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Denver police shoot, kill knife-wielding woman at downtown intersection
denver7.com ^ | June 25, 2024 | Robert Garrison

Posted on 06/25/2024 2:17:48 PM PDT by rdl6989

DENVER — Police in Denver are investigating a shooting involving officers in the downtown area that left one woman dead Sunday.

It happened at 11:44 a.m. on Broadway near the Lawrence Street intersection.

Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said officers responded to the area on a report that a woman holding a knife was in the intersection.

When officers arrived, they confronted the woman and gave her commands to drop the knife. However, Thomas said the woman refused and began advancing toward the officers.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: banglist; colorado; crime; denver; migueltapia; police
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The "woman" was named Miguel Tapia. Once again these people are crazy.
1 posted on 06/25/2024 2:17:48 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Her sisters name is Hector.


2 posted on 06/25/2024 2:24:28 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rdl6989

“The “woman” was named Miguel Tapia. Once again these people are crazy.”

Believed to be an illegal.


3 posted on 06/25/2024 2:24:55 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: rdl6989

It’s a sad state of affairs when several cops can’t disarm a woman with a knife. Didn’t they have a taser?


4 posted on 06/25/2024 2:37:59 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: rdl6989

I guess nobody was carrying a Taser or anything less lethal than magazines of 9mm.


5 posted on 06/25/2024 2:38:10 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Seruzawa

I think I read that Miguel was tazed twice before the fatal shot.


6 posted on 06/25/2024 2:57:54 PM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: T. Rustin Noone

Three officers opened fire and struck the woman after at least two tasing attempts failed to stop the woman from advancing, according to Thomas.


7 posted on 06/25/2024 2:59:20 PM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Seruzawa

Dream on. At close quarters a knife is lethal. Advance on a cop with a knife. Prepare to die.


8 posted on 06/25/2024 3:01:56 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: rdl6989

Bingo.


9 posted on 06/25/2024 3:04:59 PM PDT by ZULU (Remember Joscelyn Nungary, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley)
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To: Seruzawa

I remember police from fifty years ago fearing a person with a knife, The 21 foot rule and because, in their words,...”The knife is always loaded!”


10 posted on 06/25/2024 3:07:38 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Seruzawa

Have you ever been in a knife fight?


11 posted on 06/25/2024 3:09:37 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: rdl6989

Suicide by cop


12 posted on 06/25/2024 3:10:28 PM PDT by tony549 (Stuck in SoCal)
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knife fight

2 insane trannies come into the room you are in. One armed with a pistol, the other, a fixed blade knife, 4" long. They have the capability, opportunity and intent to kill you. Which one do you shoot first?

The one with the knife.

Always.

13 posted on 06/25/2024 3:21:06 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: DCBryan1

Brings back memories of the lesbian gang in “The Warriors”!


14 posted on 06/25/2024 3:24:02 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: cyclotic

ax·i·om
/ˈaksēəm/
noun
a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.

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Given the state of our country right now, meaning police in some areas are quitting by the hundreds, other departments are understaffed, moral in the ranks is down, cops have to operate alone due to understaffing, recruiting new quality applicants to be cops is way down, Seattle is hiring uneducated migrants as cops etc etc. I think it should be an axiom that if you come at a cop or cops with a deadly weapon that they shoot you dead.....period.....no questions asked...no temporary suspension..........just go to lunch and back to work!


15 posted on 06/25/2024 3:26:27 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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Good. Equal treatment. Feel bad for the officers and what they now have to go through.


16 posted on 06/25/2024 3:32:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Yup!


17 posted on 06/25/2024 3:37:36 PM PDT by old school
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To: Seruzawa
Yeah, they shoulda just Chuck Norris round house kicked the knife outta her hand……… /s

The only way to “disarm” someone with a knife is two shots center mass, and one more to the forehead if they don’t drop from the double-tap.

Messing around with someone holding a knife is a great way to wind up dead.

18 posted on 06/25/2024 3:39:16 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Seruzawa

Yes, they did shoot her with tazers and they said “they seemed to not have the desired effect.” So the officers mag-dumped her.


19 posted on 06/25/2024 3:41:52 PM PDT by Gaffer
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“It’s a sad state of affairs when several cops can’t disarm a woman with a knife. Didn’t they have a taser?”

They could have just shot the knife out of her had, right?


20 posted on 06/25/2024 3:42:35 PM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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