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Police Overkill (killed 95-year-old WWII vet)
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/06/23/68943.htm ^

Posted on 06/23/2014 9:30:04 PM PDT by chessplayer

CHICAGO (CN) - Suburban Chicago police shot a 95-year-old WWII veteran to death with bean bag rounds at short range because he refused to go to the hospital, his stepdaughter claims in court.

"On July 26, 2014 [sic], John Wrana, Jr., was twelve days shy of his 96th birthday and a resident at the Victory Centre of Park Forest Assisted Living Center located in Park Forest, Illinois. On that date, Mr. Wrana was alone in his room, suffering from what the facility's staff believed were symptoms indicative of a urinary tract infection in an elderly person," the complaint begins. Victory Center employees tried to get Wrana into an ambulance to go to the hospital for treatment, but he allegedly refused to leave his room. The defendant officers responded to employees' 911 call, and also were unable to persuade Wrana to leave his room and go to the hospital. The officers conferred and decided to seize Wrana by force, according to the complaint.

Upon entering the room, defendant Taylor fired "five rounds of bean bag cartridges from a 12 gauge shotgun within a distance of approximately only six to eight feet from Mr. Wrana, far less than the distance allowed for discharging that shotgun, and, consequently, savagely wounding and killing Mr. Wrana," the lawsuit states. "Mr. Wrana bled to death as a result of the shotgun wounds inflicted upon him by defendants. The Cook County Medical Examiner ruled that Mr. Wrana's death was a homicide caused by blunt force trauma to his abdomen as a result of shots fired from a bean bag shotgun."

After shooting Wrana, the officers handcuffed him, took photos of his injuries, and put him in a four-point restraint before transporting him to the hospital, the complaint states.

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To: chessplayer

God bless this WWII vet. The country he fought for killed him. He didn’t deserve that. He’s home now.


21 posted on 06/23/2014 10:02:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Feed the wacko enrviromentalists to the starving polar bears.)
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To: chessplayer

Shooting veterans, slitting pets’ throats - yep, the police are your friends.


22 posted on 06/23/2014 10:03:02 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: chessplayer

Just for folks to see what it’s like to get hit by one of these “bean bag” rounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idXlzfPuyZM

Note the range of the first shot, the age and physical fitness of the officer, and the area he was hit (the buttocks).

Now, if one shot from that range to the backside is enough to bring down a bull moose of a guy, how can there possibly have been the need to fire FIVE almost point-blank shots against a 96 year old guy half out of his head from infection?


23 posted on 06/23/2014 10:03:22 PM PDT by DemforBush (A repo man is always intense.)
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To: chessplayer
For all the visual learners here.

Mr. Wrana deserves to be remembered and honored for his service to our country. What a terribly sad story.


24 posted on 06/23/2014 10:07:18 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (The dogs bark; the caravan moves on!)
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To: chessplayer

Off the pig!


25 posted on 06/23/2014 10:11:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: WTFOVR

Wrana’s final “reward” in this life for serving in WWII,,,execution by Pig.


26 posted on 06/23/2014 10:11:48 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: piytar

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3171263/posts


27 posted on 06/23/2014 10:16:15 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: piytar

Crap! Wrong story! Here is the right link ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3168374/posts


28 posted on 06/23/2014 10:17:30 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: DemforBush

Now, if one shot from that range to the backside is enough to bring down a bull moose of a guy, how can there possibly have been the need to fire FIVE almost point-blank shots against a 96 year old guy half out of his head from infection?


Military service rejects who wanted to prove how “tough” they are.


29 posted on 06/23/2014 10:19:41 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Jack Hammer

“To Protect and Serve” ... themselves.


30 posted on 06/23/2014 10:27:39 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: chessplayer; null and void

Sadly, JBT alert required.


31 posted on 06/23/2014 10:31:38 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: chessplayer

The judgement against the city should be at least ten Billion dollars.


32 posted on 06/23/2014 10:31:47 PM PDT by matthew fuller (gopetition.com/petitions/request-for-immediate-texas-border-control/sign.html#se)
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To: Fiji Hill

Deserter Bergdahl welcomed back as a hero. WWII vet Wrana executed by the Pigs because he didn’t want to go to the hospital.


33 posted on 06/23/2014 10:34:38 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

They’re not “militarized,” and they’re as civilian as any other “civilians.” People who don’t ingest brainwashing garbage from television can understand that.


34 posted on 06/23/2014 10:41:18 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: matthew fuller

It’s unreal. Even if he “threatened” them by waving his cane at them, it’s one 96 year old man against 5 young, heavily armed Pigs wearing body armor.


35 posted on 06/23/2014 10:42:11 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

And what’s worse, nothing will be done to the uniformed Nazis.
Unions, ya know.


36 posted on 06/23/2014 10:46:42 PM PDT by matthew fuller (gopetition.com/petitions/request-for-immediate-texas-border-control/sign.html#se)
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To: chessplayer
Now, if one shot from that range to the backside is enough to bring down a bull moose of a guy, how can there possibly have been the need to fire FIVE almost point-blank shots against a 96 year old guy half out of his head from infection?

They must have just about cut him in half - and THEN - instead of getting him to the hospital = they TAKE PICTURES - and THEN put him a 4-point restraint.

RESTRAINT??? They must have all but cut him in half with FIVE!!!

ANIMALS

37 posted on 06/23/2014 10:52:01 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: chessplayer; null and void

The cops all went home safe that night, that is all that matters.


38 posted on 06/23/2014 10:54:51 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: WTFOVR; Graewoulf

To be fair, this was NOT in the City of Chicago. This was in a suburb, Park Forest, which has its own police department.


39 posted on 06/23/2014 10:55:37 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Born and raised in the city of Chicago)
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To: doorgunner69

The cops all went home safe that night, that is all that matters.


And probably brag about it over some beers.


40 posted on 06/23/2014 11:00:26 PM PDT by chessplayer
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