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To: HamiltonJay
You're from the Pgh area. You know the recent news stories...yeah gangbangers get shot...but since the first of the year haven't a couple little kids (the girl on the North Side killed in her sisters house when it was 'sprayed' and young boy that got hit in the KFC drive thru...and the 12 year old boy, in broad daylight shot as a bystander in Wilkinsburg just a week or so ago). Maybe these cops 'know' going in who they are looking for (doesn't Pgh have a 'gang task force') and with the collateral loss of innocents in recent history, maybe the cops are responding to 'gunfire' with more zeal than usual? Maybe they 'knew' (by discription) who they were looking for...and when he shoves his hand up his shirt...well causes suspicion.

There will be an investigation, and no doubt a scummy lawyer driven law suit. But I have to give all benefit of doubt to the Pittsburgh PD in this one. Knoxville, gunfire, and a crowd of gangbangers (who don't respond to police directions) equals trouble. Again, I'm buying the cops side of this all the way.

And for those of you non-Pittsburgh area FReepers, go to any of the Pittsburgh news websites (ThePittsburghChannel.com for one) and watch for yourselves the 'interviews.' See which side you think is telling the truth.

167 posted on 05/07/2008 12:20:32 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I could never 'Keep Sweet' I am a bitter Pennsylvanian)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

You can blindly back the cops. However blindly backing the cops is no less knee jerk than the family attacking the cops.

The investigation will hopefully be handled by an outside entity, and whether it was a clean shoot or not will be discovered.

The cops story and the witnesses at the scenes stories as of right now don’t jive with each other, why they don’t match up is what the investigation will determine.

I’ve seen cops cover up for each other before, so I will not blindly take their word for it. There is only one man who ever walked this earth that I will blindly follow, and he never wore a Policeman’s uniform, and come to think of it was killed by the authorities for no crime of his own.

I respect law encorcement, and I am not saying these cops acted improperly. However the stories from witnesses at the scene do bring up serious questions. Time will tell if they are exonerated or not.


170 posted on 05/07/2008 1:22:57 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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