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Originally posted by rwarn17588
So when the hell should a cop fire his gun? Wait for a suspect to actually open fire so that the cop can be wasted?
Yeah, I would have changed the procedures, too.
You don't want to be shot by a cop? Then leave the gun at home, or leave it in the glovebox.
I don't want to see the police shot at.
In no case I'm referring to in Tulsa where the police shot a suspect did anyone actually shoot AT the POLICE.
The common demoninator throughout the last couple of years of TPD shootings of suspects has been the suspect "pointed" a gun at police. Not SHOT at the police. "Pointed" a gun at police.
Since no TPD officer has been killed since 1996, it appears that this is evidence of a new dynamic at work in TPD policing.
Namely, when these pre-planned arrests and drug raids are launched, the police have already surrounded the residence or building being raided. The suspects do not realize this.
The suspects, protecting valuable contraband currently considered "illegal", are defending themselves with firearms from other "competitors" who use violence to control market share.
It's all about 'bizness'.
So, when a suspect runs out the back door with a gun in their waistband, the police are waiting outback in ambush. The TPD is simply blowing these people away. And, dead men tell no tales.
The same thing happened over in Sequoyah Co. a few years ago. The local sheriff and a multi-county drug task force accompanied by the DA (Ms. Barker-Harrold) launched a nightime No-Knock raid on a suspected drug dealer. The suspect was outside working on his car with his pre-teenage son.
Unbeknownst to the suspect, a police sniper had already infiltrated his property, and had him zero'd in his telescopic sights. A Turkey Shoot.
So, when the first UNMARKED police cars, WITHOUT sirens or flashing lights came crashing through his gate, the suspect quickly retrieved a semi-automatic rifle and started shooting at the intruders, AFTER he had already been sniped by the police sniper. He claimed self-defense from a home invasion.
It was a LEO set-up deal to kill him, because the same LEO's had tried to nail him previously and he wasn't convicted, and they were out to get him. Barker-Harrold went along on the pre-planned execution that went slightly awry.
The SUSPECT unfortunately survived the police sniper bullet plus the subsequent deliberate torture inflicted on him by the sheriff's deputies of dragging him by his hair, wounded and bleeding out of his house.
Since the driver of the UNMARKED, UNLIT car was shot by the homeowner, the SUSPECT of course was tried for murder. There was a hung jury. Then, he was Re-tried for Murder.
Found guilty of negligent homicide, with the sentences structured by the crony county judge to run consecutively to make sure that he stayed in prison a long, long time for what was basically a shooting in self-defense against assailants unknown.
Now, the Feds are trying him for the murder of a LEO. The Feds say, well, we know that the Constitution has that pesky little clause in it against Double Jeopardy, but you just need to understand that we are a different JURISDICTION, so it's not REALLY Double Jeopardy. And of course, the crony FEDERAL judge say OKAY; go right Ahead. And, it's A-OK to ask for the Death Penalty to appease the LEO community.
Just one LITTLE problem with this entire matter:
There were NEVER any drugs found.........OOPS!
Sort of gets overlooked in the rush to Just-Us.
Oh, and I'm sure the defendant's son will get used to growing up without his Daddy.
Maybe Ms. Barker-Harrold can be his Mommy, now that she's been run out of the DA's office. Well, not really RUN; more like waddled.
