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Citrus deputy fatally shoots woman who pointed taser
Tampa Tribune ^ | 11/17/14

Posted on 11/17/2014 3:13:27 PM PST by Impala64ssa

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WELL WELL WELL, lookie here! A White cop shot a White woman, I live just 20 miles from this trailer park and no demonstrations yet. Nor am I holding my breath waiting for the panthers, or the sissy boys from anonymous to come down here to start trouble. If anything, given this woman was not exactly a "pillar of the community" and her previous arrest record her neighbors may view this incident as a civic improvement.
1 posted on 11/17/2014 3:13:27 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Sounds justifiable to me.


2 posted on 11/17/2014 3:14:45 PM PST by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: MeganC

Yep. If he didn’t shoot her, crazy lady tases police officer, now crazy lady has a gun and a cop car. Crazy ladies don’t do well with firearms.

CC


3 posted on 11/17/2014 3:19:06 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (stercus accidit)
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To: Impala64ssa
My first impression - mental illness and/or substance abuse
4 posted on 11/17/2014 3:20:08 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

She’s a Tweeker.


5 posted on 11/17/2014 3:21:52 PM PST by Autonomous User (No 18 Holes after a Head Rolls.)
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When you start pointing a weapon on law enforcement your life is on very thin breaking ice.

Sounds like this woman did more than start and is become a candidate for the Darwin Awards; eliminating herself from the gene pool.

6 posted on 11/17/2014 3:23:22 PM PST by sr4402
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To: Celtic Conservative

Don’t take a taser to a ...


7 posted on 11/17/2014 3:23:49 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: zeestephen

If she’d dead now, how did they get this mug shot ??

Must have been arrested before.


8 posted on 11/17/2014 3:23:54 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: George from New England

I highly suspect this ain’t her first rodeo...

..but it was her last!


9 posted on 11/17/2014 3:27:21 PM PST by snuffy smiff (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The precedent is established ... if you point anything at me, I will shoot to kill you.


10 posted on 11/17/2014 3:28:15 PM PST by knarf
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To: zeestephen

That’s a rough 46!


11 posted on 11/17/2014 3:29:25 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: zeestephen

The face of meth. She looks like she’s 60.


12 posted on 11/17/2014 3:36:04 PM PST by headstamp 2
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“When you start pointing a weapon on law enforcement your life is on very thin breaking ice.”

It’s not a weapon when a cop tazers a 12 year old school girl, now it is? Seems to me the cop had no reason to fear for his life. Not a good shoot based on that.

And with her looks and her age, she wasn’t in the gene pool...


13 posted on 11/17/2014 3:38:35 PM PST by babygene
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To: Sasparilla

‘zactly.

CC


14 posted on 11/17/2014 3:38:44 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (stercus accidit)
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To: Menehune56

“That’s a rough 46!”

Ridden hard and put away wet?


15 posted on 11/17/2014 3:40:05 PM PST by babygene
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To: knarf

I won’t shoot to kill, I’ll shoot to stop.

That is, I’ll shoot so that the perp will stop and fall down, as quickly as possible.

Once he falls down, I’d just as soon he live. Provided that he stops.

Of course, the fastest way to stop someone is to put multiple rounds through center mass - tearing out the major arteries running along the spine. Cut them, and he’ll will bleed out in seconds.

So if I hit my target he’s not likely to live. But my intent, in aiming where I aim, isn’t to kill, it’s to stop.

And if it turns out that I’m not that great a shot, under stress (which isn’t unlikely), I’ll keep shooting until he’s stopped being a threat, and if he’s still alive when I determine that he’s not a threat, I’m fine with that.

Remember, the only correct answer, when the prosecutor asks “why did you shoot him X times?” is “because after I’d shot him X-1 times, he was still a threat.”

Consider, for example, someone twenty feet away, coming at you with a machete. You attempt a double-tap to center mass, and put one round through his kneecap and the other into a maple tree. He’s no longer a threat, and your right to use deadly force to stop him has just ended. (That doesn’t mean aim for his kneecap - aim for center mass. Hitting large, stationary targets with a pistol under stress is hard enough.)


16 posted on 11/17/2014 3:47:45 PM PST by jdege
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To: Impala64ssa

“Citrus police? You expect me to believe that?”


17 posted on 11/17/2014 3:47:47 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: babygene

Not a weapon? One of the things i learned in academy is if you’re a cop responding to a call, 100% of the time a gun will be involved. Why? Because YOU are ARMED. If she had tased the officer, then she has access to his sidearm, gas, any backup weapons and a cop car. 100% clean shoot. Use of force review should clear him. He might get in some kind of administrative trouble for losing his taser. And he might be sent to weapons retention training to freshen up his skills. But I very much doubt he will be in serous trouble.

CC


18 posted on 11/17/2014 3:49:53 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (stercus accidit)
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To: Autonomous User

Not anymore she ain’t.

CC


19 posted on 11/17/2014 3:50:54 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (stercus accidit)
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To: Celtic Conservative; babygene

What you said CC...


20 posted on 11/17/2014 3:52:19 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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