Teen killed by cops while packing serious joystick heat
A teenager accused of robbing a student of two new Playstation 3s on the day the popular game consoles were introduced was shot to death by police sent to arrest him...
...Roommate Mike Rhoton said Strickland was unarmed, but may have been holding a video game controller when he went to the door as it was bashed in by officers.
"If this boy would've come to the door, opened the door, we probably wouldn't be talking," the sheriff said Sunday.
These are the kinds of things that make me lose faith in the moto "protect and serve". Is this guy a good person? Probably not, he's willing to steal things from others, but shoot him dead? Come on police, he's not a criminal mastermind, he's a slightly larger geek than another geek, and as Darwinism proved, bigger ones eat smaller ones.
And I'll be sure to open my door immediately from now on, for fear of the men in blue kicking in my door and putting a few rounds into the chests of myself and my family. Because hey, maybe my daughter was suspected of stealing a pack of twizzlers from the local Quicky Mart.
As for this specific instance, of course he couldn't answer the door right away, he was in a large scale mecha assault with multiple combatants all hell bent on sending him to meet his maker. Unfortunately he didn't realize that while the game's frantic melee seemed more important than the random knock at the door, there were enemies lurking behind his sofa and outside his windows with armaments more powerful that the sixaxis controller he was brandishing.
I'm sick of hearing stories about police killing innocents. I know their job is stressful, and they need to come home safe to their families, but take a step back from a situation before you go Dirty Harry on some teenager. The world isn't made like the movies. But unfortunately, like the movies, cops rarely get the punishments fitting their crimes because they are looked at above the common person, regardless of what their internal offices say. If I had wandered into that house and shot that man dead I would be in jail, facing a life sentence or the death penalty. The cop in question here? He's been given a term of paid leave. He kills a teenager and we give him a vacation.
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...Roommate Mike Rhoton said Strickland was unarmed, but may have been holding a video game controller when he went to the door as it was bashed in by officers.
"If this boy would've come to the door, opened the door, we probably wouldn't be talking," the sheriff said Sunday.
These are the kinds of things that make me lose faith in the moto "protect and serve". Is this guy a good person? Probably not, he's willing to steal things from others, but shoot him dead? Come on police, he's not a criminal mastermind, he's a slightly larger geek than another geek, and as Darwinism proved, bigger ones eat smaller ones.
And I'll be sure to open my door immediately from now on, for fear of the men in blue kicking in my door and putting a few rounds into the chests of myself and my family. Because hey, maybe my daughter was suspected of stealing a pack of twizzlers from the local Quicky Mart.
As for this specific instance, of course he couldn't answer the door right away, he was in a large scale mecha assault with multiple combatants all hell bent on sending him to meet his maker. Unfortunately he didn't realize that while the game's frantic melee seemed more important than the random knock at the door, there were enemies lurking behind his sofa and outside his windows with armaments more powerful that the sixaxis controller he was brandishing.
I'm sick of hearing stories about police killing innocents. I know their job is stressful, and they need to come home safe to their families, but take a step back from a situation before you go Dirty Harry on some teenager. The world isn't made like the movies. But unfortunately, like the movies, cops rarely get the punishments fitting their crimes because they are looked at above the common person, regardless of what their internal offices say. If I had wandered into that house and shot that man dead I would be in jail, facing a life sentence or the death penalty. The cop in question here? He's been given a term of paid leave. He kills a teenager and we give him a vacation.
Full Article Here
\\drew
posted by Drew at 3:32 PM
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