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Naked college freshman, 18, shot dead by campus police after he 'charged at officer' (Alabama)
dailymail ^ | 6 October 2012 | By James Nye

Posted on 10/06/2012 6:23:12 PM PDT by dennisw

In a tragic and bizarre incident a University of Alabama student who was naked has been fatally shot after charging a campus police officer early on Saturday morning.

University officials said that the confrontation occurred after the officer went outside the police station to investigate a banging noise that was coming from his office window.

Confronted with 18-year-old Gilbert Thomas Collar who was acting erratically and wearing no clothes, the officer shot the student once in the chest after he repeatedly charged.

Authorities said that the officer attempted to retreat several times in an attempt to defuse the situation but that the officer was left with no choice but to shoot when Collar made one final charge.

Collar, who had only recently enrolled at the University of South Alabama was shot at 1.30 a.m. on Saturday moening outside the USA Police Department on Stadium Drive .

'We can't comment beyond the statement,' said Ayers after he read a prepared statement during a news conference this afternoon on the campus.

'University of South Alabama Police report that an officer shot and killed an individual at approximately 1:30 a.m., Oct. 6, after the man attacked the officer just outside the police department on Stadium Drive The deceased has been identified as a USA student.'

The former high school wrestler's coach could hardly speak when interviewed by his hometown newspaper The Wetumpka Herald this morning.

'I remember the first time he walked into the wrestling room,' said Jeff Glass.

'He was such a natural. He was the only wrestler I coached who wrestled varsity for six years. That takes more heart than I can tell you. We began our tenure in Wetumpka wrestling at the same time. He was a physical, spiritual and mental warrior. And I love him like my own.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: alabama; donutwatch; jbt; leo; lsd; uofsouthalabama
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To: dennisw

Another useless doper disposed of!


41 posted on 10/06/2012 7:27:53 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Irenic
So the kid was banging on the police station window? Maybe he wanted help, even though he was messed up?

That does sound like a possibility. (I'm glad someone else said it first.) The article says he was "acting erratically"; he "repeatedly charged" and "rushed in a threatening manner..." That sounds like he never made physical contact.

Maybe he intended to do harm. Or maybe not. Were there no other witnesses?

42 posted on 10/06/2012 7:35:43 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: dennisw

“Authorities said that the officer attempted to retreat several times in an attempt to defuse the situation but that the officer was left with no choice but to shoot when Collar made one final charge.”

Bizarre. If that’s the way it really went down, and I had to guess, I’d say meth or “bath salts” may have been a factor. PCP can sometimes cause that sort of behavior too, but I don’t know if Dust is all that popular these days.

Sad story, either way.


43 posted on 10/06/2012 7:42:10 PM PDT by DemforBush (100% Ex-Democrat.)
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To: dennisw
Might have been intoxicated although the article does not say so. He also could have been a bipolar person having a manic episode. They have been known to run around naked and act crazy too. Time will tell.
44 posted on 10/06/2012 7:44:49 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: DemforBush

Shooting him made it the final charge


45 posted on 10/06/2012 7:45:41 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Well, the lid did have a gun. ;-)

Other than that, I agree with you.


46 posted on 10/06/2012 7:47:15 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Larry Lucido
Should have gone for his baton first.

*************

Call for backup...??
Taser...
Pepper spray...
Flashlight upside the head....
Blackjack...

************

There are many may many many....
...F'n MANYYYYYYY.....
....non-lethal options for a campus cop dealing with a drunk kid...

47 posted on 10/06/2012 7:50:08 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: dennisw

Horrible writing.


48 posted on 10/06/2012 7:53:56 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: dennisw

Idiot reporter alert. Starts out at the University of Alabama, ends up at USA, and no connection in the story between the two schools. It’s clear that no editor saw the story, but you’d think the reporter would read back over it.


49 posted on 10/06/2012 8:06:28 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: RegulatorCountry

” I felt my life was threatened.”

I’m fine with this, but only if EVERYONE can use this line while carrying a gun. Crime would very, very quickly drop to almost nothing.


50 posted on 10/06/2012 8:10:54 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: The Antiyuppie

I’m not fine with police doing this when they’re trained in nonlethal means of subduing individuals who are acting in a strange or threatening manner. There are any number of reasons why a decent, law-abiding person could become disoriented and/or aggressive, from a bad reaction to prescribed medication to mental illness to a brain tumor. Such individuals should not be shot to death, particularly when not in possession of a weapon of ant kind. Trigger happy paranoids should not be in law enforcement.

I look back upon all the uproar over Rodney King and other highly publicized police beatings in amazement. Now, they’d all just be shot to death. Officer felt his life was in danger.


51 posted on 10/06/2012 8:25:10 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: The Antiyuppie

“I’m fine with this, but only if EVERYONE can use this line while carrying a gun. Crime would very, very quickly drop to almost nothing.”

Crime would drop, so would everything else.


52 posted on 10/06/2012 8:30:12 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Watched TJ Hooker did ya?


53 posted on 10/06/2012 8:58:49 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

“At the University of Alabama the tusks are looser’’<. “I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I don’t know. Later on we shot for bigger game. I shot two bucks. It was the biggest game I shot all day’’.


54 posted on 10/06/2012 9:23:53 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: dennisw
(Mayor) "Oh, Callahan, I don't want any trouble like you had in the Fillmore district last year."

"Well, when I see a naked man chasing a woman down an ally with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy." Harry Callahan.

"Intent? How did how did you determine that?" Mayor.

Well, when I see a naked man with a meatcleaver chasing a woman down an ally, with a h**d-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross." Harry Callahan.

55 posted on 10/06/2012 9:35:45 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (,)
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To: expat1000
>>Should have gone for his baton first. His? My guess is hers.

I agree. Female officers escalate to lethal response more readily than males.

56 posted on 10/06/2012 9:57:00 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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To: dennisw
It seems that if there were multiple charges, a simple effort to shoot the kid in the leg might have sufficed.

I'm not looking for hysterical second-guessing here, it just seems that a non-lethal shooting might have been plausible.

57 posted on 10/06/2012 10:02:26 PM PDT by sargon
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To: sargon
The next issue is where to aim. The law enforcement hit ratio in gunfights hovers around 17%.

www.guns.com/shoot-to-wound-shoot-to-kill-shoot-to-live-327.html

58 posted on 10/06/2012 10:24:28 PM PDT by expat1000
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To: dennisw

I guess the cops didn’t have any dogs to shoot on a college campus.

Once again some trigger-happy donut-muncher acts like the coward that most of these ‘roided out thugs are.

I hope this kid’s parents sue everyone in sight and clean up big time.


59 posted on 10/06/2012 10:29:24 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("On the ascent of Olympus, what's a botched bar or two?" -Artur Schnabel)
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To: Revolting cat!

A true conservative always has contempt for governmental authority.

I guess you’re another “conservative” that’s actually an authoritarian statist at heart.

I have no respect for steroid-pumping, shaved head JBT’s who shoot family dogs and old ladies, raid wrong houses and terrorize innocent citizens at gunpoint with no apologies or explanations, and just come onto people’s private property with no warrant.

To Hades with ‘em all....and their boot-lickers, too.


60 posted on 10/06/2012 10:34:40 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("On the ascent of Olympus, what's a botched bar or two?" -Artur Schnabel)
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