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Powel Shooting footage

Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:41 pm
Posted by Malik Agar
Member since Nov 2012
12076 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:41 pm
Here is a video of the 2nd shooting in St. Louis. It's pretty disturbing but relevant to all the stuff that's going on.

LINK (NSFW someone gets shot and dies) EDIT: It might be loud, be careful with headphones.
This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 7:44 pm
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
116322 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:42 pm to
Mute it. Trust me.
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
73040 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:46 pm to
Looks like the revolution will be televised. Or shot on cell phone video at least. I think American society is slowly unraveling.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
119030 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:52 pm to
WTF is going on in St. Louis?


I can't believed what I just watched. Damn.

Like the guy with the camera said, they could have tased him or shot him in the leg. But to gun him down like that?

That's too much.
Posted by beulahland
Little D'arbonne
Member since Jan 2013
3584 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:52 pm to
you must comply
Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
21940 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:53 pm to
That's an astonishing video. Thank you.
Posted by Grizzley
Member since May 2014
935 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:56 pm to
He stole those 2 drinks from the Indian guy in the store and went and stood outside to wait for the cops. He was looking for trouble.
Posted by lsufanintexas
Member since Sep 2006
5011 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:58 pm to
I love and respect law enforcement but that seemed to me to be excessive force.

Now granted, I don't know the situation..why did they not have tasers to use? Are these cops not issued them? Are they trained to pull guns when it's a deadly weapon instead of the taser?


Once this video get's out, which it has, that entire area is going to explode.

Posted by LSUgusto
Member since May 2005
19224 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:01 pm to
Don't bring a knife to a gun fight?
Posted by BigPapi21
United States
Member since Dec 2013
641 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:03 pm to
I watched it and the dude deserved to be shot and killed

He is wearing a fricking sweat shirt in the middle of the summer and walking around like he is violent

in addition, he keeps putting his hands in his pocket like he has a gun

and he walked fast to the police officers like he was going to fight them or something

I have no problem with the cops shooting this man.
Posted by Who Me
Ascension
Member since Aug 2011
7090 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:03 pm to
Those 2 officers were fortunate to have a kind upstanding citizen video tape the entire encounter.


They should buy him a steak dinner.
Posted by tysonslefthook
Near Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2014
1218 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:06 pm to
The guy did it all intentionally. He wanted his death to be celebrated like Brown's IMHO. This is what the media causes when they hype up and glorify suicides and other deaths. Disturbed individuals who copy cat for attention.
Posted by ApexTiger
cary nc
Member since Oct 2003
53778 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:22 pm to
I can't get the video to start
Posted by pleading the fifth
Member since Feb 2006
3897 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:30 pm to
A very wise man once said: "Play stupid arse games, win stupid arse prizes."
Posted by stuntman
Florida
Member since Jan 2013
9124 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:33 pm to
After his right hand comes out of his pocket, it sounds like the cops say "drop the knife". Not sure, though.
Posted by Patrick_Bateman
Member since Jan 2012
17823 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:34 pm to
quote:

Shoot me now, muthafricka!
Wish it, and it shall be so!
Posted by John McClane
Member since Apr 2010
36710 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:41 pm to
He wanted to die.
Posted by Scoop
RIP Scoop
Member since Sep 2005
44583 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:41 pm to
The guy sat the drinks down and was obviously waiting on the cops so he could confront them.

The guy committed suicide by cop. He pulled out a knife and advanced on the police as they told him several times to drop his weapon.

It does look possible that he could have been tazed had one of the cops had one out and ready but they didn't. That does not change the fact that this was suicide by cop.
Posted by Mohican
Member since Nov 2012
6179 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:48 pm to
He absolutely deserved to be shot. There is no question about it.



ETA: And even if he had no knife, he deserved to be shot. The way his hands were in his pockets, the large sweat jacket, the non-compliant, aggressive confrontation... etc. Those cops have NO IDEA what he's capable of. As others have said, they will go home with their families. I say all this as a libertarian type guy. You have to have a civil society. He decided to call their bluff, and they obliged him.
This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 8:53 pm
Posted by Rex
Here, there, and nowhere
Member since Sep 2004
66001 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 9:06 pm to
Justified.
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