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whathehell

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

Reply to Zoeisright (Reply #6)

Thu May 30, 2013, 08:29 AM

May 2013

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

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Costco Lady Handing Out Pizza Samples Wields Knife... Shot & Killed by Deputies [View all] tomm2thumbs May 2013 OP

Well hey; if you're disorderly; they have to shoot to kill...... zebonaut May 2013 #1

It used to be Turbineguy May 2013 #7

May we please at least have an investigation before all the second guessing. Sheesh. RBInMaine May 2013 #8

What???!!? And run the risk of facts being presented to poison the case before DU tries both sides RC May 2013 #33

LOL n/t bitchkitty May 2013 #35

This needs to be investigated first before second guessing. RBInMaine May 2013 #10

"Crazy Person" yields knife and Police shoot to kill. Done. stlsaxman May 2013 #14

Till that crazy person is you mom or your sister having a bad day... dead. Ed Suspicious May 2013 #22

Who defines crazy? Ed Suspicious May 2013 #23

well heaven05 May 2013 #32

The only thing that can stop a bad gal with a pizza... Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #2

Let's, um, at least have an investigation first before all the finger pointing. RBInMaine May 2013 #9

ummm heaven05 May 2013 #30

What's the "knife" turn out to be round. Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #36

damn... AsahinaKimi May 2013 #3

........ daleanime May 2013 #4

CVS = Costco Vendor Services thelordofhell May 2013 #5

Sigh. Not this again. Zoeisright May 2013 #6

Everybody wants to feel like they are a bold brave dissident Shivering Jemmy May 2013 #13

if a cop cant subdue a woman with out killing her he has no business being a cop bowens43 May 2013 #15

Until cops stop using their guns MynameisBlarney May 2013 #28

Wow. You're ok with deadly force for disprderly conduct? Amazing. bowens43 May 2013 #16

Hear, hear! marble falls May 2013 #43

"That's the Chicago way." lame54 May 2013 #18

Really? MynameisBlarney May 2013 #24

+1000000 (n/t) a2liberal May 2013 #25

"Shooting a person in the arm or leg will not always top them in their tracks"? whathehell May 2013 #29

The British cops SCVDem May 2013 #40

Certainly sounds better than being shot dead. n/t whathehell May 2013 #41

It's Costco. SCVDem May 2013 #11

A lot of police apologists on this thread. vt_native May 2013 #12

NO KIDDING Rubysox May 2013 #17

+1 nt Live and Learn May 2013 #31

I don't understand how the taser didn't take her down. DebJ May 2013 #19

Can we train police to back up? Coyotl May 2013 #20

Multiple times in one incident, bitchkitty May 2013 #37

Nine wounds in one incident, two assailants, I won. I did not back up. Coyotl May 2013 #45

Oh! I was going to say something like, bitchkitty May 2013 #46

Is it completely out of line to wonder if these things could be defused by evacuating people from Ed Suspicious May 2013 #21

But that would require people to care about human life a2liberal May 2013 #26

That would take time away from arresting pot smokers and DWB* RC May 2013 #34

Sounds like the cops went into a shooting frenzy. This seems to happen quite often when A Simple Game May 2013 #42

Example circlethesquare May 2013 #27

Yay, Cops! Iggo May 2013 #38

Another one? blackspade May 2013 #39

I would like to understand this story better, but my googling abilities are not good. Help MrYikes May 2013 #44