Cops Shoot 18 Year-Old Kansas Teen 16 Times – Media Ignores Story Because He’s White (Video)

18 year-old teen Joseph Jennings was shot dead in Ottawa, Kansas this week.
The troubled teen had been released from the hospital after taking a bottle of pills when police gunned him down.
He was shot 16 times.

There will be no rioting, looting and protests in Ottawa, Kansas for Joseph Jennings.
Jennings was caucasian.

Raw Story reported:

Family members of a teen who was shot at least 16 times by police in Ottawa, Kansas said this week that the 18-year-old was unarmed and suicidal when he was gunned down.

Brandy Smith told KCTV that police were there when her nephew, 18-year-old Joseph Jennings, had tried to kill himself with pills last week.

“Tonight is the night goodbye everyone!!!!! It was truly a good ride! And I’m sorry for who I might of hurted (sic) and people that I may of offended, But I love all my family and I hope you don’t hold this against me,” he reportedly wrote on Facebook before trying to overdose.

About 10 minutes later, Jennings swallowed 60 pills. And Smith said two officers took him to Ransom Memorial Hospital.

Jennings survived, and was released from the hospital two days later. But only three hours after that, he was on a “suicide mission” when he walked to Orscheln Farm and Home, according to his aunt.

Smith recalled that around six officers responded, and two of them had helped save Jennings’ life by taking him to the hospital after his overdose just days before.

“It was like six — six officers, and one cop yelled, ‘Bag him!’ And they bagged him,” she said. “And he kind of puffed up a little bit, and then they bagged him two more times, and then like 16 shots rang out, and they shot him. And he fell to the ground.”

Jennings was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

Jennings was engaged to be married.

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Police fired 24 rounds at unarmed 18 year old, apparently to prevent him from committing suicide. Media ignores story because he is white. (KMBC)

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