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Armed LGBT student Scout Schultz shot dead by Atlanta police
BBC News ^ | 18th September 2017 | BBC News

Posted on 09/17/2017 6:49:36 PM PDT by Ennis85

Police in the US state of Georgia have shot and killed an LGBT student activist, leading to an independent investigation. Police encountered Scout Schultz at a campus in Atlanta after a call about "a person with a knife and a gun" late on Saturday, officials say. Footage has emerged apparently showing Schultz, 21, refusing to obey multiple police commands to drop a knife. Schultz's mother said police should not have used lethal force. In a video filmed by fellow students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Schultz is heard saying "Shoot me!" while continuing to advance on the officers. One of them then opens fire. Schultz - who identified as neither male nor female - did not appear to be holding a gun, investigators said, despite what was initially reported to police.

The computer engineering student later died in hospital, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. No police officers from the Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD) were injured in the incident. The officer who opened fire has not been named. Schultz's mother Lynne later said Scout, who was born Scott Schultz, was politically active in progressive causes, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. She added that Schultz had numerous medical issues, suffered from depression and had attempted suicide two years ago. "Why didn't they use some nonlethal force, like pepper spray or Tasers?" she was quoted as saying by the newspaper. Schultz was the president of the Pride Alliance at Georgia Tech. "We are all deeply saddened by what has occurred," the group said in a statement. "They have been the driving force behind Pride Alliance for the past two years," the group said, using Schultz's preferred pronoun. "They pushed us to do more events and a larger variety events."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: dramaqueen; education; gatech; gay; georgia; homofascism; lookatme; police; shooting; student; suicidebycop; suicideycop
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To: wita

I’ve never faced a them with a knife, but Massad Ayoob and others have written that if a they brandishing a knife and advancing on you, as here, gets within 12 feet (the figure I recall) of you, then they’re too close and you should start shooting.


61 posted on 09/17/2017 7:56:57 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Ennis85

Video of the dude ...er, I mean non-binary person being shot as requested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSzAJv6naY The video includes not only the fatal shot but his screaming in pain.


62 posted on 09/17/2017 7:57:11 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: The Toll

If he is a young spry athlete, he probably lunges and kills you if you let him too close.

That was not the situation here.


63 posted on 09/17/2017 7:57:54 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Ennis85
Scott Schultz, was politically active in progressive causes...

...And quite insane. I guess he failed anger management class as well.

64 posted on 09/17/2017 7:58:12 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: The Toll

I’d shoot the knife right out of his hand. Might even get the hand.


65 posted on 09/17/2017 8:00:02 PM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: tumblindice

Yep. It’s called The Tueller Drill and it’s taught at every law enforcement academy on Earth.


66 posted on 09/17/2017 8:00:34 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Ennis85

This is a righteous shoot. The kid was armed and advancing on the police.

The police don’t have enough room in their police car for all the whizbang cool stuff available from Amazon.


67 posted on 09/17/2017 8:00:48 PM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: Ennis85
64 posts and not a single one of Scout. WTF.


68 posted on 09/17/2017 8:01:28 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats want to teach anal sex in school. Republicans want to teach gun safety.)
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To: buffaloguy

As far as I know, they all carry pepper spray. A lot also carry a taser.

Both could have been used easily to stop him but yes this will go down as justified even if it really wasn’t.


69 posted on 09/17/2017 8:04:26 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

If you are going to try to shoot someone in the foot, you shouldn’t carry a gun.


70 posted on 09/17/2017 8:10:32 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Ennis85

The BBC used to have standards. It wasn’t the Atlanta Police.


71 posted on 09/17/2017 8:12:00 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Ennis85

Its preferred pronoun, “they”. WTH is the matter with these people? You need a manual to have a conversation with one of them.

I’m not going to read the whole piece, I just know what I have been taught in several firearms classes. An assailant can cover 5 or 6 yards pretty quickly.

The man was seriously mentally ill. The family and friends should be asked just what efforts they made to help him. Other than enabling his delusions, I mean. I know first hand it is very difficult to deal with a mentally ill relative or friend. It’s also very easy to place blame on others for not doing any better.


72 posted on 09/17/2017 8:12:50 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Ennis85

Lady, it’s really fuc*ing simple. When a cop gives you a commmamd, you FOLLOW IT. If you don’t, you ffa e the use of lethal force. That’s the beginning and end of the discussion. There’s no ifs, ands, or buts. Your kid did something stupid and he got dead as a result.

I have no bad feelings whatsoever.


73 posted on 09/17/2017 8:18:49 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: PAR35

I suspect that I know more about guns and shooting than you.

There are not many situations where it would be proper to shoot someone in the foot. This very well may have been one of those.

If you don’t think I could do it, stop by and visit me. I will get out a pellet pistol, and you can wear a boot. Walk at me slowly as this guy is doing and I will put one right on top of your foot.

I have shot lots of rattlesnakes through the head with a .22 pistol or larger caliber. It is not that hard to do but is way more difficult than shooting a foot moving slowly.


74 posted on 09/17/2017 8:26:18 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Ennis85

He’s got “That Look “.


75 posted on 09/17/2017 8:30:05 PM PDT by Phosgood (Send in the Clowns...but Wait, they're here!! >..<)
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To: Ennis85

Wonder if the transgender white person was shot by a black cop? Which group gets the support of the mob?


76 posted on 09/17/2017 8:40:46 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“A man’s got to know his limitations.”

When a cop sees a transvestite coming at him with a butcher knife and a hard-on, you got to figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.


77 posted on 09/17/2017 8:41:24 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Ennis85

Aren’t people taught any more that not following the directions of the police is an invitation for trouble? Whenever my mom was pulled over for speeding when we were kids, she’d curse them out privately, but after rolling down the window was all softness and compliance.


78 posted on 09/17/2017 8:48:54 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: yarddog

Less than 20 ft and knife> gun

Bull sht on he should have not shot


79 posted on 09/17/2017 9:03:22 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Autonomous User

Sounds like what Dirty Harry was saying to his chief about killing a rapist, lmao


80 posted on 09/17/2017 9:04:40 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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