Posted on 03/02/2006 11:19:11 AM PST by ExSoldier
NORTH MIAMI
An armed assailant bent on robbing a man near a North Miami gas station Tuesday chose the wrong victim -- an armed one -- and paid with his life.
Miami-Dade police spokesman Detective Roy Rutland said instances of armed victims successfully defending themselves against armed assailants are fairly rare.
No charges will be filed against Phillips.
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...
This is just a plain out and out lie
Very good !
Not rare at all, according to Gary Kleck - non-police killed about 2.5 times as many felons as did police in the years he studied it ('80s)
Your link is bad. Here's good one:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/13986007.htm
The article does have that unfortunate hiccup in it, but at least the article (and the headline) is clear on which actor the "victim" is, and reassures readers that the victim will not be facing any charges. A Miami TV station's website carried an article on this incident yesterday, and correctly mentioned the "victim" no fewer than 5 times.
I'm getting feeling there's some conscious push for this in the South Florida media. Seems new to them, though, since they're having a little trouble keeping track of who's who while writing in this new language. The Herald had to print a correction today, to the article you posted:
"A brief story that appeared on 3B of the Metro & State section on Wednesday incorrectly described Smith Phillips as a victim in an armed robbery. He was the alleged assailant; the victim's name was not released by police."
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/corrections/13995724.htm
The guy doesn't read FR.
Good shooting!
See, there is some good news in the world.
and he said it like a dutiful police spokesman always does...
No matter which link I use, I'm getting a blank page. Darn!
Happy ending!
It's about time for the jackboot lickers to come out of the woodwork and start yapping about how great the police are and how they're "on our side" whatever that means. Maybe they'll pick on you first. :-)
Already posted by Dave. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1587508/posts
Spot on!
Second Ammendment Ping!!!
:-)
Can't pull up the article but the headline tells me all I need to know. Another violent felon retired. Nice work. As a side note, the police detective is totally useless. With luck, he'll find a new line of work.
"Detective" rutland needs to read the "Armed Citizen" column which appears every month(!) in the American Rifleman magazine.
Are police spokesmen really law enforcement or are they PR?
most chiefs and their "spokesmen" don't speak for the rank and file.
That's pretty much what happened the one time I used a firearm to prevent a home invasion (with wife and daughters in bed). The rackety-rack of a pump gun made him decide to look for a flatbar fight elsewhere. That part was not reported to the Sheriff's Dept; they didn't ask, I didn't tell.
In England, they'd probably throw this guy in the slammer for using excessive force.
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