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WATCH: Police gun down Michigan man with 46 shots in 5 seconds
New York Daily News ^
| August 18, 2012
| Charlie Wells
Posted on 08/18/2012 8:01:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
Suicide by police. He knew what beast he was throwing himself into the jaws of.
Though it does sound like the taser was tailor made for this kind of situation, if for any.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:03:59 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
To: ConservativeStatement
If the threat of lethal force is not instantly neutralized five seconds can seem like an eternity.
On full auto 7 rounds per cop is not unreasonable.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:05:31 PM PDT
by
lightman
(Settling for the "lesser of two..." is still choosing Evil)
To: carriage_hill
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:06:43 PM PDT
by
lightman
(Settling for the "lesser of two..." is still choosing Evil)
To: lightman
Another police brutality Springsteen song about this..
To: ConservativeStatement
My father in law was a policeman. He told me about the time he tried to shoot a knife out of a guy’s hand.
“It don’t work like in the movies.”
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:08:10 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: ConservativeStatement
"I'm stunned that six human beings would stand in front of one human being and fire 46 shots,"
I can see it. If I am in a fire fighting for my life against a hoard of zombies and just as fast as I could and quickly reloading for more.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:11:46 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: HiTech RedNeck
It should be pointed out to the “TAZER BAD TAZER BAD BAN IT NOW BAN IT NOW” crowd that this is the other alternative to the Tazer. Which do they prefer?
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:12:03 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Not watching. This stuff shouldn’t be on line
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:12:38 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: HiTech RedNeck
All 6 totally terrified officers fired ~ and kept on firing.
Probably best to not frighten them.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:12:55 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: ConservativeStatement
Watch? Why would I want to watch another human being losing their life? I don’t care who he is or what he did, seeing someone die is not entertainment.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:13:00 PM PDT
by
FightforFreedomCA
(I WILL be voting on November 6th to evict the current pResident.)
To: blueunicorn6
To: ConservativeStatement
If one shot had been fired and killed him, would the people be as worked up?
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:14:11 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Although I cannot comment on this particular situation, I do know that cope are supposed to be trained to avoid pulling out their guns, if possible.
However, once the decision has been made to pull out the gun, you either unquestionably surrender or you risk being shot.
I agree that 46 bullets seem like a lot, but each cop is running under the assumption that the other cops may not be firing their guns. There’s also the reality that some peeps still fire their guns despite having been shot 20 times.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:15:03 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas told CNN that Hall had been threatening to assault police, and Gerald Cliff, the towns police chief, said Hall was "known to be an assaultive person.""Assaultive"?? I just love cop-speak. They more often-than-not end up tripping over their tongues.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:16:04 PM PDT
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: Spktyr
And so the debate goes back and forth, and the fact that tasers rarely kill ends up being a temptation to deploy them in trivial cases where there is little or no true danger to police personnel. But still. Why did this group have none, or not wish to try them, for this clearly irrationally combative nut. That’s why the taser was invented, to bring a humane end to such horrible face offs.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:17:14 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
To: ConservativeStatement
We ought to ask ourselves how, in a life-or-death situation, they might have orchestrated a “cleaner” kill, one less likely to offend public sensibilities.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:17:14 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: ConservativeStatement; All
At least the guy wasn’t handcuffed in the back of a police car when he was shot, like that guy in Arkansas.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:24:10 PM PDT
by
Yashcheritsiy
(Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
To: ConservativeStatement; All
At least the guy wasn’t handcuffed in the back of a police car when he was shot, like that guy in Arkansas.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:24:25 PM PDT
by
Yashcheritsiy
(Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
To: ConservativeStatement
We have an English word that describes what was done to this man - SLAUGHTER!
I carried a badge for over 30 years; this was uncalled for, was incompetently handled, and verges on murder.
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posted on
08/18/2012 8:25:27 PM PDT
by
Ed Story
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