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Man nearly shot by reserve deputy in road rage incident
WFAA ^ | April 30, 2015 | WFAA

Posted on 05/03/2015 2:16:56 PM PDT by Dallas59

SAN MARCOS, Texas – A reserve sheriff's deputy is facing aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges after police say he opened fire on a truck driver he thought had cut him off.

After nearly 15 years behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler, Frank Collins III thought he had seen it all. He was wrong.

"Never seen nothing like this," the 56-year-old said. "It's just too far-fetched."

But what the Fort Worth man experienced late Sunday night actually happened, according to San Marcos police.

Collins was driving along an Interstate 35 frontage road outside of Austin when he says he was suddenly cut off by a red pickup truck.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; civilian; deputy; donutwatch; shoot; texas
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1 posted on 05/03/2015 2:16:56 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

“Daniel Zurita Jr.”

Is it a bad thing that I (correctly) guessed the shooter was hispanic even before reading the article? All I read was the headline and I knew.


2 posted on 05/03/2015 2:21:08 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Dallas59

Bad Cop trying to kill an ordinary working taxpayer?

Hardly news, goes on every day now.


3 posted on 05/03/2015 2:22:08 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Is Ted Cruz himself as mean-spirited as the FR 'Click-it or Tick-it' Cruz Contingent?)
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To: Dallas59

It’s like in the movies — somebody do something that annoys you, what are you going to do? That’s right — you pull out your gun and you start blasting away. Everybody knows that’s how it’s done.


4 posted on 05/03/2015 2:25:26 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats. They just ... say stuff.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

People are crazy.

It really doesn’t matter what their job is, what matters is that they are crazy people.

Hate on though.


5 posted on 05/03/2015 2:25:33 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Balding_Eagle

It’s nothing new, but it’s usually a more Lon drawn out period, like fifty years.


6 posted on 05/03/2015 2:28:11 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: chris37
It really doesn’t matter what their job is, what matters is that they are crazy people.

That's true, and I agree completely.

Police forces should sort them out though, and it seems they don't. Instead they are given guns, and authority to use them.

As circumstantial evidence that they don't sort them out, the endless stream of Bad Cops attacking ordinary citizens, often killing them.

7 posted on 05/03/2015 2:30:18 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Is Ted Cruz himself as mean-spirited as the FR 'Click-it or Tick-it' Cruz Contingent?)
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To: Dallas59

Bizarre. The shooter cut off the semi and played brake test for awhile. Then when both stopped he got out and started shooting, including one through the windshield right where the driver, an older black guy judging by his photo, would have been sitting if he hadn’t ducked.


8 posted on 05/03/2015 2:30:39 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Balding_Eagle

I must have missed yesterdays. Could you post a link so I cab keep up?


9 posted on 05/03/2015 2:31:04 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Yogafist

Cab = can. Stupid phone.


10 posted on 05/03/2015 2:32:00 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Yogafist
Well, I probably missed yesterdays too.

For a while I saved the most 'interesting' ones, and for your benefit, here is an abbreviated listing.

I have many more, let me know when you gone through these.

No Freeper set these cops up, they brought the disgrace, humiliation, and loss of public support on themselves. .

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Man charged for shooting when cops went to wrong house (Jury finds him innocent) WAVY ^ | July 15, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3180907/posts

Sober woman arrested for DWI after deputy rolls through stop sign NewsChannel 3 WTKR ^ | May 2, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3154158/posts

Elderly man calls for ambulance, violent cops beat him instead daily caller ^ | 4-21-14 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3147475/posts

Horror: Cops tackle, beat, pepper-spray, pin, suffocate, kill innocent man Daily Caller ^ | 02/25/2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3127187/posts

Wisconsin Police Chief Pleads No Contest to Harassing Tea Party Leader The La Crosse Tribune ^ | 7/26/2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3185371/posts

Six-year-old girl watches in horror as police 'shoot dead her dog Apollo in her front yard ‎7‎/‎28‎/‎2014 ‎ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3186053/posts

NYPD officer pictured 'putting seven-months pregnant woman into a chokehold for illegally grilling outside her apartment' July 28, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3186193/posts

Man beaten, three SAPD officers investigated for possible excessive force July 24, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3187839/posts

Officer Puts Gun To Boy’s Throat In McDonald’s Drive Thru For Taking Too Long | Aug 2, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3188244/posts

San Antonio police mistake photographer for fleeing drug suspect, beat him silly Washington Post ^ | July 29, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3186590/posts

Trooper filmed 'brutally beating woman on side of California Hwy (For Her "Protection") Daily Mail ^ | 7-4-2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3176062/posts

A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son Salon ^ | June 24, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3172322/posts

Veteran Stopped for No Front License Plate, Beat to Death by 5 Cops ‎5‎/‎19‎/‎2014 ‎http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3157894/posts

Officer shot in road rage clash also indicted Pioneer Press ^ | 8-10-14 | http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3191425/posts

Off-Duty LAPD Officer Apparently Pointing Gun in Photo NBC Bay Area ^ | Sunday, Aug 10, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3191691/posts

Chief: Police killed California robbery hostage [police shot hostage 10 times]] Associated Press ^ | August 11, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3191771/posts

St. Paul police officer allegedly left scene of (His) accident Pioneer Press ^ | 8-11-14 |http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3191748/posts

South Florida Man Fights Back After Felony Arrest Liveleak.com ^ | 08/21/2014 | http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3195726/posts

Connecticut trooper pleads guilty to stealing dying motorcycle crash victim’s jewelry, moneyNY Daily News ^ | Thursday, July 17, 2014, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196069/posts

Eyewitnesses recall the day when Brandon Ellington Drown in the Lake of the Ozarks (State Trooper caused drowning) Kansas City Star ^ | 8-23-14 | http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196495/posts

Texas cops defend pulling over mother of four at gunpoint Sun News Network ^ | 8-25-14 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3196759/posts

Cop Hits Man in the Head 20 Times as Onlookers Plead 'Don't Punch Him No More 'Reason ^ | August 25, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196991/posts

Kentucky: Lawsuit Restored Against Cop Caught Lying About Traffic Stop theNewspaper ^ | 8/26/2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3197342/posts

(Police) Corruption in the City of Waldo exposed (FL) Ocala Post ^ | August 28, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3198777/posts

Oklahoma City cop charged with sexually assaulting eight women is released on bondNY Daily News ^ | 9/7/14 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3201380/posts

SC trooper charged with felony in shooting at traffic stop over seat belt violationThe State ^ 09/24/2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3208138/posts

Man killed by cops after car thief alleges meth find (No drugs found) Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 03 Oct 14 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211655/posts

SEE IT: NYPD cop allegedly took $1,300 in cash from Brooklyn construction worker’s pocket http://www.nydailynews.com ^ | october 8, 2014 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212986/posts


11 posted on 05/03/2015 2:35:07 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Is Ted Cruz himself as mean-spirited as the FR 'Click-it or Tick-it' Cruz Contingent?)
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To: Dallas59

And liberals insist only the highly trained cops should be allowed to have guns.


12 posted on 05/03/2015 2:36:45 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Dallas59

He shot him in his Peterbilt!


13 posted on 05/03/2015 2:37:03 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Balding_Eagle

Sometimes people snap, man.

It’s been happening since the dawn of people.

Sometimes they give off signs in advance, sometimes they don’t.


14 posted on 05/03/2015 2:37:46 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Dallas59

This has happened before. I Arab named detective in an unmarked van transporting him and his co-detectives from some function when they got cut off.

They eventually got the man to pull over, then the cop just walked up to his window and shot him dead. There was a “sleeping” cop out on suspension in the back seat, who of course didn’t see anything.

Anybody know this case and provider a pointer to it? Be nice to follow up on what’s happened since I believe the detective was found innocent.


15 posted on 05/03/2015 2:39:08 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (Give me liberty or give me a cash settlement.)
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Arizona, two families in my Jeep Cherokee bringing home Christmas trees from the Forrest. A Ford pickup with two drunks started picking on us for no reason. They started throwing half-empty beer cans at our windshield. All I had to do was to show my. 357 and they had a change of mind.


16 posted on 05/03/2015 2:39:36 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: vladimir998

At least he wasn’t panhandling.


17 posted on 05/03/2015 2:40:15 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Balding_Eagle

Solution.

18 posted on 05/03/2015 2:40:50 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Thats interesting, you posted 27 incidents where the 800,000+ cops in the U.S. did something wrong. But I was looking for the story of a cop that shot a tax payer yesterday.


19 posted on 05/03/2015 2:40:56 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Ben Mugged

That’s awesome! I’m glad they got the message.

People just do the most whacked out stuff it seems like.

It’s like, oh you pulled in front of me!? I’ll kill your whole family RAARRRRRRR!!!!!!

Anger. A very non-constructive emotion.


20 posted on 05/03/2015 2:43:41 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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