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Boy 16 carrying a BROOMSTICK is shot four times in the chest and stomach by police in Salt Lake...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3467990/Boy-16-carrying-BROOMSTICK-shot-police-Salt-Lake-City-sparking-angry-protests.html ^

Posted on 02/28/2016 10:03:02 AM PST by traumer

A police officer shot a 16-year-old boy when he refused to drop the broomstick he was holding in Salt Lake City last night.

The officer was responding to an unrelated call in the Utah capital at 8.15pm when his team spotted two teenagers arguing with a man, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

Surrounding them, police allegedly told the boy to drop what he was holding - part of a broomstick. When he did not, 'shots were fired'. The boy was hit in the chest and the stomach.

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KEYWORDS: 17yrsold; abdimohamed; broom; donutwatch; hairtrigger; illtrained; muslim; overreaction; police; sweepingwhileblack; thugculture; utah
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1 posted on 02/28/2016 10:03:02 AM PST by traumer
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Broomstick or spear? Enquiring minds want to know!


2 posted on 02/28/2016 10:04:08 AM PST by JJ_Folderol
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im all about law and order but a broomstick?...really?


3 posted on 02/28/2016 10:06:09 AM PST by jneesy (rough seas make skillful sailors)
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Same incident, different spin: man, 16, found inflicting deadly force a la blunt trauma on homeless man; failing to stop when ordered by police, was shot until he ceased his lethal attack.


4 posted on 02/28/2016 10:08:21 AM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3402912/posts

More on the story.


5 posted on 02/28/2016 10:08:41 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: traumer

I’ve read elsewhere (Yahoo, I think) that the kid was beating someone with that broomstick when the cops arrived.


6 posted on 02/28/2016 10:08:45 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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Is this the “boy” that was beating on a homeless guy with a broomstick?


7 posted on 02/28/2016 10:09:08 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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I love cops but are we hiring a group of nutless pussies?


8 posted on 02/28/2016 10:09:51 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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Was the FAA notified? Hillary overflight?


9 posted on 02/28/2016 10:09:58 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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10 posted on 02/28/2016 10:11:44 AM PST by MNnice
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A police officer shot a 16-year-old boy...

Don' call him "boy"...dat be rayciss!

11 posted on 02/28/2016 10:13:16 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: traumer

Oh No, they’ve shot Harry Potter!


12 posted on 02/28/2016 10:13:22 AM PST by PGR88
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'part of a broomstick'

umm... unless he was holding the sweeper... that would be a wooden rod.

it is a weapon. depending on the length, it's either a bo staff

or a baton used in stick fighting

or simply a broken broomstick.

the difference ... is training.

13 posted on 02/28/2016 10:13:31 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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How about sawed off shotgun with rock salt???? He would drop the stick and live in pain for a while.


14 posted on 02/28/2016 10:14:57 AM PST by BillM (.)
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>>> im all about law and order but a broomstick?...really? <<<

Ask a veteran about bayonet drill sometime.


15 posted on 02/28/2016 10:16:07 AM PST by JJ_Folderol
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Yeah, this could go either way. If he’s refusing to stop a potentially deadly assault they should shoot him, and some sixteen year old kids are adult size.

It could be he was just holding the stick and they killed him with zero justification.

I know where I’d put my money on the scale of possible scenarios, but until the camera footage is released, the forensics reviewed and the witnesses sorted out by somebody besides the media we are all just guessing.


17 posted on 02/28/2016 10:18:33 AM PST by M1911A1
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To: traumer

Learn the language, or die.


18 posted on 02/28/2016 10:20:46 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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19 posted on 02/28/2016 10:21:45 AM PST by Donglalinger
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>>> Was the FAA notified? Hillary overflight? <<<

Took me a second, but LOL!


20 posted on 02/28/2016 10:23:15 AM PST by JJ_Folderol
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