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Phentex

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4. All I know is if *I* had been his back up...

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 22, 2019, 12:49 PM

Sep 2019

I would have insisted he put his damn gun down and realize this was a mental health issue and not a threat to his personal being. I believe two or more people could have restrained Hill while waiting for more trained back up. The way Hill moved was not the way this coward describes it. And he was naked so you can see he does not have a weapon!

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Trial to start for Georgia cop who shot naked, unarmed man [View all] left-of-center2012 Sep 2019 OP

Pretty hard for a naked guy to conceal a weapon. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #1

There was also a bit about him telling another officer that Hill was "pounding on him." Jedi Guy Sep 2019 #2

"why was Olsen alone? Why didn't he have any backup?" left-of-center2012 Sep 2019 #3

All I know is if *I* had been his back up... Phentex Sep 2019 #4

if *I* had been his back up ... I would have insisted he put his damn gun down left-of-center2012 Sep 2019 #5

That's a version that keeps changing... Phentex Sep 2019 #6

"I'm not talking about me being a police backup" left-of-center2012 Sep 2019 #7

Some years ago I was a dispatcher for a police department of a city in the Southwest. Jedi Guy Sep 2019 #8

... Phentex Sep 2019 #9