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Posted: 4/26/2014 8:53:10 AM EDT
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Police shot Virginia man 23 times, autopsy showsMARTINSBURG, W.Va. – An autopsy report says Martinsburg police officers shot a Virginia man 23 times during an altercation in 2013. The report says Wayne Arnold Jones died from multiple gunshot wounds. The 50-year-old Stephens City, Va., man's brothers are suing the city over the shooting on behalf of his estate. The wrongful death lawsuit seeks $200 million in damages. Media outlets report that the family's lawyer, Sherman L. Lambert Sr., filed a copy of the autopsy report in federal court in Martinsburg on Tuesday. Lambert also filed an amended lawsuit that adds the officers as defendants. Police have said Jones drew a knife and stabbed one officer during a scuffle. View Quote |
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Zero fucks given.
If they are worth shooting once, they are worth shooting fifty times. Shoot until the threat stops. |
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$200 million in damages.
Wow. That's significantly over estimating a person's worth. |
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No matter how good the shoot there is always a lawsuit attached.
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Okay, they used the plural "officers" meaning more than one cop shot him. Assume two two-officer patrol cars, minus officer who was stabbed
equals three officers shooting. Average of 8 rounds apiece, firing as fast as accurately possible, until it was identified that the threat had stopped. Throw in stabbing a police officer, and I'm betting shooting time overall was less than 2.5 seconds. They didn't execute anyone, they executed proper training.
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More info and pic of swiss cheese man here.
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One cop, all those rounds might be overkill. 3+ cops not really overkill. Each officer likely sees an individual threat and fires to stop the threat resulting in lots of rounds being expended.
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If you are doing something that warrants getting shot by police...I don't think it really matters how many times you are shot.
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23 hits isn't at all over the top if you consider multiple officers firing at the same time. Can't really blame them being liberal with the bullets either. they tried stun gunning him and it failed.
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Yawn...pulled a knife and stabbed a cop...negative integer fucks given.
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Would it be wrong for the Police to send the dead's family a bill for the 23 rounds?
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Jones drew a knife and stabbed one officer during a scuffle. View Quote Is the one on video? If so good shoot. Stab a cop and don't drop the knife when a dozen of his homies show up and your probably going to get deaded. |
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Anything worth shooting once, is worth shooting a bunch of times.
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Stuff happens when you try to murder people. example A, you get shot 23 times.
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such force was only used after multiple attempts to subdue Jones with a stun gun failed and Jones became violent, attacking an officer and stabbing him in the torso.
Jones had previously told the officers that he had a weapon, but refused to tell them what it was and also repeatedly ignored commands by the officers. View Quote I'm not liking the plaintiff's odds on this lawsuit. |
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If they hit the guy 23 times, where did the other 177 rounds go?
ETA: damn, someone beat me. |
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Only 23 times, shit he doing it wrong, considering a black guy could get shot considerably more times just reaching for his wallet, this guy stabbed a cop, he should have been nuked from orbit! It clearly had to have been something wrong with that guy, most black people KNOW better than to even pull a photo id on a cop let alone a knife!
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Sheriff Grady was asked "Why did you shoot him 68 times?"
He replied "Because we ran out of bullets" |
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I'm not liking the plaintiff's odds on this lawsuit. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
such force was only used after multiple attempts to subdue Jones with a stun gun failed and Jones became violent, attacking an officer and stabbing him in the torso.
Jones had previously told the officers that he had a weapon, but refused to tell them what it was and also repeatedly ignored commands by the officers. I'm not liking the plaintiff's odds on this lawsuit. Me neither. In this crazy world there's still a slight chance he might some how win. |
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According to police, the officers involved struck Jones twice with stun guns after he became angry and refused to follow orders. The shocks had “little” effect on Jones, who pulled a knife and stabbed one of the officers when they tried to restrain him on the ground, police said. The stab wound was minor and did not require medical attention, police said. The lawsuit indicates the officer was stabbed in the torso with a pocket knife.
Jones was ordered to drop the knife while he still was on the ground. When he did not comply and tried to get up, the officers backed away and fired multiple rounds at him “to neutralize the threat,” according to the police report. ETA- News Link |
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The number of times the guy got shot is about as relevant as the color pants the guy's mother was wearing.
Either it was a good shoot or it wasn't. FWIW, from what is in the news story, it certainly sounds like deadly force was warranted. Stupid media. |
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – An autopsy report says Martinsburg police officers shot a Virginia man 23 times during an altercation in 2013.
The report says Wayne Arnold Jones died from multiple gunshot wounds. View Quote View Quote No way !!! |
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Okay, they used the plural "officers" meaning more than one cop shot him. Assume two two-officer patrol cars, minus officer who was stabbed equals three officers shooting. Average of 8 rounds apiece, firing as fast as accurately possible, until it was identified that the threat had stopped. Throw in stabbing a police officer, and I'm betting shooting time overall was less than 2.5 seconds. They didn't execute anyone, they executed proper training. View Quote My oldest sister's first husband was a deputy who was involved in a shooting back around 1970. Sheriff and three deputies went out on a man with a gun call to a mentally challenged "regular customer". Like normal the sheriff went to talk to the guy to get him to hand over the shotgun, but that time the guy shot and killed the sheriff. The deputies turn the shooter into Swiss cheese. Brother in-law did not remember doing it, but he used both of the speed loaders he carried and only stopped shooting because he was out of ammo. It was the same for both the other deputies. Executing proper training in a moment of extreme tension/near panic over seeing their boss get shot. I'm sure it was the same for the officer who saw their comrade getting stabbed. |
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Homeless schizophrenic walking in the street and pulls knife on cops?
Who has a history of killing someone in a bar fight years ago. (Was reported on the radio today) Welcome to West Virginia motherfucker. |
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If you have a knife and get all stabby, don't be surprised if the guy with the gun gets all shooty. |
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – An autopsy report says Martinsburg police officers shot a Virginia man 23 times during an altercation in 2013.
The report says Wayne Arnold Jones died from multiple gunshot wounds. No way !!! That's it???? Your posts in these threads are usually my favorites. Now I'm off to find a video shot in portrait for you. |
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Sounds like it was a good shoot.
I used to live near Martinsburg...place is a shithole. |
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