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Family: Officer killed 19-year-old after mistaking him for someone else
WSMV ^ | 7/18/15 | WMCActionNews5.com Staff

Posted on 07/20/2015 6:37:04 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

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To: Will88

If the kid was smart enough to want to be a doctor, he should have been smart enough not to start a fight with the police.


21 posted on 07/20/2015 7:00:20 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
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To: woweeitsme
If this kid didn’t have a record, why would he try to attack the police officer? Something here just doesn’t smell right.

Just wait. Obama, the MSM or some liberal blogger will be right out with the "Truth" as we should know it. It was a simply a case of White privilege, income inequality, police brutality or if all else fails it was Bush's fault. (Maybe Trump's now that he's available)

22 posted on 07/20/2015 7:00:37 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: AppyPappy

Cops do it all the time, my question is how can they legally do this?

Of course the line of questioning goes like this.

Cop: Do you have any ID??

Notice the cop does not ask him to see his ID, only if he has one.

Usually the citizen offers up his ID voluntarily.

That is how they get away with it!


23 posted on 07/20/2015 7:00:49 AM PDT by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: eastforker
What is the probable cause to question and to detain someone for riding in a car that was stopped for a minor infraction?

Any number of justifications and they start with maintaining control of the situation. Suppose the passenger has carjacked and is holding a hidden gun on the driver? Suppose THIS man with open arrest warrants goes on to do something worse and it comes out that this stop was made and the officer failed to identify?

It is a legitimate stop for a safety reason and an idiot got removed from the gene pool because he forcibly resisted arrest! If he was the misidentified innocent his family claims, why resist?

24 posted on 07/20/2015 7:01:28 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Hey sons of The BAMish— don’t attack police officers. How friggin’ stupid can they be? VERY......


25 posted on 07/20/2015 7:04:11 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I wonder if the police department used car cams or body cams?


26 posted on 07/20/2015 7:06:21 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Lx
Stewart's mother said her son was going to attend the University of Memphis in the fall. He planned to become a doctor, and he has never been arrested.

They always use the same script.

Of course. When they sue, they want to make sure they get the maximum benefit of "lost future wages". If they really wanted to increase their earnings potential, they should have said he was studying to be a Clinton...

27 posted on 07/20/2015 7:21:36 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

:: However, the passenger in the car had several warrants for his arrest ::

And the officer, who stopped the DRIVER for [what amounts to] a code violation found out about the PASSENGER’S warrants because...?


28 posted on 07/20/2015 7:21:48 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Nobody was mistaken for anyone else.

The psgr clearly identified himself as one who will attack a police officer. The prohibition against same and the provocation for the officer to draw his weapon are not identity-dependent. It’s not a great ending, but the attacker entered a situation whereby his actions and his actions only; 1: The officer is justified in minimally pulling his weapon, and 2: how FREAKING DUMB do you have to be to not know that this is a losing strategy.

There were dozens and dozens of opportunities for the attacker to STOP, perhaps only seconds lone each, but he took none of them.


29 posted on 07/20/2015 7:26:23 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I believe that there was no cause to ask for an ID. But police will ask any way. He probably did not know that the officer had to have some reason to ask for an ID.


30 posted on 07/20/2015 7:29:11 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
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To: Will88

Blacks have been conditioned to believe cops (especially white cops) kill blacks without cause. Consequently they think they have a better chance to live by fighting. This conditioning becomes more ingrained in young people whenever a cop kills or beats down a black person without cause.


31 posted on 07/20/2015 7:42:43 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Celtic Conservative
It's at the point that it is beyond ridiculous when the press says "teen".

Seriously, these Amish yutes just get too much press here on FR...

32 posted on 07/20/2015 7:46:59 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Kirkwood
This conditioning becomes more ingrained in young people whenever a cop kills or beats down a black person without cause.

How often does that actually happen, and how often do the usual suspects claim that it happens?

33 posted on 07/20/2015 7:48:30 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Blood of Tyrants; Kirkwood

BoT:

Might I ask that you (BoT) compare and contrast your position vis-a-vis the post of Kirkwood in #28.


34 posted on 07/20/2015 7:49:09 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Kirkwood; Blood of Tyrants

Sorry...post #31


35 posted on 07/20/2015 7:49:56 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: TYVets
The officer had several cuts and bruises from the fight, but he did not need to go to the hospital. He is relieved of duty pending the outcome of this investigation.

I question why anyone would want to be a cop. I really do... I mean, no salary is worth it, but that's just me.

36 posted on 07/20/2015 7:52:33 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Celtic Conservative

He ain’t did nuthin! Them white folks be always tryin’ to clown bruthas so tired of dem always out thurr be tryin’ to put us in dem prisonz.


37 posted on 07/20/2015 7:55:16 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: eastforker
Cop: Do you have any ID??

Kid: 'bout what?

38 posted on 07/20/2015 8:01:31 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Fo’ shizzle, my caucizzle!

CC


39 posted on 07/20/2015 8:03:34 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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To: Starstruck

That’s the reason for all the violence in the middle-east as well. It’s just mistaken identity- all the men are named “Mohammed”!

CC


40 posted on 07/20/2015 8:06:11 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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