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SWAT teams shot suspect with 68 bullets (2006)
Orlando Sentinel ^ | October 1, 2006 | Gary Taylor and Kelly Griffith

Posted on 08/13/2016 1:45:23 AM PDT by packrat01

The Polk County sheriff says they fired 110 times at the man who `executed' a deputy.

October 1, 2006|By Gary Taylor and Kelly Griffith, Sentinel Staff Writers

Face to face with an armed man suspected of killing a Polk County deputy sheriff, SWAT officers riddled his body with 68 bullets.

Altogether, nine officers fired 110 times Friday at Angilo Freeland, who Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said "executed" one of his deputies.

"That's all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more," Judd said after autopsy results were released Saturday.

The slain deputy, Matt Williams, 39, was shot eight times Thursday when he encountered the killer who had fled into nearby woods after a routine traffic stop.

One bullet was fired at close range behind the deputy's right ear and another was fired near his right temple, with the muzzle of the gun pressing against his skin, the autopsy showed.

"I am confident that he was ambushed and he was executed," Judd said.

Freeland, 27, was driving a rental car when he was pulled over. Deputy Doug Speirs asked for his drivers license but was handed a fake ID.

Several shots were fired at Speirs as he ran after Freeland, and one bullet struck the deputy's leg, authorities said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2006; banglist; police; swat
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To: klgator

Why don’t they react that way to killing ANYBODY, not just a policeman?

I see elitism writ in neon letters here. Shame on being proud of that.


41 posted on 08/13/2016 5:52:06 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

What you suggest is heresy and will get you burned at the stake, or drowned to determine if you really are a witch.


42 posted on 08/13/2016 5:52:32 AM PDT by zek157
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To: zek157

Nope. If a close friend or loved one were taken by a thug I’d empty my weapon into ‘it’ too.

Cops get a bad rap as they should sometimes. But an armed murderous felon who just killed a buddy.....empty your weapon. The law is currently lawless and thugs go free. We are currently in a lawless political era that makes the Wild West look like an English drawing room tea party.


43 posted on 08/13/2016 6:02:29 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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To: Vaquero

And the answer is to heap the lawlessness higher?


44 posted on 08/13/2016 6:11:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Vaquero

I might sound gosh darned close to a liberal to ask things like this, I know...

But if an offender has holed up behind some trees in an isolated area, why does that position have to be immediately assailed? Other than for the satisfaction of the moment that we showed um who was boss in the quickest time possible?

We have turned into a sound bite, spur of the moment society, I fear. A long view of justice, with the patience required, would need a fear of the Lord, and that is what has been lost. If examining capital cases for decades is the price we pay for not plunging our own souls towards an eternal hell... so be it.


45 posted on 08/13/2016 6:20:04 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m afraid you don’t just sound like a liberal.... I’m afraid you think like one, too. Did you ever read any “Dick Tracy” comics from the 1940s or 50s? What happened to crooks who shot at cops? Look some up on the Internet and tell me Grady Judd has some radical new idea.


46 posted on 08/13/2016 6:32:45 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Sometimes even the proverbial blind squirrel gets acorns too.

“Conservative” has itself become a caricature. It has embraced things, like the futile frontal assault “war on drugs” that were introduced to America by, yep, the “Progressive” set.

Way back when, it used to mean being Godly which also entailed the patience that God called for.


47 posted on 08/13/2016 6:43:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

The very idea of an elite police is itself “Progressive.” Tell me this, did Cowboy Dick ever assemble a posse even ONCE?


48 posted on 08/13/2016 6:44:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m not a cop lover and my reasons are personal.
But an armed perp who has committed murder already....considering the fact that he’s A. Alone B. You have a safe background ( no possibility of bullets passing through to damage or injure past the perp). A peace officer should first ask for said perp to surrender, if possible and when the answer is no......take him out before he widows you or a comrade.

You lost me completely with the hell thing. That’s between each individual and his maker and not for the cop out “ he’ll get his in the afterlife “ baloney.


49 posted on 08/13/2016 6:45:08 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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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

No, he did not. He was the Rock Jawed Single Handed Hero.


50 posted on 08/13/2016 6:45:13 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Vaquero

You are lost completely if you do not understand the hell thing.


51 posted on 08/13/2016 6:45:47 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Vaquero

And there is not just an afterlife, there is something that some call instant karma. When we do something wrong, it reflects back on our own souls right here on earth. That also goes for the elite police who reinforce their own eliteness. At the very least, all killing ought to be treated the same, including killing done under questionable circumstances by elite police.


52 posted on 08/13/2016 6:48:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Vaquero

And consider there was, in this situation, a safe foreground too. This was not like a menace sitting picking off passersby was it? And if it was, then why didn’t that explanation come to the foreground rather than being some “back up argument” when the foreground principle was to Specially Treat The Elite Police?


53 posted on 08/13/2016 6:50:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Okay, everybody, step back and take a breath- the sheriff stated it clearly- “if you pull a gun on us, you can expect to be shot-” Meets all the requirements of a lethal force response. You’d do or at least attempt the same if you were confronted by an armed thug - so get over the LEs right to self-defense. Unlike you they go looking for the thug on our behalf. While the lethal force equation is the same for both LE and citizen, the probability of an LEO needing to face such an equation is much higher.

I would that all Chief LEOs would communicate to their public the same message.

Now, on the other hand, in anything other than the above equation, all LEO had better do right all the time, or they will be on the other side of the equation. Tough job, so either do it right or flip burgers somewhere safe.


54 posted on 08/13/2016 6:50:36 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: HiTech RedNeck

John Lennon. Instant karma. Really?


55 posted on 08/13/2016 6:50:56 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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To: Vaquero

He learned it from his Buddhist/Hindu mentors. They don’t have everything right, but they are quite square on the existence of a moral universe. So yes, “REALLY.”


56 posted on 08/13/2016 6:52:05 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Manly Warrior

How about making this a democratic principle? The problem comes when it is not.

And this was no longer a mandatory self defense situation. The threat had come to a standoff. Nobody was being picked off. Confess it... we have a vengeance situation now. If vengeance cannot wait for the operation of law, then we all are hurt.


57 posted on 08/13/2016 6:54:12 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Manly Warrior

If you want real manliness in your war... then no you won’t be a cowboy. Or rather you WILL be like the real cowboy, who always cared for his horse first before himself and did not make a public attention grabbing spectacle out of his yeehaws.


58 posted on 08/13/2016 6:57:12 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yes, indeed, we can all Monday-morning QB the whole incident. Anyways, having been there and done that, I can tell you that I trust the guys on the ground in the dynamic situation-that’s a command related requirement.

If you think it vengeance and unlawful, well, I can appreciate that too, however, I dismiss that line of thought as the public good and safety remained at stake. Just when would lethal force be legitimate in this situation, when he took out one or more add’l people? They contained him, they let him know they were not going away, he had a choice. I truly doubt he would have been murdered if he had informed the deputies he was giving up.... He died in a hole resisting the lawful authority we give LEOs. Part of the social compact.


59 posted on 08/13/2016 7:01:42 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I guess I don’t understand your comment. Sorry. I don’t own a horse nor a cowboy hat. But I have been to war.

I guess your screen name means something too. I choose to refrain from personal insults etc. Peace.


60 posted on 08/13/2016 7:07:51 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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