Posted on 11/27/2006 12:36:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge
So goes the story; but in truth; they were armed. . . the victims just happen to be IN it. . .
This driver was using his car as a weapon. . .bigger than a gun; and more threatening as it takes less skill to 'aim' and kill. The driver - now - victim, made the 'move' first by running into a policeman, for God's sake.
Bottom line; the car they were in; WAS used as a weapon; and the police responded to the threat.
Sorry; but they should have walked home. . .or had someone pick them up. . .called a cab OR. . .whatEVER.
And someone should tell Rangel; Sharpton and the 'et al's to go fly their kites somewhere else. . .
. . .because "Stuck on stupid' has consequences. . .
Bloomberg's fault.
I am sure the Mayor as well as the New York Times will remind the community.
One can fairly observe as well, that using one's car as a weapon; gives more than a slight coloration to the fact of being 'unarmed'. . .)
True enough, and the perps were in the car and they saw an undercover cop with a gun...I bet they had no idea it was a cop...mistaken identity..they thought it was a rival gang member or something...too bad for them.
The club has a metal detector on the door (nothing says "class" like a metal detector. The officers were undercover, so they were not carrying. One of Bell's group was heard saying he was going to "get his gun," which he had presumably smuggled in. At wich point the officer called for backup. The car was parked out on the street. The victims got into the car. The cop put his foot on the car, and showed his badge, telling them to get out of the car. Bell tried to run him over, causing lacerations to the officer's leg. Thus, Bell was assaulting the officer with a deadly weapon. The other officers knew there was a gun invovled, and assumed that the shots that passed through the car were coming from the car.
Nothing good happens at 3:30AM.
Apparently Sharpton feels blacks are unfairly targeted by police. But when police are confronted with deadly force, they have to take appropriate measures to prevent innocent people from getting killed. That's their job. Maybe if they had fired off only ten rounds, more people would be happy. But the guy would still be dead.
One hispanic cop fired 29 of the rounds, because he thought his gun was jammed.
Some have opined that he was deeply disturbed BEFORE the gunfire. ;-)
"unless deadly force is being used against the police officers or another person present, by means other than a moving vehicle."
The fallacy of that policy is that the moving vehicle itself can constitute deadly force. If someone was running over people on the sidewalk, wouldn't the police be justified in firing at the driver?
2 QUESTIONS!
1. Did anyone in the press or the "protest group" of race baiters like Sharpton and Jackson ask about the status of the police officer who was the target of the driver who was using his vehicle as a deadly weapon?
2. Were any of the shooting officers African-American?
BTW: Racial politics aside there are plenty of reasons to be critical of and/or defend the police.
You Watch! That idiot Bloomberg will have the NYPD running around with billyclubs in no time.
He sure is. He was just on the 4PM News here in his soundbite and he is saying "there is no evidence that the victims had done anything wrong"!!!!
WTH?
When I was growing up my Father told me that nothing good happens after midnight. How right he was.
Whatever happened to the olden days when cops carried "throw-downs" so they could avoid messes like this?
bttt
Oh, now "one of the dancers" says that the minivan came around a corner and "smashed into" Bell's car?
Obviously, the lies are escalating. I'm getting tired of the headlines and leads that depict a "groom" in his tux & tails running down the church steps with his blushing bride, friends and family throwing rice and birdseed, flower children strewing rose petals and blowing bubbles, doves being released into the afternoon sky and a bunch of cops coming out of nowhere to ambush the happy couple and assassinate the new hubby.
So a bunch of black cops shoot a black bad guy who tried to run one of their own down?
Seriously, I fail to see where race is a factor except inside the minds of Al Sharpton and certain Freepers.
If this was some drunk redneck outside some "Boars Nest" bar in Podunk, AR, we would have never heard about it.
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