Posted on 07/13/2016 9:49:10 AM PDT by b4its2late
BTW, Ron Paul is selling a food dehydrator on the radio now...weird.
Yeah, but they didn't spit on the C-4 before they put it in the bag.
Blowed up Real Good !
I thought I could get away using him/he as gender neutral and save me from having to click through.
Agreed. If he had chosen to surrender to the cops, like they asked him too, instead of choosing to go out in a blaze of "glory", he would have been taken before a judge, charged, and prosecuted.
The judge, after all wasn't at the shootings. He has to listen to the lawyers and the testimony and determine what happened. And once this mug made it into the court system, he would be considered to be innocent until proven guilty.
But first he has to surrender, because if he chooses to continue the firefight, he will lose. As long as he's an an active shooter, he is a threat to the public and to the officers trying to arrest him.
He decided to turn this into a "shoot to kill" situation, not the cops. The cops decided they'd rather send a robot than waste any more LEO lives. At that point, his life was pretty much forfeit.
And if it took the cops 20 minutes to make the decision, I bet 19 of those minutes were taken up by the cops arguing over who was going to get to and drive the drone, and another minute of "rock, paper, scisssors" to decide.
I’m quite pleased they killed him. The means matter not a whit. A bullet, buckshot, or a small explosive charge, or a missile backed by an explosion (that’s all a bullet is, right?) is fine. If they could kill (they could legally do so, without question) using unconventon means is fine unless designed to punish by cruel and unusual means rather than kill. Completely constitutional.
Excellent point. I love the robot.
If he possessed the bombs claimed, or control devices for IED remote detonation, the shaped charge weapon used would increase odds of removing that particular threat. Allegedly materials were found at his residence backing his claims of producing explosive devices.
Rainbow stripes?
Breaching round to open a concrete wall?
Another FReeper posted a pic of a t-shirt with that on it.
It would be a great fundraiser for the officers and families, IMO.
That’s another reason I question the “pound of C-4” fact. If he had explosives on him, a blast of 450g of C-4 could have triggered a much bigger explosion.
A small shaped charge would have reduced that chance.
Close enough for government work.
No white police chief would ever get away with what happened to the Dallas suspect.
Don't forget at least three minutes to eat the Whoppers so the bag was empty.
Big deal.
Over a hundred years ago, the Pinkertons threw a bomb into Jesse James’s house and blew up his mom. He wasn’t home at the time and you might say it kind of ticked him off just a scouch. And they weren’t even LEO’s.
My only serious questions: Was the robot badly damaged?
Did the have a printout of the old FR Standard “Well, Bye” taped to the robotic arm?
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