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Officials: Oklahoma man shot, killed by police shoved trooper
NewsOk ^ | 6/1/2015 | Staff

Posted on 06/01/2015 3:11:31 PM PDT by gwjack

Edited on 06/01/2015 5:56:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP)

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: death; donutwatch; lawenforcement; shooting
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To: editor-surveyor

Once again you have to eat crow. From News9.com :
“Nehemiah attacks a trooper, hits him head on with both hands like he’s an offensive linemen, he hits him, drives him to the ground, gets on top of him and tries to drown him,” said OHP legal counsel Gary James.

James said trooper Michael Taylor was pinned underwater, and both he and trooper Mark Southall shot at Nehemiah, who was armed with a pistol and died.

James said both brothers had been drinking before the incident.

“His brother Brandon has admitted that they were taking shots of Crown Royal up unto the time the vehicle is being flooded,” James said.


101 posted on 06/01/2015 9:17:21 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: gwjack
It is a sad situation for all involved.

That it is.

102 posted on 06/01/2015 9:20:00 PM PDT by OK Sun (Freedom is not just another word.)
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To: SVTCobra03
Hmm. So if this statement by the OHP can be verified, the gentle preacher was driving around drunk in a storm before we see him on video tackling a clearly identified state trooper.

We'll need more evidence for the attempted drowning and to see whether he brandished a firearm, but so far the dead man appears to have gone full Trayvon.

103 posted on 06/01/2015 9:24:30 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: Teotwawki

I think the answers to your hypothetical questions, based on the limited premise of the facts you present in this case are no, no, and no. The answer to the last question is “they” don’t. But your premise on all has craftily redacted the actions of the decedent. There were factors that could change the answers to all your questions - but only when full facts are developed.


104 posted on 06/01/2015 9:30:53 PM PDT by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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To: Jonty30
The officer was wrong to try and force the person to leave, but you don’t touch an officer if you don’t want to get shot.

What is this, the land of kirisute gomen?

Screw that.


105 posted on 06/02/2015 5:17:55 AM PDT by Robert Teesdale (III% | 4GW)
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To: wideawake; editor-surveyor
So, what you're saying is that most likely, The Crown is keeping the brother's mouth shut under threat of prosecution for his brother's murder, even though an agent of The Crown murdered his brother.

Neat trick, that.

The eighteenth century English would be laughing at the jest that is the implosion of the rebels' "justice system".

106 posted on 06/02/2015 5:21:40 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Robert Teesdale
"What is this, the land of kirisute gomen?"

It might be beyond that. As someone else posted above, due to the abortion that our "jesters system" has become, it's probable that the authoritays could prosecute the brother for murder.

Even the medieval Japanese couldn't think up that one, and call it "justice".

107 posted on 06/02/2015 5:27:11 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: SVTCobra03; wideawake; editor-surveyor; Travis McGee
“Nehemiah attacks a trooper, hits him head on with both hands like he’s an offensive linemen, he hits him, drives him to the ground, gets on top of him and tries to drown him,” said OHP legal counsel Gary James.

Aside from the fact that this is once again from a police spokeshole [I. Dunno Nuffin], it's kind of handy to know that in every tactical situation, your opponent is NEVER going to back up or retreat to safety because he thinks he's wearing a magic suit of impenetrable, super-strength armor.

Especially when he's not...

That's a special kind of stupid. LOL! :)

Myself, I would have assessed the situation, and gotten my vehicle between me and the brothers. But then, I'm not known to be a mouth-breathing idiot. :)

108 posted on 06/02/2015 5:47:40 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: kiryandil
Your rhetoric is silly.

The people of OK elected the legislature that wrote these statutes.

The only crown involved in this story is the Crown Royal whiskey this genius admits they were guzzling before they angrily confronted men who were trying to prevent them from drowning.

If you do something violent and stupid, like attack an armed man who has not lifted a finger against you, you should be liable for the results of the chaos you put in motion.

Under what possible interpretation of the law or the facts were either of these drunks entitled to tackle a man who hadn't laid a hand on them? Because they were in a bad mood?

109 posted on 06/02/2015 6:17:13 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Robert Teesdale
Kiri-sute gomen entitled persons of proven samurai lineage or higher to kill or maim someone who offended their honor, typically through verbal insult or disrespectful gesture.

It is not peculiar to Japanese culture, but typical of all human societies, that if someone tackles you to the ground and punches or throttles you, you are allowed to use any level of force you choose to stop them.

This is called "self-defense."

Nehemiah Fischer apparently decided to imitate Trayvon Martin, and achieved a similar result.

110 posted on 06/02/2015 6:30:02 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake
We only have the word of a polices spokeshole that BOTH brothers were drinking. Now, you're completing the smear, and they were "drunks".

Nice job!

111 posted on 06/02/2015 6:32:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: wideawake; Robert Teesdale
Nehemiah Fischer apparently decided to imitate Trayvon Martin, and achieved a similar result.

The only place George Zimmerman could back up was into the sidewalk.

Officer Ironman had all sorts of options, after he provoked the ensuing trouble.

And, BTW - Zimmerman didn't provoke the fight...

112 posted on 06/02/2015 6:35:24 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Robert Teesdale

Then go punch or push a cop and see what happens to you.


113 posted on 06/02/2015 6:40:38 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30
Then go punch or push a cop and see what happens to you.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3185518/posts?page=47#47


114 posted on 06/02/2015 6:53:33 AM PDT by Robert Teesdale (III% | 4GW)
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To: kiryandil
Now, you're completing the smear, and they were "drunks".

Brandon Fischer said that they were both making their way through a bottle of Crown Royal.

I think anyone who has experience with alcoholism would say that a person who thinks nothing of downing shots of hard alcohol when he knows he has to drive at night in a storm is what you call a "problem drinker."

Perhaps by "smear" you meant "logical inference."

Further:

The only place George Zimmerman could back up was into the sidewalk.

That's silly.

He could have run away, as so many commentators argued. But he had no obligation to.

The trooper was standing in water and literally could not see the ground in front of him.

Like George Zimmerman, he had absolutely no obligation to retreat.

If Nehemiah Fischer, drunk and belligerent, had attacked a civilian Good Samaritan who was trying to help him avoid drowning in a flood, and that civilian had decided to hold his ground, you would call it a 'good shoot."

You're arguing from unbelievably weak premises, based solely on your animosity toward law enforcement.

115 posted on 06/02/2015 6:56:27 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: kiryandil
And, BTW - Zimmerman didn't provoke the fight...

Neither did Michael Taylor.

Some would say that Zimmerman did provoke it, by following Martin and by verbally confronting him.

That's nonsense, since Martin could have decided to either respond or ignore Zimmerman - he did not have to assault him. That was his choice.

Likewise, Taylor verbally confronted Fischer.

Like Martin, Fischer could have chosen not to physically attack his interlocutor, but he did.

116 posted on 06/02/2015 7:04:46 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake
If I honestly believe that your push is meant to get me off balance or on the ground in order to do me greater harm, then I am justified in using deadly force to stop that greater harm from being inflicted.

So then the decision to shoot you or not shoot you is entirely up to my analysis of the situation? No other guidelines other than what I perceive your intent to be?

117 posted on 06/02/2015 7:12:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
So then the decision to shoot you or not shoot you is entirely up to my analysis of the situation? No other guidelines other than what I perceive your intent to be?

Correct. The legal standard is, and always has been: 'Did you act out of a reasonable fear of serious bodily harm?"

A grand jury may be asked to opine on the reasonableness of your fear, but that's the standard.

This is why it is a bad idea to randomly tackle armed strangers in the middle of the night - they might not always realize that you were just playing a hilarious joke.

118 posted on 06/02/2015 7:23:55 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: kiryandil
But then, I'm not known to be a mouth-breathing idiot. :)
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Maybe before this thread, now, not so much.
(you left the hanging curveball over the plate. Your comments forced the swing)

119 posted on 06/02/2015 8:24:38 AM PDT by bramps
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To: wideawake
Brandon Fischer said that they were both making their way through a bottle of Crown Royal.

No, the police spokeshole said that Brandon Fischer said that they were both making their way through a bottle of Crown Royal.

There's a difference. See if you can figure it out.

120 posted on 06/02/2015 2:44:10 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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