Posted on 07/12/2016 8:05:40 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
The Louisiana police officers who fatally shot a black man pinned to the ground did so after seeing the man reach for a gun, a Baton Rouge detective said.
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"While the officers were attempting to subdue the subject the officers observed the butt of a gun in the subject's front pants pocket," Cook wrote.
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I’m from NYC/USSR. I’ve leave this call up to the gun folk.
Subject had a gun and was resisting. Nothing else to be said.
The American people will never believe Sterling reached for a gun because it doesn’t fit the narrative they seek to exploit.
You mean American black people & liberals don’t you? Most
on FR are American people.
It should be added, an illegal gun which he had previously brandished at a homeless person, which led to the 911 call to the police in the first place.
No, I mean the American people as a whole who still think Michael Brown said, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”.
If the subject was resisting, this should have been talked about from the very beginning from the police department. I heard nothing about this in the first few days after that video went viral. No one stood up and countered the implication. If there had been more basis for reasonable doubt, perhaps the Dallas shooter wouldn’t have lost all control before going on a killing spree. We’ll never know.
Police were responding to a 911 call about a man who fit the deceased’s description brandishing a gun. This guy was unstable and had an extensive arrest record, including arrests for domestic violence, aggravated battery,illegally carrying a weapon and resisting an officer by force. I tend to believe the police.
I’ve been armed around a lot of cops. I’ve never reached for my gun, I’ve never been shot.
I think there’s some sort of causality working here: see, this guy did reach for his gun and he got shot.
Common Core Conclusion: when aroun’ po po, don’t be reachin’ fo yo gat.
I watched the second video in slow motion, and came tp the conclusion that his right arm and hand were free, and that he was resisting. And, that police tried to subdue him physically even after thinking he had a gun, but then weren’t able to stop him that way from apparently going after it. They weren’t able to get control of his right hand and arm.
I also posted still shots from that video. I don’t have time to post them in this thread tonight, but they are here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3448058/posts?page=20#20
Sound sgood to me. A few gun owning folk asked if he got shot just for having a gun.
I thin he reached for something. Wallet or not, the police cant read your mind.
“Common Core Conclusion: when aroun’ po po, don’t be reachin’ fo yo gat.”
ROFLMAO
Someone should tell Trump that
This could very well be a good shoot. A gun in his pocket and this lumberhead is fighting/struggling with cops. That’s a damn good way to get shot to death. It only takes 1 maybe 2 seconds pull it out and shoot a cop to death.
I think the cops will probably walk here.
It takes a bit for the facts to come out. By then the narrative has been set. That said, the police probably should have responded sooner.
The situation reminds me of the quote "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
They take too long to release the TRUTH , now it doesn’t matter. The media narrative is set in stone, everyone thinks the thug is a hero. Facts don’t matter.
Ha ha l, great minds think alike
Yes they do! FRegards!
You have the two cases mixed up. The guy who died inside the car was thought to match the description of a bank robber on the loose, I think.
In the video, he had a gun in his lap and fingers resting on its handle, but he was dying and bleeding to death.
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