Posted on 08/16/2015 10:04:36 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson has likely never heard of Edward L. Johnson, a New York City Police Sergeant who was killed by an alcoholic psycho on a cold January day more than 54 years ago. But those who passed through the NYCPD Academy during the 1960s remember the story of how Sergeant Johnson died because it was part of the Firearms Training curriculum.
As the story goes, Sgt Johnson and his driver were called to a Bowery soup kitchen to back up a team of officers who were attempting to arrest a drunken, psychotic client who was using a 10 inch knife to threaten everyone in sight. As the supervisor, Johnson bravely stepped forward to confront the man. Immediately the psycho lunged at him. The Sergeant fired all six of his rounds, his driver did the same and the original team did as well. In all, 24 shots were fired from approximately seven feet. The attacker was hit 16 times and 4 of the wounds should have killed him instantly, but he still had the power to stab Johnson in the heart and kill him. The lesson from this attack is that those who are fueled by drugs and or alcohol sometimes don’t die immediately even when they sustain mortal wounds.
The story of how Michael Brown was killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson suggests some parallels to the death of Sergeant Johnson. The fact that he was reportedly shot several times before succumbing to his wounds suggests that toxicology reports will reveal that Brown was high on something as well.
This could account for the multiple rounds Wilson had to fire to stop Brown from attacking him. It could also explain why Brown is reported to have “doubled back” to resume his attack on Wilson when anyone who was not under the influence of a substance would have run from the danger of Wilson’s bullets.
At this point we don’t know many facts about the shooting. But given what has come out so far, it seems possible that better firepower and a few more feet between the Officer and Brown might account for the difference between the stories of Police Officer Wilson and Sergeant Johnson. One can tell his story; one is now all but forgotten.
Media and/or activists who promote a false narrative should automatically be sentenced to a minimum of five years in the pen.
People who are either (a) on drugs or (b) crazy can kill you with their bare hands and not even know they’re doing it. In fact, it usually takes a lot of shots to put them down.
Many if not most police shootings have been in cases where they were responding to these scenarios...but that’s something we can never discuss.
The other weird thing, imho, is that when the family that has called the cops because the psychotic brother/son/nephew/family friend is holding a knife to the throat of one of the other family members and then turns on the police and gets shot...files a lawsuit. I guess the family then thinks they’ve struck the lottery.
Yep. Quite literally, taking a bullet for the team.
I have a relative on the job in a Western state, and I know that this is a very common experience. It always results in the media crucifixion of the officer, particularly since many of the untreated mentally ill are black.
So what blacks should really be asking is why mental health care is so bad in their areas, why nobody ever refers anybody - no matter how outrageous and threatening their behavior or their addiction - for mental health or addiction treatment, and why people wait until the crazy person is holding a knife against their throat to call for help.
Not to mention why they sue when somebody has rescued them.
The lesson from this attack is that those who are fueled by drugs and or alcohol sometimes don’t die immediately even when they sustain mortal wounds.
Come on. . the usual pablum to the left and sons of obama. . .we know MANY facts, not “few,” and we know so many facts that the shooting was clearly justified.
It ain't the movies and people don't always just keel over dead straight-away.
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