Posted on 07/02/2018 8:08:27 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Dozens of protesters marched through the streets of Portland, Oregon, on Sunday, demanding action after Portland State University police shot and killed a Navy veteran. Cellphone video captured the early Friday incident when, witnesses say, Jason Washington was trying to break up a fight.
It appears Washington's gun fell from its holster before police shot him.
This isn't the first time tensions have risen at the university over armed campus safety officers.
Students have been strongly opposed since the policy began in 2015.
One protester said she feared that it was only a matter of time before someone got killed.
CBS News correspondent David Begnaud reports the incident occurred Friday after a fight started to escalate outside a sports bar. According to witnesses, the 45-year-old Washington, who is seen in cellphone video carrying a gun on his right hip, tried to intervene, but fell during the scuffle.
Washington's gun apparently fell from its holster. Witnesses said campus police opened fire when he tried to pick it up.
Washington was a U.S. Navy veteran who worked for the post office. Police told reporters he had a concealed carry permit for his handgun.
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“Clearly the leftists who wrote all that claptrap don’t understand the sublime nuances of the modern militarized police state.”
Yes, the officer on the beat with his nightstick is a real match for terrorists eh?
“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Your propaganda is old news. Paranoid thinking. Make a sign and go march with Anifa. Over and out.
“Unfortunately, not just university police forces. Trigger happy, scared of their own shadows, everyone sucks but them, shoot first then figure out later what was going on...makes you feel all warm and fuzzy,”
A slight exaggeration and generalization eh?
“This is a tragedy that a person carrying legal who may have been just trying to do a good deed was gunned down by a LEO who may have shot without assessing the situation, but the victim kind of put himself in a really bad situation. Carrying is a big responsibility not to be taken lightly.”
How much time to assess a situation when someone reaches for a gun? 1.5 seconds?
Like I said, the victim put himself in a bad situation...but, so far as has been told in the report, he should not have been shot. I agree with an earlier post that it is wrong that we should have to fear bearing arms as private citizens while a police force can act without the same consequences for mistakes.
But of course. Hyperbole to make a point.
Well, when cops kill people who aren’t breaking the law then don’t mind the people who kill them right back.
Start with a college campus where many students go intent to become political activists over any priority of getting an education, and our current political tensions aided by a viral media, add some alcohol and you have the climate in Portland, not just the college campus there.
Why’s he throwing gang signs?
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