Portland shooter who murdered Trump supporter is dead

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  3. Vladimir Illich

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    All four officers shot at him ??? - Wasn't an attempted arrest but an execution !!!
     
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    You have a very diluted idea how law enforcement works..
     
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    Not all four, only four.
     
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    This happened only a few miles from where I live. Interesting that a under age militia type who killed two protesters is offered a bottle of water and left to go on his way....and someone shot shot back at a column of militia assaulting protesters with paintball guns is executed by the police.
     
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    You need to get your facts straight. One kid shot three people in self defense. One self proclaimed antifa member shot a man dead for wearing the wrong hat.
     
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    It gets even more bizarre by the minute.........

    He was in fact a right-wing conspiracy nut (i.e. a wingnut) posing as antifa, who sacrificed himself and one of his own (a fellow member of the Lunatic fringe
    and a trump supporter) to further the cause of the Alt-right……………lol…
     
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    Proof it was only because of a hat?
     
  10. Maccabee

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    Clearly you have no idea how a shooting in real life works.
     
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    In the still frames and video of him stalking the two men he shot at, the only thing to trigger the "hey,we've got two here "call for action was the patriot prayer hats the men were wearing.
     
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    So explain to us. Because between my own personal experiences and stories I hear I have a pretty good idea. It would be great if you could educate me.
     
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    It's pretty sad if things working properly is stories like this. There is a pattern here.


    Police shoot 13-year-old boy with autism several times after mother calls for help

    A 13-year-old boy with autism was shot several times by police officers who responded to his home in Salt Lake City after his mother called for help.

    Linden Cameron was recovering in a Utah hospital, his mother said, after suffering injuries to his shoulder, both ankles, his intestines and his bladder.

    Golda Barton told KUTV she called 911 to request a crisis intervention team because her son, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was having an episode caused by “bad separation anxiety” as his mother went to work for the first time in more than a year.

    “I said, ‘He’s unarmed, he doesn’t have anything, he just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming,’” she said. “He’s a kid, he’s trying to get attention, he doesn’t know how to regulate.”

    She added: “They’re supposed to come out and be able to de-escalate a situation using the most minimal force possible.”

    Instead, she said, two officers went through the front door of the home and in less than five minutes were yelling “get down on the ground” before firing several shots.

    “He’s a small child,” she said. “Why didn’t you just tackle him? He’s a baby. He has mental issues.”

    In a briefing on Sunday, Sgt Keith Horrocks of Salt Lake City police told reporters officers were responding to reports “a juvenile was having a mental episode” and thought Cameron “had made threats to some folks with a weapon”.

    Police confirmed they did not find a weapon at the scene.

    In a statement to the Salt Lake Tribune, Mayor Erin Mendenhall vowed the investigation would be quick.

    “No matter the circumstances, what happened on Friday night is a tragedy, and I expect this investigation to be handled swiftly and transparently for the sake of everyone involved,” she said.

    Across the US, killings of unarmed civilians by police, especially Americans of color, have raised alarm among community groups and stoked ongoing protests. Many say law enforcement responses to public health crises often put the mentally ill at risk.

    Protests erupted in Rochester, New York, after body-camera video from March showed police responding to a call about a mental health episode mocking 29-year-old Daniel Prude and putting a hood on his head. Prude, who was Black, died of asphyxiation.

    Demonstrators in Aurora, Colorado, have sought justice for 23-year-old Elijah McClain, a Black man who went into cardiac arrest shortly after a paramedic administered ketamine as police officers responded to a suspicious person report.

    Body-camera footage contained some of McClain’s last words: “I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all, I’m so sorry.”

    As activists call for police resources to be reallocated toward public health initiatives, some cities have shifted emergency response strategies.

    Regarding the incident in Salt Lake City, Neurodiverse Utah said in a statement: “Police were called because help was needed but instead more harm was done when officers from the SLPD expected a 13-year-old experiencing a mental health episode to act calmer and [more] collected than adult trained officers.”

    Barton launched a fundraiser to cover her son’s medical bills. She described Cameron as a typical young boy who loves “video games, four wheeling and long-boarding”. She also demanded answers about why her son was not subdued.

    “Why didn’t they Tase him? Why didn’t they shoot him with a rubber bullet? You are big police officers with massive amounts of resources. Come on. Give me a break.”


     
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    If the only information the officers got in the dispatch call was that a juvenile was threatening people with a weapon, then no surprises there


    That response wouldn't happen in my country, or would be far far less likely to happen becuase the police don't expect every 2nd house to have a firearm in it.

    But that never seems to be part of the discussion on incidents in the US for some reason
     

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