN) -- Robbie Tolan sits in a Houston, Texas, hospital bed with a bullet from a police officer's gun lodged in his liver. The son of a famed baseball player was shot in his own driveway.

But how this unarmed 23-year-old and his cousin ended up in the cross-hairs of an officer's gun, suspected of stealing a car, is a question sparking allegations of racial profiling.

"There's no doubt in my mind that if these had been white kids this does not happen," said David Berg, Tolan's attorney.

It was 2 a.m. on December 31 when Tolan and his cousin, Anthony Cooper, were confronted in the driveway of their home by Bellaire, Texas, police officers. Police officials say the officers suspected the two young men were driving a stolen car.

Bellaire is a prominent, mostly white suburb in southwest Houston.

Robbie Tolan is the son of a once-prominent professional baseball player. His father, Bobby Tolan, had a 15-year career for the St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds, spanning 1965 to 1979. He played on one of the most-heralded Cardinal teams ever: the 1967 World Series champs.

The younger Tolan is just starting to develop his own baseball career. He's played in the Washington Nationals minor league system and spent part of last season playing for the Bay Area Toros of the Continental Baseball League.

Tolan's relatives say the two young men had just arrived from a late-night run to a Jack-in-the-Box fast food restaurant.

As they walked up the driveway to their home, Anthony Cooper said an unidentified man emerged from the darkness with a flashlight and a gun pointed at them.

"We did not know it was a police officer," said Cooper. "He said, 'Stop. Stop.' And we were like, 'Why? Who are you?'"

The officers ordered both men to lie down on the ground. Tolan's parents heard the commotion and came outside. Police will only say an "altercation" took place. Tolan's family say it involved his mother.

"The cop pushed her against the wall," said Tolan's uncle, Mike Morris.

Relatives say Tolan started to lean up from the ground to ask the officer what he was doing to his mother. That's when the family says Tolan was shot in the chest, the bullet piercing his lung and then lodging in his liver.

But Tolan's SUV wasn't stolen. Both men were unarmed and relatives say they were hardly a threat to the police officer. Anger over the shooting has been building over the last week.

"He was the victim of the worst case and worst kind of racial profiling," said community activist Quannel X.

The Bellaire Police Department has called the shooting "tragic" and put the officer involved in the incident on administrative leave.

"Anytime someone is injured we take it very seriously," said Byron Holloway, Assistant Chief of the Bellaire Police Department. "But any allegation of racial profiling, I don't think that's going to float."

The police department is investigating and the district attorney's office in Houston is also looking into whether charges will be filed against the police officer.

The policeman is a white, 10-year veteran of the force whom police say has an excellent record.

Bellaire Police officials are no longer talking publicly about the case. The department's assistant chief says they're investigating how the officers on the scene mistakenly determined that the SUV Tolan and his cousin were driving had been stolen.

Robbie Tolan remains in a Houston hospital. Relatives say he is in severe pain but is expected to recover. But his attorney says that Tolan's baseball career might be over.

Tolan's father isn't worried about that.

"I'm not concerned about his career as a baseball player. I'm concerned about his health," said Bobby Tolan."


YO HOLMES, TO BEL-AIR!!

1/8/2009 10:00:30 PM

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k

1/8/2009 10:01:30 PM

wolfpackgrrr
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It's a bad week to be a cop with a gun

1/8/2009 10:04:28 PM

adam8778
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soooooo is it holmes or homes


i think it is yo homess....



not:



[Edited on January 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM. Reason : jkjkjkj]

1/8/2009 10:11:10 PM

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I saw this earlier on CNN

fucked up, man

1/8/2009 10:12:06 PM

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her head-to-boob ratio in that photo is disconcerting

1/8/2009 10:13:59 PM

adam8778
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her head-to-boob ratio in that photo is disconcertingkinda hot somehow?

1/8/2009 10:16:46 PM

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eh, not so much

1/8/2009 10:17:47 PM

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"community activist Quannel X"

1/8/2009 11:47:48 PM

ShinAntonio
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"What are those negroes doing in first class? They must be rappers"

1/9/2009 12:12:33 AM

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I thought this thread was about Oscar Grant

1/9/2009 12:16:58 AM

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"It's a bad week to be near a cop with a gun"

1/9/2009 12:28:29 AM

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^ touche

1/9/2009 12:32:31 AM

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as the whitest girl ever- I gotta agree these cops fucked up--Dude!, in thier own driveway!!

1/9/2009 12:32:41 AM

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"The policeman is a white, 10-year veteran of the force whom police say has HAD an excellent record."

1/9/2009 1:36:56 AM

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I'd like to hear some more reaction from community activist Quannel X.

But seriously, that sounds pretty effed up.

1/9/2009 7:59:17 AM

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"Bellaire Police officials are no longer talking publicly about the case. The department's assistant chief says they're investigating making up an excuse as to how the officers on the scene mistakenly determined that the SUV Tolan and his cousin were driving had been stolen, other than them being black."


call me crazy but why not, i don't know, handcuff the boys to your car or something while one of the officers watches them and the other one talks to the black parents that came out of the home? i really hope this cop fries because in situations like this the police department tends to find that the cop did "nothing wrong" and there is no accountability held. sort of like the case with that 12yo black girl being abducted and being called a prostitute when the cops were supposed to be 20 something white hookers at an address many blocks over.

sure someone will say that we're all assuming their guilt before we know all the circumstances but i think that is because its hard to do otherwise especially since the result officer's basis for stopping/abducting was wrong to begin with.

1/9/2009 9:15:46 AM

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police should be held to a higher standard than civilians

they are given the task of upholding the law and, by being issued a firearm, they are given the responsibility of life and death when they are engaged in this task

thus I feel that the police should face greater penalties than civilians when they are involved in any misconduct

I think shooting an unarmed young man in his drive-way classifies as misconduct

I'm hoping we don't hear the end of this one since the victim's family seems to be wealthy enough already that they won't be bought off by the department and the whole thing silenced by an NDA

1/9/2009 9:22:40 AM

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"COMMUNITY

ACTIVIST

QUANNELL X"

1/9/2009 9:36:28 AM

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Even if it looked like Tolan was trying to get up when he claimed he was leaning up to talk to the officer
Even if the officer felt this was a threat

He shot him?? Not yelled at him to get back on the ground, not put a boot on his back, not pointed the gun at him...but went right through to shooting him, an unarmed man lying on the ground? Damn.

1/9/2009 11:22:25 AM

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if they've been ordered to the ground, then complied, wouldn't the standard procedure is to holster your sidearm and cuff them? Did the article say that they were on their backs? not their stomachs?

1/9/2009 11:27:46 AM

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