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Tarpon Springs officer shoots, kills man during car show
Bay News9 ^ | 5/6/17

Posted on 05/06/2017 7:03:45 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

An off-duty police officer working a downtown Tarpon Springs car show shot and killed a man Saturday whom the officer said came at him with a knife, the department said.

Tarpon Springs Police: Officer fatally shot man armed with knife Off-duty cop was working a car show in downtown Tarpon Springs FDLE, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office will investigate incident

Just after 1:30 p.m., the officer was flagged down by citizens and alerted to a "suspicious" man on a bicycle in the area of Tarpon and Safford avenues. They described the man as wearing an orange jacket with the hood pulled over his head, Tarpon Springs Police said in a news release.

The officer made contact with the man, whom the officer said provided a fake name. The man provided another last name, which the officer called in over the police radio. The radio went silent for a moment, then the officer could be heard saying, "Shots fired, shots fired," according to the news release. The officer then said over the radio that the man had come at him with a knife.

The man was taken to Florida Hospital North Pinellas, where he was pronounced dead. The officer was not injured.

There were numerous witnesses to the incident, police said.

The names of the man and the officer have not been released. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate with help from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office forensics unit, police said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: automotive; banglist; florida; fordchevymopar; police; tarponsprings
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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Never shot a gun, I take it?
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21 posted on 05/06/2017 9:21:38 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Impala64ssa

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The old “Turbo Glide” they introduced in ‘57 is still in use today, slightly beefed up. They call it the Turbo 350.
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22 posted on 05/06/2017 9:26:59 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Never experienced sarcasm on FR, I take it?


23 posted on 05/06/2017 9:28:55 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: yarddog

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They used a three phase torque converter that made up for the missing planetary gear set.
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24 posted on 05/06/2017 9:32:26 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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Its just that the Bang threads do tend to bring out some doozies at times.


25 posted on 05/06/2017 9:33:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

The Turbo Glides under normal driving conditions was essentially a single speed, the torque converter acted as a gear reduction during acceleration, hill climbing, etc, similar to the Buick Dynaflow. There were in a sense precursors to the CVT that Nissan uses.


26 posted on 05/06/2017 9:44:02 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Impala64ssa

Were any show cars hit during the incident ?


27 posted on 05/06/2017 9:59:58 PM PDT by Phosgood (Send in the Clowns...but Wait, they're here!! >..<)
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To: Impala64ssa

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Turboglide and dynaflow both had planetary gear sets and multi-disk clutch packs to achieve reduction.

The torque converter allows the engine to over-speed the driven torus, which converts velocity to pressure by return flow of the moving oil, thus increasing torsional force.

Much energy is lost as heat in that process, which is why modern transmissions use variable reduction gear sets rather than large torque converters.
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28 posted on 05/06/2017 10:04:32 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Phosgood

No, but about 20 of them were detained because they were within the crime scene. None were impounded but the owners had to wait a couple of hours until the investigation was complete.


29 posted on 05/06/2017 10:24:00 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mythbusters Adam vs Jamie (gun vs knife) did a thing on just that. (i.e. what is now know as the "21 FOOT RULE .")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyDpIi5QNpw

The short of it is, if someone is charging you with a knife, from 21 feet or less, your either going to be in the hospital suffering from a knife wound, or you'll be dead.

30 posted on 05/07/2017 2:53:28 AM PDT by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's don't lie, they just Testily{ing} as taught in their respected Police Academy.)
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To: Stanwood_Dave

Do you think the guy will get an honorary degree from a college for being shot?


31 posted on 05/07/2017 3:35:35 AM PDT by BaldJohn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Widely known as the Tueller drill, after the LEO who first started doing it. Popularized by noted lethal force expert Massad Ayoob. I’m reading his book Deadly Force right now, which is a follow up to his notable earlier work In the Gravest Extreme.

Page 68 here is an excerpt from his book talking about the Tueller drill origins and details:
http://tinyurl.com/luxt3qz


32 posted on 05/07/2017 3:44:22 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Impala64ssa
....similar to the Buick Dynaflow.

Ah yes, good ol' Dynaflow.
Had a '53 Buick as a teenie bopper.Straight 8 w/ Dynaflow. Very comfortable couchlike front seat. :)

BTW, how reliable are these CVT transmissions? Do they use variable pulleys and belt?

33 posted on 05/07/2017 5:03:43 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Vinnie

Back in high school days, a pal’s dad owned an early 50’s Oldsmobile. There had been a fire at the Hydramatic plant so this Olds came with a Buick Dynamics’s Flow. It sounded like a Buick...just one long gear.


34 posted on 05/07/2017 5:08:45 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: yarddog

I like taking friends out in my ‘55 model 210. I tell them to wait to hear the upshift as we’re going down the road. After it does i tell’em to stop listening, that’s all the gears she’s got.

CC


35 posted on 05/07/2017 5:14:55 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Veni, vidi, Vomui- I came, I saw, I hurled.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“In law enforcement training they have a subject come at you with a rubber knife from across a large room.”

The Tueller drill.


36 posted on 05/07/2017 5:17:22 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: SargeK

I went through the FBI Citizen’s Academy. During shoot/don’t shoot drills with paint projectile weapons I shot the bad guy right in the trigger finger. I had total tunnel vision.


37 posted on 05/07/2017 5:22:26 AM PDT by suthener
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To: Impala64ssa
From the Tampa Bay Times:

The officer was working a uniformed, off-duty shift at a car show in downtown Tarpon Springs when visitors alerted him to a "suspicious" white man riding a bike in the area, Tarpon Springs police Maj. Jeffrey Young said.

By golly, we got the color code of the "suspicious" fellow right out of the gate on this one.

That terrific Tampa Bay Times, contrary to just about every daily paper across the country, must have a truly color-blind policy of reportage, right?

Right?

38 posted on 05/07/2017 5:33:51 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

He tried but missed.


39 posted on 05/07/2017 5:34:54 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Impala64ssa

A happy ending, glad the cop went home that evening.


40 posted on 05/07/2017 5:35:23 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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