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Unarmed Arizona man shot dead by Phoenix cop who mistook pill bottle for pistol: police
The New York Daily News ^ | December 05, 2014 | Sasha Goldstein

Posted on 12/05/2014 12:39:07 PM PST by Bettyprob

An unarmed Arizona man was shot dead by a Phoenix police officer who mistook a pill bottle for a handgun, police said.

Police have yet to name the 30-year-old white officer, who fired off two shots that killed Rumain Brisbon, a 34-year-old black man, during an altercation Tuesday night during an investigation into a drug deal, police said.

But witness accounts varied on what actually happened, sparking protests in Phoenix Thursday night as the fever pitch from the police killings of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and the chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island, boiled over into the streets of the southwestern United States.

The police-involved shooting gives “the impression it’s open season for killing black men,” Ann Hart, the chairwoman of the African American Police Advisory Board for South Phoenix, told KPNX-TV.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; cops; donutwatch; police; rumainbrisbon; shooting
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

41 posted on 12/05/2014 1:10:12 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: colorado tanker
These police shootings happen fairly frequently, if viewed nationwide. So, now we're going to have front page treatment, hysteria and a manufactured "crisis."

It's the only way Obama can take over state police and have his own national police force. The plan is to make us beg for the fedgov to save us.

Yuri Bezmenov explained it all around 30 years ago.

42 posted on 12/05/2014 1:10:33 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Bettyprob

Attorney for family wants his autopsy delayed so an “independent” observer (Shawn Parcells? Baden?) can be in attendance.
http://www.kpho.com/story/27559179/attorney-delay-autopsy-of-man-shot-by-police?autostart=true


43 posted on 12/05/2014 1:11:46 PM PST by machogirl
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To: Bettyprob

Justified or not, Cops Guilty or Innocent, Dead guys Angels or Devils really doesn’t matter.

If the Race Baiters in charge don’t get a handle on this there is going to be some deep Kimchi.

All the ‘major players’ are in DC ‘honoring’ a Mayor whose biggest moment was ‘The Biatch Set Me Up’ and one of his more prolific statements was ‘We need the ‘City Prison’ in Lorton VA because it may be the ONLY chance some of these boys have to ever get out of DC’.

The police - whether instructed to or not let the trash escalate from blocking a couple of city streets in MO to blocking Interstates in MO, and the ‘HANDS OFF’ the protestors (who suddenly became the usual anarchists) spread to where ‘they’ are blocking streets and bridges in major cities.

We are going to end up with a Kent State moment here BUT these ‘Rabble Rousing Agitators’ are a tad bit more prepared than the college ‘kids’ were @ Kent State.
Or some idiot is going to pull somebody out of a car and whupp up on them and it will be ‘Katy Bar the Door’.

The Blacks need only go back to the VN protests when they were riding high when the young girls thought it was ‘cool’ to get down with the movement and the rich White boys were financing and helping the Blacks....
Notice when the draft ended, the Rich White Boys went back to class or home and the Blacks were left dangling with their ‘cover’ taken away.

Still kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop from the ‘Serbians’ .... if a couple of those suspects get on the street and they find them scattered throughout town, there is only one direction to look...SOME PEOPLE you just don’t ‘Sandra Fluke’ with and if you do, prepare for the worst.


44 posted on 12/05/2014 1:12:00 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) Would love to buy BO for what he is worth, then sell him for what he thinks he is worth.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Thanks. I saw it first on FB.


45 posted on 12/05/2014 1:12:35 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: TigersEye

The letter from the 9 year-old daughter is sad, but I question WHO had her write, “why did you shoot him in the back”?


46 posted on 12/05/2014 1:13:10 PM PST by machogirl
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To: Responsibility2nd
Brown was not unarmed

Did I miss something? What was he armed with?

47 posted on 12/05/2014 1:14:29 PM PST by Bettyprob
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To: GeronL

Ever seen the movie, ‘End of Watch’ ?


48 posted on 12/05/2014 1:14:52 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: showme_the_Glory
WOW, open season.

Where do they issue the licenses? What's the bag limit? < /sarc >

49 posted on 12/05/2014 1:15:32 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy
I think these stories are being given national coverage to try and indict conservatives/Republicans as being the evil hate-filled enemy.

Agreed, and the racist meme actually integrates the Racist White Killer Cop image with the anti-Imigrant Racist image, ostensibly to help demonize opposition to illegal immigration as being nothing but whites being racist, exerting their white privilege, etc. In propaganda this is called bracketing. It was used successfully in Germany to create a Pavlovian reaction against German Jews. It reaches past the rational layer and simply creates a totally artificial association between two things that should not in any reasonable mind be connected.

50 posted on 12/05/2014 1:17:43 PM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Bettyprob

why someone thinks it’s okay to fight with officers, and they aren’t supposed to shoot you if you doin’t have a gun, is beyond me.


51 posted on 12/05/2014 1:17:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: hal ogen
I think the criminal class should all be put on a Devil’s Island for the rest of their pathetic, useless, malignant lives. One strike and you’re OUT! Society needs to stop pandering to and to stop encouraging the thug criminal class.

See my FReeper profile for my "Rock in the Aleutians" solution.

52 posted on 12/05/2014 1:18:47 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Bettyprob
Did I miss something? What was he armed with?

300 pounds of muscle and an attitude. Kind of like this guy.

Here's a video of a police officer fighting for his life with an "unarmed" man approx. the same size as Michael Brown.

Caught on tape.Cop fights for his life. Youtube 1:48

53 posted on 12/05/2014 1:27:08 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I had the barrel of a cops gun not 6 inches from my face once in a very tense situation. I matched the description of an armed and extremely dangerous kidnapper/murderer.

The situation de-escelated pretty quickly with total compliance and calmly answering the cop’s questions. I spent a few minutes face down in handcuffs and met just about every cop on the force that day but I was on my way within 20 minutes.


54 posted on 12/05/2014 1:28:55 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Bettyprob

Legally whenever two individuals are fighting for possesion of a weapon, BOTH are deemed to be in possesion of that weapon.

Here is a similar situation that didn’t turn out so well...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3232616/posts


55 posted on 12/05/2014 1:30:40 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: colorado tanker
So, now every police shooting of a black man is going to be front page, nationwide news. Feed the hysteria.

Yet repeated corruption in the abortion industry (botched abortion, racial genocide, child abuse, unclean practices, collusion from health departments to cover up issues...) doesn't get national attention, each are "local news only".

56 posted on 12/05/2014 1:33:41 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: UCANSEE2

Here’s mine. (for the St. Louis Rams)

Pants down - play ball


57 posted on 12/05/2014 1:37:11 PM PST by fulltlt
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

OK, he is 34 and driving a Cadillac SUV which is 70K+ brand new. OK lets say it’s used so that’s say around 35K to 40K. I’m 55 and I have been at the same profession for 28 years and I make well over 60K a year. So my question is, WHAT THE HELL does this guy do for a living???? Does he have a super collage degree or tech school training??? Is the oxycodone his? What about the gun, is it his or is it stolen. Last but not least, those are nice pictures of him with the baby and the kids at Christmas. Now lets see the thug pictures.

P.S. Is he supporting the babies or is mommy on WELFARE, just asking.


58 posted on 12/05/2014 1:37:49 PM PST by DWaves
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To: Bettyprob
Guys like this don't need a gun to kill you. They are always in the words of Ben Stein, "armed with their big, scary self".


59 posted on 12/05/2014 1:47:51 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: Uncle Miltie

He was a good man. A gentle giant.


60 posted on 12/05/2014 1:49:22 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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