Costco Lady Handing Out Pizza Samples Wields Knife... Shot & Killed by Deputies

[tomm2thumbs]

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Lady handing out pizza samples, upset about the pizza, begins acting crazy with large knife in Costco -- deputy shoots to kill, also hits fellow deputy. (witnesses report 5-6 shots)

Wondering how this will turn out -- no doubt store security footage will tell the tale ultimately

[zebonaut]

1. Well hey; if you're disorderly; they have to shoot to kill......

Could have been resolved without the American Tradition; of "Shoot it" first

[Turbineguy]

7. It used to be

"Get out of line
They come to take you away,"

Now they just shoot you. Life is becoming cheap in America.

[RBInMaine]

8. May we please at least have an investigation before all the second guessing. Sheesh.

[RC]

33. What???!!? And run the risk of facts being presented to poison the case before DU tries both sides

in absentia? Are you nuts?

[bitchkitty]

35. LOL n/t

[RBInMaine]

10. This needs to be investigated first before second guessing.

[stlsaxman]

14. "Crazy Person" yields knife and Police shoot to kill. Done.

Next?

[Ed Suspicious]

22. Till that crazy person is you mom or your sister having a bad day... dead.

[Ed Suspicious]

23. Who defines crazy?

[heaven05]

32. well

that was simple(minded) wasn't it?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. The only thing that can stop a bad gal with a pizza...

[RBInMaine]

9. Let's, um, at least have an investigation first before all the finger pointing.

[heaven05]

30. ummm

you ?????

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. What's the "knife" turn out to be round.

[AsahinaKimi]

3. damn...

All of this over a pizza... will stay away from CostCo pizza from now on.

[daleanime]

4. ........

[thelordofhell]

5. CVS = Costco Vendor Services

Lady was probably getting hassled by people waiting for pizza samples and she just cracked........the cops said they tried to taze her........but why did they shoot to kill???

[Zoeisright]

6. Sigh. Not this again.

Police are trained to respond with force greater than the force they are being threatened with. A person has a knife; they respond with a gun. And when you get shot the odds are pretty fucking good you're going to be killed. Shooting a person in the arm or leg will not always stop them in their tracks.

I wish more people would learn about perfectly legal police responses before getting their panties in a bunch.

[Shivering Jemmy]

13. Everybody wants to feel like they are a bold brave dissident

Cop bashing is an easy way to do that.

[bowens43]

15. if a cop cant subdue a woman with out killing her he has no business being a cop

I am always amazed at how so many see the causal use of deadly force as being ok. Truly pathetic.

[MynameisBlarney]

28. Until cops stop using their guns

as their primary means of dealing with all situations.
It's our duty as citizens to "bash" them.

They're shooting people over nothing. A LOT.

That's ok with you?

[bowens43]

16. Wow. You're ok with deadly force for disprderly conduct? Amazing.

The cop who killed this woman , would in a civilized country, spend the rest of his miserable life in jail.

fuck their training. If they aren't willing to take risks they have no business being a cop.

I wish more people would learn that cops do not have the right to be judge, just and executioner.......


with attitudes like this it's no wonder we are welcoming the police the state.

[marble falls]

43. Hear, hear!

[lame54]

18. "That's the Chicago way."

[MynameisBlarney]

24. Really?

Just because something is "perfectly legal" doesn't make it right.

Your kind of attitude is what makes fascism possible.

[a2liberal]

25. +1000000 (n/t)

[whathehell]

29. "Shooting a person in the arm or leg will not always top them in their tracks"?

In this case, I'm betting that shooting her "knife arm" would at least have rendered it powerless.

[SCVDem]

40. The British cops

shot the soldier killers in the legs.

I applaud their restraint.

[whathehell]

41. Certainly sounds better than being shot dead. n/t

[SCVDem]

11. It's Costco.

There are weapons everywhere from garden hose reels to boxes of frozen stuff which coud have been thrown on and at her.

No mace or pepper spray on the belt? Just gun and ammo.

Looks like Virginia isn't for lovers but killers. I'll pass. You're too violent and politicially twisted. Got Cooch?

Crazy starts from the top and y'all gone over the top. Virginia. Home of Governor ultrasound!

[vt_native]

12. A lot of police apologists on this thread.

Just sayin'

They didn't need to kill that woman.

[Rubysox]

17. NO KIDDING

I have never trusted and never will trust a cop,they are trained to "lie".

I have gotten off jury duty because I told the lawyers that is what I believe.
mace, tazers, are for the 1% bullets, batons are for the 99%, notice the class B citizen gets the enforcement that begins with B

[Live and Learn]

31. +1 nt

[DebJ]

19. I don't understand how the taser didn't take her down.

Haven't there been cases where people were killed by tasers?

[Coyotl]

20. Can we train police to back up?

As someone who has been stabbed multiple times, I do have to recommend backing up if you can.

[bitchkitty]

37. Multiple times in one incident,

or several? Curious...

[Coyotl]

45. Nine wounds in one incident, two assailants, I won. I did not back up.

My ninth stab was in the leg, all others in the left arm. Last one was because I exposed my leg with a killer groin kick that picked the guy up a few inches!

I also did not give up my journal about illegal Contra aid. They did steal my notebook with list of all contacts in Central America. I was nearly killed, saved by quick action of local citizens.

A few months later, we had the Iran-Contra incident come out.

[bitchkitty]

46. Oh! I was going to say something like,

"I would move if I were you" but it doesn't seem appropriate in this instance.

Glad you're okay!

[Ed Suspicious]

21. Is it completely out of line to wonder if these things could be defused by evacuating people from

the area, letting her throw a tantrum ending in her crying it out, and then being arrested? It seems like the need to intervene so directly has the effect of amping up the situation and getting people killed.

[a2liberal]

26. But that would require people to care about human life

instead of about enforcing the "fear authority" attitude and being quick to defend the aggressors at all costs.

[RC]

34. That would take time away from arresting pot smokers and DWB*

*Driving While Black

[A Simple Game]

42. Sounds like the cops went into a shooting frenzy. This seems to happen quite often when

too many cops are allowed to be on a scene at one time. Just like adolescents, they have to show off for the others. As for the knife, she probably was using it to cut the pizzas. If I don't have a pizza wheel I usually use a chefs knife which is a big knife.

20 or 30 years ago two cops would have gone to the scene, the cause of the her problem would have been discussed, the woman would have been calmed down and maybe not even arrested.

Now nobody seems to have time to talk, why didn't the manager find time to ask her what the problem was, he/she found time to talk to the cops after.

[circlethesquare]

27. Example

Another clear instance where the obvious solution is more guns.....right?

[Iggo]

38. Yay, Cops!

They're the best!

[blackspade]

39. Another one?

I guess the best way to satisfy a desire to kill is to become a cop.

[MrYikes]

44. I would like to understand this story better, but my googling abilities are not good. Help