Posted on 08/08/2020 10:14:35 AM PDT by rktman
Body cam footage from the Salt Lake City Police Department shows an alleged hostage taker with a knife to an innocents neck being shot dead by police.
Fox 13 reported that body cam video was released of a July 25, 2020, incident in which alleged hostage-taker, 34-year-old Andrew Jacob Preece, was shot dead.
Police indicated that Preece allegedly got in a fight in a grocery store with a man around 9:20 a.m. The fight carried on outside, where Preece allegedly pulled a knife on the man and held him hostage.
KSL-TV reports that one of the responding officers described seeing a knife the size of a forearm.
The body cam video shows two officers responding to the situation and trying to talk Preece into releasing the man. Preece allegedly refused the officers commands and continued walking down the sidewalk, while holding the knife to the man.
One of the officers got a wide enough view to take a shot, quickly followed by three others. Preece turned and winced, at which point follow-up shots were fired.
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So...What did the “Friend” with the knife to his neck say?
BLUE LIVES MATTER
Outrageous reaction by the police. That was a mostly-peaceful hostage taking.
There is no “alleged.” He did take a hostage. He did endanger her life. He did deserve to die. He did die. He will rot and be eaten by worms.
I like it when stories turn out well.
I agree...great shot and the creep earned what he got.
Justice served.
Scum family
SLCPD issues various models of Glock 9mms. Some officers are approved to carry their own firearms in other makes chambered in 9mm or .45.
Twice I have encounters, one in a regular grocery store, one at a convenience market, with this kind of nut, hopped up on who knows what. Both times I slipped away as the nut was moving closer and ranting louder and louder. The convenience market guy was on 911 as I ran out the door. ‘Please come quickly’, he said, ‘I don’t want to have to use gun.’ Convenience store guy was a Korean.
Would have taken the shot right there. If I have a tendency it is to jerk the trigger and it goes to right.
I thought they gave him too much time.
They were right to kill him.
I’m a mechanic not a police officer, though.
There’s a lot of new training philosophy out there in the tactical world for multiple shots to the hips as well as a way to put a perp/combatant on their ass. but yeah... a single shot (which nobody should be shooting a single shot in a SD situation) you’d have to pretty much blow the the brain-stem or spinal cord out. Even a shot to the heart... perp can keep going for seconds.
Alleged. Well gee whiz, I hope they shot the right guy.
Alleged? Is there a genuine issue whether the guy took a hostage? Is someone alleging that he has a twin brother who is the real perp?
video looked to me like a white female police officer killed a white male hostage taker to save the life of a young black male ... THAT’LL never appear on the fake stream enemedia ...
Wait. They did this without a social worker??? Riot!!!!!!!
Wait! The hostage was a POC? Guess I need to go back for another view. Obviously the racis’ cop shot the wrong individual. IF blm is to be beleived.
Funny as all get out but not real.
If he were black they would be out looting the already looted store, burning down the already burned down businesses and rioting the already empty stores they looted previously
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