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World War II veteran, 95, died after police shot him with TASER and bean bag rounds
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| 7 August 2013
| By Anna Edwards
Posted on 08/08/2013 7:40:19 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
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posted on
08/08/2013 8:36:48 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Morgana
Dear Diary, Today was great! Sun shining, birds singing, and I killed a 95 year old guy for “brandishing” a cane.
“Do I really need the sarc/ for that?”
Nah...the whole event is a sarcasm. What possible threat could an old guy like that be if he had a hundred knives and a bazooka besides?
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posted on
08/08/2013 8:38:27 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
To: Buckeye McFrog
We have a winner. You get what you pay for.
To: dennisw
They had to kill him in order to make him get better.
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posted on
08/08/2013 8:47:49 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: GraceG
Was this an instance of “suicide by cop”? The police used “nonlethal” weapons, but what may be nonlethal on a 20 year old gangbanger is lethal on a 95 year old in a nursing home.
To: Resolute Conservative
full disclosure....I could NEVER be a cop.
I would absolutely suck at that job.
So I admire those who can do it well.
I would never make it thru my first domestic call.
“You are BOTH too STUPID to LIVE!!!!!”
To: dennisw
95? 95! effin cops. Maybe they should have called in the Marines.
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posted on
08/08/2013 9:14:00 AM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: oh8eleven
What I didn't care for is how the man was identified as a,"world War II veteran." His status as a veteran is admirable, but its not a "get out of jail free" card.Yeah, he should have been jailed for not having the procedure the center wanted him to. That's got to be a major felony. And the sooner they stop with that "greatest generation" crap and quit sucking up resources, the better off we'll all be, right?
To: dennisw
What I don’t understand is why the PD didn’t deploy a full-on SWAT team, complete with dogs, tank and RPG’s?
(Please detect sarc)
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posted on
08/08/2013 10:24:15 AM PDT
by
DPMD
To: dennisw
Policemen used to be ok, you had good ones and bad ones, but good or bad they were human beings, now they are just like a bunch of police state mentality programed robots.
To: Buckeye McFrog
. At that point you’re almost trolling for idiots.
I believe they will get the same thing regardless of what they pay because that is what they want.
To: dennisw
The poor man. No civilized country would tolerate this.
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posted on
08/08/2013 11:07:49 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
full disclosure....I could NEVER be a cop.
I would absolutely suck at that job.
Yeah, me too, on a domestic call i would just show up and start washing dishes or windows, always something to be done and after all, what are they paying me for anyway?
Surely they are not paying me to come in and murder them.
To: colorado tanker
So you think someone who served in the military should be treated differently than someone who hasn't? And if so, how do we ID the vets ... armbands with yellow stars?
And taking it another step further - should we treat veterans who have seen combat differently than those who were "in the rear with the gear?"
And speaking of that "greatest generation", they also gave us Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Vietnam. I spent 13 months in combat there ... didn't see a damned thing that was great.
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posted on
08/08/2013 11:22:30 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: dennisw
suicide by cop, the old guy wanted to go out fighting, he did.
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posted on
08/08/2013 11:46:16 AM PDT
by
jyro
(French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
To: dennisw
Hell of a way to go. The poor guy survived The Great Depression and WW2 only to die like a dog at the hands of some thugs with a badge. My wife is a nurses aide at our local hospital and has to deal with elderly people who are frequently combative because they are either suffering dementia or Alzhimers or are just scared. Most of the time the family isn’t around to help, not everyone can be with a loved one every minute, so the staff has to deal with the person but there are other ways to deal with elderly people without having to resort to this.
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posted on
08/08/2013 12:23:21 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: oh8eleven
In the old Soviet Union if for nothing else they treated their WW2 vets with respect. They did because the vets would wear what ever citation they been given so people would know. I've seen plenty of America vets from WW2, Korea and Vietnam wearing caps saying so and they certainly get my respect. Sorry your service affected you so. All in all, war does suck.
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posted on
08/08/2013 12:27:50 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: jmacusa
Sorry your service affected you so.
It was an honor to be a Marine and serve America. I'd do it again in heartbeat.
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posted on
08/08/2013 12:31:10 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
My oldest brother was a 2nd. Lieutenant 5th. Marines, 3rd. Battalion ‘77-80. My late-father-in-law was 4th. Marines. Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima.
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posted on
08/08/2013 1:02:45 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: RightOnTheBorder
that though went through my mind and how about the staff that was scared of him? Were they minorities or foreigners devoid of sympathy or understanding of an old white guy 95 years old?
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posted on
08/08/2013 2:26:33 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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