Posted on 11/17/2006 7:26:27 AM PST by ActionNewsBill
Video of man shot and killed by police.
Oh yeah, they killed their own police dog as well.
Someone screwed up bigtime on this one.
Brilliant.
Too bad about the dog.
This is just about the only way you'll make the news if you get shot today.
Or waiting for a PS3.
If I'm on the jury,whether it be the criminal or civil trial,my verdict is "not guilty"
Can't believe they let the dog go and then unload wide open. Any one know when this happened?
Dude should have put the damn gun down. Sucks about the dog, though.
Does he have a gun, it sounds like they keep saying put the gun down?
At least the man in the video actually had a gun.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/11/15/local/doc455a511a37741387482738.txt
I'm surprised it 3+ minutes to put him down. (The perp, not the dog)
What if you get shot waiting for your PS3 ?
Dumb cops
The dog was released and the perp moved the gun - barely - and how ever many cops there were opened up. Consider how tense the situation was and how the instant one fired, everyone reacted. Their aim wasn't perfect and the dog entered the kill zone in that instant. A tragedy, but that's why they send in a dog and not a rookie officer. Should the cops have waited to see if the perp made good on his thirteen shot, gonna shoot everything threat? No, the one who screwed up bigtime was the perp. And notice how the bad guys know video will make the cops look bad. The threat didn't work but enough of these incidents and the cops will start walking away.
If I (or I'm willing to wager, ANY parent) was ever caught at the "wrong/right" time .. I'd be doing serious jail time ...
It's one thing to be able to capture candid shots of wrong doing ... but a continual diet of police wrong doing can only bring about the further breakdown of any respect for authority.
I haven't seen our home page in centuries, but I think JimRob composed something on the line of;
" .. to bring about the return of our nation to it's constitutional roots .. " and simular thought ... I'll go look for it after this reply.
The point is ... we have taken the planes diving into the WTC and live beheadings (our true and real enemies) and replace them with how rotten we must really be (WE become the enemy).
"What if you get shot waiting for your PS3 ?"
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It's happened...
http://sandiego.cox.net/cci/newsnational/national?_mode=view&_state=maximized&view=article&id=D8LETCQO0&_action=validatearticle
" We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah! "
Same thing only different.
How sad.
I know it takes manpower but sometimes I wonder why they just don't station a couple cops to guard the guy and keep him from doing anything until he collapses from exhaustion? Maybe I'm missing something that makes that unreasonable.
Looked to me like he was tossing the gun down when the cops opened fire.
He had a gun and was threatening the officers. They should have just fired one shot after he refused to drop his gun (repeatedly). Why they let the dog loose I don't understand.
Ha... Have you seen the 3 PS3 stories on Drudge...
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