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 ...
Not necessarily. I don't know how it is in Texas, but in California, a cop is a cop. A cop from SF on vacation at Disneyland can legally arrest someone committing a crime. While there may be some political issues with a cop stopping someone while outside of his "jurisdiction", as long as it is in state, there is no LEGAL prohibition from doing so.
Of course, he has to be a sworn police officer, not a security guard or rent-a-cop...
and he’ll get a few days to get his story straight before being forced to put it down in writing.
Not sure what you're implying.
The witness said he heard the young man say,"Oh you're gonna shoot me?"
Does this not suggest the cop had pulled his weapon and was pointing it him?
If so, this begs the question, was the young man armed?
It is a Catholic university, not a Catholic policeman.
Tho’, I suppose he might be Catholic...
UIW spokeswoman says Robert Cameron Redus had hit the officer before the officer shot him to death.
;-\
Words to LIVE by.
From the link in post 47:
“The dash cam on Carter’s marked pickup truck had fallen off and officers had made arrangements to have it remounted”
Sounds like no video...
Sorry, link in post 45...
I'm sure the took images of the officers wounds.
Could you post it?
He was tried, convicted, and executed on the spot for the heinous high crime of
contempt of cop.
Click the link in post 45. There WOULD hve been video except the dash cam on Carters truck had “fallen off”.
Catholic could be relevant here because it implies the cop was working for a private university, not public one, and, thus, did not have full LEO powers, including the power to try to pull the decedent over off campus. Indeed, it raises the vital question of what power the cop had to carry a weapon beyond the right to use it for legitimate self defense.
You’re joking right?
For the cop’s sake? How about for the sake of public safety and justice?
One of my rules of life:
LIVE FREE OR DIE!
We have too man, untrained cops. Even the well-trained are not trained well enough. A retired cop I know says that when he was training officer, he had a devil of a time getting them up to speed. Their physical appearance tells you a lot.
Joking, no. The link is in post 45.
This suggests the officer was pointing his weapon directly at the young man.
So there is no video because the camera fell off the police vehicle?
And you are suggesting they young man who had no police record, took the officers baton for no reason, and as the officer was pointing his weapon at the man, the man decided to charge the officer anyway?
Yep - learned my lesson not to mouth off to a cop and the age of 16.
Andd lots of threads on FR have the kid, husband, etc. killed after saying to someone with a gun “you don’t have the guts”, “you wouldn’t dare..”, etc.
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