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Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair
#22287358 - 09/25/15 07:33 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is the shocking moment a disabled man in a wheelchair was shot dead in the street by Delaware police.
Officers had been responding to a 911 call that someone had attempted to shoot themselves, when they arrived to find Jeremy McDole 'still armed with a handgun.'
Cops opened fire on McDole, who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by a friend aged 18, after repeated requests for him to 'drop the gun.'
McDole's mother, Phyllis, has criticized the shooting as 'unjust' during a police news conference.
The incident, which took place in a Wilmington street, Delaware on Wednesday afternoon was caught on camera by stunned witnesses who uploaded it to You Tube.
The 1-minute-and-19-second-long clip opened with an officer, armed with a shotgun, shouting for the wheelchair-bound McDole to 'show his hands.'
A shot is fired just seconds later, before more cops move in shouting at the 28-year-old: 'Show me your hands! Drop the gun! Drop the gun!'
McDole appeared to be bleeding although the footage does not make clear if this was from the officer's first shot or if he had been previously injured in the alleged suicide attempt. His handgun is not easily identifiable in the video.
He is then seen putting his hands into his pockets at which point he in gunned down in a flurry of bullets with around ten shots fired.
McDole slumps over and falls to ground, dead. Cops said a .38-caliber handgun was recovered at the scene.
Police Chief Bobby Cummings said during a news conference that none of the officers involved 'intended to take anyone's life that day.'
He said that police had told him repeatedly to put his gun down but had 'engaged him' after he went to remove the weapon from his waist.
But Mrs McDole disputed the cops' version of events and interrupted the conference to demand answers.
'He was in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. There's video showing that he didn't pull a weapon, she said.
McDole's sister Letesha Green also criticized the cops for not attempting to use non-lethal force before opening fire.
'Why couldn't you taser this man out of his wheelchair,' she asked, reported NBC Philadelphia. 'Why couldn't you use rubber bullets to get him out of the wheelchair?'
However, Cummings said he had also viewed the video and believed the four officers involved - who have all been placed on administrative duty - acted correctly.
'The officers perceived what was a threat and they responded and they engaged,' he said, adding that only a 'thorough investigation' would reveal if they should have taken a different course of action.
Wilmington Police Department's criminal investigation and professional standards unit is now investigating the incident as is the Delaware Department of Justice's Office of Civil Rights and Public Trust which investigates all police fatal shootings.
The findings will determine whether the officers involved are to be charged.
Witnesses claim that McDole may have been trying to kill himself. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3248321/Police-kill-disabled-man-wheelchair-Delaware-street-responding-911-call-tried-shoot-himself.html
I'm just gonna go ahead and get it out of the way. I think it's inevitable a thread will show up about it within the next 12-24 hours.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: Shroomslip] 1
#22287453 - 09/25/15 08:07 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Don't kill yourself or we'll kill you!
Pew pew! 'Murica!
Jesus Christ that is insane!
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: Turtletotem]
#22287457 - 09/25/15 08:09 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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That was kinda my first thought too. "We're here to make sure you don't kill yourself, because then how are we supposed to?"
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: Shroomslip]
#22287465 - 09/25/15 08:12 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I guess the cops feel bad about the totalitarian levels of prisoners in the US, so they try to solve the problem in their own, retarded way.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: Turtletotem]
#22287530 - 09/25/15 08:36 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Cops are supposed to be courageous people, yet they will not hesitate to pull the trigger first. That doesn't sound to courageous to me.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: shellzenone] 1
#22287543 - 09/25/15 08:41 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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They're supposed to be loyal dogs to those in power and the metaphorical (and literal!) boot stomping on a human face.
If there are good cops, why does shit like this keep on happening? Why is there so much violence and corruption and disregard for human life with these fuckers?
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: shellzenone] 5
#22287545 - 09/25/15 08:42 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Shooting someone in a wheelchair with a shotgun...
Thats a bit of the old ultraviolence.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: shellzenone]
#22287550 - 09/25/15 08:44 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's called suicide by cop and it's nothing new.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: Turtletotem]
#22287554 - 09/25/15 08:45 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Turtletotem said: They're supposed to be loyal dogs to those in power and the metaphorical (and literal!) boot stomping on a human face.
If there are good cops, why does shit like this keep on happening? Why is there so much violence and corruption and disregard for human life with these fuckers?
They have a code where they cant rat each other out. look up "the code of blue" or something like that. Someone in my family is a cop and he told me this.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: shellzenone]
#22287557 - 09/25/15 08:46 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hey Qman, did your avatar just do the harlem shake? or is it my comp?
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: shellzenone] 1
#22287560 - 09/25/15 08:47 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Codes are bullshit anyway, there's right and there's wrong. Codes are just there to fuck with your moral compass.
When the Dutch police force got expanded and more powerful, the region I live in went: fuck that!
The result is that we have the lowest police brutality/corruption stats in the country.
Seriously, the only difference between a thug and a police man is the uniform!
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: qman] 1
#22287581 - 09/25/15 09:00 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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qman said: It's called suicide by cop and it's nothing new.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: myc_check1212]
#22287636 - 09/25/15 09:31 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I tied a noose once, but it wasn't very eager to assist me. I guess suicide by cop is a lot more efficient, you know, seeing as how the tool you use seems very willing to send you to the afterlife.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: Turtletotem]
#22287644 - 09/25/15 09:34 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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if he just showed his hands none of this woulda happened
cops are still pussies tho
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: qman] 1
#22287695 - 09/25/15 09:48 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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A subcategory of assisted suicide
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: D.M.T] 2
#22287714 - 09/25/15 09:55 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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okay
shooting a man in a wheelchair who has a gun and won't drop it... i can kinda see
shooting that man in a wheelchair with a shotgun... that is a bit extreme
shooting that man while his hands are in his pockets... them cops be trollin' man
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: D.M.T] 2
#22287732 - 09/25/15 10:01 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anyone else notice that the cops said, "drop the gun", maybe the dude was getting the gun out to drop it. I mean if I had guns pointed at me I would do what they said.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: KrishnaDreamer]
#22287740 - 09/25/15 10:03 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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KrishnaDreamer said: Anyone else notice that the cops said, "drop the gun", maybe the dude was getting the gun out to drop it. I mean if I had guns pointed at me I would do what they said.
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He is then seen putting his hands into his pockets at which point he in gunned down in a flurry of bullets with around ten shots fired.
How could he be holding a gun if he put his hands in his pockets?
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: micro]
#22287754 - 09/25/15 10:08 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, that's what I mean. Cops said, "drop the gun", so maybe dude reaches in his pocket to get the gun and drop it. They really should've gone with, "don't move" if he didn't have anything in his hands.
I think in the U.S. Cops in their own fraternity have this cool factor, like, "how many gunfights have you been in" type shit.
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Re: Cops shoot and kill man in wheelchair [Re: KrishnaDreamer]
#22287757 - 09/25/15 10:10 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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KrishnaDreamer said: I think in the U.S. Cops in their own fraternity have this cool factor, like, "how many gunfights have you been in" type shit.
probably
they probably will count this one, too
even though it is a guy in a wheelchair
you should like... lose points for that i mean come on, what a cheap shot
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