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WATCH: Police gun down Michigan man with 46 shots in 5 seconds
New York Daily News ^ | August 18, 2012 | Charlie Wells

Posted on 08/18/2012 8:01:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Stunning new footage of six police officers gunning down a Michigan man in an intense, five-second burst of 46 shots was made public Friday, setting off fierce reaction from members of a community still grappling with the incident.

"I'm stunned that six human beings would stand in front of one human being and fire 46 shots," victim Milton Hall’s mother, Jewel, told CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: hall; michigan; police; suicidebycops
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1 posted on 08/18/2012 8:01:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Suicide by police. He knew what beast he was throwing himself into the jaws of.

Though it does sound like the taser was tailor made for this kind of situation, if for any.


2 posted on 08/18/2012 8:03:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: ConservativeStatement

If the threat of lethal force is not instantly neutralized five seconds can seem like an eternity.

On full auto 7 rounds per cop is not unreasonable.


3 posted on 08/18/2012 8:05:31 PM PDT by lightman (Settling for the "lesser of two..." is still choosing Evil)
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To: carriage_hill

ping


4 posted on 08/18/2012 8:06:43 PM PDT by lightman (Settling for the "lesser of two..." is still choosing Evil)
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To: lightman

Another police brutality Springsteen song about this..


5 posted on 08/18/2012 8:07:36 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: ConservativeStatement

My father in law was a policeman. He told me about the time he tried to shoot a knife out of a guy’s hand.
“It don’t work like in the movies.”


6 posted on 08/18/2012 8:08:10 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ConservativeStatement
"I'm stunned that six human beings would stand in front of one human being and fire 46 shots,"

I can see it. If I am in a fire fighting for my life against a hoard of zombies and just as fast as I could and quickly reloading for more.
7 posted on 08/18/2012 8:11:46 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It should be pointed out to the “TAZER BAD TAZER BAD BAN IT NOW BAN IT NOW” crowd that this is the other alternative to the Tazer. Which do they prefer?


8 posted on 08/18/2012 8:12:03 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Not watching. This stuff shouldn’t be on line


9 posted on 08/18/2012 8:12:38 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
All 6 totally terrified officers fired ~ and kept on firing.

Probably best to not frighten them.

10 posted on 08/18/2012 8:12:55 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: ConservativeStatement

Watch? Why would I want to watch another human being losing their life? I don’t care who he is or what he did, seeing someone die is not entertainment.


11 posted on 08/18/2012 8:13:00 PM PDT by FightforFreedomCA (I WILL be voting on November 6th to evict the current pResident.)
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To: blueunicorn6

This is from Chicago:

Police sergeant shoots knife-wielding driver after Loop accident

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/14572114-418/police-sergeant-shoots-knife-wielding-driver-after-loop-accident.html


12 posted on 08/18/2012 8:13:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

If one shot had been fired and killed him, would the people be as worked up?


13 posted on 08/18/2012 8:14:11 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Although I cannot comment on this particular situation, I do know that cope are supposed to be trained to avoid pulling out their guns, if possible.

However, once the decision has been made to pull out the gun, you either unquestionably surrender or you risk being shot.

I agree that 46 bullets seem like a lot, but each cop is running under the assumption that the other cops may not be firing their guns. There’s also the reality that some peeps still fire their guns despite having been shot 20 times.


14 posted on 08/18/2012 8:15:03 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas told CNN that Hall had been “threatening to assault police,” and Gerald Cliff, the town’s police chief, said Hall was "known to be an assaultive person."

"Assaultive"?? I just love cop-speak. They more often-than-not end up tripping over their tongues.

15 posted on 08/18/2012 8:16:04 PM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: Spktyr

And so the debate goes back and forth, and the fact that tasers rarely kill ends up being a temptation to deploy them in trivial cases where there is little or no true danger to police personnel. But still. Why did this group have none, or not wish to try them, for this clearly irrationally combative nut. That’s why the taser was invented, to bring a humane end to such horrible face offs.


16 posted on 08/18/2012 8:17:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: ConservativeStatement

We ought to ask ourselves how, in a life-or-death situation, they might have orchestrated a “cleaner” kill, one less likely to offend public sensibilities.


17 posted on 08/18/2012 8:17:14 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: ConservativeStatement; All

At least the guy wasn’t handcuffed in the back of a police car when he was shot, like that guy in Arkansas.


18 posted on 08/18/2012 8:24:10 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
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To: ConservativeStatement; All

At least the guy wasn’t handcuffed in the back of a police car when he was shot, like that guy in Arkansas.


19 posted on 08/18/2012 8:24:25 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
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To: ConservativeStatement

We have an English word that describes what was done to this man - SLAUGHTER!

I carried a badge for over 30 years; this was uncalled for, was incompetently handled, and verges on murder.


20 posted on 08/18/2012 8:25:27 PM PDT by Ed Story
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