Wife of Oklahoma pastor shot by trooper amid flooding challenges police account

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Another trigger happy cop?

The wife of a man who was fatally shot by Oklahoma highway patrol officers as they responded to a stranded vehicle call has questioned the initial police account of the incident.

Nehemiah Fischer was an assistant pastor at Faith Bible Church in Tulsa. Police said the 35-year-old was shot dead by a highway patrol officer who responded with a partner to a call about a motorist stuck in a truck in rising waters in a rural road south of Tulsa after 9pm on Friday night.

Seven people have been reported dead in Oklahoma as a result of severe weather that has also badly hit Texas.

According to police, the officers told Fischer and his older brother, Brandon, to leave their stalled car and move to higher ground. Some kind of confrontation ensued and Nehemiah Fischer was killed. Brandon Fischer was not hurt. He was arrested on suspicion of assault.

“They would not have gone after the trooper … they would not do that on their own volition,” the dead man’s wife, Laura, told FOX23 local news.

Fischer had a gun, said captain Paul Timmons, an Oklahoma department of public safety spokesman. He said he was unable to provide more detail about whether Fischer was armed at the moment of the shooting and who exactly fired the shots


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[gordianot]

1. Something involving firearms does seem to be the first response of law enforcement these days.

[shraby]

2. Reading the headline, it appears that it is the wife who was shot.

[Romeo.lima333]

3. how fast did "he had a gun" "he had a gun " "he had a gun" come flying out of this cop's mouth

the old tried and true