The media is back to police shootings

The collusion story has fizzled out, Stormy Daniels has fizzled, the March to Take Rights is fizzling, so what does the media do, they revert to stories about police shootings.

Apparently, the American public is supposed to be outraged because a white cop shot a black guy who was refusing orders, got into a physical altercation with the cop, and tried to pull a gun.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-carolina-officer-shoots-kills-man-during-traffic-170933484.html
North Carolina officer shoots, kills man during traffic stop

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A white North Carolina police officer shot and killed a black passenger who refused orders not to reach for a gun after a late-night traffic stop led to a physical struggle, authorities said Saturday.

The shooting happened after Officer D.E. McGuire stopped a car containing two men and a woman about 10:30 p.m. Friday during a routine patrol northeast of downtown, according to a Winston-Salem Police Department news release.

Edward Van McCrae, 60, was in the rear seat and began making suspicious movements, police say. McGuire told McCrae to stop reaching for concealed areas of the vehicle, but McCrae continued, according to the news release.

"After being removed from the vehicle, Mr. McCrae physically struggled with Officer McGuire and refused multiple verbal commands by Officer McGuire to 'stop reaching,'" the news release said. "As the struggle continued, a handgun became visible to Officer McGuire."

McGuire shot and killed McCrae when he refused commands not to reach for the gun, according to the release. A police report characterizes the exchange as an assault on the officer with a firearm.

 
Because a guy got shot, and a couple of investigations were announced with minimal accountability.

Saw the guy killed in his back yard and the cops standing about waiting for him to bleed out before approaching him? I have empathy for cops however official shoot-to-kill policies rattle people. Police departments lying without punishment also a bad thing.

It may not be the cops fault for following a procedure he is trained in but there have been too many people shot with phones in their hands, not guns. American cops are too low bar in many places, training and selection of candidates is cheap. Just because your local cops are paragons of courage and virtue.

I recall nearly getting arrested for parking on the wrong side of an empty street in a rural Louisiana town (with no parking lines). The freak of a cop came over to me with his hand on his revolver at 11am. Straight out of that James Bond movie with the southern sheriff after an entrapment ticket. My being a tourist confused him. Somebody told me afterwards he was ready to draw as I am a big guy, 6'6". Not the only time this kind of thing occurred. I have some empathy for heavy/big black guys getting sick or even afraid of guns drawn on them.

Like the way America's politics are funded, the way cops monetize people lends to corruption in deed and spirit in a large part of the US I recon.
 
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The collusion story has fizzled out,

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...tacted-russian-intelligence-source/466635002/

Robert Mueller: Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates contacted Russian intelligence source

Kevin Johnson and David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 3:30 p.m. ET March 28, 2018

WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates was in contact with a person who the FBI believed had ties to Russian intelligence during the run-up to the 2016 election, according to new court documents filed Wednesday by special counsel Robert Mueller.
 
Why do you hate rights?

There is not such thing as a "right", only the weakest minds cling to that idea. I'd shoot you in the face with your own gun while you were bumbling about your "rights" if I felt you were using a handgun to threaten me directly or indirectly old man.

The abuse of the 2nd is crazy. Hunting rifles and such are fine. Otherwise only the well regulated militia should have military weapons, that includes explosives but you don't see the NRA bitching about that.
 
The firearm the guy possessed was illegal. What part of that do you not understand?

He thinks if you ban a handgun, somehow those who break the law and possess them illegally will turn them in as well out of nobility. You know, because history shows when something is banned, it goes away.
 
He thinks if you ban a handgun, somehow those who break the law and possess them illegally will turn them in as well out of nobility. You know, because history shows when something is banned, it goes away.

The guy who shoots first wins in most gang violence. Your hopeless fantasist dreams of getting the draw on a carjacker or mall shooting? You would be hiding behind the fattest woman at the mall.
 
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