Georgia Pastor, Father-to-Be Killed in Drug Sting

Fox News/AP ^ | September 4, 2009 | N/A

[thecabal]

So were the drug cops in uniform? I would be trying to get away from a couple of guys jumping out of a black SUV wielding guns, if they weren't recognizable as cops. Sounds real fishy.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Sounds like an awful stiff price to pay for dropping a suspected druggie off at a store - didn’t know it carried the death penalty.

[Red in Blue PA]

resisted efforts to question him

Worthy of the death penalty? I would say no. As a person who has a CCW I must justify every defensive action I take with a gun. Wonder how it would be if these same rules were applied to law enforcement?

[WVKayaker]

[Enterprise]

"As a person who has a CCW I must justify every defensive action I take with a gun. Wonder how it would be if these same rules were applied to law enforcement?"

Is it your view:

That this incident is over?

That the officers can just file their reports and go home and that they don't have to justify their actions?

That there won't be a criminal investigation, lawsuits, and depositions stretching out for years?

[doodad]

From what I have heard here locally, they were not in uniform. That got me wondering as well. But, the woman that was with this guy, and their connections, is not at all clear. There may be a whole lot more to this story.

[thecabal]

There may be a whole lot more to this story.

Of that, I am certain.

[sausageseller]

him about a passenger in his car who was the target of a drug sting, authorities said.

A "drug sting" and no drugs were found? Yea right.

[SECURE AMERICA]

A grainy surveillance video from a nearby store shows two drug task-force agents emerge from a black SUV before Ayers’ small car backs up.

Before the car backs up?
The first part of the story is they shot him because he backed intoone trying todrive away.
If the viseo does show them firing before the car started to move these guys are toast..

[sueuprising]

This does sound fishy to me as well. There is every reason to consider that this pastor was helping the woman and when confronted by plainclothes men wielding handguns, he might have become afraid and ran. The gas station owner told Fox News Atlanta that he had no idea that the men were police. However, you just never know. It is a story worth following, although it may be one that is never followed up on.

[joe fonebone]

"That this incident is over?"
for the priest it is.....

[naturalized]

When I first saw the video I thought the bad guys were in the Avalanche / Escalade. I don’t blame the kid for running.

[agere_contra]

Plainclothes officers

They weren't in uniform.

This man was murdered in broad daylight for attempting to escape from two strange men with guns.

[Wolfie]

Nothing new. Nothing new at all. And not the last time either. So it goes.

[mbynack]

So were the drug cops in uniform? I would be trying to get away from a couple of guys jumping out of a black SUV wielding guns, if they weren't recognizable as cops. Sounds real fishy.

I agree.

[PAR35]

A link to the video might help a few posters (but of course, the usual crowd can make up their minds without video OR reading the story:

http://www.ajc.com/video?bcpid=1659825399&bclid=1716449804&bctid=36838592001

[Bigh4u2]

From what I could see of the video it did appear that he hit one of the plain clothes cops as he was backing up.

The question remains though, is why the cop was behind the car in the first place.

[Feckless]

Yes sir + No sir = alive, unbeaten, unarrested.

I don't care how wrong the cop on the street is, I'm going to take it up (alive, unbeaten, maybe unarrested) with his boss, after the fact.

[Red Badger]

Thanks for the link. Those guys are toast...............

[Red Badger]

It appears they were firing BEFORE that “hit”............