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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsImagine you shot a disabled guy in a wheelchair for threatening you and wielding a pen.
Now try explaining that to the cops.
Hell, it works when the cops do it and then explain it as a "necessary use of force".
The police have become more of a psychopathic threat to society than protectors thereof.
Rotten to the core, rotten all the way to the core...
http://news.yahoo.com/houston-officer-kills-double-amputee-wheelchair-222540280.html
HOUSTON (AP) A Houston police officer shot and killed a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair Saturday inside a group home after police say the double amputee threatened the officer and aggressively waved a metal object that turned out to be a pen.
Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the man cornered the officer in his wheelchair and was making threats while trying to stab the officer with the pen. At the time, the officer did not know what the metal object was that the man was waving, Silva said.
She said the man came "within inches to a foot" of the officer and did not follow instructions to calm down and remain still.
"Fearing for his partner's safety and his own safety, he discharged his weapon," Silva told The Associated Press.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)mr_hat
(3,410 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts).. but it wasn't close enough for the officer to see that he just had a pen.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)maneuver a wheelchair?
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)You should be thankful that they're out there serving and protecting the shit out of you!
Why, that disabled guy in the wheelchair could have been DANGEROUS! And everyone knows that the life of a police officer is worth a hundred times more than the life of a crippled person, so he was right to be concerned about a microscopically possible threat and shoot him!
Didn't you know, cops do nothing but play with children and rescue kittens! And you criticize them! Why do you hate America?