Cops Shoot 12 Year Old Girl over Eviction [Picture ]

     Another Kid gets on the wrong side  of a police offixer’s gun and pays the price of being in a house under an eviction order.  Think Progress and others susummarized the atrocity. 

According to a British paper:   

On Monday, 12-year-old Ciara Meyer stayed home from school because she was sick. But later that day, when a Pennsylvania police officer approached her home to “enforce an eviction order,” she was shot and killed on the spot.

Meyer was in her family’s apartment when Constable Clarke Steele came to their door. Steele said that Ciara’s father, Donald Meyer, first opened and shut the door. Moments later, holding a rifle, he opened the door again. Meyer allegedly pointed the weapon at Steele, so the officer fired his own weapon. The bullet flew through Meyer’s arm, hitting his daughter. She died on the scene, and her father was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening wounds.

The entire incident happened “within seconds.”

According to the Commonwealth Constables Association, Steele suspended himself after the shooting. Steele belongs to the association, which acts independently of the state’s larger law enforcement agencies, as an elected officer. Members of the association typically volunteer their services at local events in the region, and act on behalf of lower courts in the area.

The Meyers’ landlord filed a complaint about the family’s delinquent rent to a district court in November. Judge Daniel McGuire issued an order of possession at the end of December, and Steele was enforcing the eviction notice on behalf of the court.

State police have launched an investigation, to determine whether or not Steele should be charged. Meyer has already been charged with reckless endangerment, simple assault, aggravated assault, and making terroristic threats..