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Family of Purcellville [Va] teen killed by police demands answers
WTTG FOX 5 DC ^
| May 26, 2014
| Sherri Ly
Posted on 05/27/2014 6:43:37 PM PDT by deks
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What continues to gnaw at the family is whether officers could have handled this differently. Was the officer who fired properly trained for someone who is suicidal? Did he have a Taser that could have been used instead? What was the role of the other officers on the scene? The family can't understand how this could have happened.
"They're supposed to come to help and stop the suicide and they came and killed him," said Natalie Moriarty, Christian's aunt.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:43:37 PM PDT
by
deks
To: deks
About the only thing the cops care about is making sure that they go home at night.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:45:20 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegelein!)
To: deks
And so it goes. Another day another civilian gunned down by those who are supposed to “serve and protect”.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:46:30 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(Obamacare needs a death panel.)
To: deks
Well, he IS over being suicidal. And, the cop went home unharmed. I’m not seeing the problem. He was a CIVILIAN! Thus, of no importance. He will vote Democrat, tho.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:47:05 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(Laeti vescimur nos subacturis)
To: deks
The cops aren’t trained to say, “Aww, you’re suicidal?...you get one free shot.”
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:48:27 PM PDT
by
lightman
(O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
To: deks
If I were a bit more cynical I’d point out that they did stop the suicide. Just not quite in the way they wanted.
Bad cop, no donut.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:48:56 PM PDT
by
Fire_on_High
(RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
To: deks
I don’t blame the cops. Unless the spaces in that house were like Downton Abbey, there was no time for any fancy moves. It was shoot or be stabbed.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:49:55 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: deks
Wow. This kid needs help, and instead he gets four rounds. This seems very amateurish by the police.
RIP Christian.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:52:30 PM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: All
The young man’s name is Christian Sierra. May he rest in peace.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:54:14 PM PDT
by
deks
(Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
To: deks
It seems to me I’ve seen this scenario before.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:55:49 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: deks
Moral of the story: if your loved one is suicidal, don’t call the police.
It’s well documented that your loved one will almost certainly be shot in such cases.
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posted on
05/27/2014 6:57:13 PM PDT
by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
To: lightman
“The cops arent trained to say, Aww, youre suicidal?...you get one free shot.”
They don’t seem to be trained to do anything but piss their pants at the slightest hint of danger. And that assumes the claim of ‘he lunged’ is honest. It wouldn’t exactly be the first time a cop made that lie.
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posted on
05/27/2014 7:05:05 PM PDT
by
LevinFan
To: luvbach1
I’m thinking the same thing.
Thought perhaps this was to be a dated story, actually.
The identical story, redux, for sure. Different name, different place— same story.
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posted on
05/27/2014 7:06:15 PM PDT
by
RitaOK
( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
To: Zhang Fei
" I dont blame the cops. Unless the spaces in that house were like Downton Abbey, there was no time for any fancy moves. It was shoot or be stabbed. " The cops should have evacuated the house of everyone, surrounded it, but kept their distance until they could get someone to talk to the kid. Or, use a taser...
Cops love a good adrenalin rush. They get overhyped on steroids, caffeine, and adrenalin and they don't think through the situation to deescalate before acting. E.G. They sprayed over 300 rounds throughout the neighborhood at the Boston bombers and made just a couple grazing hits (the older brother was killed by the younger running him over).
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posted on
05/27/2014 7:18:37 PM PDT
by
uncommonsense
(Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
To: deks
It seems to me that I see stories about police murders every day, from one to six a day.
To: deks
Only call the police on a family member if you wouldn't mind seeing them dead.
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posted on
05/27/2014 7:22:26 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
To: All
Sure as hell doesn’t make any sense. They could have just let the kid kill himself and saved a bullet. Oh, how I hate cops.
Can someone tell me how to get a nationwide organization started with chapters in ever city to go talk to police chiefs and mayors about all the dog and people killing. Maybe we could get people to volunteer to monitor police radio and show up at the scene as witnesses.
To: deks
Did he look or act like a dog?
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posted on
05/27/2014 7:25:54 PM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(This is my tag!)
To: deks
No way I would bet my life on the reliability of a Taser. A friend of mine tried that with a mentally ill man and got hit over the head with a hammer. Skull fracture and a hundred staples and stitches. The backup officers shot the man as he went to swing again.
The locals in my area have had way better luck with less than lethal shotgun rounds. Way more separation and safety for all involved. The limiting factor is that you need enough officer on the scene to set up that kind of employment.
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posted on
05/27/2014 7:29:08 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: MichaelCorleone
Lesson learned: The cops’ involvement will make a bad situation worse.
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posted on
05/27/2014 7:31:52 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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