Posted on 01/08/2014 7:37:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Via Ace and Bearing Arms, I missed this yesterday but it deserves some belated attention. The victim, Keith Vidal, was schizophrenic, weighed 90 pounds, had already been tased, and reportedly was being held down by two officers when the shooting happened. He was armed with a “tiny screwdriver,” according to his family.
His dad claims that one cop said “we don’t have time for this” right before the kid was shot dead on the floor.
According to the report, the first unit on scene was a Boiling Spring Lakes officer who arrived at 12:34 p.m. He was joined shortly after by two additional BSL officers and a Brunswick County Sheriff’s Deputy.
The first unit on scene reported a confrontation in the hallway, but told Brunswick County Dispatchers several times that everything was OK.
Unit 104 from Southport arrived on the scene at 12:48:41, fourteen minutes after the first officer had already been on scene.
Seventy seconds later, Unit 104 radioed out that he had to fire shots at the subject in order to defend himself.
The event report mirrors what family members told the media…
Wilsey said officers had his son down on the ground after the teen was tased a few times and an officer said, “we don’t have time for this.” That’s when Wilsey says the officer shot in between the officers holding the teen down, killing his son.
A detective’s been placed on paid leave while the investigation plays out. Obvious question: Even if the cop was such a monster that he’d murder a mentally ill kid simply because he was a drag on his day, how did he think he’d get away with it with both parents right there watching? Is a suspension and murder investigation less of an inconvenience than wrestling a small teenaged boy into a squad car? If he was counting on a mom and dad to be intimidated into silence over the cold-blooded murder of their son, he was counting on an awful lot. I notice too that the dad doesn’t explicitly say it was the cop who fired the gun who said “we don’t have time for this.” One of the officers there said it. Was killing Vidal what he had in mind or were the comment and shooting unconnected?
The official story, I assume, will be that Vidal was going for a gun in the holster of one of the cops who was restraining him. Exit question: If the parents’ version is true, it can’t be the first time this has happened, right? No one would attempt a murder this cavalierly unless he was very confident, based on prior experience, that he could get away with it.
Uhoh, another cop going to lockup.
A detective’s been placed on paid leave while the investigation plays out. Obvious question: Even if the cop was such a monster that he’d murder a mentally ill kid simply because he was a drag on his day, how did he think he’d get away with it with both parents right there watching?
Probably because he has done it like that in the past.
I’ve had to restrain tall, skinny men with psychiatric issues before. You really cannot estimate how much fight is in a person by their size.
If the story is how the parents told it... cops are now executing anything/anyone they see as taking time out of their day. Wow....
Cue Sharpton and Jackson because they killed a child.
Still, it's difficult to see how a 90-pounder with a screwdriver could seriously threaten the lives of three cops, especially when he was already down with two cops on him.
The cop must have mistaken the kid for the family dog.
“Wilsey said officers had his son down on the ground after the teen was tased a few times and an officer said, “we don’t have time for this.” That’s when Wilsey says the officer shot in between the officers holding the teen down, killing his son.”
In the previous thread on this subject “Tolerance Sucks Rocks” linked to a different version of this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3109475/posts
In this version....
“Everything was going good, then this fat cop from Southport walks in the room, walks around the corner, says, ‘We don’t have time for this. Tase that kid now. Let’s get him out of here.’”
http://www.wwaytv3.com/2014/01/05/father-says-18-year-old-son-murdered-southport-police-officer
“We don’t have time for this” followed by a shooting is a lot fifferent from “We don’t have time for this. Tase (him)...”
Is that murdering b@stard of a cop now under arrest and charged with manslaughter?
If he isn’t, then welcome to the fascist police state, folks. I used to think that only sixties hippies would refer to law enforcement that way, but it’s now come to this.
i do not like the way this was written at all... the writer makes a lot of assumptions... i guess... he expresses his assumptions in the form of questions...
There was a Down Syndrome young man killed by cop in Maryland recently -- they held him down to the point of suffocating him while he yelled for his "Mommy" because he couldn't understand having to leave the movie theater with his caregiver when the movie ended. A killin' offense? Hardly.
I have heard of cases where a cop mistakenly grabs his gun instead of his taser. That might explain what happened here. In attempting to restrain the kid the prongs may have been dislodged and they were trying to give him another jolt to stop his resisting.
Cop was probably on loan from ‘HHS’ and got his orders from the ‘Death Panels’. The family couldn’t afford the deductible so a single bullet was prescribed.
Got to get to Dunkin’ Donuts before they get stale, I guess.
Got to be a mental error. The copper was going to tase the kid and in the confusion and stress of the situation Glocks him instead.
Handcuffs, perhaps?
Maybe that's the "Blue-Code" thing, but I find it hard to believe that he would come out and defend the shooter if it was unjustified with the family as witnesses.
Wow. 90 pounds? My oldest boy weighs 80 pounds and I can hold him, and his 62 pound brother, to a wrestling mat at the same time. TWO cops on one little kid and the THIRD feels threatened to the point of firing his weapon BETWEEN the two other cops? Something is NOT right with this entire situation.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.