Posted on 11/02/2019 6:56:41 PM PDT by simpson96
A Florida man who had multiple visits from law enforcement officials Friday after several complaints got into a brutal standoff the third time around.(snip)
The standoff began when Indian River County Sheriff's deputies made a third visit to Kifer's home. Kifer had either been drunk or high the first two visits, the Miami Herald reported.
On the third visit, deputies learned that Kifer had a knife and made threats to hurt someone over the phone. Kifer saw the deputies and took off running, but soon reemerged with a small hatchet. He took off running again, this time with sheriff's deputies trailing him as Kifer ran back into the house.
A dialogue between deputies and Kifer went nowhere, so they called in the SWAT team. Law officials breached the front door, which sent Kifer running into his bedroom. The SWAT team then broke through the bedroom window.
"Shoot me!" Kifer shouted at them but this time holding a footlong sword instead of the hatchet.
SWAT fired four beanbags at Kifer, who appeared unfazed and began running about the house.
Kifer kept reappearing at various times and shouted at deputies. During one of those times, they fired a taser at him, but that did no harm.
Kifer began running around the house again, with deputies still trailing.
"Shoot me!" Kifer shouted again as he continued running around the house.
They fired tasers at him twice more, and neither was effective.
At this point in the standoff, and still holding the small sword, Kifer began running at a deputy, who fired a live shot and dropped Kifer before he could reach the deputy.
Kifer was taken to the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, where he died from his injuries early Saturday.
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That title sentence needs some work
They fired tasers at him twice more, and neither was effective...
Well that would do it or me and I would empty my gun in a second.
What happens? Is your nervous system so numbed by drugs and/or booze that the taser doesn’t work?
Kinda scary.
A dagger?
Beanbags didn’t faz him, but did tasers taz him?
I’m sure that Kifer would have submitted if only the LEOs would have invited him to a “Beer Summit”.(/S)
He must have been hepped-up on drugs.
Don’t bring a beanbag to a swordfight.
To me it proves police don’t take orders from Florida Man. Shoot the SOB already. You got bad hearing?
“Sworded Tale of Florida Man, found tazed and confused jacked up and beaned shot!
I had to look 3 times to finally see the arrows indicating length.
I was going to ask if it was left handed, but that would be gauche.
A foot long sword?
Sounds more like a hunting knife.
What really stopped the Muzzies, was when pig grease was smeared on the bullets they got shot with. They really had a problem with that. If the UN had been in existence then, the UN would have tried to stop that from being done.
Was there an alternative? Instead of sending SWAT in, the cops might have kept calmly talking to him and ordered up a pizza or burger and fries. The usual result is that it calms the agitated and leads them to surrender or go to sleep.
[A foot long sword?
Sounds more like a hunting knife.]
A twelve inch blade does not make it a ‘sword’. I have steak knives in my knife block that big.
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