Posted on 05/21/2015 5:16:50 PM PDT by Publius
Two stepbrothers suspected of trying to steal beer from a grocery store were not armed with guns when they were shot Thursday by a police officer who confronted them in Washington states capital city, authorities said.
The officer reported he was being assaulted with a skateboard early Thursday before the shooting in Olympia that left a 21-year-old man critically injured and a 24-year-old man in stable condition. Both were expected to survive.
The shooting, which is being investigated by a team of detectives from several agencies, prompted some protests.
We are committed to helping our community work through this difficult circumstance and help us understand this tragic event, Olympia Police Chief Ronnie Roberts said at news conference.
Brad Watkins, chief deputy of the Thurston County Sheriffs Department, said two skateboards were recovered from the shooting scene and an investigation will likely take three to six weeks.
Officer Ryan Donald was among those who responded around 1 a.m. to a call from a Safeway store, Roberts said. Employees said two men tried to steal beer and then threw the alcohol at workers who confronted the pair.
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I thought everything outside of King County was a Red Blooded American haven?
Great, I’m going to Seattle this week....should be lovely!
King, Pierce, Thurston and Snohomish are all pretty much Lefty.
protests ....until the sun goes down...THEN IT BE PARTY TIME
There aren’t enough blacks in Olympia to start a party. They’ll need white help.
Basically, everything East of the Cascades. As an example, Olympia is the home of Evergreen State College, the Alma Mater of Rachel Corrie. She is known in song and story for trying to stop an Israeli D8 armored bulldozer with her body. The result was less than totally successful. (She's known now as the patron saint of pancakes...)
She demonstrates the Washington liberal intellect...
Bullshiite
There are no Negroes in Olympia.
I've been there many dozens of times and I'm certain of it.
Olympia has blacks, but only 2% of the population is black.
That one continues to make me sick.
There's only 11 in all of Western Washington!
Well, maybe I'm thinking of the environs south and east of Olympia...Chehalis, Onalaska etc.
Where I live, just south of the Canadian border, there is only one black family in town. I think he’s the town doctor. The daughter was high school homecoming queen last year.
So why do those in law enforcement hire small and less physically capable women?
Simple. PC stupidity.
I know all too well about Ms. Flapjack.
The disease of liberalism seems to magnetize close to the seashores for whatever reason—at least in this country.
I drive that stretch of I-5 in the Big Block at 85/90 so I don’t have a lot of time to rubberneck but I have indeed seen a little spill-over from Ft. Lewis/McCord——you know by the base passes on the vehicles. But that ain’t the skateboard brewski crowd.
Remember the James Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies”?
The journalist was trying to get a war going so they could make money off of all of the coverage.
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