"Good guy with a gun" shot by police

[True Dough]

Yeah, there have been occasions when "good guy with a gun" is the hero. Then there are more chaotic situations like this where law enforcement arrives and doesn't know who's a threat and who's not.

The short of it in this situation: a navy veteran with a holstered gun was trying to break up a fight outside a Portland, Oregon, sports bar when his firearm fell to the ground. He went to pick it up, despite warnings not to, and a LEO shot him.


https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/06/portland_state_names_officers.html

[Historic NY]

1. "It's just that people got drunk and stubborn,"

"They warned him multiple times not to reach for it, but he did," Dietz said. "I don't want the message out there that the cops were trigger-happy."

Another reason not to go drinking while armed. Firewater and guns what could go wrong.

[struggle4progress]

2. Some possibilities:

(1) Witnesses are mistaken, or lying, and he was involved in the fight

(2) He was going for his gun with bad intent

(3) He made a drunken decision to ignore the police

(4) He didn't hear the police

These things can take time to sort out decisively

[wellst0nev0ter]

6. (5) He's black

and the other reasons wrongly attempt to justify his murder.

[struggle4progress]

7. That certainly is possible

... Multiple friends identified the man as Jason Washington. David Norton, president of the National Letter Carriers Association Branch #82, says he worked with Washington for about seven years with the U.S. Postal Service. "He loved his daughters. He loved his granddaughter. He talked about them all the time," said Norton ...

http://katu.com/news/local/friends-identify-man-killed-in-shooting-with-portland-state-officers-as-loving-father-vet

[NutmegYankee]

3. With all of these unjustified murders, I'm amazed no one has done an Inigo Montoya.

[CanonRay]

4. Guns and bars

not a good mix

[Wounded Bear]

5. Yeah, well, the NRA seems to disagree...

They are all for open carry...everywhere.