Posted on 02/18/2015 4:14:21 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
A man who struck officers with a broomstick was twice shot with Tasers that didn't work before he was killed in a police-involved shooting in Miami Gardens, officials said Tuesday. Miami Gardens Police Chief Stephen Johnson said two officers deployed their Tasers on 25-year-old Lavall Hall shortly before he was killed Sunday by an officer who was also involved in a fatal 2013 shooting.
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Next location for a rent-a-mob.
Miami’s LOVELY his time of year...
Miami media joining in the chorus to make cops look evil.
We’re supposed to expect police, as Thomas Sowell so elegantly puts it, to measure out force by the tablespoon.
Attack police, expect to get shot. It’s not rocket science.
And if Michael Brown would have left the middle of the street and got on the sidewalk like he was told to do he’d still be alive.
Baker Acted? Is that like Shake And Baked ?
Had to look up what Baker Acted meant.
Florida Mental Health Act (commonly known as the "Baker Act")
The cop looks to be out of order in this one. They knew the man was a mental case. Cops used to be trained to handle a fellow with a stick. It was wood, not steel even with the metal end on it, that just the socket for the rake or shovel or whatever and is probably sheet metal. I think the cop was just pissed because the guy didn’t fall down when he used the taser.
Miami Gardens 76% Amish (per Wikipedia)
It’s a shame that the police don’t have the skills to subdue a mental patient and are therefore compelled to shoot. The guy wasn’t a street thug,he was sick.
The police don’t have the mental capacity or the training to distinguish between crazy and maliciously aggressive. Someone attacks the police, boom.
A broomstick isn’t a very lethal weapon. Swinging it or throwing it isn’t very effective. Instead of trying to resolve the matter right away, how about waiting until the mentally disturbed person puts the broomstick down and then rushing in to subdue him?
Is the dead guy white? if so that’s the last we’ll hear about it.
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White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent, 2010 2.6%
Crime Index: 8 (100 is safest)
Noo thanks
Yes.
Dead St Travons home town.
Attack police, expect to get shot. It’s not rocket science.
Well, yeah, today. The pussy mantra.
Is the dead guy white?
Laval Hall,What do you think?
“The police don’t have the mental capacity or the training to distinguish between crazy and maliciously aggressive.”
They used to. In 1990 I saw 6 NYPD cops trying to disarm and take in a whack job swinging a heavy jagged piece of steel. By the expressions on their faces they felt sorry for the guy and were taking their time, darting in and out, waiting for an opening. They were twenty-somethings at the time. No doubt all retired now.
We’re the cops actually trained how to use the tasers? Or were they just issued them sight unseen?
Wouldn’t set foot there for nothing. Miami... Chicago... Detroit... nope nope nope.
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