What are you going to do? Well, if you're a heavily armed, Houston cop, all alone (except for your partner), you draw your gun and plug him. Problem solved.
Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the man
cornered the officer in his wheelchair and was making threats while
trying to stab the officer with the pen.
At the time, the officer did not know what the metal object was that the man was waving, Ms Silva said.
"Fearing for his partner's safety and his own safety, he discharged his weapon," Ms Silva said.
Police
did not immediately release the name of the man who was killed. They
had been called to the home after a caretaker there called and reported
that a man in a wheelchair was causing a disturbance.
The
owner of the group home, John Garcia, told the Houston Chronicle that
the man had a history of mental illness and had been living at the house
about 18 months.
"He sometimes would go off a bit, but you just ignore it," Mr Garcia told the newspaper.
Wow, do the math - four arms, four legs, two guns, two truncheons, two Mace canisters versus one arm, one leg, a wheelchair and a pen.
2 comments:
Wonder what will happen if it turns out this man was a vet? Will that victimology sway the hearts of Texans?
In my formative years of the Hill Street Blues era, even fully able-bodied and armed with guns bad guys were often taken down with a shot to the knee and then arrested. It was called disarming the criminal. Shoot to kill was something to be avoided unless one's life was threatened.
What this man turns out to be is probably irrelevant. He is finished and needing only discarding. He was saying angry words and waving something. He was the instrument of his own liquidation. Besides, with just one arm and one leg, chances are he wasn't paying any income tax.
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