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Dad calls cops to teach 19-year-old son a lesson, cops kill the kid
Daily Caller ^ | 11/08/2013 | Robby Soave

Posted on 11/09/2013 7:56:44 AM PST by Rusty0604

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To: loungitude
Did you watch the video?

In my opinion, the cops should be fired for endangering people like that in the first place. Didn't they have the presence of mind to let the kid drive off? Wait until he ran out of gas? He was hauling a trailer, for god's sake! The police escalated this, his blood is on their hands, and so would be the blood of any injured pedestrians. Those were individual men in those cop cars making stupid choices that endangered lives far more than the 19 year old kid mad at his pop because he wouldn't get him a pack of smokes.

Some people shouldn't be cops. These guys are prime examples. They should be run out of town on a rail. A wise law officer would have resolved this with zero violence and a little humane engenuity.

181 posted on 11/11/2013 6:11:14 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: ChronicMA
...he was killed as a direct result of his own aggressive actions that endangered the lives of other people.

WRONG. He was killed as a direct result of a choice made by an inept gun-weilding police officer. THAT is why he was killed; he was killed as a direct result of overreacting cops.

Obviously, this never even needed to go into car chase territory. It was his dad's truck, for crying out loud!!! And it was hauling a little trailer! The cops knew that, right? Or were they pursuing him under the impression that he'd just robbed a bank? That video is live Keystone Cops going deadly.

182 posted on 11/11/2013 6:19:16 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
Police apologists are pathetic.

They sure as hell are.

183 posted on 11/11/2013 6:23:14 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Rusty0604
... in the video the driver didn’t start driving like a maniac until the cops turned on their siren.

Exactly.

There is only ONE reason anyone's life was endangered here -- it's because the cop decided to chase and when told to back off, refused. PERIOD. The kid was crazy, but wouldn't have done this if the cops weren't chasing him. They could have caught up with him in a totally different way and meted out much better justice. He was a kid. I've known more than a few to grow out of things like that into pretty good productive Americans.

184 posted on 11/11/2013 6:42:02 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: CodeToad
That said, when a kid goes screaming off in a truck and trailer and is causing lethal danger to others the cops have my blessing to stop the idiot by any means necessary to avoid harm to others and themselves ...

... which they could have done very simply by ending their pursuit. They'd have avoided harm to others and themselves by letting the stupid kid go and catching up to him later. THEY are the ones who endangered lives and ultimately, took one in pure waste.

185 posted on 11/11/2013 6:48:19 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny

” THEY are the ones who endangered lives “

I bet you blame girls for rape, too, huh?


186 posted on 11/11/2013 6:52:34 PM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
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To: CodeToad; so_real
THEY are the ones who endangered lives “
I bet you blame girls for rape, too, huh?

Yes, they are the ones who endangered lives. You equate a kid squirreling off in front of some cops and their totally wasteful pursuit directly creating mayhem, and then blaming the cops, like blaming a woman for being raped? Holy cow.

What would the kid in the truck have done if the cops had simply stopped and let him go?

They could have caught up with him later. After all, it wasn't serious, it was basically a domestic dispute.

One thing about threads like this one -- they sure bring out the authoritarians.

187 posted on 11/11/2013 7:08:40 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny

“One thing about threads like this one — they sure bring out the authoritarians.”

” After all, it wasn’t serious, it was basically a domestic dispute. “

No, they bring out the anarchists like you.

As far as serious, ask the people that crashed into the kid’s trailer he sped through the stoplight with. You obviously don’t have a clue what happened here, you just want to mouth off.


188 posted on 11/11/2013 7:10:59 PM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
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To: so_real

“Stand down was recommended from dispatch ... twice.”

Dispatch doesn’t give orders. We learned that from Zimmerman, right?


189 posted on 11/11/2013 7:12:05 PM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
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To: ifinnegan

Suicide by cop is when the perp wants to die... this kid didn’t want to die... and I’m sure his father didn’t want him to die. Sad all the way around.


190 posted on 11/11/2013 7:26:18 PM PST by GOPJ (Obama - "too arrogant to question his own bad judgement" ... Greenfield)
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To: Finny

Look at the video. there was at least three points of no turning back for this possibly recreational drug using youth.


191 posted on 11/11/2013 9:29:32 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy
It is the disrespect for the police IMO that caused most of this.

Yeah. Right. A quartet of Keystone Kops, in spite of being asked to pull back, bully the KID into a full-blown chase, endangering God knows how many and shooting the cornered kid down -- you saw in the video how the cop cars had rammed his truck -- until he was dead, to boot.

The "police" -- thugs with badges chasing down a "bad boy" -- earn contempt. You wonder that people "disrespect the police." The video confirms this sad true story of gung-ho gang cops with an authority complex who believe in insisting -- even at the price of endangering dozens of innocents -- that they be respected, dammit, because they're the law!

The chase and the death were entirely the cops' responsibility. The kid was endangering no one until he perceived the cops moving in.

192 posted on 11/12/2013 8:29:09 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: ThunderSleeps
Why shoot the driver of a stopped vehicle? Lots of other options - try blocking it in. Shoot out the tires and engine first (rather than the driver)... If these cops are too afraid to do their jobs properly, resorting to shooting suspects as a first option, then they ought to find another line of work.

Amen.

193 posted on 11/12/2013 8:33:39 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny

Sirens go on, felonious youth pulls over, he lives.


194 posted on 11/12/2013 8:24:55 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: CodeToad

I missed the part in the video where these police were having the backs of their heads slammed into the asphalt. And Martin took one in the chest in as the aggressor, while this kid took two taps in the head and two in the chest while outside the officer's reach. Apples aren't oranges.


195 posted on 11/14/2013 12:51:04 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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