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[Chron] Houston officer kills double amputee in wheelchair.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by BetterThanEver, Sep 22, 2012.

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To me, the fact that he's an amputee and in a wheelchair is somewhat immaterial. This was a mentally disturbed person threatening a law enforcement officer with an unidentifiable metal object. Given that situation, I can't say I would have responded that differently. Folks in wheelchairs can wield a weapon and it just takes one finger to pull a trigger.

#21 BetterThanI, Sep 22, 2012

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kaitanuva said: ↑

The officer has been in a past situation where a person was stabbed to death when he repeated told the aggressor to stop. He was forced to shoot.

After being traumatized by that incident, here he is cornered by a person armed with an unknown (to him) metal object who is known to be mentally ill.

I can definitely understand the reason behind the officer's actions. Sometimes **** happens. Just unfortunate.
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Then he should ****ing retire.

Pigs are such power hungry bastards.

#22 ItsMyFault, Sep 22, 2012
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BetterThanI said: ↑

To me, the fact that he's an amputee and in a wheelchair is somewhat immaterial. This was a mentally disturbed person threatening a law enforcement officer with an unidentifiable metal object. Given that situation, I can't say I would have responded that differently. Folks in wheelchairs can wield a weapon and it just takes one finger to pull a trigger.
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I agree. Dude could have had a gun. This isn't the middle ages. Bigger, stronger, even "able to walk" are prerequisites for "winning fights".

Officer repeatedly asked him to stop. Guy should have stopped.

#23 JayZ750, Sep 22, 2012
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Cardpire was a on a roll in this thread.

#24 ballerboy001, Sep 22, 2012
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i hate the hangout sometimes. =(
why? because after reading this story here first, I heard it on channel 2 news and I laughed out loud remembering some of the comments on here, especially the james bond pen.

#25 conquistador#11, Sep 22, 2012
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rhino17 said: ↑

Why not quit your job and accept an ass whopping from a pen if you are unable to escape a one armed, one legged man in a wheel chair?
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This.. If your police can't detain a unarmed (pun intended) double amputee..

#26 apollo33, Sep 22, 2012
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Yeah he should probably get fired. I don't fully blame him for the incident though.

#27 kaitanuva, Sep 22, 2012

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taze him

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please help me does it say anywhere in this story that the guy tried to stab the officer.

#29 edwardc, Sep 22, 2012
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cardpire said: ↑

maybe it was one of those james bond-style pens that shoot bullets.

those things are expensive...cost an arm and a leg.
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Hilarious

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The fact that the guy was in a wheelchair makes firing the gun seem completely unnecessary....don't cops have tasers or something they could have used instead to disarm him since the guy was not mobile?

#31 LC Rox Fan, Sep 23, 2012
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You never roll up on five-o like that.

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Blurr#7 said: ↑

You never roll up on five-o like that.
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HA! I chuckled.

#33 QdoubleA, Sep 23, 2012

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He could have kicked the wheelchair and sent it flying back a couple of yards. Once the amputee is knocked down, the cop is safe. It's not like a double amputee is going to run fast enough to catch a cop that's running.

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BetterThanEver said: ↑

Once the amputee is knocked down, the cop is safe. It's not like a double amputee is going to run fast enough to catch a cop that's running.
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OR ARE THEY????

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Everytime cops do anything questionable people without all the facts or info of situation are here to call the pigs or power hungry. I wonder how many people risk there lives on the job everyday. Not a cop just saying...Gd. it feels like hs with people acting like cops are out to get you. Don't threaten a cop with a object when he ask you a question..... Problem solved.

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So the guy in the wheelchair is within inches of the cop, swinging a pen, and the cop couldn't recognize that it was a pen? How big was this pen, that the cop mistakes it for a gun from a foot away?

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BetterThanI said: ↑

To me, the fact that he's an amputee and in a wheelchair is somewhat immaterial. This was a mentally disturbed person threatening a law enforcement officer with an unidentifiable metal object. Given that situation, I can't say I would have responded that differently. Folks in wheelchairs can wield a weapon and it just takes one finger to pull a trigger.
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You can't identify a pen or distinguish it from pretty much anything else?

#39 leroy, Sep 23, 2012
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How does a one-armed one-legged man and roll his eletric wheelchair up to the cop, while holding a pen in his only hand? Keep in mind, this had to happen in a split second. The cop didn't have time to determine if the object was a gun. Something doesn't add up.

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