Posted on 04/20/2020 11:43:11 AM PDT by conservative98
A police shooting at a crowded Walmart in San Leandro, California, fatally wounded a man brandishing a baseball bat. Graphic cellphone video of the officer-involved shooting, which circulated widely online, shows responding officers tasing suspect Steven Taylor, 33. He then refused to drop the bat and was shot, leaving a trail of blood on the floor as he stumbled away. Despite life-saving measures, Taylor died from his injuries at the scene. The use of deadly force is under investigation.
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Will the authorities enforce social distancing restrictions when folks take to the street in protest?
So if a man who commits a crime with a gun is called a gunman, shouldn’t a man who commits a crime with a bat be a batman?
Your pic really doesn’t apply here.
The nut job was ordered to drop the bat. He didn’t comply.
He then was tazed. Still didn’t comply.
If you don’t think a bat is a deadly weapon, then step right up and take a hit from one.
In the meantime, the cops shot the bastard dead. As they should have.
I hate to be critical here but they shot him in the back while he was walking away from them, didn’t they???
That was my first thought when I read the headline.
Is that from tictoc?
Good post..... Responsibiity2nd!!!!.
Actually, Great post!
At least one officer fires his Taser weapon at the man, who staggers back and then continues advancing. When the man is about five feet from the lead officer, the video shows, the officer fires his gun, striking the man in the chest.
The man staggers back, drops the bat, and bleeding on the floor, collapses as horrified shoppers look on. One yells “Don’t shoot him no more.” Another yells “Call an ambulance!”
A San Leandro police spokesman said late Saturday that police did not have the dead man’s name or city of residence.
“We are in the early stages of our investigation,” said Lt. Ted Henderson. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office coroner’s division identified the man Sunday afternoon as Steven Taylor, 33.
Henderson said police entered the store at about 3:12 p.m., responding to a call about the man. While en route, they were given an update that a robbery was occurring. When they arrived, Henderson said, they determined there was no robbery, but the man was brandishing a bat menacingly as they tried to detain him.
“The officers were in danger,” Henderson said.
The officer who fired the shot, whom Henderson did not identify, is a 20-year veteran of the department and will be placed on paid administrative leave, as is the department’s policy following officer-involved shootings, he said.
A crazed, aggressive man with a bat can easily disarm a police officer (or anyone else.). Use of deadly force can be justified.
The means of deadly force aren’t the actionable factors, the assaultive attitude of the actor is.
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