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Just one little query; how do you drop a gun unless you already have it in your hand? How does getting shot for "reaching for it" jibe with being told to "drop the gun"???
Sir, would you please pick that gun up so you can drop it when I holler drop it. Just don't "reach for it" or you'll get shot. Just sorta snuggle it into your hand all cautious like, so you can then drop it ....OK? Mmmmmm
"Ummm, sir … Before we get into an issue about it … May I see your gun please … ??? … "
[perp hands the pistol to the officer, who examines it closely] …
"Okay … I see that it is a real gun … 9mm semi-automatic … "
[officer removes the magazine, then replaces it] …
"Fully loaded, one in the chamber … Okay … You have a Second Amendment right to own this, so I'll give it back to you now … "
[gives the pistol back to its rightful owner] …
"I can't take this away from you until or unless you shoot one of us with it … But even then, you must be presumed innocent until you are found guilty in a court of law … So … Have a nice day, sir …"
I click on CNN News this morning and the first headline was
"Police Shoot Man in Wheelchair".
When I click on the link it turns out the police are called to the scene of an armed man in a wheelchair. In the end the man is shot by the police and dies. I don't know the full details, if it may have been justified or not but what really bothers me is the headline. Specifically written to paint a different picture than what happened.
If you don't know what happened, how do you know the headline was "specifically written to paint a different picture than what happened"? A man was in a wheelchair. He was shot. If he was shot by police, why is that headline misleading?
Sounds to me like you're the one who's trying to shade the story. Even the fact you say he was "armed" doesn't change much. What was he armed with? A toy gun? A cell phone? A fake bomb? A baseball bat? People who were even capable of running away have been shot by police very recently, so I'd say what he was armed with is just as important as the use of the word "armed" with no other verified information.
^^^It should be so simple. As has been mentioned before, suicide by cop. It is cheaper the an insurance policy. If someone offs themself the family gets nothing. If they get the police to do it for them, they become a victim and the family can sue.
Actually we have a tortured soul who was a coward and couldnt do himself....so he has to screws up the lives of others in his desire to die
His loved ones
His friends
The policemen who will relive this everyday of their lives.. and how it will screw them up
Sad.. sick..
Would I laugh.. you bet.. its how I would handle the stress,,
Laughing policemen is something every policeman knows about... if we didnt everyone would go nuts
retcop knows what I mean.. we dont even have to talk about it
It just is...
Advice to anyone whose life has become unbearable (from a mental health counselor / chaplain / pastor):
If you truly cannot any longer handle the pain, stress, complications of your life, you are free to choose to leave this world peacefully, by stopping eating ...
I click on CNN News this morning and the first headline was
"Police Shoot Man in Wheelchair".
When I click on the link it turns out the police are called to the scene of an armed man in a wheelchair. In the end the man is shot by the police and dies. I don't know the full details, if it may have been justified or not but what really bothers me is the headline. Specifically written to paint a different picture than what happened.
Yes, that is partly what is fueling the war on police recently (it seems like a war on police to me, anyway).
Family Of Wheelchair-Bound Man Killed By Police Challenges Officers’ Narrative, Citing Witness Footage
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Cellphone footage from the shooting of Jeremy McDole, a man in a wheelchair who was shot and killed by Delaware Police, has been cited by McDole's family to challenge the officers' narrative that McDole was armed at the time of the shooting.
An investigation is being launched into the shooting of Jeremy McDole, who was killed by police in Delaware on Wednesday. McDole was shot while sitting in his wheelchair on the street, and McDole’s family has cited cellphone footage from a witness to challenge the Wilmington Police Department’s narrative of the shooting.
Wilmington police reportedly responded to a call that McDole, a 28-year-old black man, was suffering from a self-inflicted gun wound in a neighborhood near the nursing home where he lived.
During a news conference following the shooting, Police Chief Bobby Cummings claimed that when officers arrived on the scene, they found McDole “still armed with a handgun” and they repeatedly told him to raise his hands.
Cummings said it was after McDole refused to comply and reached for a handgun at his waistband that four officers opened fire on him. Cummings also claimed that after McDole was killed, the officers found a .38 caliber gun at his side.
McDole’s mother, Phyllis McDole, interrupted the news conference and insisted that there was video evidence showing that her son was not armed.
“HE WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR, PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN. THERE’S VIDEO SHOWING THAT HE DIDN’T PULL A WEAPON,” SHE SAID. “I NEED ANSWERS.”
The Delaware Justice Department’s Office of Civil Rights and Public Trust is investigating the shooting. Richard Smith, the head of Delaware’s NAACP chapter, has called for a special prosecutor to investigate the shooting in order to “not have cops investigating cops.”
While Cummings has maintained that he couldn’t confirm anything until the investigation is complete, a cellphone video was released online that showed footage of the shooting.
The cellphone video appears to show Wilmington officers confronting Jeremy McDole on the street, where he is sitting in his wheelchair. As they approached with guns drawn, they yelled at him to “drop the gun” and to put his “hands up.”
McDole, who appears to be bleeding, fidgets for a few seconds, rubbing his hands on his knees and thighs, and then tries to raise himself out of his wheelchair. The moment his hand touches his waistband, the four officers open fire, striking McDole.
After he is shot, McDole freezes for a second and then falls out of his wheelchair and is motionless on the ground. No weapon appears to be visible in the bystander’s video.
McDole’s uncle, Eugene Smith, called the shooting “an execution” and said that when he saw his nephew 15 minutes before the incident, he did not have a gun.
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