SWAT team shoots and kills 107-year-old man in standoff

katv.com ^ | Sep 08, 2013 | Jeannette Reyes

[Colorado Doug]

Well good for you for letting the brass know. I want to have the respect back that I used to have for LEO and I do have the utmost respect for our Sheriff in El Paso County and have called his office to tell him so.

I have made my views clear on the subject and will continue to do so at every opportunity. Like everything else, it just takes the few bad eggs to ruin things for everyone. Unfortunately, these bad eggs are armed to the teeth and like to kill. The culture needs to be changed from within.

[Altariel]

They murdered a legally blind and nearly deaf 107 year old man.

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (TheBlaze/AP) — A 107-year-old man is dead after SWAT officers shot back at him during a standoff at a home in the southeast Arkansas city of Pine Bluff, police say.

But friends and fellow church members say that Monroe Isadore was legally blind and nearly deaf and shouldn’t have died that way.

“I’m in shock today,” Larry Smith, who attended church with Isadore at New Direction Baptist, told KLRT-TV.

“He couldn’t hear,” Smith said. “Somebody should’ve told the [police] he couldn’t hear.”

Friends told KLRT that Isadore was also legally blind and believe Isadore must have been confused.

“For that to happen and like that… had to be,” Smith said.

Isadore was a God-fearing man who grew vegetables and gave them away at church, according to those who knew him.

“That’s the kind of man that our police department killed,” said Pine Bluff resident Gary Wilson to KLRT.

The Pine Bluff Police Department declined to comment on the case until Monday, KLRT said.

Pine Bluff Lt. David Price tells KATV-TV that police officers called to the home Saturday were told Isadore had pointed a weapon at two people there.
107 Year Old Man Dies in Shootout with SWAT Team

(Credit: KATV-TV)

Officers had the threatened pair leave the home and approached a bedroom. Police say Isadore shot through the door at officers but missed hitting them.

More officers were called, including a SWAT team that inserted a camera into the room and confirmed Isadore had a handgun.

Police say SWAT officers released gas into the room when negotiations didn’t work. They say Isadore shot at officers who KATV reports entered the room, and the officers fired back, killing Isadore.

Here’s a report from KATV-TV:

(Video and image at link)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/08/107-year-old-man-dies-in-shootout-with-swat-team/