Posted on 06/13/2019 7:22:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Armed officers and an angry crowd faced off after a Tennessee man was fatally shot by U.S. Marshals in a working-class Memphis neighborhood.
People in the crowd threw rocks and bricks, with 25 officers suffering mostly minor injuries during the tense clash Wednesday night in the Frayser community in north Memphis. Officers cordoned off several blocks near the scene. By 11 p.m., officers had used tear gas and most of the crowd dispersed, police director Michael Rallings said at a Thursday morning at a news conference. Three people were arrested.
Officers on horseback patrolled the area, and lines of police cars with flashing blue lights were parked along the street. An ambulance could be seen at the outer edge of the scene. A helicopter flew overhead as police cars trickled away. Residential streets were blocked, and a heavy police presence remained in the area Thursday.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Keli McAlister said the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force went to a Frayser home to look for a suspect with felony warrants. Marshals saw the man get into a vehicle and then proceed to ram task force vehicles several times before exiting with a weapon, McAlister said. Marshals then opened fire, killing the man who died at the scene. McAlister did not say how many marshals fired or how many times the man was shot.
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“Don’t Crash; Don’t Shoot”
Too soon for Grandma to start cashing in?
Where’s his elementary school photo already?
Killing justified. BLUE lives matter.
Good shooting , Officer. Civilization thanks you.
+1
By “working-class” do they mean “Amish”?
Sounds like not enough have been arrested yet; I’d work over the group who likely fed the fires for hours on social media for inciting a riot. Repeat until stupidity ends.
Armed officers..... Armed? Duh
I guess this “community” would rather not have fugitives arrested. Ok.
Anderson said she worries about her son’s safety every day.
“I just want him to see this, know what’s going on, to be conscious,” she said from the driver’s seat of her car, with her son in the passenger seat. “I fear for him all the time.”
Doggedly determined not to learn the essential lessons.
Why was I not surprised by the content of the article?
Ho hum, sounds like another rerun of a 60s event. Riot destroys a city and then comes time to rebuild it.
Is this the neighborhood affectionately known as Little Mogadishu?
I thought members of the “Working Class” actually worked.
Exactly right.
Suicide by cop.
I would characterize the community as harboring.
Not black ones...
“Working class neighborhood” LOLOL!!!
If any of these losers have an actual job I would be amazed.
I bet the work boots store and the Barnes and Noble were untouched.
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