Posted on 12/09/2013 10:37:20 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
FULL TITLE: 'Oh you're gonna shoot me?' The sarcastic last words of straight-A student shot dead by college cop after being stopped for speeding
A witness says he heard the sarcastic final words of a Texas student moments before he was shot dead by a college police officer.
Robert Cameron Redus, 23, was killed when Corporal Chris Carter, 35, opened fire on him in the early hours of Friday morning a few blocks away from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio where Redus studied, set to graduate in May.
Neighbour Mohammad Haidaras told My San Antonio that he heard a tense exchange between Redus and Carter sixty seconds before shots rang out.
He told the website: 'I heard (a man) say, 'Oh, you're gonna shoot me?' like sarcastic almost.'
The 22-year-old claims he heard gunshots less than a minute later and jumped into his closet.
Investigators say an altercation began when Carter tried to pull Redus over for speeding and driving erratically.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
For the family's sake, I hope there is a video.
Off campus the “cop” has no jurisdiction. Unless the dead guy threatened the “cop” with deadly force, this is murder.
I vote for murder.
CNN- 51 minutes ago
The officer has been identified as Cpl. Christopher Carter, said Margaret Garcia, a University of the Incarnate Word spokeswoman. He has ...
WHAT the heck does Catholic have to do with the story, CNN?
It was a Catholic college.
Good call.
Depends on the state. In Colorado, any Colorado LEO from any jurisdiction can enforce any Colorado (state) law. Since this is Texas, the rules are likely different.
>The 22-year-old claims he heard gunshots less than a minute later and jumped into his closet
Not exactly a good response. How about grabbing a weapon and taking cover and aim.
I’ll reserve judgement till more of the facts come out. I recall a rent-a-cop Mr. Richard Jewell who was once convicted in the MSM for doing his job. If this guy was drunk-as-a-skunk when pulled over, anything is possible.
They will kill you graveyard dead without any provocation and then announce that they "felt threatened".
They don’t have a “jurisdiction”, because they are security guards, not “cops”. They have no right to pull anyone over 1 foot off their campus, let alone trespass on to private property following someone.
The important parts of the story are, the cop felt threatened, and he got to go home that night, with pay.
Killumded 101
I used to think cops deserved the benefit of assuming they were doing the right thing.
I no longer do. They all think they are hero’s whose lives are more important then anyone else. They cover for each other and assume all non-cops are criminals.
Too many no-knocks, dead dogs, and property confiscated without due process.
When a cop or cops start yelling “stop resisting,” as happened here, he is setting up his defense for the tasering or shooting he is about to do.
Word to the wise. Even if you are ten feet from the cop, when he starts yelling “stop resisting!” he might be about to shoot you. He is yelling “stop resisting” for the sake of the ear-witnesses, not the person he’s going to shoot.
I believe State University cops are law enforcement. I have a couple of neighbors who are cops at the University here and the cars they drive home are regular cop cars.
The Catholic College rent-a-cop done gone and killed a top student apparently
The real reasons explained:
Universities have their own police. Often they hire unarmed rent a cops. They are often worthless, just as worthless as the emergency phones/alarms that campuses have put out after a surge in rapes of female students. Likewise colleges/Universities are now going over to these digital emergency notification systems which are about as useful as the flow charts that many post in their classrooms telling faculty what to do in case of an emergency.
In America we use a “process” or some “system” to show action after a failure. Not that it would have prevented the event from happening in the first place, but at least it “shows action.”
What you will not see at US college campuses is armed faculty or selected students. Why? Because in all reality this is a liability issue. If a gunman comes on campus and kills 17 students the school isn’t liable, but if one college professor has an accidental discharge or loses a gun which the school sanctioned, that would put the school at risk. This isn’t an issue about safety, it’s an issue over who pays.
Cops should be monitored because they are govt representatives.
Monitoring of private people requires a warrant, well ok it should require a warrant.
“For the cop’s sake, I hope there is video.”
Interesting. I hope there’s video for the sake of justice, not for the sake of one side or the other.
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