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| Texas police SHOOT a hero who had just disarmed gunman holding 100 people hostage in a church | |
| 2018-02-27 | |
Churchgoer Tony Garces managed to disarm Jones during a scuffle, but when police arrived, they shot Mr Garces instead. The incident took place during a morning service at the Faith City Mission, a Christian organization which helps people in need in the community. Jones, who had received help from the Faith City Mission in the past, held about 100 congregants and church staff hostage. While waiting for police, church staff and attendees managed to overpower Jones, and during the fight, Mr Garces got hold of the gum 'I said 'hey, hey I got the gun,' Mr Garces told ABC7 Amarillo. He described how officers ordered him to throw the gun to the floor, but that he hesitated as he was worried that the loaded gun would go off if he did so. 'I didn't want anyone else getting hurt. Then pop, pop they shot me. 'I went down, then a puddle of blood. I thought I was a goner.' Mr Garces, who credits the Faith City Mission with helping him turn his life around after a four-year-stint in prison, was hit in the neck, but was rushed to hospital and survived. He is now calling for police to receive more and improved training in use of deadly violence, telling ABC7 that the officer who shot him 'didn't know what he was doing'. Jones was placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! at the scene, and has been charged with six first-degree felony aggravated kidnapping. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 Clearly, only the police should have guns. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-02-27 19:44 |
| #9 Broward Sheriff's department seems to have weaponized liberalism and created a totally useless tax sucking sponge that hid crime while increasing it, left everyone unprotected when they were needed, and can't even properly shift the blame because they were so obvious about it all in front of neighboring law enforcement and EMTs. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-27 13:52 |
| #8 Well at issue seems to be the focus of the police training is no protecting themselves and not protecting the citizenry. Same with these SWAT teams which by and large seem completely useless as they seem to dither and procrastinate in the face of danger and seem more interested in protecting themselves against casualties than confronting an armed threat. More often than not the end of a violent armed threat has been a policeman going rogue and confronting the treat with armed force rather than some heavily equipped swat team with a lot of fancy toys. Columbine was a good example of that and I still wonder where the SWAT teams were when Parkland went down. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-27 13:10 |
| #7 If worried about the gun going off when you drop it, hold the gun with two fingers by the end of the barrel as you put it down. Keep the other hand in the air. Step away from the weapon once it is down. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-27 12:14 |
| #6 Bend your knees and place the gun on the ground, slowly? |
| Posted by: G. Whotha5763 2018-02-27 11:46 |
| #5 Over the years we've militarized the police, seems that might not be the best approach. Anyway, good on Tony Garces who seems like he's now an outstanding citizen despite earlier troubles. Even his response after being shot seems pretty level-headed. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-27 11:43 |
| #4 Lucky he was shot by police. Only way they'd manage a lethal shot is by accident. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-02-27 10:48 |
| #3 Sometimes it helps that the police are bad shots... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-02-27 09:21 |
| #2 The "quality" of policing in the country seems to be going down rapidly. Hair trigger thinking by people trained to protect themselves from threats real and imagined first and foremost doesn't seem to be working too well. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-02-27 09:20 |
| #1 Hero |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-27 00:30 |