Posted on 11/07/2013 10:59:30 PM PST by Lmo56
A 19-year-old has been shot dead by police after his father dialed 911 to report his truck stolen in order to teach his son a lesson for driving off to buy cigarettes.
Father James Comstock has been left devastated after a police officer shot and killed his teenage son Tyler.
Ames police say the teenager, from Boone, drove a stolen truck onto the Iowa State University campus on Monday, where student pedestrians dodged it to avoid being run over.
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It’s interesting how the foreign press (Daily Mail, RT, etc. )covers a story better than the US press.
Whoops.
If the son was dead, why did the police shoot him?
Just messin' with the headline writer.
Zombies shouldn’t smoke. They catch fire.
“The family says the teenager was not armed.”
Well, the kid was armed with a stolen truck.
I think a teenager wrote this story. Horrible sentence structure.
The police have a problem here, I think. Their protocol according to reports, indicates that if they KNOW who is driving a vehicle, they are not supposed to pursue.
Also, when the guy headed towards Campus, an officer on the radio or in dispatch (the recordings are public) says something along the lines of “We know who this is, we should stop the pursuit”...he says it TWICE.
It will not result in any problems for the Officer(s) involved per usual, but will probably cost the City a lot of money.
They knew it was a Dad calling in a report on his son; he was driving a landscaping truck with a GIANT logo on the side to go pick up cigarettes. That phone call never should have been made; and the cops made a terrible decision when they acted as though it was an armed carjacking or something. Idiots abound in this situation.
So, in essence we have a punk kid who evades arrest, shows a wanton disregard for the lives of others, and assaults a police officer with a truck - and pays the price for it. Seems the cops did the public a service with this, if he had run over some students in his race through campus - would the police be blamed then too? < /sarcasm>
Of course they would. It's never the perp's fault - the article states 3x that he was "trying to turn his life around".
Spot on once again - You seem to have a habit of perfectly summing things up!
Mel
Never make the cops part of the teachable moment unless you’re willing to sacrifice life.
Good to see you both applauding the deft skills of the Country’s best and brightest.
So, in your world - a truck that speeds through a campus with reckless disregard for human life, rams an officer’s car should just be allowed to continue unimpeded? I mean, it’s only a son driving Daddy’s car without permission - heck, he’s “Just starting to get his life together”, right? Just as long as they know who he is, then it’ just all right?< /sarcasm>
I don’t care who he is, what his frame of mind is, why he’s driving a truck, or what his family situation is. If you are endangering others, you resist arrest, and you assault the police with a deadly weapon (and a truck is a deadly weapon) - you deserve to be shot and killed.
I don’t make excuses for perps ... I have this fundamental belief in something I like to call “Personal Responsibility”.
Nope - summing up the whole reason the young man got himself shot would be closer to the truth. What you have here is action and reaction - the actions were the major contributing factor to the out come - reactions may have not been 100% right but the person with sole responsibility for initiating this problem is the one who ended up dead - sounds more like luck that some innocent bystander was not killed!
Post #11 sums it up nicely - quotes taken directly from the article.
How can you defend the perp? Would you be fine with him running over your college student? Are cops legitimate targets for vehicular homicide in your world? Do we have to just "tolerate" punks who just don't feel like obeying the law?
It's really, really simple. When a cop tries to pull you over, don't try to kill him or ram his car. When a cop draws a gun on you after you did this, don't rev your engine and ignore him. You can, and should, be shot. And if you are shot - the shot should be lethal.
There’s nothing to defend in this story.
Just curious, did you have the same reaction to the woman who was shot by the Capitol? The one who rammed a cop car to escape and led them in circles? Just asking. Thanks
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