Texas Cop who shot the 93 yr old woman with a gun *UPDATE*

"mr_gofast" (jake_berenshteyn) 05/14/2014 at 14:50 • Filed to: None

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he got sacked -

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/0…

should he have been? hes shot someone before so i can them cutting him loose due to his history, but not so muxch due to this unqie situation - she had a gun and did wave it around in a manner.

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jvirgs drives a Subaru > mr_gofast 05/14/2014 at 15:03

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I feel the media isn't giving us the whole story, other than elderly lady gets DL taken away, goes a bit crazy and starts waving a gun around in anger and gets shot. By not digging too deep into the details, if she was waving the gun around and not heeding instructions to drop the gun, doesn't matter if you are 93 or 23, you are most likely going to get shot because that officer is not going to wait for you to shoot first. Not knowing anything about the officer other than he had been involved in another shooting, it appears the city council fired him because he shot a little old lady.

dogisbadob > mr_gofast 05/14/2014 at 15:03

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That's because she's white. Had she been black, the cop would've been either suspended with pay for 2 weeks or reassigned to desk duty.

jariten1781 > mr_gofast 05/14/2014 at 15:04

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She also had already fired her gun twice which wasn't in the original stories. He probably had to be let go regardless though, because even if it all mounts up to being justified he will not be able to gain the trust of that town's population again.

mr_gofast > jvirgs drives a Subaru 05/14/2014 at 15:04

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the initial article covered that..i just cant find it atm...she had the gun, nephew asked her to drop it..she refused and got angry, he felt threatened and called the cops. They showed up and she refused to drop the gun after they asked. Then she got shot.

jariten1781 > dogisbadob 05/14/2014 at 15:08

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Not sure if you're serious...she was black and Hearne is a majority black/hispanic town...

CalzoneGolem > jariten1781 05/14/2014 at 15:11

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Completely justified or not he's the guy who shot the 93 year old lady.

crowmolly > CalzoneGolem 05/14/2014 at 15:14

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Bingo.

Justified or not there will be a shitstorm so they just canned him.

jariten1781 > jvirgs drives a Subaru 05/14/2014 at 15:15

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She did shoot first...she fired two shots before the officer fired.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > jariten1781 05/14/2014 at 15:30

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Then I'm not seeing the issue here. It appears as if he followed protocol but that is just me being a back-seat police officer.

dogisbadob > jariten1781 05/14/2014 at 15:36

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No I wasn't really serious, but police departments have done that shit before.

jariten1781 > jvirgs drives a Subaru 05/14/2014 at 15:58

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The only issue was with yellow journalists reporting with slanted facts aimed at getting responses. 'Policeman shoots 93 year old church goer' riles people up a lot more than 'Policeman returns fire on irrational armed antagonist'.