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Suspect yelled “I’m not going to jail” before charging at officer
KHOU ^ | 1-17-14 | Larry Seward

Posted on 01/17/2014 9:13:06 AM PST by smokingfrog

HOUSTON -- A suspect was shot and killed by an officer with the Houston Police Department late Thursday.

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Smith said a uniformed officer was working security when he saw a young man looking in the windows of a bicycle shop. The officer believed the man was casing the business and approached the suspect, who then got on a bike and started riding away.

The officer got in his personal vehicle and stopped the suspect, police said. As he was being detained, police said the suspect shoved the officer and ran across the parking lot to get away. The officer chased the suspect behind the building.

The officer said the suspect stopped and put his hands in his pants as if he were grabbing at something. He then charged at the officer, yelling “I’m not going to jail!”

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1 posted on 01/17/2014 9:13:07 AM PST by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Is he in jail now?


2 posted on 01/17/2014 9:14:29 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: smokingfrog

He was right.


3 posted on 01/17/2014 9:15:04 AM PST by AU72
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To: smokingfrog

And proved it.


4 posted on 01/17/2014 9:16:04 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: smokingfrog

“I’m not going to jail!”, He’s RIGHT, He(his soul) is in Hell and his body is in the Morgue,


5 posted on 01/17/2014 9:16:07 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: smokingfrog

We’ll never know the details of this incident, but suffice it to say that these days if a cop demands you whistle dixie you do it, smiling and in any key he asks.


6 posted on 01/17/2014 9:19:11 AM PST by skeeter
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To: US Navy Vet

Since when is “window shopping” and scratching your privates a crime? I’m sure he was a good boy and aspiring rapper that had been in trouble in the past but was starting to turn his life around.

Of course, if he didn’t have a gun, knife or other weapon, it could be bad news for the officer, and Quanell X protests will ensue.


7 posted on 01/17/2014 9:23:05 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

So...the guy was doing NOTHING wrong, and the HPD officer winds up shooting him dead.


8 posted on 01/17/2014 9:25:10 AM PST by moovova
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To: smokingfrog

Where’s a taser happy cop when you need one?


9 posted on 01/17/2014 9:27:06 AM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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To: smokingfrog

Where’s a taser happy cop when you need one?


10 posted on 01/17/2014 9:27:06 AM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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To: smokingfrog
...put his hands in his pants as if he were grabbing at something.

Suuuuuure he did.

11 posted on 01/17/2014 9:28:08 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: smokingfrog

Stupid move on the dead guy’s part. There is nothing illegal about looking at bicycles in a window.


12 posted on 01/17/2014 9:28:27 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The War on Drugs has been used as an excuse to steal your rights. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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“So...the guy was doing NOTHING wrong, and the HPD officer winds up shooting him dead.”

Exactly what I was thinking. Defy a stasi officer these days and you end up dead.


13 posted on 01/17/2014 9:28:50 AM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: raybbr

“...Defy a stasi officer these days and you end up dead.”
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And I guess that applies, as apparently in this case, when the officer is off-duty working an extra job.


14 posted on 01/17/2014 9:31:29 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: moovova

we really don’t know if he was casing the store, or just looking inside.

prsonally i’d say both sides over-reacted and fed each others’ over-reactions. now one is dead and looking in a store window, without anything else, is not justifiable for a shooting.

i guess in 2014 don’t look inside a store’s windows with a cop/security guy who assumes you’re doing something wrong until proven otherwise.

good grief.


15 posted on 01/17/2014 9:32:53 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: smokingfrog

His career as a fortune teller ended way too quick.


16 posted on 01/17/2014 9:35:23 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Secret Agent Man

It wasn’t looking in the store window that got him shot - if true, it’s that he charged the officer in the manner he did. I will wait for more info before passing judgement here.


17 posted on 01/17/2014 9:35:50 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: smokingfrog
Wait a minute, he was a bike rider and stopped to look at bikes in a storefront window and that gave the cop probable cause to hassle and detain him in the first place?

So I suppose if a person goes grocery shopping and does a little price comparison, that`s also cause to be harassed? So let me ask the love your local "officer friendly" types who agree with this kind of jackbooted thuggery a question.

If just looking at bikes are just cause for harassment, what if you post signs that are pro-second amendment and "officer friendly" comes to your door and hassles you, then demands to see your guns for "verification of compliance" with the regime`s "laws", is that just cause?

18 posted on 01/17/2014 9:39:20 AM PST by nomad
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To: smokingfrog

Considering the rash of recent videos catching LEOs killing citizens and then lying about it, these situations have become suspect to me.


19 posted on 01/17/2014 9:40:36 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: dirtboy

yes but the officer was the one who kept this going by chasing the guy in his car. for looking in the window.

i think that is excessive. he wasn’t a cop and doesn’t have the same powers or mission of a cop when he’s one store’s security guard. if the guywas going to run away he could have let him run away and if necessary reported it to on-duty police.


20 posted on 01/17/2014 9:40:46 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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