By all accounts, Jayson Negron was one of those bright shining lights who had that rare ability to bring joy and laughter wherever he went. Along with his bubbly personality and his infectious smile, he was also blessed with “a heart of gold.” He was special.
Jayson J. Negron was a vibrant young man. A young man with a heart of Gold, he had a contagious personality and no party was a party unless Jay was in it. When he came, and smiled, it was like the lights were turned on because he truly lit the room. He spent countless hours with his friends doing what his heart passioned for, rapping into that mic. He was a student at Bunnell High School in Stratford, CT, and was attending his sophmore year.
The initial police report of Jayson’s murder — dutifully regurgitated by the complicit news media — told a familiar story of a cut and dried case of urban thuggery and police bravery.
BRIDGEPORT -- State Police said one person was killed and another seriously injured after being shot by a Bridgeport police officer during a traffic stop.
Authorities said the officer made a traffic stop in the city's West End and found the vehicle was stolen. At that time, the driver attempted to flee in the car and nearly hit the officer. The officer told them to stop and fired at the vehicle's occupants. One person died and the other was taken to the hospital with serious life-threatening injuries.
After his death, representatives of the police department went to break the news to his loved ones: “Jayson was shot in the head and died instantaneously,” they told his mother.
Lies...all lies
That police report does not begin to describe the horror of what happened to the 15-year-old high school student and aspiring musician.
Jayson’s murder made it to ABC News:
Eyewitness reports and the statement from the surviving victim paint a very different picture from that presented to an enquiring public by Bridgeport Police Department.
1. There’s still uncertainty as to whether the car was stolen; but even if it were stolen, let’s remember that death should not be the punishment for auto theft
2. There was no chase
3. The teen did not use the car as a weapon against the cops
4. The coroner's report showed that the teen died as a result of shots to the chest and not as a result of one shot to the head
5. After the shooting and with the kid mortally wounded and bleeding out, the cop kneeled in his back, yanked his arms behind him, handcuffed him, and left him lying face down in the street
6.Video showed that Jason was still alive as the cops milled around him and with no one caring enough to offer him help
(I have been forcing myself to watch the videos of some pretty horrific acts of brutality for some time now. It has not been easy, but I have determinedly stuck at it...until this one. I started watching the video of the defenseless, powerless, innocent young boy forced to lie prostrate on the ground and at the point where it became obvious that he’d moved his head, I lost it. I couldn’t continue.)
7. And this...this is almost unbearable: They watched him die and then left his body uncovered and exposed for 6 hours! Why???!!!
Julian Fyffe
There could quite easily have been two deaths on that Tuesday of May 9. The second occupant of the car was 21-year-old musician, Julian Fyffe. With Julian in the passenger seat, the cops pumped three shots in the car hitting Jason in the chest and Julian in the back and arm. They then body slammed the wounded young man to the ground, handcuffed him and left him to bleed out.
'They didn't do anything. They just kept walking by us,' Fyffe said. 'It took forever to get me in the ambulance. I'm on the floor coughing up blood, bleeding out.'
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The Good Samaritan Law of 2016
There are many things that disgust our group with the way police have treated POC in this country. Near the top of the list is the fact that after many shootings, the police fail to render first aid to the victim. They walk away.
Support the Dream Defenders would like to change that. We’ve been working on an idea to mandate first aid in any situation in which an arrestee is injured. It looks like this:
The Bridgeport Police Department treated the teenagers worst than they’d have a roadkill. They obviously felt that they were under no professional, legal, ethical, or moral obligation to render first aid to the young men they had so horrendously violated. Year-to-date, police have killed 475 people and I am willing to bet that more than a few of those could have been saved if only we had enforceable laws compelling the cops to just do the human thing, and that is, do everything within their power to save lives.
Rest in power, Jayson Negron. #JusticeforJayson.