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Should Oregon police issue commands in Spanish when facing a suspect at gunpoint?
oregonlive.com ^ | Dec. 16, 2014 | Laura Gunderson

Posted on 12/16/2014 7:28:09 AM PST by PROCON

Three McMinnville police officers faced off with Juventino Bermudez-Arenas as he held the large blade he'd just used to kill a 20-year-old Linfield College student.

Officers pulled their guns. One, who spoke Spanish, reached for her Taser but dropped it and grabbed her pistol as Bermudez-Arenas lowered his head and his hands and appeared to move forward.

Seconds before they fatally shot the 33-year-old Mexican man, police yelled, "Get on the ground," and, "Drop the knife," again and again.

(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nohablaenglish; pcpolice; police
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How insensitive of the police not to know what foreign language this undocumented democrat spoke.

***SIGH***

1 posted on 12/16/2014 7:28:09 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Is Oregon in Mexico?


2 posted on 12/16/2014 7:28:52 AM PST by Yogafist
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Yes! Idiots continue to vote for Libs, they should be okay with what befalls them.

And I say that as a Californian.

3 posted on 12/16/2014 7:30:05 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: PROCON

No.


4 posted on 12/16/2014 7:30:21 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: PROCON

Glock is the universal language. Ebonics might work too


5 posted on 12/16/2014 7:30:56 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: PROCON

Yes...”Learn English!”


6 posted on 12/16/2014 7:32:18 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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If I were in a non-English speaking country facing police while holding a bloody knife just after killing someone, I think I would understand the situation I was in ...


7 posted on 12/16/2014 7:32:43 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: PROCON

He knew what they were saying and wanting.


8 posted on 12/16/2014 7:33:31 AM PST by armydawg505
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They say say that liberal Portland keeps OR forever Democrat. Nothing else can prevent that.


9 posted on 12/16/2014 7:33:41 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: PROCON


10 posted on 12/16/2014 7:33:44 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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When you come to our Country learn our language. Especially if you’re going to point a gun at a Cop.


11 posted on 12/16/2014 7:33:59 AM PST by Rappini (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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To: PROCON

Say audios as you pull the trigger.


12 posted on 12/16/2014 7:34:00 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: PROCON

When a man in a uniform is yelling and screaming at you - while pointing a pistol at your head - it matters not what language he is using or what language you speak.

The message is loud and clear: Drop your weapon and fall on your knees with your hands behind your head.

Or take a permanent dirt nap.

Your call.


13 posted on 12/16/2014 7:34:29 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: goldstategop

No habla espanol...


14 posted on 12/16/2014 7:36:05 AM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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Okay. You’ve just stabbed somebody. A bunch of cops come running up, draw their weapons and aim them at you. You can’t understand a word that they’re shouting at you, for whatever reason.

What the f*** do you THINK they want?

It takes a liberal could fail to understand this situation, no one else could pull it off.


15 posted on 12/16/2014 7:36:47 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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Police yelling at you with guns drawn is a universal language.


16 posted on 12/16/2014 7:36:50 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: PROCON

It needs no translation :)


17 posted on 12/16/2014 7:39:11 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: PROCON

Bullets speak the universal language. No translation needed.

Press one for: meeting your maker.
Press two: see press one...


18 posted on 12/16/2014 7:39:40 AM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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I suspect that the suspect understood what the shouting officers were demanding even if he didn’t speako the lingo.

guns drawn and targeted on you.
Shouting commands as you hold a knife after just killing someone.


19 posted on 12/16/2014 7:39:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: PROCON

IF I were in SAY China and I had a knife to a young woman’s throat facing off against 3 Chinese cops under this absurd proposal the Chinese cops should know English!

What about Russian, Hebrew, Arab, Korean, Japanese, American Indian, and on and on. Where does it stop? If you make the cops learn one language the others will start screaming “discrimination”.

A better solution would be to deport every 3rd Liberal. We need a dilution of Liberals in this country! And, they should be required to have a non government, private sector job!


20 posted on 12/16/2014 7:40:16 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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