Houston Police Officer Fatally Shoots Unarmed Double Amputee in a Wheelchair

[Jimbo]

This is the same old story.

Guy goes outta control, someone calls the cops, police end up shooting the guy and the people who call the cops say the cops did the wrong thing.


Solution? Don't call. Take care of the problem yourself.

[mikec]

Damn, they messed up severely.

[Jimbo]

Damn, they messed up severely.

lol, I didn't catch that!

[Trip McNeely]

They definitely servered the intellect in that picture. servered severed served. wow.

[Forever_frost]

I would try to reason with you against this statement, but I'm sure it would be futile.

You would reason with me that your job isn't to protect the public and to serve it? Have you seen the side of your squad car?

[mikec]

You would reason with me that your job isn't to protect the public and to serve it? Have you seen the side of your squad car?

Is this it?

[Forever_frost]

Nah, I was thinking more along this:

[89FivePointOh]

Nah, I was thinking more along this:

That shit is funny!

[davbrucas]

You can't put what you would feel as an absolute for every other person on the planet.

Remember, we're dealing with department minimum standards, and those standards have been going down for the last 20 years.

Point taken...but when people's lives are on the line, there is no excuse.

I think losing an eye would be serious injury. At least the Texas Penal Code defines it as such.

Well, if you allow a one-armed, one-legged wheelchair bound man stab you in the eye with a pen in subduing him, then maybe you do not meet the department minimum standards? :bBishope:

[DON SVO]

I'm still lost on how a guy who operates a wheelchair with his one good arm and effectively corner and threaten someone. That singular arm either moves the chair, or waves the pen defiantly.

I'm of the opinion that a propoerly administered front kick/face-stomp would have been quite effective.

[ceyko]

Isn't deadly force only justified to combat deadly force? Being that the guy was in a monitored care facility, isn't it logical to surmize that the guy didn't have access to anything "deadlier" than some sort of sharpened object? Certainly not a gun anyway.

In this case risking a fatal tazer to the chest area shows exponentially more judgement than shooting the guy. I hope the cop is indeed fired, and gets manslaughter/murder charges brought against him.

Not quite a fair comparison, but remember there is not supposed to be gangs, weapons, drugs and cell phones in prison either.

What would possibly ran through the cops mind is maybe a needle (disease), scalpel..etc.

Still, I generally concur with the majority on this one, but am not 100% sure either.

[Big A]

Not quite a fair comparison, but remember there is not supposed to be gangs, weapons, drugs and cell phones in prison either.

What would possibly ran through the cops mind is maybe a needle (disease), scalpel..etc.

Still, I generally concur with the majority on this one, but am not 100% sure either.

I re-read the OP, and gather that the one officer may have already been "hands-on" when his partner shot the guy, putting him with in arm reach. That leaves a smidgeon of room for it being justified, but it's still highly unlikely.

Yes, contraband finds it's way into prisons, which are full of convicted criminals, with criminal intent, and all of their limbs.

I ask again, where was the tazer in this situation?

[VaderTT]

Fucking LOL!

[2011GT]

Guy tried to attack a cop, cop fired his weapon. One less piece of shit in the world. Problem solved.

[03trubluGT]

You would reason with me that your job isn't to protect the public and to serve it? Have you seen the side of your squad car?

I've seen it, have you?

Obviously not, since there is no mention of the word "serve".