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Woman fatally shot by Detroit police after waving gun at gas station had airsoft pistol, chief says
ClickOnDetroit ^ | 12/20/2021 | Staff

Posted on 12/20/2021 12:12:18 PM PST by simpson96

DETROIT – Police have determined that a woman who was shot and killed by Detroit officers this weekend for pointing and waving a gun at gas station customers and employees was armed with an airsoft pistol, according to the chief.

The incident began at 5:57 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 19) at the Sunoco gas station at the intersection of Hayes Street and 7 Mile Road on Detroit’s east side, according to authorities.

Officials said they received several 911 calls about Nakita Williams, 33, of Detroit, waving a gun at customers and employees at the entrance of the gas station store. Four Detroit police officers responded to the scene.

Detroit police Chief James White provided a timeline of events during a Monday afternoon briefing.

“At 5:59, Ms. Williams is inside the store, and at this point she cuts in front of those three customers that you see there (picture below) and produces the gun,” White said. “At 6:06, Ms. Williams has the gun in her hand at the entrance of the store.”

White provided still images from surveillance cameras at the gas station. They appeared to show customers fleeing from the gas station entrance, both on foot and peeling off in a car.

“She continues to point the gun at this citizen, and he is fleeing toward his vehicle,” White said.

Officers said when they arrived at 6:09 p.m., Williams walked out of the gas station store and pointed her gun at a customer.

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


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KEYWORDS: darwinaward; detroit; goodriddance; jameswhite; lookwhohatescops; michigan; nakitawilliams; stupidity
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To: simpson96

Suicide or stupidity?..... She made the choice!


21 posted on 12/20/2021 12:33:37 PM PST by high info voter
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To: simpson96

Suicide or stupidity?..... She made the choice!


22 posted on 12/20/2021 12:34:03 PM PST by high info voter
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To: simpson96

And how were they to know she was not lethal ?!?


23 posted on 12/20/2021 12:35:18 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: simpson96

Think of it as evolution in action.


24 posted on 12/20/2021 12:35:49 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: HollyB

She removed the orange tip. The only one who knew it was an air soft was her.

Yup.


25 posted on 12/20/2021 12:38:11 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: simpson96

One again, negligent and racist police failed to use their superior Jedi mind powers to properly assess the threat. The damages will be enormous.


26 posted on 12/20/2021 12:41:05 PM PST by sphinx
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To: Lee25

“What is change her family win ghetto lottery?”

In Detroit, not too good, because the government there is very familiar with the game.


27 posted on 12/20/2021 1:02:22 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: PGR88

Looks more like a S&W SD9VE.


28 posted on 12/20/2021 1:13:25 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Do we value what the Founding Fathers gave us enough to fight for it?)
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To: rlmorel

“How the heck was anyone supposed to figure that out, as if it is some kind of evidence of poor policework or self defense?”

Here’s how it shoulda gone down... A Shootist should have recognized that it was a fake from 75 feet as he drew a hot-rodded combat match pistol and shot single-handedly the fake replica out of the hand of the perpetrator...


29 posted on 12/20/2021 1:32:13 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: HollyB

Excellent training aids for the actual firearms in many cases.


30 posted on 12/20/2021 1:44:25 PM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Looks more like a S&W SD9VE.

You're right. The color of the slide is an exact match.

31 posted on 12/20/2021 2:01:01 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Clutch Martin

I shouldn’t laugh at that, but...that’s good!


32 posted on 12/20/2021 2:06:30 PM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: simpson96

What was she trying to accomplish? Rob the store? Rob a customer? Get a cop to kill her? Did she say anything? Or was this woman just a stoned, drunk, or naturally impaired nut?


33 posted on 12/20/2021 2:14:07 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: from occupied ga

Are you answering my rhetorical question with a rhetorical question?
;^)


34 posted on 12/20/2021 4:41:13 PM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: simpson96

Well, that was certainly a stupid thing to do. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


35 posted on 12/20/2021 4:43:06 PM PST by CFW
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To: SaxxonWoods

HAHAHAHA! You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.


36 posted on 12/20/2021 5:45:17 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Do we value what the Founding Fathers gave us enough to fight for it?)
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To: TheDon

Apparently


37 posted on 12/20/2021 6:09:13 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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