Man snatches toddler from shopping cart, holds her hostage (Video of snatching & police shooting)

KHOU.com ^ | June 28, 2013 | KHOU Staff

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

MIDWEST CITY, Oklahoma -- A man was shot and killed after he snatched a 2-year-old girl out of a shopping cart and held her hostage in an Oklahoma grocery store.

The man removed the child from the shopping cart, held a knife to her and made crazy demands.

Officers spent 30 minutes negotiating with the man.

An officer shot the man in the head at point-blank range when he pulled the knife closer to the girl’s throat.

“He thought the child was being harmed and stabbed at the time he did the shooting,” said Midwest Police Department Chief Brandon Clabes.

The girl was not harmed.

Family members of the suspect said he had a long history of mental illness.

[Inyo-Mono]

Hope that little girl doesn’t have permanent hearing loss from that.

My first thought too.

[Reddy]

OMgosh! I can’t imagine what the mother went through. In the video, it looks like the man grabbed the two-year-old from a cart a young girl was pushing while the mom was turned reaching for something. The young girl looks on in shock as the man grabs the baby.

Thank God for the Good Samaritan who blocked the kidnapper with his cart, keeping him pinned near one place until the police came.

The video (thankfully) is not graphic at the end. Thank God that the police officer calmly did what he had to do.

[X-spurt]

Don’t reckon he was barking for Kibble and Bits......

Sorry as heck of me, but just couldn’t help myself.

[23 Everest]

no offense, but if you consider the alternatives I think a little loss in hearing is a better outcome.

Coming from someone who hate hearing aids, but I’m still standing.

[FrdmLvr]

For the cops to shoot him?

[Popman]

Wait a minute...where are the roided up SWAT team, rolling up in their armored vehicle, sealing off the building, shooting any stray dogs.../ S

Great police work by the officer...he truly did "serve and protect"

[CityCenter]

Well at least they didn’t shoot a dog.

[TaMoDee]

How about that brave little girl (Her sister?)who went after that POS. That little girl deserve a medal also.

[House Atreides]

It’s nice reading about a LEO doing good and not doing what more and more seem to be doing—such as shooting dogs for the hell of it or shooting or beating citizens because the LEO was “disrespected”. Props to the officer—he showed good judgement and decisiveness.

[TXnMA]

Good argument for equipping LEOs with suppressors that can be added in close situations...

[Cymbaline]

I love a happy ending!

[lightman]

He wasn't getting in-patient treatment because the liberals insisted that actually, you know, treating mental patients violates their civil rights.

Ain't that great?

Preserve his precious HIPPA right to privacy etc but place him in a situation where his attempt to deprive the right of LIFE to another deprives him of his live.

[null and void]

Well, actually I was referring to the great emptying of the insane asylums in the 1970’s, but it was done by the same ilk.

Odd how the precipitous decline in society followed shortly thereafter.

[lightman]

Well, actually I was referring to the great emptying of the insane asylums in the 1970’s, but it was done by the same ilk.

For one thing, we never had a problem with the "homeless" until after the "great liberation".

[null and void]

Exactly.

[Lurker]

On the surface, this one looks clean to me.

[lightman]

Clean as a whistle.

Could be some pretty bad PTSD for the little girl’s family.

[trebb]

Good shooting officer! My wife and I have preset signals in the event she is ever being held as a shield. Hopefully it never occurs, but we have signals that will maximize an opportunity to do what the officer did.

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking

[KosmicKitty]

FWIW

The graph below shows how the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill during the 1970's caused an increase in the prison population. At the time, better medications allowed for people with mental illnesses to live more normal lives so involuntary commitments became a thing of the past.

One factor that wasn't taken into consideration was that many mentally ill people won't continue to take their medication unless they are being monitored. So, we have a number of people who should be treated for mental illness living on the streets. When they go off the meds, they get arrested

Over 50% of the men and 70% of the women in prison have mental health issues. And they don't get treatment in prison and eventually they get released and the cycle starts again.