Posted on 01/26/2015 9:36:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Longview Police Department placed three officers on leave after a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed in the lobby of the station last week, the Marshall News Messenger reported.
According to officials, Kristiana Coignard entered the Texas police station on Thursday evening brandishing a weapon. Police spokeswoman Kristie Brian said Coignard used a phone in the lobby to call police dispatch and asked to see an officer.
When officers arrived in the lobby, she "came at the officers" with a weapon, according to Brian. Police did not confirm what type of weapon Coignard had, but Longview Mayor Jay Dean said that she was carrying a knife, according to the Marshall News Messenger.
Justice of the Peace James Mathis said Coignard was shot "multiple times," according to the Marshall News Messenger.
Police have not released many details about the incident. It remains unclear why Coignard entered the police station and what occurred before she was shot.
The 17-year-old was living with her aunt, Heather Robertson, who told ThinkProgress that her niece had been struggling with mental illness.
“I think it was a cry for help," Robertson said about Coignard's actions last week. "I think they could have done something. They are grown men. I think there is something they are not telling us."
Robertson said her niece has struggled with depression and bipolar disorder since her mother died when she was four years old. Coignard has been hospitalized twice after trying to commit suicide. Robertson told ThinkProgress that Coignard "was only violent with herself."
The three officers involved in the incident were placed on leave, and the Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting.
ARF!
For candyasses who wear their underwear backwards, yes, they were perfectly within their rights of self defense... LOL! :)
Indeed they were. Thank you for stating the BLATANTLY OBVIOUS.
The rest of what you wrote is just your useless opinion, which doesn't matter a hill of ****in' beans.
My opinion is that you and the rest of the people like you in this thread who are supporting a VIOLENT CRIMINAL over law abiding men who defended their lives in the face of her unprovoked attack with a deadly weapon are absolutely pathetic, and quite frankly, you make me sick. LOLexclamtionpointsmileyface
She pulled the knife, or whatever it was, ALL THREE orifices forgot "the safe word", stained the seat of their pants yellow, and in a panic, drew their guns and fired blindly with their eyes closed.
She wasn't a "VIOLENT CRIMINAL", chris, you drama queen.
Oh yes, yes she was.
If you commit a violent crime, you are a violent criminal.
According to this article, she committed aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against three police officers at the least, and attempted murder against three police officers at the most.
That action makes her a violent criminal.
Furthermore, calling me names isn’t going to make you any less wrong.
You misspelled "candyassed sissies".
Well, if that is what you really think of them, why don’t you man up and go tell them straight to their faces?
I imagine that they would like to hear your feedback on their efforts to maintain public safety in this matter.
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the Sargeant came over...
Maintain public safety by killing people is what you meant to say. Right?
They’d probably sucker-choke me like they did Eric Garner, and claim that they “feared for their authority”. LOL! :)
TL; DR
I said what I meant.
Stop asking stupid questions.
You lost that one too, but I’m happy to see that you can still laugh and smile about it.
Keep going though, one day you will get your cop on a stick.
Well, only if they're not IMPORTANT PEOPLE, like Bill Clinton, Jon Corzine, or Charley Rangel.
I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you [unless you're Bill Clinton]. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it [unless you're Jon Corzine or Charley Rangel]. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars [unless you're an important politician, like Jon Corzine]. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me I will fight back. If you shoot at me I will shoot back. By law I am unable to walk away . [unless you're an important politician, like Bill Clinton or Charley Rangel] I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed, I think, I love, and yes I *can* be killed. And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.
Good on you, mate.
No, I admit that you lost the exchange.
See the part where it says “You lost that one too”?
That’s the part where I said that you lost that one too.
Anyway, as usual, you are an obnoxious bore.
Girl is still dead and will remain dead, and there is nothing you can do about it, so have fun registering your discontent on the internet.
Hey, as long as the Einsatzgruppen goes home safe at night...
You're more of a man for admitting your loss than your police sissies who skit their skanties at the sight of an "armed" teen muffin-top.
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