Posted on 04/04/2018 7:31:07 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Yes, I saw that. May be they shot each other?
Very sad.
I heard reports on FOX radio news that the perp was busting car windows, did not stand down, charged at police officers with pipe in hands.
Tough.
The police in certain areas are the fine line between anarchy/barbarism and civility. In a state with practically the abolishment of the Second Amendment, it is all that we have. It troubles me that law enforcement has major issues in this country, liberal judges are a-holes as lawlessness is as horrific as ever.
I’m 70. Have no intention of living in a city.
Moved “back home” in 1995. Do not plan on leaving. Am moving back to the farm when I finish the remodel of the home there. That got put on hold when my wife had health problems a year ago. Spring is almost here, so may be I can get some of that done between other events.
I’m shocked.
It was an ordinary Silver Pipe, not one of those Black Assault Pipes that would have justified the Shoot in the eyes of the brainwashed Public.
I painted mine brown, glued on a cane tip, and wrapped the handle. I put in some birdshot I had left over. Epoxy, Heavy, but you wouldn’t want to be hit with it!
Thank you Obummer for escalating all the police hate.
Approx. the first 10 years here I never saw police incident postings-——now they are constant.
Sad.
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Yes. He did. He polarized a huge portion of the nation.
Evil.
Yes. Headshake.
Why is it that the police never seem to shoot armed men?
Paint it PINK, kind of hard to mistake a pink walking cane for a rifle.
That fluorescent pink we use for marking underground utility lines and a new building’s footprint on a construction site.
Probably safer to paint it white and red and call it a Candy Cane.
Maybe waiting for Khrushchev at Idelwilde. 🤔
The author is an idiot. He was describing the other shooting.
From the article:
“The suspect took a two-handed shooting stance and pointed an object at the approaching officers, two of whom were in uniform, said Monahan.
If you are going to point a tube with a hole in the end at anybody while taking a two-handed shooting stance, don’t be surprised if someone fires back.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
This sounds like a reasonable shoot to me, but not knowing the distance, if the cops had cover, how suddenly the man “drew” the pipe down on the cops, the distance between them, etc.
But absent the details, it sounds almost like suicide by cop to draw and get into a shooting stance, aiming anything at someone. Everything looks like a gun when somebody is aiming at you.
OK, I take it all back if he had 8 rounds in his BACK! I mean, how can he be in a shooting stance and then wind up with 8 rounds in his back.
I don’t know what is going on anymore. This doesn’t sound right at all, especially if the cops were familiar with this guy.
The person responsible for the death is the one who called the cops and said that there was a guy with a gun.
The cops do not know anything more than what the dispatcher tells them. They arrive expecting to see a guy with a gun. They see a pipe and assume it’s a gun. They shoot.
If you want to eliminate someone you know, just wait till he is carrying a cane, a pipe, an umbrella, his keys, a phone, or a stick. Call the cops and say he’s got a gun. You don’t get prosecuted, and the guy is dead. Apologies issued, or not, and you got away with it. The target can be walking, sitting on the couch, or sleeping. If he’s sleeping the cops will wake him up before shooting him.
No, that is not what happened.
The neighborhood knew he was dim witted. The police knew him as the same.
Yes, what you said about the caller being responsible is correct. But NO, it was not done to eliminate him.
But he is just as dead.
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