Posted on 09/23/2012 5:35:03 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy
A Houston police officer shot and killed a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair Saturday inside a group home after police say the double amputee threatened the officer and aggressively waved a metal object that turned out to be a pen.
Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the man cornered the officer in his wheelchair and was making threats while trying to stab the officer with the pen. At the time, the officer did not know what the metal object was that the man was waving, Silva said.
She said the man came "within inches to a foot" of the officer and did not follow instructions to calm down and remain still.
"Fearing for his partner's safety and his own safety, he discharged his weapon," Silva told The Associated Press.
Police did not immediately release the name of the man who was killed. They had been called to the home after a caretaker there called and reported that the man in wheelchair was causing a disturbance.
The owner of the group home, John Garcia, told the Houston Chronicle that the man had a history of mental illness and had been living at the house about 18 months. Garcia said the man had told him that he lost a leg above the knee and all of one arm when he was hit by a train.
"He sometimes would go off a bit, but you just ignore it," Garcia told the newspaper.
Silva identified the officer as Matthew Jacob Marin, a five-year veteran of the department. He was immediately placed on three-day administrative leave, which is standard in all shootings involving officers.
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No worries - I needed some mental floss myself.
That was a tasty one. Definitely a righteous ZOT.
I’m kinda glad I missed the posts. Seemed that they were icky. :)
Dayum... hehe... can you give me an idea of what the DU poster said? I missed it ;p
There was only one post, but it was long and leftist.
Glad I missed THAT! Get enough of that on the tv ads. Ugh!
She thought that O’Bama was God’s gift to America and that he supported her throughout her entire life and took care of her and her children’s health care and robbed from the rich to give to her, etc., etc. Real in-the-tank stuff. Her real name may have been “Julia.”
The consensus here was that she would be much happier back at DU where she would get a lot of nodding heads instead of the ZOT she got here.
She thought that O’Bama was God’s gift to America and that he supported her throughout her entire life and took care of her and her children’s health care
Believe it or not...that scene from MPHG came to my mind too...
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