WI: Cop shoots Teddy Bear

[Alamo]

This could also go in the Tactics and Training forum, or the Self-Defense, but since the left has succeeded in making everything political, Gen Pol Discussion seems appropriate.

First, the quotes:

The suspect had psychiatric issues, had been arrested several times but always released because of those issues, and his family apparently knew that recently "he was heading down a bad path," but the young cop in the video was supposed to somehow resolve this "non-violently" in just a few seconds.

"What's up with the system where they haven't realized he's going through all this?" [the suspect's cousin Shem} Clayborn said, describing his cousin as a nonviolent person who was intelligent and funny but had a "very debilitating" disability.

Other family described Ruffin as a "teddy bear," a former cheerleader at South High who liked to teach himself languages, loved music and was an expert at helping polish a resume.


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[Wisconsin ACLU] Executive director Chris Ott said there is a national pattern of police using excessive force during routine encounters with people of color, as well as those with mental health conditions, so it is important to know why Ruffin was killed by police instead of them handling it in a nonviolent way.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsi..._HNj6_C3ZlCZGKjZUo7ipc9OllDUX7i0X3gVFllsJswZk
https://www.sheboyganpress.com/stor...fficer-involved-shooting-underway/5362790002/

Now for the cameras:
I recommend you skip ahead to 3:07 for the overview shot, then go back to the beginning. A business security camera happened to be fortuitously placed to capture the entire event. However the video starts off with body cams from two responding officers.

Note that the officer was responding to reports that a few minutes previously the suspect, with two knives, had chased a woman. Not clear if the woman was injured or not.

[video=youtube;ntFanbnGwNk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=170&v=ntFanbnGwNk&feature=emb_ logo[/video]

As the saying goes, that was a close-run affair.

Best wishes to that officer.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I'm confused. Who is saying, "He tazed me man!"?

 

[Alamo]

I'm confused. Who is saying, "He tazed me man!"?

The male officer is saying "He chased me!"

 

[Tombs]

I feel sorry for the cop, listening to him talking about it after the fact is hard.

He did everything in his power to not have to shoot the guy and was forced into doing so.

 

[Hkindiana]

If blm and antifa get their way, how many unarmed mental health case workers are going to be killed by “teddy bears”?

 

[Hkindiana]

I feel sorry for the cop, listening to him talking about it after the fact is hard.

He did everything in his power to not have to shoot the guy and was forced into doing so.

if it had been a white cop, and there was no video, there would be rioting all over the US for the next few weeks.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

if it had been a white cop, and there was no video, there would be rioting all over the US for the next few weeks.

Even with video it wouldn’t have mattered.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

The male officer is saying "He chased me!"

Oh!

 

[NKBJ]

Was at a store on the north side of Indianapolis yesterday speaking with the manager. Her stories about experiences since March with the mentalities and the way that the living conditions brought about by the bank bug are affecting peoples' behavior was something else.
Thank goodness the soma supplies aren't running low.