Posted on 12/15/2014 10:51:51 PM PST by smokingfrog
The family of a man shot in the head and killed by a Philadelphia police officer sought answers in the hours after the deadly incident during a traffic stop in the city’s Mayfair section.
The deadly gunshot rang out around 2:45 a.m. along the 6600 block of Frankford Avenue after police said the suspect reached for a loaded handgun — stolen last year — in his rental car.
"I would like to know why the police, law enforcement, has the right to kill instead of disabling," the victim's mother Tanya Dickerson said. "It has to stop, this is enough already."
Dickerson later identified her son Brandon Tate-Brown as gunshot victim.
Dickerson said that her son served five years in prison for aggravated assault stemming from a 2007 beating where he was charged with attempted murder. She said that since his release from prison, Tate-Brown was trying to get his life back on track — working at a rental car place — being a "good guy."
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The FBI did a sting operation by driving undercover agents up and down North Broad Street in hood popular cars. When one would get stopped, there was a criminal record to match the driver. All the sudden a weapon would be recovered from the vehicle when none was there prior to the stop.
Not all cops are pure as a prom date. Their logic was that they were just getting people off the street who would be committing a crime soon anyway based on their record.
Again, I strongly urge everyone to obtain a copy of their local police department’s deadly force or other force policy. You would be amazed at how much disinformation reviewing the policies would clear up. If the mamma’s and Al Sharpton’s of this world want answers, I suggest they start there. It’s all in writing and it’s what the cops have been trained to. IMHO, it’s written to make sure the shootee is dead, dead, dead, for liability reasons(it’s cheaper to settle a death suit that a lifetime disability suit). But that is a whole different topic for another day.
Love these ignorant fools that have obviously never even so much as fired a pistol before thinking you can just shoot someone whereever you want no prob...
Go bring a pistol to the range and see how hard it is to put one exactly where you want one, mom.
And the press doesn’t bother to report that kind of information any more.
Actually I disagree. My dad worked in a state prison. Most black male urban folks remain within a very limited distance of their home turf. When we would be out and about town, he knew who he would be running into in what sections of town. He was usually right. He always carried. He was also fairly well respected by the inmates who were released and out. They never gave him any trouble to speak of. He wouldn’t turn his back on them either.
This appears to be the guy ... Maybe.
Yep. He was carrying to protect himself from his "friends" with whom he was still running. He knew he was going back to the graybar hotel, not just the county clink, if the cop found his gun, even though this was just a traffic stop.
Seeing the gun, the cop knew that failing his self-preservation instinct, someone else would be collecting his pension.
Quad Erat Demonstratum.
Everyone has that right when someone threatens their life, dumbass.
Now a rifle is another matter. I can keep six shots in a half dollar at 100 yards.
That is why in my house I use a double barrel coach shotgun with spreader loads. You just point in the general direction and you won't miss. The pattern is five feet in diameter ten feet out.
Territories drift and spread. It is why certain areas than never had any problems gradually start developing them. We see this in urban areas where the immediate suburbs start having the same kinds of crime problems by the same kinds of people in the inner city, they begin branching out.
You're missing the point. In your scenario, the perp goes to (or back to) jail but lives.
In the words of the late mayor and Police Chief Frank Rizzo, "Om gawna come down on these people so hard, Om gawna make Attila the F%$&in Hun look like a F%$&in faggot."
Yo, FBI, Sting this.
26 years old, 5 years in prison for attempted murder, gun in the car. I don't think there's enough sympathy here to get the race baiters involved.
What? What is a "spreader load?" Is it only sold in Philly? Tough on the drywall.
excellent shot placment. It took wilson 5 shots before he hit Brown in the head.
A spreader load is sold by Orvis. The shot inside the shell is not round like regular shot. It’s fed thru a press and squashed into sort of a hockey puck shape. The result is quite predictable. No range and complete scatter right out of the barrel. I’m not kidding either, you will hit everything floor to ceiling at the far end of a room 20’ long. The load will not go thru the wall and hurt anyone in any adjoining living space. IOW, you won’t accidentally shoot your kids in the next room with handgun loads going thru the wall.
“Go bring a pistol to the range and see how hard it is to put one exactly where you want one, mom.”
Then add in poor lighting and the stress of thinking that your “target” may shoot back, and unless you’re well-trained, accuracy is a fond memory.
"Philly people need a little different kind of policing than regular normal people"..........You mean like W.Wilson Goode dropping bombs on houses and burning down five square blocks? Like Sammy Aggresta?
I do miss Fairmount Park though. I used to keep my horses there. I spent my teen years riding thru the trails and paths with my friends every day after school and at night on weekends. Something nostalgic over my memories of drinking beers at 15 on Saturday night with the mounted cops. Better days to be a kid.
Trouble is, these choir boys don't stay in those neighborhoods. Too bad we can't fence them in.
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