Pennsylvania police fatally shoot 12-year-old at her home

The Guardian ^ | 01/12/2016 | Ciara McCarthy

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

A police constable in Pennsylvania killed a 12-year-old girl when he fired a shot at the girl‘s father that passed through the man‘s arm and hit her, officials said on Tuesday.

Ciara Meyer was pronounced dead at her home on Monday morning after Constable Clarke Steele attempted to "enforce an eviction order" on her family in Duncannon, north of Harrisburg, according to officials.

[Ken522]

Ciara must’ve done something which made the policeman fear for his life .... /s

[knarf]

Y'jes' don't pull a gun on a cop .... period

It never comes out OK.

[PJBankard]

That’s sad.

[USNBandit]

No, but the father pointed an AR-15 at the cop first.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

like yawned?

[freedumb2003]

>>Ciara must’ve done something which made the policeman fear for his life .... /s<<

Does pulling a gun on him count?

[jiggyboy]

The Guardian headline writer doesn’t quite understand who is “police” and who is not.

[jiggyboy]

I see, you didn’t read even one sentence of the article.

[ßuddaßudd]

Father escalates the situation and gets his daughter killed,,,
idiot

[Daveinyork]

Normally, I’d not like them mentioning the races of all the parties, but, in this case, it shows that nobody was targeted because of their race.

[Safetgiver]

Just for reference; Constable is an elected position in PA. Just VERY recently they got authority to write traffic tickets and other Summary Offenses. Training has been negligible, don’t know how good it is to this day. Sherriff’s Deputies in PA are pretty much in the same classification, just less so.

[Gratia]

The father is responsible for the death of his daughter, apparently.

[RC one]

wonder what Rachel Maddow would have to say about me if I shot an attacker and the bullet went through him and killed a 12 year old girl?

[sagar]

Madcow: gun nut kills and fulfills his second amendment rights.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

When Steele approached the apartment, Ciara's father, Donald Meyer, allegedly opened and then shut the door before opening it a second time armed with a rifle, officials said. Steele and Meyer exchanged words briefly before Meyer "leveled" the rifle at Steele, according to police. Steele fired a single shot at Meyer, who was struck in the upper left arm before his daughter was hit, police said.

If (and that's a big if) this happened the way police said it did, the officer was justified in shooting at the father and this is a tragic accident.

[grimalkin]

Yes, he was.

[iowamark]

Moral of the story: Don’t stand behind someone who is pointing a rifle at a cop.

[MCF]

Ken, just read the story before commenting

[AlaskaErik]

For those who advocate shooting at limbs instead of center of mass, this is a perfect example of just one of the reasons why it’s a bad idea.