Posted on 02/08/2015 6:51:22 PM PST by Teotwawki
A North Carolina officer shot dead a 74-year-old man whose concerned family had called the police and asked to check on him.
Officer Josh Lefevers arrived at the home of James Allen just before midnight on Sunday morning and announced he was entering the residence when Allen approached him with a handgun and refused to put it down, police said.
Lefevers then shot and killed him.
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exactly
His family calls the cops because they are concerned about him. Is this family crippled or something? They can’t go over and check themselves? Did they go over and check on him? The cops knock on the door nobody answers, is the guy deaf? He don’t answer his family and the cops? So they think either he’s dead or unconscious so they call EMT and fire dept for possible dead body, FD breaks the door down, cop enters and the guy is pointing a gun and him and of course the cop shoots him because he don’t want to die. And of course once again the cop is in trouble, everybody blames the cop because he had the audacity to not want to die.
Wonder if the family will be calling the police for anything in the future?
Wife calls cops because her husband is locked inside their mobile home with a gun.
Husband is watching TV with a bowl of popcorn and beer.
Cops arrive and wife meets them out at the road and is hysterical, cause ain't no tellin what he might do?
Cops sneak up and shoot his sorry a$$.
Wife's boyfriend attends funeral with her.
As one cop explained to me, cops try to avoid the need to pull out the gun whenever possible. However, if it I deemed necessary to pull out a gun, unless the peep is making it very obvious that he is surrendering, the cop has has decided to shoot.
They do not pull out a gun unless they are planning to shoot. If they are planning to shoot, it’s going to be dead centre.
Did the callers/family live in the same region?
That might be possible. Just a wild guess.
Whatever happened to Serve & Protect? That has become an evil tainted version of it’s former meaning. You all owe your livelihood to our good hard earned monetary graces. Where the police fail covers a broad field these days. You want respect? You all had better start earning it, instead of pushing your totalitarian ideologies on a formerly trusting populace. We deserve exactly what we are paying you for, not what you all as a whole have become.
If a guy has a gun on a cop, the cop has to assume that it will probably be used and has to act accordingly.
Those who practiced it died.
Hey Grandpa.....Can u make a noise like a frog?
and the grandpa says...well i guess....but why do u ask...
Grandson replies.....’Caus mommy said when u croak we're all going to Disneyland!
And they won't ever have to worry about him again!
And helps her spend the insurance money.
But then again, at least he shot the guy at the right address...........
Never, ever call the police on a loved one... unless you want them dead.
Lot of big armchair generals around here...
The police see an intruder with a gun who won’t back down then the intruder is the bad guy, not the cop.
I think everyone who practiced that was shot to death, so we're not sure where it's at.
No it doesn’t, my description is an action that a cop should take under the same circumstances.
We carry guns, we answer our door with guns, we come out of our bedrooms with guns, we camp with guns, cops can’t just shoot everyone with a gun, but especially not when they come into our home and disturb us because a relative called to check on us.
There better be a reason why he killed this man, and under this first cursory description of the circumstances, that reason hasn’t surfaced yet.
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