Posted on 09/29/2016 1:16:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
He ignored multiple instructions from an officer and concealed his hand in his pants pockets, Davis said. Olango paced back and forth as the officers talked to him, then rapidly drew an object from his front pants pockets, placed both hands together on it and extended it rapidly toward [one] officer, taking what appeared to be a shooting stance, the chief said.
Olango, he said, pointed the object at the officers face. Police said Wednesday evening that the object was a vape smoking device, which officers have recovered.
The vape has an allsilver cylinder that is approximately 1 diameter and 3 long that was pointed toward the officer, police said in a statement.
At that point, the other officer fired a Taser and the officer who had the object pointed at him fired his handgun, striking Olango. Davis declined to say the number of shots that were fired. No firearm was found at the scene.
After the shooting, officers provided first aid until paramedics arrived and took Olango to a hospital.
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Utopia no, but I’ll accept close. With you maybe even 95%.
Since the cops were responding to a 911 call, reporting a man out of control and behaving erratically but not reporting him armed, it was only normal police procedure to try to contain the guy, rather than just observing from some distant cover and send for backup.
The dangerous job of real cops, the lawlessness of many areas of this country, and the anti-American & Anti-White radicals agitators hellbent on using these shootings, to incite violence and undermine law and order, make discussions of these incidences no place for unthoughtful armchair second guessing.
In certain towns of the Old West, where and when lawlessness became out of control, guns were banned and sheriffs shot on sight those carrying. More recently, back during the 50s when big city youth gangs were white, gang fights involved everything that could maim and kill - but not guns - for one reason: gang members would be shot on sight if a cop saw a gun. But that's back when cops were legally considered justified in shooting anyone - even the unarmed - fleeing from them.
What I admit has changed is how many more places and in how many more situations guns for self-defense are being banned. That can be easily explained by how much lawlessness has been spreading during the liberalization of society in the past 50 years. How many more places and situations are cops now being shot at!
To return to the good-old-days, 2 things have to be done, both at the same time: 1) Society has to demand respect for law & order [along with the cops that represent it] and stop making thugs heroes and victims. 2) The law must respect the right of armed self-defense while coming down hard on the thugs
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