Teen armed with paint sprayer nozzle shot by officer

By Ian Ith and Michael Ko ^

[oyez]

Better plan. All citizen should have there index fingers dyed international orange so tha police and others will not confuse the digit with a pistol.

[Panzerfaust]

Obviously, the police officer took careful aim and did not just "spray and pray".

Sounds like the kid took a real shellacking.

Looks like playing with paint sprayers really does cause light-headedness.

[DouglasKC]

"Teen armed with paint sprayer nozzle shot by officer "

How much bias is there in this headline? Man.

How about a truthful headline like:

"Violent Criminal Shot and Apprehended."

The headline makes it sound like some kid was goofing off spray painting his bike and a was shot by a stupid cop who couldn't tell the difference.

[DAnconia55]

Note to Seattle teens: Don't rob people.

[holyscroller]

This happened in Seattle Police Chief "Girley-cowski's" command. He'll probably send an apology and sympathy card to the perp.

[CFC__VRWC]

Of course the libs will classify this as the handgun-related death of a child....

After they crucify the officer and trash the department for "encouraging police brutality."

[farmfriend]

Yes, I do believe that would be more effective.

[LibKill]

I guess this gets classified as "thinning the herd."

Yes.

Darwin never sleeps.

[SSN558]

"A fleeing felon who represents a continuing threat to the community may be apprehended by using deadly force"

Looks like all the Law and Order types are out in force. This is an unjustified use of deadly force.

1. The perp is not a felon until convicted by a jury of his peers, as laid out in the U.S. Constitution, Magna Carta and a few other antiquated pieces of paper.

2. The perp was fleeing and therefore not a serious threat to the officer or the robbery victims. 3. Shooting someone in the back is acceptable use of deadly force in war but not for civilian law enforcement. Sorry folks I'm from the old school when we used to call them peace officers and the cops were at least supposed to be brave and honorable.

4. The cop should have given chase. Yes this is more dangerous than shooting the perp in the back but it is what good cops used to do.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

And you're an idiot. He chose to die when he started using something like a firearm to rop people, and be not dropping it as he ran.

you'd be whining like the twit you are if your mother/daughter/wife/son/uncle/business partner got robbed or shot by someone who got away from the police because of a policy of not shooting fleeing armed felons.

I've been shot at by someone trying to rob me before, and believe me, catching them is impossible.

[teeman8r]

catching them is not impossible, if you were able to arm yourself, you could've stopped the robber dead in his tracks...

the police are not in the business of protecting the masses but enforcing the laws... the shooting is predicated on the fleeing perp being a threat to a larger contingent of civilians... that description can be applied to anyone running toward a heavily populated area... open season?
apparently so, in your book.

the police are clinging onto the fears of an unarmed society. they are increasing their powers over the very people they are supposed to be serving.

[csvset]

Here's another shooting to weigh in on.

Memphis, TN: Subway owner shoots and kills robbery suspect

I'm curious, isn't Ohio trying to pass a concealed carry law? If you were being robbed and were armed, would you try to defend yourself or give the robber a pass?

[SSN558]

Chancellor Palpatine signed up 2002-05-28.

My, my! Calling names. It seems Free Republic has aquired quite a few of these in the last six months. You must have the maturity level of a ten year old. It is reflected on the graphics of your profile page. Woopeee cowboys and indians !!! Shoot all the bad guys.

[SSN558]

If you were being robbed and were armed, would you try to defend yourself or give the robber a pass?

If the robber decided to run after I had brandished a weapon it would be mission acomplished. A crime was stopped and nobody got killed. It is called self defense not open season. It is sad that many of the militarized police departments do not see it that way.

As far a Ohio concealed carry, if and when it does pass I do not intend to get a permit. My part of the woods are like Mayberry RFD, a bicycle getting stolen is front page news.

[Doc Savage]

The kid is a maggot, a piece of defecation from the sleazy underbelly of a sewer rat, a piece of slime, a mutant. Bring back crucifixion!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Normally I would agree you don't shoot someone in the back as they are fleeing. In this case though you don't realize this guy was running towards a crowded neighborhood a block away.

If you catch up to him their and shots start flying then bystanders are at risk. The Cop was within the law, his training and as it stands now common sense when all the facts are known.

Not only that but the cop hit the perp once out of two shots fired while the perp was running. That's a much higher percentage than most police shootings which have hit rates of about 18%. Of course these were SWAT officers and not patrol officers so that accounts for some of the increase but still, 50% hit rate in a dark alley on a running target with a pistol is damn good.

By the way, the perp died last night.

[Libertina]

as he ran away from police had been armed only with a gun-shaped commercial paint sprayer nozzle...
You forgot some ;) ... The poor child robbed someone, but for heaven's sake he was ONLY armed with blah blah blah... Disgusting bias stupidity.

[Copernicus]

This is an unjustified use of deadly force.

As always, any analysis must depend on the accuracy of the report under consideration, especially or particularly newspaper accounts.

With that said, this seems to be one of the few justifiable Police shootings I have encountered.

1.We are confronted with a series of predictable violent armed robberies serious enough to field a SWAT stakeout team for survelliance. 2.The perpetrators involved refuse to surrender when challenged. 3.The Police do not fire in panic or incompetence.

I must respectfully disagree with your otherwise thoughtful analysis.

Best regards,

[Shooter 2.5]

A little off topic but if, and I do mean if, your state gets a CCW law, I would advice you to get a permit.

Regardless of whether you live in Mayberry, a lot of people are working very hard to get you the permit. It's one step closer to full Second Amendment Rights.

You will become one of the good guys, you will add the statistics in disproving the "Wild West" theory, and it will help other states to get their permits.

Personally, I don't think the law is going to be passed. The RINO governor you have isn't going to sign it, the majority of the people in Ohio don't want it and I think the NRA is wasting their time and money.

[JimRed]

...when he robbed a customer at an automated teller machine in Wallingford.

You rob, you die. Sounds fair to me!