re: JP Officer shot and killed in Harvey

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killer: 'Jerman is not that boy' 1 / 33 Abrel Smith, a police officer with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, kneels down in prayer at the intersection of Manhattan Boulevard and Ascot Road in Harvey near where Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputy David Michel Jr. was fatally shot on Wednesday, June 22, 2016. (Photo by Brett Duke, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) Brett Duke, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune Print Email Jonathan Bullington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Jonathan Bullington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Follow on Twitter on June 23, 2016 at 3:00 PM, updated June 23, 2016 at 8:06 PM Yvette Neveaux was near the end of her workday Wednesday (June 22) when a customer came in talking about a police officer having just been shot on Manhattan Boulevard in Harvey. A few hours later, 10 or so Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies – one holding a picture of her grandson Jerman Neveaux -- pounded on her front door. There had been "an incident" on Manhattan Boulevard, she heard the deputies say as they spent about an hour searching through her family's Gretna home. "That's when I put two and two together," Neveaux, 52, said by phone Thursday, a day after Jefferson Parish authorities identified Jerman Neveaux as the person responsible for what Sheriff Newell Normand called the "cold-blooded murder" of deputy David Michel Jr. Authorities said Jerman Neveaux, 19, shot the deputy three times during a pedestrian stop. Michel was pronounced dead at a hospital. The teenager was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder Thursday. "I know my child didn't do this," Yvette Neveaux said of the moment deputies came to her house. "But I knew I had to hold it in because they're not going to feel sympathy for me, because that's their officer who got killed." 'More of a follower' Jerman Neveaux returned to his native New Orleans last year after moving with his mother and two younger sisters to Arlington, Texas, his grandmother said. His mother, frustrated with his disobedience, hoped the move would help rid him of friends she thought were a bad influence, Neveaux said. In New Orleans, however, Jerman Neveaux's behavior continued. He was arrested Feb. 9 for possessing a stolen firearm, Orleans Parish court records show, and pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor charge of possessing stolen things. He was sentenced to six months of inactive probation. He was scheduled to return to Orleans Parish court June 27 for an arraignment hearing on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of juveniles. Neveaux said her grandson's troubles stemmed from the company he kept. "He is more of a follower than a leader," she said. "He does not have the mind of a 19 year old. He has the mind of a 12 year old. He says he understands but he doesn't understand." Jerman Neveaux lived with his paternal grandmother and with aunts in the year since he returned to New Orleans, Neveaux said. "We tried telling him, the road he was going down, following these guys he was with, was not the right path for him," she said. "I used to tell him all the time, 'You don't need friends. All you need is one friend you can rely on, and who has your back and won't put you in jeopardy.'" For the last two weeks, he moved in with Neveaux and her husband in Gretna. "I felt like over here, there's really no transportation, so it's hard for him to get around," she said. "I felt like all the people he was hanging with were on the east bank." 'The wrong person' Neveaux said her grandson was unemployed, but she was talking to neighbors and friends about trying to find him a job at Wal-Mart or at a Dollar Store near their house. Jerman Neveaux was sleeping when his grandmother left for work around dawn Wednesday. He was gone when she and her husband got home from work later that afternoon. Her 14-year-old granddaughter, in town visiting from Texas, told her Jerman left, Neveaux said. But her granddaughter didn't know where he was going or whether he was with anyone else. Jefferson Parish authorities say Michel, 50, spotted Jerman Neveaux around 12:20 p.m., walking closely behind a nervous looking man near Manhattan Boulevard and Ascot Road. Michel, a nearly 10-year veteran of the sheriff's office, stopped Jerman Neveaux and tried to search him, Normand said. But the teen turned and, gun in hand, reached over Michel's back, Normand said, firing one shot into the deputy's clavicle area. Jerman Neveaux then fired two more shots into Michel's back as both fell to the ground. An ambulance rushed Michel to University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities said they later caught Jerman Neveaux in the 1500 block of London Cross road in Harvey. The arrest was recorded on video, which appears to show at least two officers punching him several times, with one of the officers appearing to hit him about 10 times or more. Normand said his office is aware of the video and is examining the circumstances of the arrest. Jerman Neveaux was taken to University Medical Center for treatment of injuries that include a fracture to the bone in his eye socket, authorities said. "I'm confused. They tell me he's in the hospital (and) nobody can see him," Yvette Neveaux said. "Why can't we see him? Because (deputies) beat the s--- out of him?"

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So should the same apply when a cop kills an innocent civilian? Beating a suspect is not justify under any circumstance when the person is not resisting unless they had a weapon which it seems this guy did. Cops are to enforce The law not be judge, jury and executioner.

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The cops don't get to decide his punishment the courts do.

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