Video: The Firing Squad Execution of Willie McCoy By Vallejo Police

Vallejo Police Department. Photo: FacebookOn Saturday, Vallejo Police released video showing several of their officers recklessly shooting to death 20-year-old Willie McCoy, last February 9, in his car—where he had fallen asleep at a local California Taco Bell drive-through.Living while Black in America means one can be riddled with 25 bullets—while sleeping. McCoy, a member the FBG rap group—Forever Black Gods—was hit with bullets in his face, throat, chest, arms and ear. David Harrison, McCoy’s cousin, told The Guardian Newspaper “This was a cruel death by a firing squad. He was executed. They shot him so many times.”Vallejo Police claim their video confirms McCoy was reaching for a gun before officers unleashed their deadly trigger-happy torrent of shots. This is a lie. Even their doctored police video—with muted sound, at the time officers opened fire—doesn’t support the fictitious story they’re spinning. A careful video review shows something else: a reckless disregard for Black life—if not murder.The killing of Willie McCoy was sadly set in motion after a Taco Bell employee made a 9-11 call to police saying, “I have a person unresponsive to car honks in my drive-through…I’ve already had like people try to knock on the window.”Apparently, while waiting for service, McCoy fell asleep. The Taco Bell employee made it clear to police McCoy was fast asleep. At no time on the police video do we see any of the officers who surround McCoy’s car trying to wake him up. In fact, from the time the video starts we see an officer with his gun pointed on McCoy. Six officers, Ryan McMahon, Collin Eaton, Bryan Glick, Jordon Patzer, Anthony Romero-Cano and Mark Thompson, all fired on McCoy.Even before we see any live moving images on this video, we hear an officer telling the dispatcher McCoy has “a gun in

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