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California cops shoot dead double amputee, 36, as he tries to run away from them on his stumps: Police department says officers feared he was going to 'throw his knife at them'
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 31, 2023 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 01/31/2023 9:35:06 AM PST by Morgana

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To: ConservativeMind

No they tasered him too. Twice. Said it was ineffective.

I’m guessing it was ineffective because he was dead.


61 posted on 01/31/2023 10:31:25 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Morgana

Memphis cops don’t look so bad now.


62 posted on 01/31/2023 10:31:53 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Morgana

So, safe to say that they’d shoot your legless dog, in case you thought having a legless dog might make it safe from the police.


63 posted on 01/31/2023 10:39:23 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: ansel12

“His family told The LA Times that he lost the lower half of his legs recently following a different altercation he had with police in Texas.”
So, this choir boy amputee leaves his house to go to a McDonalds and carries a butcher knife with him on his wheelchair. I know the beef at McDonalds can be tough at times, but needing a butcher knife to soften it up is a bit much.
Even so, why couldn’t the cops have used their billy clubs (batons) and his wheel chair to subdue him. Maybe if they had at least 37 more cops to take him down things might have been different.


64 posted on 01/31/2023 10:55:45 AM PST by Islander2
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To: Islander2

Cops didn’t use to just gun down everything in front of them that could possibly become a threat.

Cops of the past, even with all of their eternal cop ways, were more manly and took some risks, something we still see in some foreign countries.


65 posted on 01/31/2023 11:17:05 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Morgana; All

The US is becoming a really strange place:
The family told The LA Times that he lost the lower half of his legs recently following a different altercation with police in Texas.

He had been living with his mother as a result of the injury.

On the day of his death, she says he’d told her he was going to McDonald’s.

It’s unclear who he is alleged to have stabbed, or what that person’s condition is now.


66 posted on 01/31/2023 11:18:52 AM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: pierrem15; All

Sigh, back in the dark past a friend’s cop husband used the barrel of his S & W Police Special to bring such weird events to a close. As he said ‘Getting pistol whipped definitely will get your attention’. That, I suppose is now brutality.


67 posted on 01/31/2023 11:23:08 AM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: Tell It Right

Well, when your enemy has all the advantages, you gotta do something unexpected.


68 posted on 01/31/2023 11:23:48 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: robowombat

Definitely a Darwin award nominee.

He didn’t learn the first time that resisting arrest is a bad idea.


69 posted on 01/31/2023 11:29:56 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: TheDon

Yes, this man’s story must be fascinating.


70 posted on 01/31/2023 11:56:38 AM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: Morgana

All I can say is, I guess this is better than shooting a live one.


71 posted on 01/31/2023 12:10:02 PM PST by LambSlave
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To: real saxophonist

because they couldn’t shoot him in the leg like biden told them to?


72 posted on 01/31/2023 12:20:56 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: Morgana

“What looks to be 5 or 6 cops afraid of a man with no legs in wheel chair”

...who had just stabbed someone and was armed with a large butcher knife.


73 posted on 01/31/2023 1:26:53 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Morgana

There are serious issues with police in this country. They’ve become an occupying army against us all.


74 posted on 01/31/2023 1:57:02 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Tell It Right

He was afraid someone would stick a broom handle in his spokes.


75 posted on 01/31/2023 2:11:03 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: shotgun

“Per the Libs and Joe, if they want cops to be trained to shoot the perps in the legs, what were they supposed to do in a situation like this?”

The guy had no legs! How far do you think he would have got before he collapsed? This is not going to be a 100 yard chase, more like less than a city block.


76 posted on 01/31/2023 2:30:47 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Organic Panic

I got that he stabbed someone. However he’s in a wheelchair, has no legs. This guy should be a little more easier to take down if this had been thought out in advance.

For real he can’t get far, it’s not a motorized wheel chair. (and even if it was those don’t go fast) So keep civilians away from him. Tazer did not work? Okay call in SWAT and tear gas his ass. Then the SWAT team moves in their tactical gear and takes him down.

why isn’t Morgana the Police Chief?


77 posted on 01/31/2023 2:38:09 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana

Even if Anthony Lowe Jr. had survived, he wouldn’t be able to sue the Huntington Beach PD.


78 posted on 01/31/2023 2:39:25 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: billorites

They are up shit creek without a paddle, then.


79 posted on 01/31/2023 3:49:57 PM PST by sport
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