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Brooklyn Man Fatally Shot by Police Was Unarmed, Bratton Says
http://www.nytimes.com ^
| 11/21/2014
| By MARC SANTORA and NATE SCHWEBER
Posted on 11/21/2014 12:41:07 PM PST by redreno
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:41:07 PM PST
by
redreno
To: redreno
Darkened stairwell is a bad scenario.
The Cop will walk even if the victim was innocent.
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:46:02 PM PST
by
mylife
To: redreno
First rule of guns.
Know what you are shooting at.
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:46:49 PM PST
by
mylife
To: mylife
They should declare that he failed his probation.
Otherwise, what is a probationary period for ?
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:51:16 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: UCANSEE2
Sad scenario for all involved.
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:52:35 PM PST
by
mylife
To: redreno
point your gun at the ground until you need to use it
never point a gun at something you don’t want to shoot
do not put your finger on the trigger until a threat is recognized
Any one of these rules could have prevented the accident.
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:54:22 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
To: mylife
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:55:08 PM PST
by
sakic
To: redreno
Liang appears to be Asian. No racial angle, no one will care.
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:55:34 PM PST
by
Forgotten Amendments
(Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:56:52 PM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
To: mylife
First rule of guns.
Know what you are shooting at. Unless you're a cop. Then it's OK to just open fire. Need to make sure that you get home at the end of your shift.
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:57:08 PM PST
by
tpmintx
(Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
To: redreno
This is not an Accident. Unless the Gun fired ALL BY Itself It is RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT!!
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posted on
11/21/2014 12:59:14 PM PST
by
eyeamok
To: mylife; All
"The Cop will walk even if the victim was innocent"
"first rule of guns, know what your shooting at"
like, one Soviet NKVD cop had said: "you show me the man, I'll show you the criminal"
that's old school: "cops get a 'get out of jail' card" by the D.A.
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posted on
11/21/2014 1:00:46 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
To: tpmintx
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posted on
11/21/2014 1:01:08 PM PST
by
mylife
To: stephenjohnbanker
Which begs the questions:
Was he a product of lowered standards to get a minority officer
Did they give this guy a number of passes prior to this
Had his partner raised concerns prior to this, to no avail
Was he truly fit to be an officer
Was he scared to death at the time of the accidental shooting
Did he receive proper training
Did he apply himself and learn the material presented
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posted on
11/21/2014 1:01:27 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
To: mylife
Particularly for the poor joker that got killed for just walking downstairs.
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posted on
11/21/2014 1:02:10 PM PST
by
sport
To: mylife
Yes. This should never have happened.
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posted on
11/21/2014 1:03:17 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
11/21/2014 1:04:31 PM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
To: redreno
It's not like Cops don't shoot unarmed Black people. ...they do.
Video shows trooper shooting unarmed man, South Carolina police say
( But Sean Groubert, who has since been fired for the incident, has been charged with aggravated assault and battery, a felony that could get him up to 20 years in prison if convicted, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said Wednesday. )
But that's not what happened in Furguson with that Thug Michael Brown.
To: redreno
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posted on
11/21/2014 1:06:34 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: trisham
Agreed, I have been in similar scenarios where some joker is in my gated yard in the dark in the middle of the night banging on my window.
You do not just blast away.
One was an idiot friend, another was a stranger.
Both drunk.
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posted on
11/21/2014 1:06:58 PM PST
by
mylife
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