A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij. member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. The impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes.
The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St.
The film is shot by a person who was standing there.

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The latest contempt of cop arrest story that is sweeping the nation not only proves that some officers are power-drunk assholes – as if that needed to be affirmed  -  it highlights the ineptness and ineffectiveness of internal affairs investigations.

The cop in question is Atlanta Police Officer Brandy Dolson, who has had 18 complaints filed against him since 2001 with only three of them sustained. Another three are still pending, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

One of those pending complaints stems from an incident where he arrested a 61-year-old woman last March for asking “why” after he ordered her to move from the sidewalk she was standing on with three other women.

They were discussing funeral plans for a deceased friend when Dolson told them to “move it.”

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