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Police: Officers mistake pipe for gun, fatally shoot man
ABC News ^ | Apr 4, 2018, 9:49 PM ET | AP

Posted on 04/04/2018 7:31:07 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

Police officers responding to reports of a man threatening people with a gun on Wednesday fatally shot a man carrying a metal pipe, mistaking it for a firearm, police said.

It happened just before 5 p.m. in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn after three 911 callers said a "man was pointing a silver firearm at people on the street," according to NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan.

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Dr. Bennet Omalu announced that Clark was hit by eight bullets — six in the back, one in the neck and one in the thigh — and took three to 10 minutes to die. Police waited about five minutes before rendering medical aid.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: donutpatrol; donutwatch; doughnutpatrol; localnews; man; mistake; nypd; police; shot
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

One of the articles said he went into a shooting stance and aimed at the officers. But 8 rounds in the back does not support that at all.


61 posted on 04/05/2018 3:47:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

” Four officers were treated for minor injuries.”

Cha-ching! How did they get hurt?


62 posted on 04/05/2018 3:59:24 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Texas Fossil
Well as long as the cops got to go home to their families at night then all is OK, and besides "we don't know the whole story"

Saving the cop suckers from having to post their usual toe licking excuses for cops gunning down someone who was not committing a crime

63 posted on 04/05/2018 4:12:31 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

Agree, we don’t know the whole story. And this is not the place for justice to be applied.

It is tragic that the mentally handicapped person is dead.

I do not throw rocks at police, it is a tough job. They do however make mistakes. At times costly mistakes.

Law enforcement like all government functions should be local as much as possible. Local in a big city is impossible.


64 posted on 04/05/2018 4:21:21 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Eagles6; BenLurkin; octex; proxy_user; All

Eagle6 said: “The author is an idiot”

Yes, you are correct the bottom portion of the article does not relate to this incident. That is not clear, very confusing. Almost to point of being criminal, by the writer.

And yes, it was at night. That is apparent in photo with article.


65 posted on 04/05/2018 4:32:21 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: ChiMark; All

Thanks for that clarification of prior bad reporting.

Here is another article that is also much clearer. Includes photo of the “pipe” he was carrying:

NYPD: Officers fire 10 shots at man in Crown Heights, killing him

http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2018/04/04/police-involved-shooting-nyc-brooklyn-nypd-says

“Police officials said three people called 911 describing the pipe as a firearm.”

The pipe? > https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/TWCNews/71_pct_photo_3_policeinvolvedshootingjpg?wid=767&fit=stretch%2C+1


66 posted on 04/05/2018 4:45:43 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
Agree, we don’t know the whole story.

Actually we do

And this is not the place for justice to be applied.

You seem to have confused a discussion forum with a courtroom. We're not applying justice, we're discussing what appears to be a careless murder of a mentally deficient individual by cops who are empowered by their immunity to prosecution for acts that would get the rest of us serious jail time. Police should be held to a HIGHER standard than the rest of us, but in fact they aren't held to much of any standard other than what boils down to "it seemed to be the thing to do at the time."

67 posted on 04/05/2018 4:46:15 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

I understand you point of view. I’m not making excuses for mistakes of police officers. They are made. Some are fatal. And the more we militarize the police the worse the problem will get.

Nor do I understand what it is like to live in NY City. Nor do I want to.


68 posted on 04/05/2018 4:52:01 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: eastforker

Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jHCmSjkpqw


69 posted on 04/05/2018 6:08:53 AM PDT by suthener
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
"...they shot him in the back."
I'm not particularly making excuses for the police here, but it's entirely natural for a person, be it a perp or not, to turn away from any gunfire. This movement would be an instinctive protective move or to flee, etc.
70 posted on 04/05/2018 7:48:03 AM PDT by citizen (President Trump: HeÂ’s combined The Art of the Deal with AlinskyÂ’s Rules For Radicals. Game over.)
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To: Texas Fossil
"...“They didn’t say ‘freeze, hands up, drop your gun’, none of that,” Jaccpot Hinds said...."

Wait wait wait: "Jaccpot"?

71 posted on 04/05/2018 10:53:25 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Idiocracy is here, and it votes democrat.)
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To: T-Bone Texan
Wait wait wait: "Jaccpot"?

And his younger twin brothers, Sh!tpot and P!sspot ...

72 posted on 04/05/2018 11:00:59 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: T-Bone Texan

I know, credibility issue. But the guy is dead. That is not in dispute.


73 posted on 04/05/2018 11:02:45 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
The neighborhood knew he was dim witted.

Relative said he was bipolar.

74 posted on 04/05/2018 6:05:38 PM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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