Seriously a pool cue is a deadly weapon

Yeah, he did.

Never bring a pool cue to a gun fight... it almost never wins.

Darwinism at work for the good of all humanity.

RIP :)
 
I love the use of "deescalate" in the story..... I guess they deescalated it alright
 
If you've ever seen the result of someone swinging a pool cue (or similar) with malice, you wouldn't be asking the question "did they really need to shoot him?".
 
If you're dumb enough to try to hit a cop in the head with a pool cue, you deserve to be shot. Cops are trained to shoot at "center mass", which is the chest and gut. It's not like the movies where the good guy shoots the gun out of the bad guy's hand. It's easy to shoot at a paper target. It's *slightly* more difficult to hit what you're aiming at when someone is swinging a pool cue at your head. Anyone, cops included, has the right to defend themselves with deadly force when facing deadly force. The guy wasn't going to tickle him with the pool cue.
 
If we're not in a bar where I can't carry my gun, and you come at me with a cue, I'm going to draw my weapon and if you don't retreat you WILL be shot...PERIOD ! You shouldn't have used a deadly weapon.
 
TheNewSharkster said:
Police have the tools to bring this guy into custody without blowing him away. Here is another good example of our lovely PD at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et8J8sUNa3c
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Seriously?? first stay on topic, especially since it is your topic. Now that nobody agrees with you, your strategy is to bring another video from an unrelated incident, which does NOT show what happend since nobody could see either person involved.

If you've seen me in NPR, I'm the first to criticize cops in bs stuff everyday, and twice on sunday. There is one in NPR now about a cop tazering a 10 year old....

But justification is just that. What, somebody should wait till they have their skull crushed before they can defend themselves?

It was legal even if they were NOT cops, just me shooting another neighbor who was about to whack my other neighbor over the head with his cue.... so not really sure what the problem is....
 
If being tazed didn't stop him and he is still swinging and the cop is on the ground Shoot him. Actually if the cop isn't on the ground. A good or even lucky hit with a cue on the temple can kill or cause brain damage or paralize someone. The cop was doing his job and tazed the guy first. If you decide to keep going then what do you really expect. I would hate to see a cop in a wheelchair or worse cos someone could not follow the rules.
I I was walking down the street and done nothing wrong at all and a cop pulls up and tells me to get on the ground guess what I do it. It may be a mistaken identity and that will be found out but I am not gonna disobey a cops orders.
 
ChicagoRJ said:
Seriously?? first stay on topic, especially since it is your topic. Now that nobody agrees with you, your strategy is to bring another video from an unrelated incident, which does NOT show what happend since nobody could see either person involved.

If you've seen me in NPR, I'm the first to criticize cops in bs stuff everyday, and twice on sunday. There is one in NPR now about a cop tazering a 10 year old....

But justification is just that. What, somebody should wait till they have their skull crushed before they can defend themselves?

It was legal even if they were NOT cops, just me shooting another neighbor who was about to whack my other neighbor over the head with his cue.... so not really sure what the problem is....
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Geesh man don't get all sensitive. I am not saying the cop should allow himself to get hit. It just seems funny that they couldn't ask him to drop the cue and then taze him if he didn't comply.

The other incident isn't related to this but illistrates how the people in this community might feel towards law enforcement.
 
Oh, they story was updated. It didn't say anything about being tazed early when I posted the link. In that case I have to agree with the PD using deadly force.
 
TheNewSharkster said:
Geesh man don't get all sensitive. I am not saying the cop should allow himself to get hit. It just seems funny that they couldn't ask him to drop the cue and then taze him if he didn't comply.

The other incident isn't related to this but illistrates how the people in this community might feel towards law enforcement.
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Maybe he should not have been waving a pool cue at a cop? WHY THE F&*K ARE WE TRYING TO PUT ANYTHING AT ALL ON THE COP! Cos he didn't say "please stop waving that cue at me please sir?" F that. Wave a cue at me and you get tazed and then if you still don't get it you get shot thats it the end. Sorry. Although I am sure at some point the Cop asked him to drop the cue.
 
ChicagoRJ said:
Seriously?? first stay on topic, especially since it is your topic. Now that nobody agrees with you, your strategy is to bring another video from an unrelated incident, which does NOT show what happend since nobody could see either person involved.

If you've seen me in NPR, I'm the first to criticize cops in bs stuff everyday, and twice on sunday. There is one in NPR now about a cop tazering a 10 year old....

But justification is just that. What, somebody should wait till they have their skull crushed before they can defend themselves?

It was legal even if they were NOT cops, just me shooting another neighbor who was about to whack my other neighbor over the head with his cue.... so not really sure what the problem is....
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Thanks god you are not a police officer.

"Hey look at that guy 20 feet away with a pool cue. He must be dangerous!Shoot him!"
 
I'm curious about how he kept coming despite the tazer.

Can you get hit by a tazer and still swing for the fences? When they say "he kept coming" do they mean he was an actual threat? They say he came running out of the house swinging the cue. Was he like 10 feet away or right in front of them? Was he composed enough to rush forward and crack someone in the skull, or he was just kind of stumbling forward and in a daze?
 
bfdlad said:
Maybe he should not have been waving a pool cue at a cop? WHY THE F&*K ARE WE TRYING TO PUT ANYTHING AT ALL ON THE COP! Cos he didn't say "please stop waving that cue at me please sir?" F that. Wave a cue at me and you get tazed and then if you still don't get it you get shot thats it the end. Sorry. Although I am sure at some point the Cop asked him to drop the cue.
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Like I said a few posts back, the article didn't originally say anything about the guy getting tazed and then trying to hit the cop.
 
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