Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:19 PM

alp227 (20,967 posts)

Houston police chief asks for FBI's help in shooting case

Last edited Mon Sep 24, 2012, 08:08 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Source: CNN

The chief of Houston's police department has asked the FBI to help investigate why an officer shot and killed a disabled man Saturday.

Over the weekend, police said that the wheelchair-bound man was acting aggressively and had tried to stab an officer with a pen.

"The Houston Police Department places the highest value on human life and events like these are tragic and unfortunate for everyone involved," Chief Charles A. McClelland said in a press release Monday afternoon. "All Houston Police Officers receive mandatory crisis intervention training specifically dealing with persons experiencing mental crisis. As we do in all instances of this nature, the Houston Police Department's Homicide and Internal Affairs Divisions, and the Harris County District Attorneys Office, Civil Rights Division, are investigating this incident."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/24/us/houston-disabled-man-shooting/index.html

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13 replies	Author	Time	Post
Houston police chief asks for FBI's help in shooting case (Original post)	alp227	Sep 2012	OP
they can't shoot him themselves?	Enrique	Sep 2012	#1
Ba-dump Tish!	Nostradammit	Sep 2012	#2
Apparently that disabled man was quite a handful.	99th_Monkey	Sep 2012	#3
Death Panels	jberryhill	Sep 2012	#4
"The Houston Police Department places the highest value on human life"	jsr	Sep 2012	#5
I don't understand how anyone could find a one arm man in a wheelchair, Life threatening, but....	W T F	Sep 2012	#6
Could you please edit your post	obamanut2012	Sep 2012	#9
Try downtown San Francisco after dark.	DollarBillHines	Sep 2012	#10
These sorts of shootings..	sendero	Sep 2012	#11
he	heaven05	Sep 2012	#7
Stupid headlines. Sigh! n/t	FlaGranny	Sep 2012	#8
"Houston police chief asks for FBI's help in shooting of disabled man"	greiner3	Sep 2012	#12
CNN has fixed the title.	alp227	Sep 2012	#13

Response to alp227 (Original post)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:21 PM

Enrique (22,847 posts)

1. they can't shoot him themselves?

sorry.

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Response to Enrique (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:22 PM

Nostradammit (2,920 posts)

2. Ba-dump Tish!

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Response to Enrique (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:23 PM

99th_Monkey (7,372 posts)

3. Apparently that disabled man was quite a handful.

There's really nothing funny about this tragic but all too familiar
story, but just to know, I read that headline the same way you did.

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Response to Enrique (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:24 PM

jberryhill (30,115 posts)

4. Death Panels

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Response to alp227 (Original post)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:38 PM

jsr (3,526 posts)

5. "The Houston Police Department places the highest value on human life"

Who are they talking about?

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Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:44 PM

W T F (543 posts)

6. I don't understand how anyone could find a one arm man in a wheelchair, Life threatening, but....

I guess that's what happens when you give a insecure little pussy with a tiny penis, a gun and a badge.

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Response to W T F (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 06:56 PM

obamanut2012 (9,971 posts)

9. Could you please edit your post

Re: the derogatory use of "pussy"? Thank you.

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Response to W T F (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 06:58 PM

DollarBillHines (1,922 posts)

10. Try downtown San Francisco after dark.

You will find quite a few crazy-scary mofos in 'chairs. And a bunch of them will be missing body parts. They definitely have the potential to do serious harm to a healthy person.

That guy had the cop trapped in a dark corner and slashing at him with a pointed silver object (a pen, as it turned out).

From earlier articles, it seems the guy had gone berserk.

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Response to DollarBillHines (Reply #10)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 07:35 PM

sendero (25,000 posts)

11. These sorts of shootings..

... NEVER HAPPENED 20 years ago and now there is one every time you turn around. But no, it's not the out of control police's fault.

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Response to alp227 (Original post)

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:54 PM

heaven05 (2,476 posts)

7. he

had one arm, one leg, sounds like a really dangerous and threatening individual. he had no bullet firing weapon, yet still shot down like a dog in the street. way to go peace officer. You should get policeman of the year, there

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Mon Sep 24, 2012, 06:47 PM

FlaGranny (8,081 posts)