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Eyewitnesses also reported that police pinned the man, possibly restricting his ability to breath. Video footage appears to show the officers beating Hillstrom as well. Several witnesses said they struck him multiple times with a flashlight...............We keep seeing this more often...the cops are becoming the enemy.
1 posted on 05/15/2014 9:13:34 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

When are public servants, particularly LEO’s, going to undergo drug testing. Especially for steroids.


2 posted on 05/15/2014 9:16:52 AM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: mandaladon

Yes but did the officers make it home safely?


3 posted on 05/15/2014 9:17:45 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Damn, these cops should have arrested alec baldwin.


4 posted on 05/15/2014 9:17:50 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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Murder. And there will be no prosecution.


6 posted on 05/15/2014 9:19:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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JBT Ping list

Too bad I'm not allowed to ping an enthusiastic police defender anymore.

7 posted on 05/15/2014 9:21:22 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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I tire of the lies in these reports.

“Hillstrom was having some sort of psychotic episode”

Cops didn’t just decide to beat a guy to death for no reason.

Maybe they were fully over the top and need prison. Maybe the attempt to stop a psychotic lead to his death and the cops acted professionally.

But to claim no reason is BS.

Communist agitprop has always been to make cops the enemy, so I am skeptical about all these blanket easy condemnations.

Not that cops don’t abuse their position and commit police brutality, but the goal of the Communists and left has always been to slander police and any institution of social order as much as possible to cause mistrust and fear among members of society.


8 posted on 05/15/2014 9:21:41 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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It would be nice if the article had identified University Place as next to Tacoma. I wasn’t sure if this was DC or Washington state.


9 posted on 05/15/2014 9:21:57 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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He was pacing in a circle and muttering that people were after him.

Does this make him crazy, or prescient?

10 posted on 05/15/2014 9:23:16 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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Sounds like what happened to the homeless mentally ill man in Albuquerque. But in this case, they shot and killed him though his weapons were two small knives and it was all caught on the police lapel cameras.

Warning graphic video —

http://video.abqjournal.com/Police-helmet-cam-Camper-turning-from-officers-when-shot-25739481?playlistId=14937#.U3TpdaIXK1x


13 posted on 05/15/2014 9:23:54 AM PDT by CedarDave (CNN: The "Crisis News Channel" - all Flight 370 hysteria and global warming blather, all the time.)
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muttering that people were after him

Turns out he was right.

14 posted on 05/15/2014 9:25:01 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Ironically, if he had been a convicted murder with a mental illness he may have been judged ineligible for a death sentence.


19 posted on 05/15/2014 9:30:41 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
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LEO frustration over not having a dog to shoot.


20 posted on 05/15/2014 9:31:09 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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My son was handcuffed and had his ankles chained and in the back of a squad car. He called the cops when some other kids were threatening him. (mistake 1) They came, and decided to arrest him. Fine. He was drunk, and mouthy, (mistake 2) but not a menace to anyone, once he was put in the squad car.

After a bit, one of the young cops decided to take him out of the back of the car, and show him how tough he was. He then tasered him not once but three times while he was still handcuffed.

He should have pressed charges, but didn’t. Since then my opinion about the police has changed. I know there are some bad cops, but cops are there to arrest you, nothing more nothing less. If you call them, you better be prepared for anything to happen.

Anyone who uses a taser should be tasered to see how it feels.


25 posted on 05/15/2014 9:34:46 AM PDT by nikos1121
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cops are becoming the enemy.

It is all part of “transforming” America into a totalitarian fascist regime. This is necessary to create fear in the public so they are compliant sheep.

Hope and Change.


29 posted on 05/15/2014 9:38:48 AM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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“He was unarmed, but carrying a screwdriver”. Tell you what, you try to subdue a Schizophrenic a carrying a screwdriver. They should have called a mental health professional? LOL


38 posted on 05/15/2014 9:49:06 AM PDT by heights
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Well, in their defense, there was no dog to shoot.


40 posted on 05/15/2014 9:50:52 AM PDT by sport
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Ping


42 posted on 05/15/2014 9:54:10 AM PDT by sport
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I bet Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are organizing a march now!

Oh... wait...


47 posted on 05/15/2014 10:00:38 AM PDT by bolobaby
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screwdrivers are weapons if used as such. that’s why burglars love’em b/c they stab people with em pretty good.


49 posted on 05/15/2014 10:10:10 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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54 posted on 05/15/2014 10:23:39 AM PDT by Jaxter ("Pro Aris et Focis")
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