Posted on 03/16/2018 10:41:34 PM PDT by marktwain
On February 2nd, 2018, just before 2 p.m., a man knocked down a Springville, Utah police officer and was viciously punching him. The suspect had fractured the officer's eye socket when an armed good Samaritan, Derek Myer, saw the situation, did a quick U-turn, pulled his gun and stopped the attack. From fox2now.com:
SPRINGVILLE, Utah — A man with a concealed handgun is credited with stopping a brutal attack on a Utah police officer on Friday, according to KSTU.
A Utah police officer approached the suspect, Paul Douglas Anderson, after he saw him stealing items from a charity's donation bin. When the officer approached Anderson, the suspect refused to take his hands out of his pockets. Moments later, Anderson attacked the officer and repeatedly punched him in the face.
Derek Meyer was driving on Main Street in Springville when he saw Anderson attacking the officer. Meyer, armed with a pistol and his concealed-carry permit, made a U-turn and stopped his vehicle behind the police car.
“I carry a gun to protect me and those around me, but primarily I carry a gun to protect my family first and foremost,” Meyer said. “Outside of that, if I were to use my gun to protect anyone it would be law enforcement or military personnel.”
Meyer got out of the car, pointed his pistol at Anderson and yelled at him to stop assaulting the officer.
When Anderson saw the gun, he stopped and ran off. After a brief lockdown at an area school, Anderson was arrested.
The video has some detail
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He could have just explained to the suspect that society is the cause of his aggression, and with a system of equal resource distribution his violent behavior wouldn’t be necessary. There, problem solved, without guns.
......I’m sure this will be all over ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, LAT,WAPO, MSNBC....................tomorrow.
"...Utah Police Officer Saved by Armed Citizen..."
“stealing items from a charity’s donation bin”
The prep was probably thinking, since
it was a donation bin, that it was free
stuff.
Well, you have to give them a few days to spin this sufficiently to make the perpetrator look like the victim.
I have no doubt those ass hats will do EXACTLY that.
They didn’t arrest Mr Meyer for brandishing against an unarmed person?
He is a medical student, in his second hear of residency...
Very unfortunate misunderstanding
Now, in another future story I’d like to read, a legally armed citizen comes upon a criminal robbing and beating up a citizen in San Francisco.
The victim cries out for help and the armed citizen asks him is he a Democrat or Republican. The victim answers Democrat.
The man with the gun walks away saying, here’s a quarter, go call the ACLU or some anti-gun group. Good Luck.
From the perps pic he looks strung out
My guess is either meth or heroin
Get Wonder Boi David Hogg on it right away
LOL, those are the two opposite ends of the spectrum. One is an "upper" and the other is a "downer."
Laugh all you want. If you have ever seen an addict on either one they look much the same
I've seen both. Do you not understand the difference? Let's start with their pupils...
Shouldn’t Mr. Myer followed police procedure and pulled his car over to a position behind it and waited until the suspect finished his beating of the officer and then come out only after the suspect was through and had left the scene?
That’s how the Broward County Sheriff handle such things.
Yeah some places the cop would have shot then charged the guy who intervened.
Well done.
"Armed civilian draws gun, interferes in officer's arrest of destitute thief."
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