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-War on Police-
Get your hand out of your pocket and drop the knife: Bodycam footage shows NINE cops surround and gun down man armed with a boxcutter in hail of bullets on Nashville highway
2022-01-29
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Landon Eastep, 37, was shot and killed by nine law enforcement officers while walking along a Nashville highway carrying a boxcutter Thursday afternoon

  • Video footage recorded by a witness, police bodycam and highway surveillance recorded the moment of the deadly encounter

  • Police say Eastep was shot after he quickly pulled an unknown 'silver, shiny cylindrical object' from his pocket holding the boxcutter in the other hand

  • His sister-in-law Samantha McGill-Barge claims that he was 'unjustly executed with over 20 shots in very close range' and 'killed in cold blood'
Posted by:Skidmark

#12  Going to guess the tox screen will point to other than a caffeine overload.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-29 11:24  

#11  Sounds like a failure to communicate.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-01-29 11:20  

#10  It has been known for some time that Professor Milgram overstated the results of his experiments, which were not properly executed.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-01-29 11:01  

#9  Everybody wants a righteous shoot in their personnel jacket.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-29 10:02  

#8  One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-01-29 09:59  

#7  You go watch the video. Especially the final seconds. How many rounds go off when he is down? Unprofessional. Nine shooters? Heh.
Posted by: Xyz   2022-01-29 09:50  

#6  Go watch this and you'll start to understand why these idiots get shot.

How do police make shooting decisions?
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-01-29 09:06  

#5  The police had other options. Killing him should have been the last.
Posted by: Xyz   2022-01-29 08:26  

#4  I recall box cutters worked well enough on some airplanes on 9/11.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-01-29 08:26  

#3  Suicide by cop.

Tennessee officers pleaded with man to drop box cutter before fatal shooting
Posted by: Frank G   2022-01-29 05:59  

#2  Pulling the box cutter out of his pocket was a huge mistake. One Landon is not likely to make again.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-01-29 01:14  

#1  Algebra dropout.
Didn't realize numerical superiority.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-01-29 00:42  

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