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.
1 posted on
05/27/2014 6:43:37 PM PDT by
deks
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To: deks
About the only thing the cops care about is making sure that they go home at night.
2 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”.
3 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.
4 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.”
5 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.
6 posted on
05/27/2014 6:48:56 PM PDT by
Fire_on_High
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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.
7 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.
8 posted on
05/27/2014 6:52:30 PM PDT by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: deks
It seems to me I’ve seen this scenario before.
10 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.
11 posted on
05/27/2014 6:57:13 PM PDT by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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.
16 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: deks
Did he look or act like a dog?
18 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.
19 posted on
05/27/2014 7:29:08 PM PDT by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: deks
"The four gunshots, it's just too much. Excessive. Excessive. Why four?" asked Christian's mother. There were three dogs behind him?
24 posted on
05/27/2014 8:43:54 PM PDT by
kiryandil
(turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
To: deks
"They're supposed to come to help and stop the suicide and they came and killed him," said Natalie Moriarty, Christian's aunt. It's all about the CONFRONTATION, Natalie.
Betcha the Farce Enlawment Orifice (FEO) had a Happy Ending in his dress blues...
25 posted on
05/27/2014 8:46:22 PM PDT by
kiryandil
(turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
To: deks
Seems odd they didn’t just taze him before opting to kill him.
27 posted on
05/27/2014 8:55:02 PM PDT by
Trod Upon
(Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
To: null and void
Nuther peasant corpse on aisle 3...
29 posted on
05/27/2014 8:56:37 PM PDT by
kiryandil
(turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
To: deks
Remember this? Back when the police cared about human life? Sniper shoots gun out of suicidal man?
Maybe all the shoot to kill incidents are due to limited budgets and not wanting to pay overtime for talking the poor bastard down. Internal reviews justify the shoot and the cop gets a paid vacation.
Just sayin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHvWaviIXsk
32 posted on
05/27/2014 9:28:45 PM PDT by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
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36 posted on
05/27/2014 9:47:51 PM PDT by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: deks
I can’t understand why, if he was suicidal, he was at a friend’s house, instead of home or with a counsellor, or institutionalized until he could be helped past his depression/suicidal tendencies. Wasn’t it somewhat irresponsible of his parents to let him go off to a friend’s house instead of getting professional help?
41 posted on
05/27/2014 10:23:34 PM PDT by
EDINVA
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