US Police shoot someone 6 times as he wrestles burglar

US Police shoot someone 6 times as he wrestles burglar

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BrettMRC

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4,603 posts

169 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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....then tell him to "Stay down".

Equal parts insane and tragic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckglp4nz75zo

jdw100

5,037 posts

173 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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BrettMRC said:
....then tell him to "Stay down".

Equal parts insane and tragic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckglp4nz75zo
You’d think the wearing of a ski-mask indoors might indicate which of two people is more likely to be the criminal?

Badda

2,987 posts

91 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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Awful. Have they revealed the poor guy’s skin colour yet?

borcy

6,300 posts

65 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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Not the first time, I think it happened to a woman last year.

Earthdweller

14,882 posts

135 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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borcy said:
Not the first time, I think it happened to a woman last year.
There was a tourist who dialled 911 and when the Police arrived she ran towards them for help ... and they shot her dead

Douglas Quaid

2,504 posts

94 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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This is why that idiotic defund the police movement is the exact opposite of what they should be doing. More funds means more training which is definitely needed and higher wages to attract better people. Not just give them a gun and send them out the door.

stuthemongoose

2,421 posts

226 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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It wasn’t a burglar, it looks like a jilted ex lover gone bunny boiler.

I had to reread the article when at the bottom said they were ina romantic relationship, the person with the knife is female.

Cops shot the man

BikeBikeBIke

10,715 posts

124 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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The rozzers was brave to go into the house in the first place after shots had already been fired. I wouldn't have.

I suspect they shot the guy who looked like he had a weapon and appeared to have the upper hand. Presumably for fear he'd kill the woman or fire at them.

Tragic but forgivable mistake.

I hope they throw the book at the bunny boiler.

Edited by BikeBikeBIke on Thursday 21st November 08:14

JagLover

44,109 posts

244 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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stuthemongoose said:
It wasn’t a burglar, it looks like a jilted ex lover gone bunny boiler.

I had to reread the article when at the bottom said they were ina romantic relationship, the person with the knife is female.

Cops shot the man
If you see a man grappling with a woman you are likely going to assume he is the aggressor. That is likely why this happened.

BrettMRC

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169 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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JagLover said:
stuthemongoose said:
It wasn’t a burglar, it looks like a jilted ex lover gone bunny boiler.

I had to reread the article when at the bottom said they were ina romantic relationship, the person with the knife is female.

Cops shot the man
If you see a man grappling with a woman you are likely going to assume he is the aggressor. That is likely why this happened.
Even if that person is the one fully clothed and wearing a mask?

JagLover

44,109 posts

244 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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BrettMRC said:
Even if that person is the one fully clothed and wearing a mask?
Doesn't appear to be wearing a mask from the video?, looks to be wearing some sort of head covering.

The image quality is poor but that seems to be case and you can tell who is male and female from a glance.

Derek Smith

46,636 posts

257 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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There was a society collecting for deaf mutes in a smallish town. They had identification. One chap knocked on a door and, as he reached for his identification, the house owner shot him and killed him. The charity was sued, I seem to remember by more than one party. It was heavily criticised for putting the deceased in such a dangerous position, ie knocking on a door.

The home owner was neither criticised nor prosecuted. It's an odd country.

Mont Blanc

1,658 posts

52 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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Law enforcement in the US is insane.

There are thousands of videos on YouTube of US cops doing absolutely crazy things. Shooting the wrong people, being violent towards citizens, beating up handcuffed suspects, attacking victims, arresting people for utterly spurious reasons, planting evidence, conspiring with their colleagues to make up false charges on someone, and everything else you can think of.

Apparently one of the most commonly occurring things that happens in the US is that cops try to falsify charges on someone who they have detained or handcuffed, who hasn't actually committed any crimes. They do this due to the lawsuit culture in the US. If they handcuff or arrest someone without probable cause, they can be sued heavily for civil rights violations, both personally as well as their Police department, so they always try to find a charge on something, anything, to try to show that they had cause to put the cuffs on.

Some police academy training schedules can be as short as 6 weeks, before they are sent out with a badge and gun, which probably explains a lot.




BrettMRC

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169 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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JagLover said:
BrettMRC said:
Even if that person is the one fully clothed and wearing a mask?
Doesn't appear to be wearing a mask from the video?, looks to be wearing some sort of head covering.

The image quality is poor but that seems to be case and you can tell who is male and female from a glance.
I watched it on a phone earlier and it looked like a mask, on the bigger screen it is indeed a hood.

Even so, I find it very hard to find a reason for the additional 5 shots, and can't really see a good reason for the first.

BikeBikeBIke

10,715 posts

124 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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BrettMRC said:
JagLover said:
BrettMRC said:
Even if that person is the one fully clothed and wearing a mask?
Doesn't appear to be wearing a mask from the video?, looks to be wearing some sort of head covering.

The image quality is poor but that seems to be case and you can tell who is male and female from a glance.
I watched it on a phone earlier and it looked like a mask, on the bigger screen it is indeed a hood.

Even so, I find it very hard to find a reason for the additional 5 shots, and can't really see a good reason for the first.
The rozzer must have thought the (misidentified) perp was about to shoot or that someone was about to get their throat cut.

Split second decision. He's in a dark house, he knows shots have already been fired.

BoRED S2upid

20,418 posts

249 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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BrettMRC said:
I watched it on a phone earlier and it looked like a mask, on the bigger screen it is indeed a hood.

Even so, I find it very hard to find a reason for the additional 5 shots, and can't really see a good reason for the first.
Six does seem a little extreme.

MrBogSmith

2,935 posts

43 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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Mont Blanc said:
Law enforcement in the US is insane.

There are thousands of videos on YouTube of US cops doing absolutely crazy things. Shooting the wrong people, being violent towards citizens, beating up handcuffed suspects, attacking victims, arresting people for utterly spurious reasons, planting evidence, conspiring with their colleagues to make up false charges on someone, and everything else you can think of.

Apparently one of the most commonly occurring things that happens in the US is that cops try to falsify charges on someone who they have detained or handcuffed, who hasn't actually committed any crimes. They do this due to the lawsuit culture in the US. If they handcuff or arrest someone without probable cause, they can be sued heavily for civil rights violations, both personally as well as their Police department, so they always try to find a charge on something, anything, to try to show that they had cause to put the cuffs on.

Some police academy training schedules can be as short as 6 weeks, before they are sent out with a badge and gun, which probably explains a lot.



Risk profile is totally different for the US for their cops.

Not excusing this but when you have so many guns in the hands of the public and they’re used in such a way (unlike other countries which have high gun ownership), then I expect a significant disproportion will continue.


Electronicpants

2,827 posts

197 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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Mont Blanc said:
Some police academy training schedules can be as short as 6 weeks, before they are sent out with a badge and gun, which probably explains a lot.
They'll let anyone in.



BikeBikeBIke

10,715 posts

124 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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EmailAddress said:
If someone is in the process of stabbing someone else to death, you end them.
This.

Unfortunately, he'd got completely the wrong end of the stick.

rscott

15,582 posts

200 months

Thursday 21st November 2024
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There are definitely issues with the training of some US police - these all happened this year.

Officer shoots at unarmed man for picking a hat up... -


Man suffers third degree burns after being held on the pavement in Phoenix in mid July for several minutes (temperature was 45C that day), Was being questioned as a suspect in a local burglary, but not arrested or charged for that.
https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigatio...
No action taken against the officers involved (yet).

Deaf man punched and tasered by police for not stopping for the officer. Initially charged with resisting arrest..