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“I should have put the gun down, but I didn’t.”
Tough to do, but he’s right. He’s lucky he’s not dead.
What makes this even more of a tragedy for us is that someone in effect called us for help and we ended up being a part of him getting injured seriously,” Cannon said.
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Shouldn’t this go down as something that really could have gone without having been said?
A one time popular saying
“Sometimes it is better to let people think you are a fool rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt”.
If you drop the gun immediately as ordered, can it discharge when it hits the ground? If it does discharge, you will wind up looking like a piece of Swiss cheese, if you don’t drop it you will wind up looking like a piece of Swiss cheese also. The best thing to do is have nothing in your hands when the cops arrive on the scene...
I hope Mr. Heyward will be all right.
If the good guy had been in a shootout in the house with the hoods then he may have been partially deafened and for damn sure his adrenaline was pumping.
Sounds like they have a bit of a problem.
Blacks just don’t have any experience with the police and don’t know how responde to them.
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I think I see the problem here...Heyward, 26
Young black male with a gun in his hand not following a directive fast enough...
Unfortunately, the normal situation far too often, he is considered the perp...He was profiled wrong...
Dollars to donuts he was an older man, he would not have been shot..
Just about every article on home defense strongly advises letting the cops know you’re coming out and making sure your hands are empty and in plain sight.