Posted on 08/12/2012 4:28:33 AM PDT by raybbr
Cops shot a knife-wielding maniac dead on a packed Midtown street yesterday after several officers drew their weapons and chased him at gunpoint through Times Square.
“Shoot me! Shoot me!” the armed madman shouted at a crowd of more than 20 cops, who had followed him for several blocks and blasted him with pepper spray before cornering him on Seventh Avenue near West 38th Street, according to witness Robert James.
The furious 51-year-old finally lunged at the officers with his 11-inch butcher knife, leading two cops to blast him in the torso, groin and arms at about 3 p.m., police said.
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Cops shot a knife-wielding maniac dead on a packed Midtown street yesterday after several officers drew their weapons and chased him at gunpoint through Times Square.
“Shoot me! Shoot me!” the armed madman shouted at a crowd of more than 20 cops, who had followed him for several blocks and blasted him with pepper spray before cornering him on Seventh Avenue near West 38th Street, according to witness Robert James.
The furious 51-year-old finally lunged at the officers with his 11-inch butcher knife, leading two cops to blast him in the torso, groin and arms at about 3 p.m., police said.
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Why taze this guy? So he can survive and be a continuing threat to all who come in contact with him for another 20 years?
“Why taze this guy? So he can survive and be a continuing threat to all who come in contact with him for another 20 years?”
They need him alive until after the election. All these dead voters are starting to look bad....
Thanks raybbr. Bloomberg will lead the campaign to ban butcher knives!
Headlines about arsenals of steak knives being found in homes, "Suspect had a set of 8 steak knives concealed in kitchen drawer!" Or, "Mr. Schmuck had a device that held a complete set of kitchen knives."
Obviously we must control how many knives a person can own. Come up with a registration list for knives. And last but not least, BAN ALL ASSAULT KNIVES immediately.
This cannot be allowed to happen to our children.
What about ‘tranquilizer guns’? Have I watched too many wildlife tag and release videos or do these actually exist - and work?
Had an event last week near Anchorage Alaska, State Troopers shot and killed a man holding a baseball bat in the middle of a four lane highway.
The whole thing started when the police tried to stop him for a bad tailight.
No, but has the Reverand Al Sharpton been on the scene. Looks to me like a white cop shooting a minority - - that is a “no no” in the eyes of Sharpton.
Looks like he’s WHITE. So, nothing to see here.
Pepper spray is non lethal, guns can be lethal and tasers can be lethal, although less so.
I'm no expert on police procedures but I'm guessing that with the increase in tasering deaths, police procedures have become more binary.
Either you use non lethal force, pepper spray, or you use lethal force, a gun.
White? I dunno, maybe he’s a “White African American”
My point is they should have tasered instead of pepper-sprayed him as they actually did. Once that failed, they should, of course, have perforated him. The pepper spray treatment was more dangerous for the cops. Note also that this was a dozen cops against one guy. This was probably why they were confident enough to pepper spray him instead of shooting him from the get-go. Again, the point of this isn't to criticize NYPD for its inhumanity against the common sword-wielding perp - it's to point out that having the right equipment against such individuals can reduce the number of wrongful death payouts for which the city has to shell out.
If it is relatively close... couldn’t that have risked the officer more than shooting this guy?
35 feet or less.
Yes.
Good to know; somehow I thought you had to actually touch someone with a taser.
Why aren’t cops capable of dealing with crazy people without killing them?
Thanks for the update to that post!
You left off the part about the crazy person having a knife and you imply that cops haven't on numerous occasions subdued such people.
I look forward to the day when this sort of @sshole is gunned down in Times Square by a law-abiding citizen instead of a group of police officers. It’s much cheaper and less messy that way.
I saw shots of him that were taken at 42nd St. - near the police headquarters (the old recruiting station location) - so he definitely was in Times Square. It didn’t look like he was in the old garment district. My husband and I thought he was closer to 6th Avenue at one point.
And, believe me - to other posters - if you are walking down one of those streets - you do not want to have a large, crazed, high-as-a-kite man with a Ikea chef’s knife behind you. Good for the cops.
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Like “shoot the butcher knife out of his hand?”
That is crazy question.
This was a “teachable moment” for the rest of the OWS/crazies -
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