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Arkansas Deputy Kills Teen 'Armed' With Antifreeze Trying To Fix a Truck
Reason ^ | 06/29/21 | Scott Shackford

Posted on 06/30/2021 11:04:23 AM PDT by Fido969

Add "bottle of antifreeze" to the list of common objects law enforcement officers have mistaken for deadly weapons and then used to justify shooting—and, in this case, killing—an unarmed citizen...

King told local ABC affiliate KATV news that the truck wouldn't properly shift into park, so Brittain went to the back of the truck with a jug of antifreeze to prop behind a truck's tire so that it wouldn't roll backward and strike Davis' vehicle. That's when Davis fired at Brittain, and according to King, Davis didn't tell him to stop or get on the ground. He just shot him.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: arkansas; badcopnodonut; banglist; donutwatch; hunterbrittain; lonokecounty; lonokecountysheriff; mikedavis
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To: Fido969

The kid was white so no protests or outraged politicians.


41 posted on 06/30/2021 11:40:21 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: CrappieLuck

“LOL. You beat me to it.”

Warped minds think a like ;-)


42 posted on 06/30/2021 11:40:34 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: caseinpoint

Are you saying police are afraid of the dark? Everyone pulled over at night is a criminal bogeyman?


43 posted on 06/30/2021 11:41:03 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Fido969

No no

someone will be on here blaming the kid

I bet 200 to Fresno


44 posted on 06/30/2021 11:43:51 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it’s about them )
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To: billyboy15

Sounds to me like the kid was working on his truck himself off hours in the repair shop, a common occurrence, I believe. I doubt a competent repair shop would let a truck which wasn’t gearing right go out the door. It’s a he-said-she-said matter except for the body camera which, I hope, clarifies the situation one way or another.


45 posted on 06/30/2021 11:45:32 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: Fido969

This is another questionable one:

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/boise-police-shooting-incident-crime/277-881540cc-ebe0-4c4b-b774-4c52bd8276ec

Circumstances of the supposed “abduction” aside, this guy panicked, and was probably trying to reach someone on his cellphone. Perhaps he was a relative of the kid, perhaps a parent - which there are rumors of.

The “tell” is the following line:

“Officials have not said what kind of weapon the suspect had, or confirmed whether he pointed or fired it at officers before being shot.”

ALMOST ALWAYS that means there was no weapon.


46 posted on 06/30/2021 11:46:56 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: caseinpoint

Indeed

Get out of your vehicle

Cop has full right to blast ya

Burl wrong....ditto

Wrong bumper sticker....kill with extreme prejudice

I wonder so all our Law and Order lovers here

Ever examined where the two black cops killed the regarded White kid in south Louisiana

Blew his unarmed brains out in front of his dad

But hey it was dark

So righteous shoot


47 posted on 06/30/2021 11:46:58 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it’s about them )
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To: Responsibility2nd

U always take the cop side


48 posted on 06/30/2021 11:49:51 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it’s about them )
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To: Jeff Chandler

Jeff questioning cops is no more knee jerk

Than sayin they are always right


49 posted on 06/30/2021 11:50:48 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it’s about them )
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To: Openurmind

No, not at all. But here we have the dangerous hour of the night, a man in the age range of active criminality, who hopped out of the car, grabbed something and perhaps stooped down behind or beside the truck with that object. We have no indication of what the cop said, I assume, but we also don’t know what the kid might or might not have said by way of explaining what he was doing. Had he stayed in the truck and explained that he didn’t trust his park gear when the cop came up to the vehicle, it probably would have been a minor inconvenience (with maybe a ticket for driving a truck out of compliance) rather than this tragedy.


50 posted on 06/30/2021 11:50:49 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: Leaning Right

You don’t understand the camo pants? It’s a message that’s Says very clearly “I am militarized, armed and you will obey”. That’s the sole purpose.


51 posted on 06/30/2021 11:52:04 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: wardaddy

I’m not saying it was a righteous shoot. I just think we need to wait for more information before we lynch the cop.


52 posted on 06/30/2021 11:52:51 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: ebshumidors
What do you think the cop would’ve done if the kid’s truck rolled into his car?

That would fall into "the suspect assaulted the officer by ramming his truck into the officer's patrol car." Shooting follows.

53 posted on 06/30/2021 11:57:20 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: Fido969

It is crap like this when I realize we DO have a problem with police.


54 posted on 06/30/2021 12:00:20 PM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: caseinpoint

If you had a CCW, and shot the kid in the same situation, would you be charged?


55 posted on 06/30/2021 12:02:01 PM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: Fido969

It should not be so... It is broken...

I am scared to death to take my father with me to town, not even to his doctor because we might get pulled over for a taillight or something. He is 86, almost deaf, and has sever dementia. He will not be able to comprehend or understand or even HEAR “Official Commands” from an officer. He will immediately reach for his phone or his little notebook that has his daily schedule on it. Which he does out of subconscious habit needed or not. WE ARE GOING TO BOTH GET SHOT SOMEDAY. It has almost happened already. Would this be completely acceptable? Shoot first “Just in case” and ask questions later because of his physical and mental impairments? Should I lock him up in a rest home as a prisoner to keep him and I safe from a possible trigger happy “Peace Officer”?

IT SHOULD NOT BE SO... IT IS BROKEN...


56 posted on 06/30/2021 12:06:06 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: redgolum

No. As a private citizen as opposed to a cop who is entitled to a presumption of authority to stop and order people around, I would have no right to create a dangerous situation by stopping the vehicle in the first place. I can’t see such a shooting justified except in circumstances not present in this case..


57 posted on 06/30/2021 12:11:05 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: caseinpoint

My point is that time of day or night it should never make a difference in protocol, or excuse things like this. Many law abiding people work and travel at night too. This would be guilt before innocence. Are we no longer presumed innocent before guilty? At any time day or night? Or only during the day?


58 posted on 06/30/2021 12:11:36 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: caseinpoint

> Had he stayed in the truck and explained that he didn’t trust his park gear when the cop came up to the vehicle, it probably would have been a minor inconvenience... <

Agreed. But here’s the thing. Most civilians don’t have crisis training. They haven’t gone through multiple drills covering every possible situation.

So when a civilian is stopped by the police, there is no crisis training to kick in. Instead that person is confused and scared. And so it’s quite reasonable to expect him to make a stupid mistake.

Now, who does have that crisis training? It’s the police officer, of course. That’s why in a situation like this one, the officer must be held to a higher standard of conduct.


59 posted on 06/30/2021 12:13:59 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: redgolum
Having killed an innocent, unarmed kid, the cops go into full Gestapo mode on his pal:

King said Brittain's truck wouldn’t go into park, so Brittain got out to grab a blue oil jug to put behind his truck’s tires and stop it from hitting Davis' car. According to King, Davis then fired without telling Brittain to stop or get on the ground.

“They didn’t say one word that I know of. I didn’t hear it and it happened so fast,” King said.

King said another deputy soon arrived and detained him.

“[He] told me get out with my hands up and pull my shirt up and stuff, and then took me to the ground, put me in handcuffs and was dragging me around and stuff," King said. "And then I sat in the back of the cop car for about three hours."

King said Arkansas State Police showed up later and interviewed him about what happened.

https://katv.com/news/local/teen-witness-to-hunter-brittains-death-by-deputy-shares-his-story

60 posted on 06/30/2021 12:18:38 PM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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