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[T]he moments before police officer fatally shot newlywed firefighter in downtown KC
The Kansas City Star ^ | February 25, 2014 | Donna McGuire

Posted on 02/26/2014 8:38:36 PM PST by Uncle Chip

As he lay bleeding on a downtown Kansas City street, newlywed Anthony Bruno mouthed “Don’t let me die” to a bystander who had rolled him on his back to check two gunshot wounds.

On the pavement nearby, Police Officer Donald Hubbard felt himself drifting in and out of consciousness. Blood dripped from his broken and battered face. He tried to get up but fell back.

The bystander, who happened to be a critical care nurse in a hospital trauma unit, could not find Bruno’s pulse. She asked Hubbard to apply pressure to Bruno’s wounds while she began chest compressions. Hubbard crawled to her as sirens sounded in the distance, according to documents released Tuesday by police.

Soon an arriving police officer asked what direction the gunman had fled.

Hubbard looked up.

“I shot him,” he said.

Multiple witnesses described elements of that scene to investigators trying to piece together what led to an off-duty Kansas City police officer fatally shooting an off-duty Kansas City firefighter who had been celebrating his November wedding in the early hours of Dec. 1....

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


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To: Vendome; Jonty30
It might have been more judicious thinking to wait for more blue but, for whatever reason, that is not indicated on the video, he didn’t.

He probably soiled himself when he realized that a Mundane not only had DARED to lay hands upon his Sacred Coercive Elite person, but was going to dish out a beating...

161 posted on 02/28/2014 9:34:13 AM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: Uncle Chip
LEO needs to return to a two men per car patrol policy. A Junior Officer the and a Senior Officer of ten years or more experience. It protects the officers with an on site back up and experienced senior officer having discernment & it protects citizens by less likelihood of a keyed up panicked cop.
162 posted on 02/28/2014 9:38:00 AM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: kiryandil; Jonty30

I think I’ve plowed this field enough times.

Moving on to the next shiny object that amuses me...


163 posted on 02/28/2014 10:32:05 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: nickcarraway
I very much didn’t want this cop to be injured. Which is why he shouldn’t be out on the street until he knows what he’s doing.

You're a moron. By your logic, every office should at all times be able to take down any citizen at any time. Try living in Fayetteville NC sometime... Home to many of our Special Forces. They get rowdy and drunk on weekends sometimes, too. I know, I bought them drinks many times over the past 2 years. You're saying that local Fayetteville cops should be required to be able to take down out-of-control Special Forces alone? Anyone on the street in any city could be a trained boxer or Olympic wrestler or former commando or freight-training on PCP etc etc etc. You have no idea, and neither do they. Insisting that all cops be the biggest and baddest brutes around, and able at all times to defeat all comers, whether on-duty or not, is utterly moronic.

164 posted on 02/28/2014 11:27:52 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317
Insisting that all cops be the biggest and baddest brutes around, and able at all times to defeat all comers, whether on-duty or not, is utterly moronic.

The difference between a coon-hound and a law enforcement officer is that coon-hounds are trained to confront & engage regardless of the personal cost to themselves, and law enforcement officers are trained that their fellow pack members will be there shortly after they confront & engage regardless of the personal cost to themselves...

And coon-hounds don't do steroids.

165 posted on 02/28/2014 11:57:58 AM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: bramps; Jonty30; nickcarraway

Some people get ‘carraway’ with incompetent posting on these threads. Apparently some have an inappropiate h—don for cops...


166 posted on 02/28/2014 12:22:45 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: nickcarraway

The man was walking away and the bride was under no obligation to stick around and there was no basis for arresting her, nor anybody else in that party.

The net effect, if the officer had followed your advice, was to allow a perp to walk away from his crime. This is what you would be suggesting.

If the cop had done this, isn’t that being a bad cop?


167 posted on 02/28/2014 1:30:54 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30; nickcarraway
The net effect, if the officer had followed your advice, was to allow a perp to walk away from his crime. This is what you would be suggesting.

CONFRONTATION! CONFRONTATION!! CONFRONTATION UBER ALLES!!!

He was a rent-a-cop - a Mary Mallninja. Just because he was dressed in his Official Overlord Enforcer Costume doesn't change the fact.

Is every unruly "civilian" a "perp" in your Perpetual-War-With-The-Peasants world?

Man, you pretend soldiers are really weird.

If the cop had done this, isn’t that being a bad cop?

He wasn't a cop at the time. He was being a Farce Enlawment Orifice coon-dog.

168 posted on 02/28/2014 3:55:37 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: kiryandil

A cop is always a cop, even when off-duty, chum.


169 posted on 02/28/2014 3:57:49 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

Ah! Those “special super powers”, hey?


170 posted on 02/28/2014 4:53:07 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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171 posted on 03/01/2014 10:10:04 AM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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