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Salinas police kill man they say lunged with shears (video)
Salina Californian ^ | May 20, 2014 | Allison Gatlin

Posted on 05/21/2014 9:21:43 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod

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To: KneelBeforeZod

How’s his dog?


21 posted on 05/21/2014 10:16:00 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: KneelBeforeZod

Any word on the immigration status of the deceased?


22 posted on 05/21/2014 10:22:08 AM PDT by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: TMSuchman

Agree I didn’t see him lunge forward. Seems they just wanted to push him until they could perforate him and they didn’t choose a safe location - intersection.


23 posted on 05/21/2014 10:46:37 AM PDT by mcshot (..."And this too shall end.")
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To: Forgotten Amendments

We were naive.


24 posted on 05/21/2014 11:22:55 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: TMSuchman

So tell how many armed crazy people have you disarmed in that manner.


25 posted on 05/21/2014 11:25:52 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: KneelBeforeZod

I can’t believe some of your comments!

This cop MURDERED this guy. Are you all BLIND? The cop moved HIMSELF into a dangerous position and then, SURPRISE, I’m in a dangerous position. Then fires THREE times, just to be sure.

If all else has failed, (don’t know we were there yet) shoot the guy in the leg. Down he goes, threat neutralized.

Pepper spray? A guy with garden shears that can’t breathe and can’t see is not a threat.

As far as the witness with the kid goes, Some people just aren’t terrified by situations that place them in possible danger. I don’t see what she did as a big risk. The likelihood that she or the child would get shot were minimal. I think people need to accept some risk so that the police can be watched as in this case it proved worth the risk.

The perp had garden shears not an explosive device.


26 posted on 05/21/2014 12:08:55 PM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: riverrunner

More times than is posted in the news. It is one of the safest ways to deal with this kind of trouble.


27 posted on 05/21/2014 12:15:34 PM PDT by TMSuchman (John 15;13 & Exodus 21:22-25 Pacem Bello Pastoribus Canes [shepard of peace,dogs of war])
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To: KneelBeforeZod

They don’t have tazers in Salinas? Isn’t this the kind of thing they were made for?


28 posted on 05/21/2014 12:41:06 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: b4its2late

All I can tell from the few frames that are visible is that the cop didn’t move, and the guy did turn around and was closer to the cop then he was before... Other than that, can’t tell anything more.


29 posted on 05/21/2014 1:21:16 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: servo1969

A tazer was fired, you can hear the pop of it going off early in the encounter. But it was only tried once.


30 posted on 05/21/2014 1:46:12 PM PDT by TMSuchman (John 15;13 & Exodus 21:22-25 Pacem Bello Pastoribus Canes [shepard of peace,dogs of war])
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