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Huntington Beach Officer Fatally Shoots Man With Replica Gun
CBSLA.com) ^ | March 21, 2013 6:33 PM

Posted on 03/22/2013 7:40:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin

HUNTINGTON BEACH (CBSLA.com) — A Huntington Beach police officer shot and killed a man who reportedly aimed a gun at him, which was later determined to be a fake weapon.

Police responded to a call around 4:30 p.m. Thursday from the owner of Buon Gusto Italian Cuisine & Deli who said the suspect was screaming and threatening a woman near a dumpster behind the eatery at 4911 Warner Avenue.

The owner said the man then threatened him with what he thought was a gun when he approached the couple.

Authorities later confronted the suspect and his girlfriend in a residential neighborhood near Hoskins Lane and Milo Drive.

“The suspect produced a handgun. Like I said, we later determined it to be a replica handgun, and the officer fired and killed the suspect,” said Sgt. Mitch O’Brien of the Huntington Beach Police Department.

A witness said, “The police told him to put down his gun and he wouldn’t… so they shot him.”

The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.

The officer was not injured.

Police questioned the suspect’s girlfriend. She was later released.

The investigation is ongoing.


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To: South40

When a police officer tells you to do something, best you do it.


21 posted on 03/22/2013 8:30:34 PM PDT by doc1019 (The rabbit hole that Obama is leading us down just gets deeper and deeper.)
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To: South40
Not only my old home town but my old neighborhood as well. Had the dumbass dropped the gun he’d still be alive.

I'm not a fan of police but they have 100% authority to shoot someone pointing a gun at them. After this their authority shrinks.

22 posted on 03/22/2013 8:39:21 PM PDT by Digger
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To: doc1019
When a police officer tells you to do something, best you do it.

I know I would.

23 posted on 03/22/2013 8:46:50 PM PDT by South40 (I Love The "New & Improved" Free Republic!)
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To: BipolarBob

You have to find a replica surgeon to remove the replica bullets. That might be easier next year when we have a replica health care system.


24 posted on 03/22/2013 8:48:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: BenLurkin

note to self do not carry prop gun.


25 posted on 03/22/2013 8:50:24 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: BenLurkin

Them there Journalism Degrees must not require an English Composition Class as a Prerequisite.

The Seventeenth Century Lesbian History Class probably replaced it.


26 posted on 03/22/2013 8:54:19 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...)
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To: television is just wrong

You can carry one as long as you drop it when a cop tells you to.


27 posted on 03/22/2013 8:58:45 PM PDT by doc1019 (The rabbit hole that Obama is leading us down just gets deeper and deeper.)
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To: television is just wrong

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3


28 posted on 03/22/2013 9:00:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

The cop was right in this case.


29 posted on 03/22/2013 9:51:13 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: television is just wrong

I have 2 replica guns I shoot all the time, and the .451 inch balls that come out of them at 900+ fps make big holes in things too! (1858 New Army Remington’s)


30 posted on 03/22/2013 10:27:24 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: BenLurkin
The officer was not injured.

Would have never figured that out without help...

31 posted on 03/23/2013 4:21:34 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: BenLurkin
There was an officer involved shooting in Bastrop, Texas (a few miles east of Austin) last week or so, and a man in a wheelchair had a BB gun. His daughter called 911 to report that he was threatening to harm her, so the county mounties went to the address.

They told him to put the gun down, but he "allegedly" pointed it at one of the deputies. One emptied his full magazine into him, including one to the head. The guy only had use of one arm and hand.

32 posted on 03/23/2013 6:07:14 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (For Jay Carney - I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.)
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To: trebb
Would have never figured that out without help...

Yeah....Sheeesh! what they do to fill column inches.

33 posted on 03/23/2013 6:19:57 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: cripplecreek

Sounds like the perp failed the IQ Test.


34 posted on 03/23/2013 7:07:45 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t bring a replica gun to a real gun fight.


35 posted on 03/23/2013 9:46:30 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (That's some bad hat, Harry.)
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To: BenLurkin

The title says that the cop used a fake gun and killed a guy.

I was never sure if hbpd had real guns.


36 posted on 03/23/2013 12:34:28 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: TigersEye

You have to find a replica surgeon to remove the replica bullets. That might be easier next year when we have a replica health care system.


Post of the Day!


37 posted on 03/23/2013 12:35:50 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Jeff Chandler

That may be a bb gun, but in CA they’re supposed to have an orange do-job on the end.

Just saying.


38 posted on 03/23/2013 12:39:00 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: BenLurkin

Never bring a replica gun to a gun fight.


39 posted on 03/23/2013 12:41:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: real saxophonist

he used replica bullets :)


40 posted on 03/23/2013 1:21:54 PM PDT by isom35
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