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Model LAPD cop, 23, known as 'top shot' is being sued for shooting and killing a father, 38, who 'lunged at her with a box cutter', after BLM protesters called for action
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 18 2020 | JAMES GORDON

Posted on 07/18/2020 9:39:17 AM PDT by knighthawk

A 23-year-old Los Angeles police officer known as 'top shot' is being sued by the heartbroken 14-year-old daughter of a man she killed, after he appeared to lunge at the cop with a box cutter.

Toni McBride, an officer in LAPD's Newton Division who has appeared in magazines and practices at gun ranges alongside Hollywood stars including Keanu Reeves, is being sued after bodycam footage showing her shooting Daniel Hernandez, 38, in downtown Los Angeles in April was released.

The footage shows that after instructing him to drop a box cutter he was holding, Hernandez appeared to continue to walk towards the officer.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: BenLurkin

Indeed have law will protect.


21 posted on 07/18/2020 10:02:33 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: knighthawk

That was a good shoot.Not Guilty.


22 posted on 07/18/2020 10:04:50 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: knighthawk

Stupid idiot gambled and lost.

Listen to the cops when they are pointing a gun at you and telling you to drop their weapon.

Don’t bank on them not firing when you are coming to hurt them.

Too stupid for words.


23 posted on 07/18/2020 10:05:48 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: knighthawk
knighthawk :" Don't bring a knife to a gunfight... "

Every police officer knows that a 'perp', armed with a cutting edge instrument, in this case a box cutter, knows that any perp lunge within 21 feet, will result with the officer getting cut up,
if the firearm is still in the holster.
There is little to no protection for the officer allowing for the officers reaction time to the assault.

24 posted on 07/18/2020 10:10:02 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: JungleGoat77

I’ve got a book on the 1911 pistol. There are a couple of photos in it that are hard to look at. They’re of knife wounds


25 posted on 07/18/2020 10:10:24 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: knighthawk

Killing crazed attacker Daniel Hernandez was a public good.


26 posted on 07/18/2020 10:13:44 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: knighthawk

The comments at the link are split about her actions.

What nobody pointed out was that while it was clear he had a box cutter and was not stopping, there’s no way they could know if he had any other weapon, like a gun, that he could have used if he were only injured.

There could have been dead cops if not a dead idiot.


27 posted on 07/18/2020 10:17:39 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: albie

I suspect that it’s a male thing not respecting a female officer, or thinking that she’s too girly to really shoot, or that he can cow her with his tough guy act like he does with the other females in his life.

Either way, I’ll bet he was banking on her not shooting because she was young and female.

He lost.


28 posted on 07/18/2020 10:20:30 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: JungleGoat77

What? She needed to carry a tape measure, also?


29 posted on 07/18/2020 10:23:42 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Sgt Tueller set out to time to cover the 21 feet for the knife strike...avg was 1.5 secs...with the perps knife exposed before the lunge and the officers aware of the threat as part of the test.

Key tactic in knife fighting is concealing the knife while approaching target, disguising the threat...that average time may be critically shorter in that case....

30 posted on 07/18/2020 10:25:46 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: dragnet2

Is that her finger on the trigger? I was distracted by her breasticles but it appears that way. I’ll have to keep looking.


31 posted on 07/18/2020 10:30:18 AM PDT by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: JungleGoat77; albie
I'm not going to argue the case...just want to point out that the Tueller Drill situation has the gun carrier start with a holstered gun.

This officer was already pointing the gun at the knifeman when he was still pretty far away. Should she have waited until he was within, say, 10 feet? No idea.

32 posted on 07/18/2020 10:33:28 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: knighthawk

What is it with folks, don’t they listen when police give them an order?


33 posted on 07/18/2020 10:37:09 AM PDT by Lopeover (Patriots Fight)
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To: JungleGoat77; albie

PS: Looking again at the moment she started shooting, he wasn’t even moving toward her at any great speed. Actually, looks like he stopped walking right before being shot.


34 posted on 07/18/2020 10:41:14 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Covenantor
Covenantor :" Key tactic in knife fighting is concealing the knife while approaching target, disguising the threat...
that average time may be critically shorter in that case...."

The element of 'surprise' adds to the reaction time of any assault.
The nickname of "Top Shot" will not be an asset for the police officer's defense.
Officers are muscle and muscle memory trained to shoot for center of mass to stop the threat.
'Deadly force' is employed only in response to deadly threat, or deadly force.
This situation meets both justifications.
Only a ignoramus would advise for an officer to shoot for the legs, or a wound injury, when the officer's life is at risk.

35 posted on 07/18/2020 10:42:15 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Comment Not Approved

No curl on the trigger. The finger is straight out to the front of the guard.


36 posted on 07/18/2020 10:44:21 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: Lopeover; knighthawk
Lopeover :" What is it with folks, don’t they listen when police give them an order? "

Perhaps the perp figured since the officer was a female, he could best her response.
He happened to pick on the wrong officer - he lost !

37 posted on 07/18/2020 10:46:00 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: dragnet2
INNOCENT!

38 posted on 07/18/2020 10:47:23 AM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: newfreep

Or just fire into the air. The Biden way.


39 posted on 07/18/2020 10:48:20 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The element of ‘surprise’ adds to the reaction time of any assault

Just to be clear...concealment surprise shortens the available reaction time of the window of opportunity to identify threat, make decision, draw and fire...


40 posted on 07/18/2020 10:51:00 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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