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Suicide by cop or sheer stupidity.
What is it with people? Did you see the woman with a baby in her arms running TOWARD the confrontation!?
What the heck is wrong with these people!?
At the point where the police shot the man to death he was not an immediate threat to them. They murdered the man because he had the temerity to refuse to do what they told him to do.
The lesson from this event and from the Bundy ranch event is that if you’re going to refuse to do what the police want you to do then you’d best be well-armed and prepared to shoot.
Because it seems that law enforcement in this country consistently backs down whenever they have to face equal or superior force.
Never bring gardening shears to a gun fight.
How’s his dog?
Any word on the immigration status of the deceased?
I can’t believe some of your comments!
This cop MURDERED this guy. Are you all BLIND? The cop moved HIMSELF into a dangerous position and then, SURPRISE, I’m in a dangerous position. Then fires THREE times, just to be sure.
If all else has failed, (don’t know we were there yet) shoot the guy in the leg. Down he goes, threat neutralized.
Pepper spray? A guy with garden shears that can’t breathe and can’t see is not a threat.
As far as the witness with the kid goes, Some people just aren’t terrified by situations that place them in possible danger. I don’t see what she did as a big risk. The likelihood that she or the child would get shot were minimal. I think people need to accept some risk so that the police can be watched as in this case it proved worth the risk.
The perp had garden shears not an explosive device.
They don’t have tazers in Salinas? Isn’t this the kind of thing they were made for?