Can You Say “Excessive Force”?
Cop: 1, Double Amputee in Wheelchair: 0
(CNN) — A Houston police officer fatally shot in the head a schizophrenic, wheelchair-bound double amputee threatening people with a pen at a group home for the mentally ill after authorities said the man advanced on the officer’s partner, police said.
…Claunch, who lost an arm and a leg in a train accident, trapped one officer with his wheelchair in the corner of a room “where he couldn’t get out,”
You’re joking, right?
said a Houston police department spokesperson who declined to be identified. The double amputee was “advancing towards” the officers and “refusing to show his hands.”
which would have been quite a trick since he only had one arm
I find it hard to believe this was in any way justified.
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September 24, 2012 7:30 am
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You made this up. Right?
It plays out like a Monty Python skit.
Well, thank god the quadraplegics were all out playing baseball, huh?
A pen.
Might have been a poison pen, mojo.
Well, it is mightier than a sword. Who knows what could have happened?
The FBI is now joining the investigation, according to the local station KHOU.
In San Jose,Calif a few years ago, they shot a 5′ 2″ Vietnamese
lady in her own kitchen,who had picked up a potato peeler out
out of her sink and demanded the
cops leave her house.
There were two cops in the kitchen,both over 6’2″ tall.
Good training;kill and get away with it.
I used to admire law enforcement, but with the continuing trend of militarization and my own experiences with them, I consider them the enemy of liberty and freedom.