http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=13&articleid=20120923_13_0_HOUSTO98847
Da fuq. How does a one handed guy in a wheelchair wield a fucking pen threateningly and corner you at the same fucking time? I’m not the toughest guy but I think I could kick the wheelchair over or something to escape the pen.
Couldn’t the police see that the guy was unarmed?
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
Couldn’t the police see that the guy was unarmed?[/quote]
Perhaps the weapon gave him a leg up on the cop.
The Officer was in a crowded, confined area with an erratic, mentally ill man trying to stab him with something shiny. Given the circumstances, I may have fired too.
"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."
I smell a cover-up. The dead man reportedly pursued the officer, cornered him and threatened him with a pen. A pen. Last time I checked that was stationary.
[quote]roybot wrote:
"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."
I smell a cover-up. The dead man reportedly pursued the officer, cornered him and threatened him with a pen. A pen. Last time I checked that was stationary.[/quote]
Maybe it was Jason Bourne in disguise
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
"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."
I smell a cover-up. The dead man reportedly pursued the officer, cornered him and threatened him with a pen. A pen. Last time I checked that was stationary.[/quote]
Maybe it was Jason Bourne in disguise [/quote]
No he got hit by a train, he wasn’t bourne that way.
Sounds legit to me.
[quote]roybot wrote:
"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."
I smell a cover-up. The dead man reportedly pursued the officer, cornered him and threatened him with a pen. A pen. Last time I checked that was stationary.[/quote]
“Last time I checked that was stationary”…brilliant…
I don’t know how to feel until I know the races of the people involved.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
I don’t know how to feel until I know the races of the people involved.[/quote]
I want age, sex, former occupations, marital status and yes, of course, race.
I am feeling unable to properly emote a conclusions unless I have the vital facts.
White guy in wheelchair gets shot? No problem.
Chinese/Korean guy gets shot in wheelchair? Pets go missing and end up in asian fast food outlets.
Black/hispanic guy gets shot in wheelchair? Cities are under martial law due to riots.
America…lol
[quote]harrypotter wrote:
White guy in wheelchair gets shot? No problem.
Chinese/Korean guy gets shot in wheelchair? Pets go missing and end up in asian fast food outlets.
Black/hispanic guy gets shot in wheelchair? Cities are under martial law due to riots.
America…lol[/quote]
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]harrypotter wrote:
White guy in wheelchair gets shot? No problem.
Chinese/Korean guy gets shot in wheelchair? Pets go missing and end up in asian fast food outlets.
Black/hispanic guy gets shot in wheelchair? Cities are under martial law due to riots.
America…lol[/quote]
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Exactly
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
I don’t know how to feel until I know the races of the people involved.[/quote]
I want age, sex, former occupations, marital status and yes, of course, race.
I am feeling unable to properly emote a conclusions unless I have the vital facts. [/quote]
Also, if anyone recently purchased and sweet tea or skiddles.
[quote]Jackie_Jacked wrote:
The Officer was in a crowded, confined area with an erratic, mentally ill man trying to stab him with something shiny. Given the circumstances, I may have fired too. [/quote]
I hope you are being sarcastic.
Lets think through the process of a fucking ONE ARMED man both moving his wheelchair in such a fashion as to corner you while at the same time threatening you with his ONE FUCKING ARM.
Best way to avoid getting shot by a copper (whether your in a wheelchair or not) is to not wave a metal object at him in an aggressive manner. Im pretty sure he wasnt asking for his autograph when waving the pen. Im also sure he was warned and the copper didnt just pull his gun out and pop him one right between the eyes. Maybe he shouldnt have shot to kill, but who knows what happened.
amputees can still be very dangerous and the officers safety is his main concern.
or i may be wrong, he may be a total trigger happy prick who abuses his position. Either way people are generally more respectful towards American police and most people just laugh at ours in England, despite most of them doing a good job with little resources and human rights getting in the way of just about everything
rant over. Not been a good day
[quote]adrenalinx wrote:
Best way to avoid getting shot by a copper (whether your in a wheelchair or not) is to not wave a metal object at him in an aggressive manner. Im pretty sure he wasnt asking for his autograph when waving the pen. Im also sure he was warned and the copper didnt just pull his gun out and pop him one right between the eyes. Maybe he shouldnt have shot to kill, but who knows what happened.
amputees can still be very dangerous and the officers safety is his main concern.
or i may be wrong, he may be a total trigger happy prick who abuses his position. Either way people are generally more respectful towards American police and most people just laugh at ours in England, despite most of them doing a good job with little resources and human rights getting in the way of just about everything
rant over. Not been a good day
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“Maybe he shouldnt have shot to kill” - no such thing. If you aren’t going to kill, you shouldn’t shoot in the first place.
My whole point in making fun is that the cop most likely should have been able to avoid or tazer or physically restrain a guy in a wheel chair with 1 arm and a pen as a weapon.
The cop managing to “get cornered”, feel “his life was in danger”, and not have other means to deal with the situation is pretty far fetched. If maybe the guy in the chair pulled the pen like it was a gun, and the officer thought it was a firearm I could see the point, but that ain’t what they are claiming.
EMTs deal with crap like fully armed men having psychotic breaks while on meth without guns.
[quote]adrenalinx wrote:
Best way to avoid getting shot by a copper (whether your in a wheelchair or not) is to not wave a metal object at him in an aggressive manner. Im pretty sure he wasnt asking for his autograph when waving the pen. Im also sure he was warned and the copper didnt just pull his gun out and pop him one right between the eyes. Maybe he shouldnt have shot to kill, but who knows what happened.
amputees can still be very dangerous and the officers safety is his main concern.
or i may be wrong, he may be a total trigger happy prick who abuses his position. Either way people are generally more respectful towards American police and most people just laugh at ours in England, despite most of them doing a good job with little resources and human rights getting in the way of just about everything
rant over. Not been a good day
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Yah god forbid when you go to a group home for the mentally ill with one of the mentally ill guys causing a disturbance that said guy isn’t up on his manners for civil society.
He is in a group home so I’ll just assume he has some shitty old wheel chair he needs to power about with his one hand. So if he’s cornering you by spinning in fucking circles or whatever likely while his penis mightier than the sword its prolly not held erectly. Then when he has you cornered and pulls out his mighty pen you likely could make your escape while he’s not moving.
A guy with one arm can still seriously hurt you if he has a knife and you’re backed into a corner in cramped conditions. No guarantee that you’ll manage to grab his wrist (or whatever you do in that situation) on the first try, and then you’re even closer to the guy and potentially off balance.
Wouldn’t be hard to back a guy into a corner in cramped conditions, even in a wheelchair. You can push, ride momentum, and swing your shiny metal object. Or just have an electric wheelchair, which seems likely for a person incapable of pushing on both sides.
The officer had previous experience with a man waving a shiny metal object around and causing someone serious harm.