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WATCH: Police gun down Michigan man with 46 shots in 5 seconds
New York Daily News ^ | August 18, 2012 | Charlie Wells

Posted on 08/18/2012 8:01:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Stunning new footage of six police officers gunning down a Michigan man in an intense, five-second burst of 46 shots was made public Friday, setting off fierce reaction from members of a community still grappling with the incident.

"I'm stunned that six human beings would stand in front of one human being and fire 46 shots," victim Milton Hall’s mother, Jewel, told CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: hall; michigan; police; suicidebycops
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To: Alberta's Child

What you described sounds similar to what happened here. How does it support your `Nothing to see here’ position?

Yeah, I think this city’s `To Protect & Serve’ guys are going to be hearing from lawyers all right.

“Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.”


61 posted on 08/18/2012 9:54:48 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: lightman

full auto handguns? not likely.


62 posted on 08/18/2012 9:56:47 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: tflabo
Why not fire some sort of netting around him and then run it around in a circle to wrap him all up

Or maybe get the gun from Mr. Freeze and turn him into an ice statue.
How about we use the tranporter from Star Trek and beam him to jail.

Hey! shoot him with a hypodermic filled with niceness serum.

63 posted on 08/18/2012 10:04:50 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: old school

Excellent response.


64 posted on 08/18/2012 10:05:59 PM PDT by TheZMan (Obama is without a doubt the worst President ever elected to these United States)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It looks like he was walking away. There is no way to justify the shooting.


65 posted on 08/18/2012 10:07:48 PM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: Psalm 144

We’re an irresponsible society when we simply accept official killing as acceptable.

There are many fine men and women in law enforcement. There is also plenty of incompetence.


66 posted on 08/18/2012 10:16:25 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: muawiyah
"All 6 totally terrified officers fired ~ and kept on firing."

It is too bad we grow such a paranoid crop of police officers. Perhaps they are thinking of that Utopian retirement they get off the taxpayer's dime and not too much about taking any risk.

67 posted on 08/18/2012 10:26:51 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Countdown to 11-06-2012)
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To: Dennis M.

And keep in mind that his elevator didn’t go to the top floor.

So let’s say that you’re re-living the movie `Hangover’ and you’ve got a snoot-full and are out on the street with friends, and you’re not breaking any laws but are boisterous.
Or you’re cleaning fish in your backyard with a knife and hard of hearing, like me, and all a neighbor can see over the fence is a flashing knife and blood.
Or you’re depressed because your dog died or you had fight with your wife, so you’re angry and pacing the block.
Or you’re just simple like this guy.

You know you can’t count on the police coming in time if you actually need their help, but they come lickety-split when you’re in no mood to deal with them with pistols drawn and they start barking commands at you and you don’t move fast enough to suit them ... They can shoot you to death? Five cops can empty their magazines into you?

It’s incredible to me to see some here saying, “Oh, yeah .... “.


68 posted on 08/18/2012 10:29:35 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: ConservativeStatement

What, there were no dogs around?


69 posted on 08/18/2012 10:31:25 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Tories in- now the REAL work begins!)
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To: Alberta's Child

It’s odd that you mentioned that incident in Times Square.

My third-cousin on Long Island called me a few days ago.
During the conversation, she told me that her teenage grandson was in Times Square that day and witnessed the police shooting of that knife-wielding individual.


70 posted on 08/18/2012 10:42:01 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (If people don't have to show an ID to vote, why do they have to show one to purchase a firearm?.)
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To: randog

“Assaultive”??
***That’s as close as you can get to “assholetive” without sounding unprofessional.


71 posted on 08/18/2012 10:47:24 PM PDT by Kevmo ( FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

This is the kind of event that will get libs wanting the death penalty again in Michigan.


72 posted on 08/18/2012 10:49:51 PM PDT by ExxonPatrolUs ("Trizzle, trazzle, trozzle, trome, time for this one to come home" - Mr Wizard)
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To: ConservativeStatement
I wonder if any of the bullets hit the BAR the guy must have been brandishing.

Those Brownings are worth a mint nowadays.

73 posted on 08/18/2012 10:57:31 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Republicans Hope people are Smart, but Democrats Know people are Stupid.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

This was flat out murder.
It reminds me of a similar incident in Washington DC a few years ago. There was video of that, too.
It is sickening beyond belief.


74 posted on 08/18/2012 10:59:49 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: tflabo
Why not fire some sort of netting around him and then run it around in a circle to wrap him all up.

Acme is still working the bugs out of it.


75 posted on 08/18/2012 11:06:21 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ConservativeStatement
I may be a little slow on the uptake, but I wouldn't stand in the street in front of six armed police officers with a lethal weapon and continue to yell at them and threaten to take violent action.  I wouldn't ignore their calls to drop my weapon, and the only moves I would make would be to drop it, and assume the position.

You know, I hear countless reports about how badly police officers treat members of the minority community.  And then members of the minority community act as if they don't know what they are going to get, if they don't comply with officer's directives in life and death situations.

Oh my poor son.  Oh my poor husband.  Oh they were such sweet people.  Oh those police officers, my boy only had a long knife in his hand, a loaded gun, a baseball bat...

I hate to be the one that has to break it to these folks, but good sweet innocent people, don't confront police officers with these things.  And the people who do, we'll they catch hell for it.  Who knew?









Come on Freepers, if you haven't already, pencil yourself in.  Lets get this FReepathon over with.  Only 9.7% left to go.


76 posted on 08/18/2012 11:23:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Nope 2012)
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To: Talisker

couldn’t have said it better pal. kudos!


77 posted on 08/18/2012 11:23:19 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: Alberta's Child

And if so that’s exactly what makes your retort inappropriate. Are you going to tell the judge in a court that because he’s never robbed a bank he can’t sit on a bank robbery case?


78 posted on 08/18/2012 11:27:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: Tupelo

Ya think?

Maybe the shots that continued to be fired while the subject was on the ground might give that “overkill” issue some legal footing.


79 posted on 08/19/2012 12:46:08 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: suthener
Dennis Tueller developed the “21 foot rule”. Tuller states that a man can run 21 feet in 1.5 seconds, which is the time it takes for an “average shooter” to recognize the threat, draw, aim and shoot the threat.

The potential distance an average man can travel and function after receiving a fatal wound is 210 feet/ 70 yards in 14 seconds.

The officers had no choice but to shoot. Letting the knife man walk away is not an option and there is no nonlethal force options.

80 posted on 08/19/2012 1:35:43 AM PDT by pterional
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