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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This is absoulutely true. Shotguns with rock salt was once a time honored, accepted means of non lethal kick ass.
>>> The M-14 wasn’t very good at the vertical butt stroke. <<<
.... but I hear a lot of the new troops since Obama are now that “don’t ask, don’t tell” has been replaced by “show and tell”.
The pugi sticks that I knew could ring your bell in a heart beat. The padded up ones of today are like pillow fights. Hard to instill a good healthy fear of the bayonet and butt if there’s no pain.
“Nowhere in any story does it say he went after the cop.”
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Good lord,you believe the press?
Didn’t you learn anything from the Ferguson fiasco?
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no i dont think so but would i pop you twice in the chest no
The story I saw said it happened at night.
If correct, a broomstick could look like a gun, a sawed off shotgun or a rifle depending on how long it was.
So until the facts are known....
People not brandishing things that could be used as a weapon should not get shot.
But there should be a non-lethal, painful way to stop an aggressor like this before actual bullets, because of all the “grey” scenarios lately. Not sure you should use lethal force? They should have some ability to shoot something else from a distance.
They probably thought he had stolen it from Hillary.
Obama will be on the telly, right after he finishes his golf game, to denounce the craven and racist indifference of the police.
Dude got stabbed with a flag pole!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3402994/posts
Anything can be a weapon.
It sure seems like a lot of trigger happy cops are in Utah.
Well, if he’s too stupid to drop it when told...
You anti police no nothings sound like bummer,see how loud you scream for police when you or friends and family are getting their butts kicked and lives threatened by people that have more than you do to protect yourselves.
there should be a non-lethal, painful way to stop an aggressor like this before actual bullets.
There was: it was called being a Man. You walked up to the guy and took his stick away. You cannot depend upon this standard however when, due to affirmitive action, X number or cops stand no chance in hell of bringing it off.
It was nighttime and the kid was beating on someone with it. Probably looked like a metal bar or piece of pipe.
I think I'll save my outrage for a more deserving incident.
Let’s go over it once again: Cop tells you to do something, DO IT!!
Post #9 Funny!
police protecting civilians? do you mean like this?
To quote a great man: “if carrying it comforts you do so. But do not fire it, for if you do, you may hurt someone and give them cause to do you great harm.”
Blunt trauma is deadly force.
The person inflicting it knows what he’s doing.
Stop him accordingly.
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