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Posted on 08/27/2014 11:57:02 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A staffer on the long-running television crime show Cops was shot and killed Tuesday night, reportedly by gun fire from local police, while videotaping an armed robbery in progress in Omaha, Nebraska, that also left the suspect dead.
According to Deputy Chief David Baker of the Omaha Police Department, the incident took place at a Wendy's restaurant at around 9:20 p.m. CT, in the vicinity of 42nd Street and Dodge.
Initial reports said the TV crew member, later identified by Langley Productions (which produces Cops) as audio technician Bryce Dion — had been critically injured. The news of his death broke Wednesday morning, as first reported by the Omaha World-Herald and local NBC affiliate WOWT. The Omaha PD has declined to name the victims or release any further details pending an afternoon press conference, at which Cops creator John Langley is expected to speak.
More than 30 shots were fired, all by officers, according to law enforcement sources that spoke with the World-Herald and WOWT, implying that Omaha police killed both the suspect and the crew member. No officers were injured.
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Give it a rest.
He chose a job that took him out on the streets.
He could have used his skills photographing puppies and
kittens———very safe.
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Nowadays, there's a difference?
Well, except for the other producer, Barbour.
“Nowadays, there’s a difference?”
yes, the ROE for our troops are significantly more restrictive.
Soldiers like dogs.
No, the perp had a real-looking airsoft pistol.
The news account I read on another site said the sound man got separated from the cameraman. If one is running sound, one should always be where the camera is. Anyway, he was shot in the armpit area and the bullet traveled to his chest. A very unfortunate shot, even though he was wearing a vest.
Reality show film crews push it to the limit safety wise whether it's cop shows or Deadliest Catch. If that show stays on {I like it BTW} sooner or later they are going to loose a cameraman overboard and a likelihood of death. Should we hang the Captain when that happens? No. The workers took a job with risk of injury or death.
Yukon Men was on last night. Stan the guy from Boston was on a dog sled and it busted through the ice into the river. Stan used his dog team he had trained to safely and quickly get him out. The cameraman with him tried to reach Stan in the mean time and fell through the ice himself and was a far greater risk than Stan.
Now how much reality do people want?
Sure. Completely excuses the incompetent cops.
Yup, just his tough luck I guess. Cops never have any responsibility - kind of like a job the IRS except the poor sap died.
The perp is an imbecile of course.
Most chain stores these days have a policy of no resistance, probably don’t even need a weapon.
How do you spell “schadenfreude”?
Now I will say, 30 shots to take down one guy with a BB gun is a bit much.
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Well you just don’t know what the producer is going to edit out... there won’t be a second take to fall back on so you have to look macho the first time.
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I've no problem with that. By all means, let the police officer face the same grand jury and jury... well and good.
Again, pack your bias (magic blue suit) and take it elsewhere.
You talk about my bias as if it's a bad thing. I will freely own my bias in favor of the same law and same legal environment for everyone... a legal principle that has its roots as far back as English Common Law and the Magna Carta.
Barry Goldwater famously said that "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." Most people forget that he immediately followed that up with "...and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Biased? Absolutely. About to take my bias elsewhere? Not likely.
meter maids with machineguns.
...just a wild guess on my part, but when the Fraternal Order of Police call for a donation, you decline...politely of course...
I don’t donate to anybody anymore - they’re all scams. I have gone to the aid of a police officer who getting the worst of a fight with a thief at the LA bus station years ago, so nothing against cops in general but the climate has changed.
Cops have evolved into a completely separate entity within our society. Armed like commandos but without the training or commitment to restraint.
I spent most of my life learning the skills of combat and the greatest of these skills is knowing when and whom to shoot and when not to shoot.
I spent 17 months in real combat: never shot anyone I wasn’t supposed to. If cops think that they need to arm for war, then they need to learn the rest that goes with it.
Speaking of bias, the knee-jerk reaction of every department is to say their officers 'responded professionally' even when the glaringly obvious truth says otherwise. I guarantee you that if some cop in your home town were to randomly walk up to you and start beating the hell out of you that his department would instantly say his actions were justified. That's just how they roll anymore.
or when 20-30 black people tell a white person “we don’t want your kind here white boy” and proceed to beat him nearly to death and the cops say “No evidence of a racial motivation”
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