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Texas deputies believed man shot dead with hands up had a knife, sheriff says
A Texas sheriff said deputies who shot down a man whose hands were raised believed he was holding a knife at the time. Video shows Texas officers shooting man who appears to have his hands up. Sheriff Susan Pamerleau of Bexar County told the San Antonio Express-News that Gilbert Flores was carrying a knife when the deputies confronted him on Friday outside a home north-west of San Antonio, having responded to a domestic disturbance call at 11.30am.
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Sure they did. Just another innocent man getting shot for no reason by trigger happy police. when will this shit end?
This 'shit' is just starting up unfortunately. I expect it to get much worse before it gets better. My fear is what happens when people get tired of being abused and shot by these police officers who only serve and never protect anything but their own interests. Especially in a place like CO who is happily writing its citizen's rights away with every passing legislature.
This is unfortunate, I wish we could see what was happening on the other side of that pole. Though with the increasing # of cop-related incidents going on lately these things don't seem so 'accidental' any more.
Everyday 2 more stories come out about these things happening. People should really be concerned about this- a lot of these people have been killed for sitting in their homes. Police officers in the US no longer show discipline or restraint. It's a shoot first ask questions attitude. While that works when chasing gangbangers and whatnot, it doesn't work when picking which house you're supposed to raid, or responding to a suicidal person only threatening to injure themselves. This is frightening and NOT at all what our Founding Fathers had in mind for us.
edited out hyperbole
I get 1 state or local police officer for every 289 U.S. citizens, using 2008 figures. Or, if you count only sworn officers, 1:425. Still, you’re right, I wonder what the colonial American revolutionaries would have made of modern police.