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Washington state patrolman won’t face charges over shooting of two black men
Al-Reuters ^ | Thu Sep 3, 2015 3:58am EDT | Eric M. Johnson

Posted on 09/03/2015 2:17:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A Washington state police officer will not face criminal charges after shooting two unarmed black men suspected of trying to steal beer from a supermarket, a prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.

Officer Ryan Donald, a three-year veteran of the police department in the state capital Olympia, told investigators the men had no weapons during the May incident.

But one of them tried to pull him to the ground while the other raised his skateboard above his head “as if to strike him” and that he issued a verbal warning before opening fire, the police department said.

No charges will be brought against Donald because his use of force was justified, said Anne Larsen, a spokeswoman for the Thurston County prosecuting attorney said.

“The officer acted in good faith and without malice,” Larsen said. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: blackcrime; blackliesmatter; olympia; ryandonald
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The skateboard was a weapon. Liberals are attacking police with the same “proportionate” nonsense they attack Israel with.
1 posted on 09/03/2015 2:17:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, skateboard is a weapon in that situation if that’s how the scene played out. As in most of these cases without video, there is only one side to tell.


2 posted on 09/03/2015 2:24:06 AM PDT by timlot
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The Amish have taken up skateboarding?

Who could’ve guessed?


3 posted on 09/03/2015 2:34:58 AM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: Olog-hai

Raising the skateboard is likely display behavior; like a cat arching its back and hissing. Display behavior is intended to avoid a fight by appearing to be too tough to tackle. It’s the wrong response when facing a cop with a gun. The cop, especially now, must assume he’ll be beaten if he does not respond. Also, the cop is required to stop the theft. It’s part of the job.


4 posted on 09/03/2015 3:06:43 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Olog-hai

Do these blacks who regularly commit crimes know that cops are the only ones keeping them alive? Because what happens when police are rare is that vigilante justice usually takes over, like in Venezuela, Mexico or Brazil and pretty much around the world where mobs will chase down a thief, surrounds them and then proceed to break every bone in their body with baseball bats, then they burn them alive. They even do it to women, I saw them do it to a woman in Venezuela who robbed a taxi driver. Do these black thugs *really* wants to “F tha Pohleese”?

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2368240&CategoryId=14091

http://www.inewsguyana.com/suspected-thief-beaten-to-death-after-allegedly-snatching-teachers-bag/

Or usually they just shoot them...........

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c1e_1368656060


5 posted on 09/03/2015 3:18:34 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Correct. They undermine what little law and order they have, and they will instead face summary “justice”.


6 posted on 09/03/2015 3:20:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Interesting that the store owner had a gun in Venezuela Being a Marxist paradise and such


7 posted on 09/03/2015 3:26:37 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Those deemed to be good commies in good standing with the Party get the guns.
It is also worthy of note that Lenin wanted the proletariat to be an “armed people.”

This prospect did not frighten Lenin at all. He had unmitigated confidence that the members of the proletariat would never abuse their power as the capitalists had done.

Furthermore, Lenin assumed that the proletariat had the instinctive capacity to recognize justice on sight. Not only would they use their weapons to put down any non-social acts in the community by spontaneous “mass action,” but Lenin believed they would genuinely and heroically suppress any selfish, nonsocial tendencies in themselves. They would have acquired the “habit” of living in a communal social order and would have grown “accustomed to observing the elementary conditions of social existence without force and without subjection.”

Lenin then says that with the machinery of government gone and with the Communist pattern of a classless, stateless society established throughout the world, finally “it becomes possible to speak of freedom!” …

The Naked Communist, Chapter 3
Looks like Maduro is still holding on to this little bit of Leninism. For now.
8 posted on 09/03/2015 3:53:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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As in most of these cases without video, there is only one side to tell.

Seriously? Both of the perps lived, and their stories evidently were either unconvincing or contradictory. That particular Safeway store where this incident started is where I do 80% of my grocery shopping. And by all accounts those two perps were on the prod that night. They can be thankful the officer didn't shoot to kill.
9 posted on 09/03/2015 4:00:42 AM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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Precisely. If you haven’t looked at a modern skateboard, they are quite large (think “lever arm” on a swing), and the metal trucks could give you quite the bashing.

This whole “unarmed” thing is supremely intellectually dishonest in so many ways. Micheal Brown of Ferguson was quite dangerous, at 6’-9” and 280#, despite not possessing a firearm. Which he was trying to obtain by taking officer Darren Wilson’s.


10 posted on 09/03/2015 4:05:52 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Happens in Brazil daily.

Not that they even consider your questions—or even have the capacity to even think them up on their own.

These lawless blacks don’t really know what LAWLESSNESS is.


11 posted on 09/03/2015 5:01:20 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This Hispanic wants a wall, the National Guard, and turrets guarding our border)
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To: Olog-hai

No idea if cops are telling the truth. Since the advent of video it has become apparent that they often don’t, so who knows.


12 posted on 09/03/2015 5:05:28 AM PDT by sakic
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The Amish have taken up skateboarding?

Fairly common sight here in Virginia Beach.

13 posted on 09/03/2015 5:05:59 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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resisting arrest can be a mortal error

Black jacks and saps should be standard equipment to be used on a resistor.


14 posted on 09/03/2015 5:07:15 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, .. Iran deal & holocaust: Obama's batting clean up for Adolph Hitler)
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To: Olog-hai

Article written so as to add fuel to the blacklivesmatter fire.


15 posted on 09/03/2015 5:13:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I saw a few videos on Documenting reality website, and one of them, woooo... as vicious as it gets, this guy who was they say was accused of rape in Venezuela and it just goes on and on and on. 50 people treating this guy basically like a human pinata, literally beating him into a pile of mush then burning him alive, then burning him again and again with gasoline, that mob mentality where people turn into absolutely the worst kind of vicious animals like something from Lord of the flies. These thugs here going around saying “F tha police” “pigs in a blanket, kill the police” would be screaming, crying and absolutely begging for the police if they ever found themselves the target of a vigilante mob like that.


16 posted on 09/03/2015 5:33:09 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Brazilian “Off duty cop” videos are legendary on LiveLeak.


17 posted on 09/03/2015 5:37:30 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I can only imagine that scene!
Lived in Mexico for almost 10 years, mobs are quite common down there. Police just watch it go down and sometimes laugh about it.

It’ll happen here soon I’m sure because our elites/gov’t want it to.


18 posted on 09/03/2015 5:37:55 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This Hispanic wants a wall, the National Guard, and turrets guarding our border)
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To: Gen.Blather

Maybe not just display behavior since one was holding the policeman down while the other was raising the skateboard.


19 posted on 09/03/2015 6:10:02 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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It’ll happen here soon I’m sure because our elites/gov’t want it to.

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Sadly, yes.


20 posted on 09/03/2015 6:12:52 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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