Man dies after being shot by Atlanta police at Wendy’s drive-thru

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  1. Bluesguy

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    And that stupid comment is for what? He charged two living persons with using a lethal firearm when they used a TASER.
     
  2. Bluesguy

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    Why are you being so obtuse. Under GA law it is a firearm and a lethal weapon, the DA 6 days before had charged two persons as such.
     
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    Lol. Baloney.
     
  4. dairyair

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    Ooohhhh. A member. An anonymous person.
     
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    That might be how the law reads. The responding officer in charge did ask why I didn't just shoot the guy!!

    But, I don't agree. I believe a human life is worth more than $10K.
    That is NOT what the police told me. They told me that they thought they were going to have to fight the guy, because what he was wearing was judged to be too much for their tasers to penetrate.
    There has been NO indication that I've been wrong in anything I've said.
    This last is certainly true.

    BUT, the problem here is not that the police are operating illegallly.

    Well, maybe they are operating illegally. Some of these police who kill black folks don't have a job anymore. Some are charged with crimes now.

    But, the root problem is that the the policing is not working in favor of those who hire them.

    We the people have every right to fire the whole police force and go in a different direction if that's what is necessary.
     
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    The guy tossed his weapon and ran.

    It's NOT the job of the police to decide whether a capitol offense had been committed.

    The judge and/or jury gets to decide that.
     
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    From a legal standpoint such makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. Assault with a deadly weapon is still assault with a deadly weapon, even if the individual chose to drop said weapon a split second before they were shot in response.

    And yet a private individual is legally able to deploy deadly force if they feel their life is being threatened, even if they have not sustained a life-threatening injury beforehand. So why should law enforcement officers not have the same legal ability?

    The right to a trial applies only to individuals who comply to the point where they can be physically arrested. It is not a guarantee in one hundred percent of all cases, under all circumstances.
     
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    You are making this out to be something it is not. This all happened in less than a second. The Violent man who just attacked two officers and stole a weapon turned and shot at the officer and the officer returned fire in less than ONE SECOND. So, if the guy was throwing said weapon away, the officer was in the middle of firing his own weapon. Your narrative is delusional and you should watch the video again. Obviously, you must be repeating CNN propaganda.
     
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    Or a paid per post troll.
     
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    Dont you ever put words in anyone's mouth like that!

    I never once brought color into this argument. The color of someone's skin means nothing except to racists. So I suggest your correct yourself or be labeled a racist.
     
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    No, it's the police's job to make sure they and innocent people come home alive that night. This drunken idiot made the wrong choice and got himself killed.
     
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    That seems to be a tough one for some people to understand, even though is it quite true and simple to understand.
     
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    There is nothing that can be fixed as far as a single mom who wants to be one. The only thing we can do is like cigarettes, just "shaming" them - and I don't mean for sexual morals, but for denying a child 2 parents. Feminism ignores the fact that kids are better off with two parents with the glorification of the fallacy of single motherhood as a woman having it all.
     
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    You don't have to kill the guy, plus shooting multiple times within seconds after he no longer was armed.
     
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    you don't get to shoot a guy because he punched you in the face. Once that guy discharged the taser he no longer was armed.
     
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    How did the law enforcement officer in question, who had just been physically assaulted, actually know for certain the weapon in question was a taser and not a firearm? How did he know for certain the individual in question had not stolen the sidearm of his partner? Explain such. Show how such was indeed known, or should have been known.
     
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    The TASER can still be used as a weapon.
     
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    Tasers used by a large number of police departments throughout the US are made by Axon Entereprises. They dispute the accusations that claim their tasers are lethal.
     
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    They don't dispute there have been deaths, what they dispute is the TASER caused the deaths, they have to otherwise the open a real can of liability worms.

    TASER's can kill if the darts hit just the correct locations, they have also quietly lowered the output voltage in the latest models.

    I have an old M-26 and it runs a good 20Kv higher than my new Pulse+.

    It was going to to be sent back to TASER because the trigger became very difficult to pull, I was advised by customer support they would not be able to repair it, but would swap it for a X-26, I wondered why they couldn't just replace a simple spring switch, so I repaired the switch.

    Well I noticed when I tested it had a louder snap than my Pulse+, so I metered both with a high voltage DVM and discovered the power reduction.
     
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    Doesn't matter what they say it matters what Georgia law and the Georgia District Attorney says.
     
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    The DA is the one who charged these 2 officers, so it only matters when he says what you want to hear.
     
  22. Bluesguy

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    Charged under GA as he six days earlier charged two people with using a deadly weapon when they used a TASER, doesn't matter what I want to hear.
     
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    So why then does Georgia still purchase the tasers if they are as lethal as they claim?
     
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    Go ask them. The law is the law.
     
  25. Reasonablerob

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    And such incidents take microseconds, he could have made the decision and been committed to firing in practically the same instant as he dropped the taser. Good book, everyone should read;

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Into-Kill-...ords=into+the+kill+zone&qid=1593448753&sr=8-1

    And you fire until the threat is neutralised.
     

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