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Woman Handing Out Samples at Va. Costco Shot by Police After Acting Strangely
NBC Washington ^ | 5/29/13 | Mila Mimica |

Posted on 05/29/2013 5:18:45 PM PDT by jimbo123

A woman handing out pizza samples at a Virginia Costco was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies Wednesday afternoon after she began acting strangely and came at the officers with a weapon, authorities said.

A sheriff's deputy also was wounded in the leg, possibly by a ricochet. He is expected to recover.

The melee began at about 3 p.m., when store employees noticed the woman acting oddly at the Costco in Sterling, Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman said. Witnesses said she seemed upset about the pizza she was handing out.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: costco; leo; loudoun; police; shooting; sterling
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Exactly. Something had to be going on in her head. Maybe the autopsy will reveal something.


21 posted on 05/29/2013 5:42:53 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: skeeter

There’s about 2 seconds between them.


22 posted on 05/29/2013 5:42:54 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Diabetes?


23 posted on 05/29/2013 5:43:04 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: South Hawthorne

You mean the officers don’t know how to disarm a woman with a knife? They could have pepper sprayed her, or tazed her, but their choice was to shoot her and kill her. I guess it’s true, never bring a knife to a gunfight.


24 posted on 05/29/2013 5:43:26 PM PDT by mardi59 (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
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To: jimbo123; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
A sheriff's deputy also was wounded in the leg, possibly by a ricochet.

Next time they should disarm her of the ricochet she's carrying first.

25 posted on 05/29/2013 5:43:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Irenic

Where did you hear that they had to be fired at twice? Worst I heard in the media was that if the shooter put his gun down and was in a crowd (probably Iraq or Sangin) they could not shoot. Any documentation? The reason I am asking is I am friends with a ROE group.


26 posted on 05/29/2013 5:43:46 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Maybe hypoglycemia?


27 posted on 05/29/2013 5:43:47 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Gene Eric

I tried really hard not to laugh at your comment.


28 posted on 05/29/2013 5:44:01 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: jimbo123

Was she on serotonin inhibitor drugs?


29 posted on 05/29/2013 5:44:22 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Cen-Tejas

She’s dead because she attacked a pair of cops with a knife and the taser didn’t even faze her.


30 posted on 05/29/2013 5:46:24 PM PDT by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: Domandred
Soon to be banned by congress! Buy them now while you still can

Some come in stealth designs.


31 posted on 05/29/2013 5:47:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: jimbo123

Thanks, what a shocker for those shopping. Sad.


32 posted on 05/29/2013 5:47:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: jimbo123

Eyewitness account appears to suggest excessive force:

“My wife, baby and I were in the yard section 2 aisles over from the food section where it happened. We saw about 8 cops run by, and then a manager walk right by us and not say a word! Next thing I heard was “Drop the Knife” and then 1 shot followed very quickly by about 3 or 4 more. “


33 posted on 05/29/2013 5:48:05 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: jimbo123

The only reason to go to Costco is the free samples.


34 posted on 05/29/2013 5:49:11 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: ZULU

” A cop who can’t disarm a woman with a knife without shooting her to death shouldn’t be on the force”

This is the most sensible statement on the thread. it’s not about whether they could shoot her, it’s about whether they should have.


35 posted on 05/29/2013 5:50:38 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: iowamark

So you’re paying 55 bucks a year plus transportation costs to get mini free samples of grub?


36 posted on 05/29/2013 5:53:00 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: muir_redwoods

They tried that, apparently it didn’t work for one reason or another. I don’t like cops on principle alone, but I don’t think they should use their body to stop crazy people with knives.


37 posted on 05/29/2013 5:53:16 PM PDT by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: RFEngineer

I don’t believe they are trained to do that anymore.


38 posted on 05/29/2013 5:53:42 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: jimbo123

Not being there, I don’t know if it was necessary to shoot this woman. Presumably, several cops with night sticks should have been able to take her down without lethal force. But, the only people who would truly know are those who were there.


39 posted on 05/29/2013 5:53:54 PM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: ZULU
"Don’t hold your breath for an explanation. A cop who can’t disarm a woman with a knife without shooting her to death shouldn’t be on the force As someone noted before in the good old days you had to have size and strength to be a cop"

I think you are underestimating how dangerous a knife can be. If this is what happened, the cop had every right to shoot her dead before she got close enough to be able to do any damage, sad as it is to have to do this to someone who might not have been able to help being mad.

40 posted on 05/29/2013 5:56:18 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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