Police shoot amputee in wheelchair

• Gblock

  srsly? the guy has 1 arm and 1 leg and is armed with a sharpie and they shoot him in the head.
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/23/us/texas-amputee-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
• justincredible

  

  You forgot to sign in to your Ender Wiggin account.
  
  But seriously, seems excessive.
• Gblock

  +1
• justincredible

  

  I can't imagine letting myself get "trapped" in a corner by a guy missing multiple limbs in a wheel chair. I'd be all like "hey, partner, come pull this guy away from, would ya?"
• Gblock

  and if i read correctly the guy who wasnt trapped pulled the trigger??
• FatHobbit

  

  How does someone in a wheelchair with one arm corner you and try to stab you with a pen? Wouldn't he need to stop moving his chair to stab with the pen?
• Steel Valley Football

  This could not have been more unnecessary. However, the officer will be cleared IMO. After all, it happened in Texas.
• gut

  Even ignoring all the other points and options - is a sharpie really considered a "deadly weapon" justifying the use of lethal force?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Wow. This is incredibly sad. What a POS.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  gut;1279310 wrote:Even ignoring all the other points and options - is a sharpie really considered a "deadly weapon" justifying the use of lethal force?

  You ever smelled one of those things?
• GoChiefs

  

  gut;1279310 wrote:Even ignoring all the other points and options - is a sharpie really considered a "deadly weapon" justifying the use of lethal force?

  I'm not justifying it, because it's fucked up regardless, but the article makes it seem like they couldn't tell what was in his hand?
• justincredible

  

  Gblock;1279257 wrote:and if i read correctly the guy who wasnt trapped pulled the trigger??

  Correct. Instead of just wheeling him away he shot him in the head. Sounds like a reasonable alternative. :rolleyes:
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  justincredible;1279321 wrote:Correct. Instead of just wheeling him away he shot him in the head. Sounds like a reasonable alternative. :rolleyes:

  You know a sharpie is as deadly as a light saber, right?
• Steel Valley Football

  GoChiefs;1279317 wrote:I'm not justifying it, because it's ****ed up regardless, but the article makes it seem like they couldn't tell what was in his hand?

  Yes, from what it said, he wouldn't show his hands (hand?).
  
  That's just asking to be shot when in a confrontation with most cops.
• justincredible

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1279325 wrote:You know a sharpie is as deadly as a light saber, right?

  Technically, yes, since lightsaber's aren't real.
• Iliketurtles

  

  If this guy would have just listened to the officers orders and put down his "weapon" then he wouldn't have been shot.
• GoChiefs

  

  justincredible;1279329 wrote: lightsaber's aren't real.

  
• Heretic

  

  justincredible;1279329 wrote:Technically, yes, since lightsaber's aren't real.

  Wait, what?
• Devils Advocate

  

  I think her weapons are real.
  
  
• Steel Valley Football

  Iliketurtles;1279334 wrote:If this guy would have just listened to the officers orders and put down his "weapon" then he wouldn't have been shot.

  
  Not sure if you're being facetious or not, but what you stated is correct.
  
  The problem is the patient was mentally unstable and either not able or not willing to comply. Better officer training would have helped them to more quickly make that decision.
• TedSheckler

  

  Calling shenanigans on this story. No way could someone with one arm corner someone while in a wheelchair.
  
  Wouldn't he only be able to wheel around in circles?
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  While I agree the officer was likely in the wrong here, to be fair...
  

  The officers were responding to a report that [the man] was acting aggressively.
  
  Police said Claunch was clutching an object as he advanced on one of the police officers.
  
  The officers made verbal commands for the suspect to drop whatever he had in his hand, to stay still and to speak with the officers, but the suspect continued to make threats.
  
  Claunch trapped one officer with his wheelchair in the corner of a room "where he couldn't get out,"
  
  As he advanced toward the officers, Claunch was "refusing to show his hands,"

  While I don't condone the action of the Officer, I'm okay with it.
• Steel Valley Football

  TedSheckler;1279371 wrote:Calling shenanigans on this story. No way could someone with one arm corner someone while in a wheelchair.
  
  Wouldn't he only be able to wheel around in circles?

  
  Unless it was an electric wheelchair.
• FatHobbit

  

  Scarlet_Buckeye;1279382 wrote:While I agree the officer was likely in the wrong here, to be fair...
  
  
  
  While I don't condone the action of the Office, I'm okay with it.

  Unless it was an electric wheelchair, I'm not buying that a one armed man advanced on officers with something in his hand that they couldn't see.
• Rotinaj

  

  TedSheckler;1279371 wrote:Calling shenanigans on this story. No way could someone with one arm corner someone while in a wheelchair.
  
  Wouldn't he only be able to wheel around in circles?

  Picturing this scenario made me lol.