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Another officer involved shooting?

Dave_pro2a

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Shoot first, beat first, kill first. That's the new motto.

http://www.alternet.org/story/15152...ngerous_militarization_of_the_us_police_force

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Eventually there WILL be a police exemption to Godwin's law. If you act like Nazis, you deserved to be called Nazis.
 
golddigger14s

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Sounds like the guy deserved it, he shot first (and missed). How you miss someone in the same room I don't know. Glad he did miss though.
 
amlevin

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This incident was reported in the Everett Herald this AM.

According to comments by a reader familiar with the home and person stated that police had been there several times before.
 
thebigsd

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Just based off that story, there is simply not enough information to make a judgement call either way. Hope we get more developments to the story.
 
amzbrady

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Snip...

"and then I heard a shot, a small shot." I love reading stuff like this. I didnt know the average citizen had the equipment to measure the size of a shot sound, maybe it was a class that he got a merit badge for in scouts.
 
slapmonkay

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New Details:
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110713/NEWS01/707139820


A Bothell man reportedly was angry and walking toward a sheriff's deputy with a wooden cane raised over his head when the deputy tripped, fell and fired a fatal shot, according to a search warrant filed Tuesday.

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Once its investigation is complete, a prosecutor will decide whether the deputy acted lawfully.
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Sparky508

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"Leyda told a sheriff's detective investigating the shooting that Brown "continued toward Deputy Simpson and stood over him with the cane raised," the search warrant said."

Not like he fired as a result of falling.
 
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