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To: Alberta's Child
(1) Bell was armed.

(2) If Diallo had bothered to learn a few rudimentary phrases of English during his illegal stay in the US he would be in one piece today.

(3) If Dorismond had not committed assault against an undercover police officer, he would be in one piece today.

Which falsified Sharpton media event are you going to trundle out next? Eleanor Bumpurs?

27 posted on 12/04/2006 1:09:04 PM PST by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: wideawake
I'd consider the Diallo case a special circumstance for the reason you mentioned (the fact that he was an illegal alien makes his demise pretty much inconsequential for the most part). The other two cases involved undercover police officers dealing with "civilians" who may or may not have known that they were undercover police officers.

The Dorismond case was particularly instructive in the way it highlighted the potential idiocy of an undercover operation . . .

There is no way to justify a police shooting of a person who assaulted an undercover officer who tried to sell drugs to him. Remember -- the follow-up investigation of that incident revealed that Dorismond probably had no idea the guy was an undercover cop.

34 posted on 12/04/2006 1:20:42 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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