Man taunts Police Officer, Gets Shot

Just saw on the news.

A guy got a DUI, was taunting an officer, and according to the Officer, the guy got the gun out of his holster.

He wrestled with the guy to get the gun back, and then shot him.

The Sheriff confirmed that it isn't possible for a handcuffed man to get ahold of a police officers gun from the holster, because of the holster itself.

According to reports and footage, they guy was drunk and shouting "You're a man, you're a real man" sarcastically at the officer before the officer opened fire.

This police corruption is getting out of hand.

Why couldn't he grab the weapon? Honestly why do we care? Does the world have a shortage of dumbasses?

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
Why couldn't he grab the weapon? Honestly why do we care? Does the world have a shortage of dumbasses?

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
Why couldn't he grab the weapon? Honestly why do we care? Does the world have a shortage of dumbasses?

Because these are the people in charge of keeping us safe, even when we are drunk dumbasses, and that they don't just fail, but actively harm us is a huge issue.

And you know, that whole murder thing...

Originally posted by Jmanghan
The holster has pins that hold the gun in place, and to pull the gun out, those need to be removed.

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
Why couldn't he grab the weapon? Honestly why do we care? Does the world have a shortage of dumbasses?

I agree, people should get away with murder as long as they kill dumb*sses. Heck, let's kill even mildly annoying people for the kicks!

Originally posted by riv6672
No holster is 100% fool proof.
No prisoner is 100% guaranteed to not pull off some crazy stunt; seen it first hand in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I wasnt there so i cant arbitrarily shout what you're shouting.
Not saying you're wrong. Not saying i'm right.
I am saying its really easy to armchair quarterback people in life and death situations.

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
Why couldn't he grab the weapon? Honestly why do we care? Does the world have a shortage of dumbasses?

Originally posted by Jmanghan
He was handcuffed and already in the car, with his hands behind his back, and the officer was facing him, while standing. What's he gonna do bite it out of his holster???

Like i said, i wasnt there. You werent either. You want to side with the drunken criminal by all means do. I'll side with the law enforcement officer. Until actual evidence proves he shot someone in cold blood.

Originally posted by Jmanghan
By your logic, the police should be allowed to kill anyone that act like assholes, or shoot them, at the very least.

We don't have to side with either, I think we all should be in favour of a thorough and transparent investigation when someone lost their life through the hands of another, whether a police officer or not. I'd presume we all do as well, but Henry Pym seems to have made it very clear that he does not.

Henry's post wasnt worth commenting on, so i didnt, i directed my comments to J's. I did say "until actual evidence proves". J did not. He's taken it at face value and started a thread to vent on police corruption.
He has every right to do that, of course.

Originally posted by riv6672
Henry's post wasnt worth commenting on, so i didnt, i directed my comments to J's. I did say "until actual evidence proves". J did not. He's taken it at face value and started a thread to vent on police corruption.
He has every right to do that, of course.

Well, J's post was directly caused by Henry's dismissal, but I see your point that the OP was already slanted towards definite fault on the officers part.

Somehow I find the idea of a drunk, handcuffed man posing enough of a threat to an armed officer to warrant deadly force highly unlikely....

Originally posted by Jmanghan
He was handcuffed and already in the car, with his hands behind his back, and the officer was facing him, while standing. What's he gonna do bite it out of his holster???

Crap.

I think we have telekinetic drunks.

More seriously, yea, this is fairly messed up.

A lot of police officers are insufficiently trained in when to use force or overreact when their authority is challenged.

Originally posted by riv6672
OmaHA! OmaHA!

Like i said, i wasnt there. You werent either. You want to side with the drunken criminal by all means do. I'll side with the law enforcement officer. Until actual evidence proves he shot someone in cold blood.

This'd be a sparsely populated forum...🤨

It was the Sheriff who sided with the drunken criminal, not me.

His words were literally "Nope, can't happen". Oh, and the gun shot went off when the drunk guy was mid-sentence.

I'll admit, in recent years, I do have a bias against police, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't side with them if I thought they were in the right.

The guy was drunk, stupid, and handcuffed. So, honestly, no, until evidence comes up that the Officer was innocent, I'm going to assume he's guilty. The evidence that is already there is stacked HIGH against the Officer.

Originally posted by Bardock42
...but i see your point...the OP was already slanted towards definite fault on the officers part.

Thanks.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Because these are the people in charge of keeping us safe, even when we are drunk dumbasses, and that they don't just fail, but actively harm us is a huge issue.

And you know, that whole murder thing...

Uh wait a minute now. He did not say "if the cop shot this guy for no reason why do we care?". The poster seemed to have disbelief the gun would be impossible to get. Whether or not that is the case..if it WAS somehow possible and this drunk d-bag did try to get a gun out of the cops holster then I honestly...if you try to wrestle a cop and take his gun away you're going to get shot. Not only that, you SHOULD be shot for that, period.

Am I saying that is what happened? Nope. Or if he got the gun back, had it for a decent amount of time, THEN chose to shoot that is one thing. But if the guy tried to wrestle it away somehow, got it, the cop got it back and then opened fire I have no problems. If he got the gun back, the guy taunted him, and then he shot him yeah that is messed up.

Originally posted by Jmanghan
The holster has pins that hold the gun in place, and to pull the gun out, those need to be removed.

Wait wait slow your role. I don't know much about holsters, but if it's so uneasy to get the gun out of that holster what happens if there is some incident where the cops needs to be able to react and draw his gun in a split second? Is he going to be killed because he needs to remove pins first?

Or do the holsters somehow allow the cop to remove it quickly, but other people need to remove the pins? How does this work? Since just from your description it sounds like an asinine way for a holster to work. You'd be dead if you need to get your gun out quickly.

Originally posted by Surtur
Uh wait a minute now. He did not say "if the cop shot this guy for no reason why do we care?". The poster seemed to have disbelief the gun would be impossible to get. Whether or not that is the case..if it WAS somehow possible and this drunk d-bag did try to get a gun out of the cops holster then I honestly...if you try to wrestle a cop and take his gun away you're going to get shot. Not only that, you SHOULD be shot for that, period.

Am I saying that is what happened? Nope. Or if he got the gun back, had it for a decent amount of time, THEN chose to shoot that is one thing. But if the guy tried to wrestle it away somehow, got it, the cop got it back and then opened fire I have no problems. If he got the gun back, the guy taunted him, and then he shot him yeah that is messed up.

Uh wait a minute now. He very clearly stated "Honestly why do we care? Does the world have a shortage of dumbasses?"...so yes he did say that we shouldn't care about this story cause the guy who got shot is a "dumbass".

Originally posted by Bardock42
Uh wait a minute now. He very clearly stated "Honestly why do we care? Does the world have a shortage of dumbasses?"...so yes he did say that we shouldn't care about this story cause the guy who got shot is a "dumbass".

Uh but if the guy tried to wrestle a gun away from a cop and got shot without any actual foul play then yeah the guy is a dumbass. It doesn't mean it was being said every dumbass deserves to get shot. Just any dipshit too dumb to not realize trying to wrestle a gun away from a cop is stupid.

Which I agree, IF the cop didn't just shoot in cold blood and shot a guy who was actively trying to get his gun away? Who cares? I don't, why should you? The cop did his job if that is the case. Again, not saying that is the case, but if it is? This is a non-story. Dipshit drunk plays a stupid game and gets a stupid prize. What would you feel there is left to say, if that was indeed the case?