Amateur.
Did the Loon die from the gunshots?
What mass and momentum did the bullets have?
Are you sure that wasn’t a Zombie movie outtake? Did you notice there’s no blood anywhere in that take?
The guy who captured the video sure ended up with a front row seat to a suicide by cop.
Obese deputy was lucky to survive. Let the guy within 3 feet of him the whole time, backing away, etc. Then when he finally decided to shoot, he just kept pumping into center mass. After the first two shoulda done a headshot.
That deputy was lucky it looked like a goofball. A guy fresh out of prison or a street thug coulda had him easily.
The perp...talk about crazy eyes!
Funny, I searched for protests over this shooting and couldn’t find any. /s
And hate to say it, a fit and well trained male cop probably had other options. This fatty had one one option lest he die of heart failure.
Possessed by a demon
The guy looked full out possessed.
And yet, in MD, people can only get 10-round magazines. MD is an embarrassment.
Screw that, and screw him. This kind of stuff is why I've transition from various 1911s (mostly Kimbers) to Rock Island 2011s. 18+1 rounds in the 9mm, 14+1 rounds in the .45.
Amateur.
I would not have shot him.
I would have called for backup, stayed with him, warned others to stay away, and possibly have tried to engage him with a stun gun or, just keep talking him down.
Then again that takes brains, not guns.
This poor, weak, crazed bastard with a “long stick” didn’t need to die.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
Not sayin’ the cop didn’t have the “right” to shoot him,
but I wouldn’t have.
That guy was a freaking zombie just walking through the barrage of bullets. Jeff Cooper used to teach the Mozambique Drill for just such a situation. Put two in the chest and if that doesn’t stop the threat put one in the head.
Montgomery County’s main law enforcement is the Police Department. I lived there until I was 32 and didn’t even know there was a Sheriff’s Department until a short stint when I worked in the County Lockup. Sheriff’s deputies did the prisoner transport, and most were physical specimens like the dude in the video.
I wasn’t there nor have I ever faced such a threat but it looks like the cop waited just a bit too long.
Obituary Kevin Gerard Costlow February 10, 1968 – February 6, 2021
This guy was a Deep State operator. He went nuts.
More here:
No charges for Maryland deputy who fatally shot suspect armed with tree branch
And here:
Deputy Sheriff Who Killed Laytonsville Man Won’t Be Charged
Costlow was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
-- Clint Smith, founder, president, & director of Thunder Ranch
The drug fiend had rammed a couple of other vehicles first. The deputy allowed him to get a little too close with the stick, in my opinion.