AOL News: Officer intended to use Taser, not gun on black victim fatally shot in MN.

[sprinkleeninow]

This 'latest' really throws me. I got it bad personally, then each and every day more horrendous 'developments' and 'incidents'. "Lord, have mercy!"


https://www.aol.com/news/minnesota-police-shoot-kill-man-014849404-172125498.html


>snipped< BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — Police in a Minneapolis suburb where a Black man was fatally shot during a traffic stop say the officer who fired intended to use a Taser, not a handgun.

Police Chief Tim Gannon described the shooting as “an accidental discharge.”

[TDale313]

1. How do you make that kind of mistake?!?

[sprinkleeninow]

2. Oopsie, I thot I pulled my Taser.

Sounds like back pedaling to an 'excusable' reason for the death of this person.

We shall see.

[maxrandb]

5. Racist Colored Glasses?

Now I understand why Barney Fife had to keep his bullet in his shirt pocket.

[MontanaMama]

3. Even a taser would have been excessive force.

No words.

[TDale313]

4. Agreed. n/t

[sprinkleeninow]

6. I have no words left either.

Just a deep unrelenting troubling in my soul...

[EX500rider]

13. That would depend on what his warrant was for

[PoliticAverse]

16. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere which makes me think

it was for something minor.

[MontanaMama]

22. I haven't read that there was a warrant.

This appears to be a traffic stop. Do you have a link for information on a warrant?

[EX500rider]

26. I read it in one of the online news stories about it.

If it was a felony warrant then a tazer might be called for if he attempted to flee

[Calista241]

36. It was a warrant for felony fleeing and gun possession charges.

[abqtommy]

19. Yup. Tasers have caused many fatalities.

[Chakaconcarne]

7. AOL still exists?

[sprinkleeninow]

8. Yes, it do. We still have 7 email accounts with them. Plus several google accounts.

One can never have enuff of anything.

[PoliticAverse]

14. Some people haven't figured out how to cancel it yet. n/t

[rsdsharp]

29. It ain't a matter of figuring it out.

It’s a matter of actually getting the bastards to do it. It took me three months.

[sprinkleeninow]

34. Please don't hold it against me. I/we got stuff in there from

1995. It's only 9.99/mo.

Plus we get 5 devices covered by McAfee security. No extra charge. It's been worth keeping it regardless of political or whatever anti reasons.

Plus acquaintances a lot 'higher up on the food chain' still subscribe. 😊

[PoliticAverse]

37. Do you still hear...

[sprinkleeninow]

38. Not on any phones unless that sound is chosen for an alert.

Truth be told, I'm not on my notebook often to remember. Mainly I access emails from 2 phones, then on a pc, the current ones are already viewed. I'll let y'all know.

I just mailed 2017 Federal and State returns Friday. Getting a refund. Deadlined or the US Treasury gets the dough. 2018 was done and filed, and I won't upset myself repeating the story. 2019 is sorta done. Need to go over both. Have an inkling there's more to be entered. 2020? I put figures in and $0 owed, $0 refund. But that sounds off. From 2017 the subsequent years hinged on that one. So, I'm working forward from there. I contacted 2 local CPAs a week ago. One sez they can help me after May 17th. The other no return call. So I'm DIY. I been filing our returns by TurboTax since 1998, but fizzled out in 2017. More to story which I won't share now in this post.

My maternal grandfather would always say, "Wish me luck!" whenever he set out to do something or go somewhere. 😁

[ColinC]

9. Are we sure the victim was not just "fixing to ride the lightning?"

That statement in the other traffic stop implies police -more often than we think, are engaging in premeditated murder.

[sprinkleeninow]

18. 'They' getting on people who are coming out protesting these

horrific incidents. What is to be expected?

Oh, but wait. Storm, seige Our Capitol is acceptable.

St. Matthew 23:23~

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

St. Matthew 23:27~

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Cops Around Here Wear Gun & Taser...

...on opposite hips. Pepper spray is usually back behind the firearm.
Otherwise one side would get bulky.
Did this cop forget he was right handed?
If he had them all on the same side, he doesn't appear to bright.
On Edit: don't ask me why cops in a town of 6,000 need to have all three weapons strapped to their belt all the time.
Crime around here is usually a broken into car, not riots.

[sprinkleeninow]

23. That's my thinking also. Not on the same side as firearm.

Isn't a Taser shaped like a rectangular thing such as a TV remote or one of the first models cell phone?

[EX500rider]

27. No, police taser's are gun shaped

[ProfessorGAC]

28. The Tasers Our Cops Wear...

...kind of look like the phaser pistols on Star Trek: Next Generation.

[Goodheart]

11. I'm sure I'll be in the minority here, but I believe the explanation.

There's no excuse for it, obviously, but I do believe he intended to use a tazer.

[regnaD kciN]

25. Interesting how many people reflexively assume the officer was male...

[Mosby]

32. 87% of LEOs are male.

[Politicub]

12. "But I shouted 'taser!' as I shot him."

Is this supposed to make the murder less murdery or something? Or the murderer less culpable?

The takeaway for police will be: if you shoot a POC, yell “Taser!” That will get you out of jail free.

[Aristus]

15. It's like cops singing or playing copywritten material when they're being filmed.

To make it inadmissible in court.

Just the little tricks that allow the cops to become the criminals...

[lame54]

17. I like to keep the rat poison next to the trail mix

[RockRaven]

20. That excuse was used in the Oscar Grant killing, and the cop still got prosecuted and convicted...

So don't let that stop you from arresting your officer, Gannon.

[PoliticAverse]

31. Convicted of "involuntary manslaughter"...

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Oscar_Grant

[RKP5637]

21. Yet another major WTF!!! Oops, I killed you, so sorry. Can't believe this shit goes on and on!!! n/t

[regnaD kciN]

24. As Jim Wright at Stonekettle Station put it...

...if you can’t tell the difference between your taser and your gun at the time it matters most, you’re not qualified to carry either.

[sprinkleeninow]

35. Bottom line, 'this'... eom

[Lettuce Be]

33. BS. There's no way a gun weighs the same as a taser, nor are the shaped the same

Why are we letting the police get away with all these claims of ignorance, or fright (for themselves) when it is clear they are poorly trained or simply do not care. Sick. Of. It.