In the following days and weeks, Randall’s mother searched for answers in vain, calling the Texas Rangers and the Rusk County district attorney’s office. She had no idea how her son wound up dead after a police traffic stop. “No one was telling us anything,” said Tippitt, who was born and raised in Rusk County and now cleans houses for a living.
Her first shock came two months after the shooting when a grand jury returned a no bill in the case, meaning it chose not to indict Iversen for killing an unarmed man.
The second came last summer when Iversen’s lawyers turned over the dashcam video after she filed a federal lawsuit. Nearly two years after the shooting, she finally got to see, in brutal detail, what happened in the moments before her youngest son was killed.
“The only person that was attacking anybody was Sgt. Iversen attacking my son,” Tippitt said.
Iversen quietly retired after the shooting and fought in court to keep the video from being made public. Its release sparked a backlash in rural Rusk County. It also set Randall’s mother on a crusade to get justice for his killing.
But whether that will happen — and what it would even look like — remains to be seen.
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Totally not a police state.
I never see more cops than when I go to Texas. It’s insane
they did show up at a school in the hundreds, a whole gaggle of them and stood around. thier like pigeons waiting for thier turn to eat the scraps but to scared to approach said food.
The real question is why Texans like to live like that. 🤷♂️
Um, we don’t. We live in one most corrupt state political systems, if not the most corrupt.
Research has shown that getting traffic stopped by police is correlated with lower likelihood to vote (arc). I think it’s reasonable to infer that the heavy visibility of constant police actions against citizens has a huge chilling effect on democratic participation in Texas (and like every other red state in the south too).
My brothers used to not vote because they had outstanding warrants due to traffic stops and resulting tickets they didn’t pay.
i was on sites about jury duty, people legit dint register to vote because JD (JURY DUTY)wouldve costed them a ton of money they couldve earned from the job, JD anywhere pays next to nothing for your time.
That’s like saying you don’t eat hamburgers because one time you stole food from McDonalds
Paranoia created by decades of fear pushed by the US government. Anybody got threat level orange yet?
PLUS WITH THE help propaganda arm like fox, and rush limbaugh, and now russian propaganda and thier pet grifters in the us.
education. eliminate the humanities from the curriculum (also book bans) = no empathy = racism/“i just smoked a dude”/etc. eliminate science/critical thinking = unquestioning obedience = muh paw is a preacher and says _________ are bad people, so we shoot’em
the list goes on…honorable mention: absurd “my AR15 is who i am” gun culture
State is gerrymandered to hell.
they butchered up Houstan witht he gerrymandering.