Hope he didnt have a dog also.
But — but — he felt threatened. That pen might have been loaded.
He was a foot away and the cop couldn’t identify that he was waving a pen?
Righteous kill. As long as this skin-head bloused booted multiple murderer goes home, who cared how many double amputees he butchers? It’s only a civilian, and a cripple, at that. No great loss...
Was the pen mightier than the sword?
After the suspension [vacation] is over, he will be immediately promoted to the rank of at least sergent.
When the SHTF, very few Americans will feel that cops are the good guys. Cops are neighborhood bullies and will be seen as such.
Maybe the cop thought he had a pen zip gun.
There is zero doubt how this would end if the shooter wasn’t a cop.
Local news says the wheelchair guy “cornered” the cop and made him feel threatened.
I’m sure there are some pretty tough guys in wheelchairs but
the dude had only one arm and one leg and TWO cops couldn’t
get any leverage on him?
Crazed amputee badasses with bic pens will be the death of us all.
This brings tears to my eyes and boiling anger. My sister lives in a group home for retarded adults and some of them have serious emotional and anger problems. I just cannot imagine that any police officer called to a group home for a disturbance would shoot a man in a wheelchair with only one arm and one leg.
I didn't click the article, but I envision a lot.
A guy mauled by a train is either a railway worker, a stupid drunk or someone trying to hobo a bit.
Either scenerio, I see the guy to be maybe 30's or so.
How pissed off deranged could a guy be (that hadn't had any or much mental therapy to deal with the loss of what I'm sure the guy considered his life) and especially when the owner of the group home (not known for re-hab) says, "Yeah, he flips out every now and then.
Y'call a doctor for a shot in the arm ... not one in the heart.
Just my tuppence worth.
It's a license to kill.
Good Lord, summary execution.
Two really good rules of thumb.
1) LEOs often function in the mode of predators, spending their day looking for trouble and conflict, as part of their job, their “prey” being lawbreakers. But with this comes other characteristics that apply to predators. One being that it is a very bad idea to “back one into a corner.”
2) A lot of LEOs just adore Tasers, because guns only have three modes: in the holster, brandished, or being fired as a lethal weapon. But many situations are far more complicated than that, and really do not rise to the level of the use of lethal force, *except* that there is no alternative.
That just ain’t right.
Betchya the cop votes for Obama...again.
what a chicken sheet
as I have often said don’t call the coppers who are high on steroid rage, unless you want someone hurt or killed
The officer didn’t have a mark on him...