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Houston police shoot double amputee
KSAT.com ^ | 9/23/2012 | By the CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 09/23/2012 10:04:45 AM PDT by JohnKinAK

A Houston police officer shot and killed a schizophrenic, wheelchair-bound double amputee threatening people with a pen at a group home for the mentally ill after authorities said the man advanced on the officer's partner.

The shooting occurred early Saturday morning after police responded to a call that resident Brian Claunch was acting aggressively after his caretaker refused to give him a cigarette and a soda, the owner of the home and police said.

"The officers made verbal commands for the suspect to drop whatever he had in his hand, to stay still and to speak with the officers, but the suspect continued to make threats," Jodi Silva, a police spokeswoman, said.

Claunch, who lost an arm and a leg in a train accident, trapped one of the officers with his wheelchair in the corner of a room and attempted to stab the officer with an object that turned out to be a pen.

Officer Matt Marin, "in fear of the safety of his partner and the safety of himself, discharges his duty weapon, striking the suspect," Silva said.

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1 posted on 09/23/2012 10:04:49 AM PDT by JohnKinAK
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To: JohnKinAK

Another account:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2935093/posts


2 posted on 09/23/2012 10:10:48 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: JohnKinAK

Given that they name the officer who shot the double-amputee but not the one who was ‘trapped’ by the double-amputee, I’m betting that the unnamed officer was a woman.


3 posted on 09/23/2012 10:10:48 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: JohnKinAK

This should help the staff of the group home, keep the patients in line.

Shut your mouth or we will call the police, remember what happened to Brian.


4 posted on 09/23/2012 10:12:31 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: JohnKinAK

Did they kill his dog as well?


5 posted on 09/23/2012 10:14:02 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eatl my dog!)
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To: JohnKinAK

Christ! it is a good thing these ‘Houston Deputies’ were in possession of fire arms. They would not be able to survive out on their own otherwise.They would be at the mercy of every elementary school aged girls that wanted to pick on them. They would have to be kept in their respective homes and carefully protected by anyone else with a little cojones and backbone.

The officer could not get away from a guy in a wheelchair, armed only with a pen? cornered? feared for his life? What?was he screaming like a little girl.

take foot, place on wheelchair and push. Chair fall over or rolls away. Situation resolved without loss of life.

This sounds to me to be an extreme case of cowardise or he really wanted to kill someone, anyone.


6 posted on 09/23/2012 10:15:46 AM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Really NOW!!!!)
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To: JohnKinAK

The cop knew that a pen is mightier than a sword. Or he feared to be run over by the wheelchair.

It’s a dangerous world.


7 posted on 09/23/2012 10:16:27 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: vbmoneyspender

Another account here:

http://news.yahoo.com/houston-officer-kills-double-amputee-wheelchair-222540280.html

Unclear, but seems to suggest the cornered “officer” was a “he”.


8 posted on 09/23/2012 10:17:19 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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cigarette and a soda ......

Just give him the damned cigarette and a soda for God's sake. This is just pure meanness by the caretaker.

He trapped one of the officers in the corner???? WHAT?

Now he's dead, just because he only wanted a damned cigarette and a soda? How hard is it to satisfy that wee little desire?

9 posted on 09/23/2012 10:17:33 AM PDT by annieokie (O)
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....I’m betting that the unnamed officer was a woman.

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WE HAVE A WIN-N-N-A-A-H-H-H-H-H-HH!!!!

10 posted on 09/23/2012 10:20:04 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: JohnKinAK

The cop will be defended by the chief and his union. Unbelievable how far this country’s police forces have fallen over the last couple of decades.


11 posted on 09/23/2012 10:27:45 AM PDT by microgood
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As I said on another forum:
The ideal of the Texas Ranger is dead. Todays badge carrying pansies keep sayng “The most important thing is to go home at the end of your shift”; right before they tase an eighty year old bedridden granny.


12 posted on 09/23/2012 10:34:51 AM PDT by Zippo44 (Liberal: another word for poltroon.)
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To: JohnKinAK

These stories don’t attract as many cop groupie apologists as they used to. Occasionally one will pop up, but not like a few years ago.


13 posted on 09/23/2012 10:35:49 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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“I tried to just wound him in the arm but he didn't have an arm there so I tried to wound in the leg but he didn't have have a leg there so I had to kill him. You understand, don't you? Well, don't you?”

What next? shooting someone who is unconscious because they snore aggressively?

14 posted on 09/23/2012 10:41:05 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: JohnKinAK

I’d like to hear the other side of the story. How out of control was the mentally ill schizophrenic? Was the officer pinned against the wall by the wheelchair? I don’t know - there is more story here, yet, and I am waiting to see.


15 posted on 09/23/2012 10:45:37 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: dirtymac

Was Joe Pesci involved ala “Casino”?


16 posted on 09/23/2012 10:50:24 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: JohnKinAK
If two policemen cannot subdue a person like this in this type of situation then they don't need to be on the police force. Don't these people carry Teasers for something like this? Or could not a nurse have gotten a syringe of knock out medicine and given it to him in the neck?
Surely there was a better way.
17 posted on 09/23/2012 10:54:13 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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I’d like to hear the other side of the story. How out of control was the mentally ill schizophrenic? Was the officer pinned against the wall by the wheelchair? I don’t know - there is more story here, yet, and I am waiting to see.

You're pathetic.

18 posted on 09/23/2012 10:56:35 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: JohnKinAK

What a brave, brave man who blew away a dangerous homicidal maniac who was wielding a .45 caliber ball point pen. Give that man a medal for valor, a raise, and a lifetime pension. He’s a credit to his union.


19 posted on 09/23/2012 11:02:57 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: dirtymac

Any police officer sent on a call is empowered to shoot one or more living mammals. it is in their training and rules. If there is a dog present then the dog must be shot and shooting a person besides might invite a raised eyebrow at headquarters. This keeps the officers in practice for when the orders come down to confiscate all civilian owned weaponry and arrest all enemies of the state by name or by category.


20 posted on 09/23/2012 11:14:09 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson)
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