Current Events > Akron police fired 90 shots at unarmed, fleeing man

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The news said police found a gun in his car.

Crazy they didn't shoot a single of their 90 bullets into the car.

Hard to drive and shoot

Dylann Roof was spotted with multiple assault rifles in his car, tried to flee and the cops walked up to him and arrested him without firing a single shot.

Dylann Roof was spotted with multiple assault rifles in his car, tried to flee and the cops walked up to him and arrested him without firing a single shot.

The stop was textbook, and fortunately uneventful, Shelby police chief Jeff Ledford told Yahoo News.

He also keeps ignoring the facts of the case and expecting the police to have superhuman ability. I wouldn't be surprised if he's one of the people who say shit like, "Why didn't they just shoot the gun out of his hand?"

He also keeps ignoring the facts of the case and expecting the police to have superhuman ability. I wouldn't be surprised if he's one of the people who say shit like, "Why didn't they just shoot the gun out of his hand?"

IDK wtf happened to this topic but this is the only post on page 5 for me lol

Weird how the 12 defenders have come out of the woodwork since a certain mod went mask off

Damn, fire_bolt has me ignored lmao

Maybe if you could criticize cops better we wouldn't have to "defend" them.

Correcting your inaccurate or sensationalized assertions about a situation doesn't suddenly mean we're all bootlickers.

There's hundreds of ways and situations in which cops escalate and fuck up situations nearly every day it seems. And they deserve to be criticized for it. This isn't one of those situations.

If you want meaningful reform, meaningful change to happen then pick your battles

4th of July shooter shot into crowd with police presence , he shot at police!, killed 6 people, was apprehended with out 60 bullet holes. Mass shooter was a young white male not like Jayland who was a young black male

But how would they know he was unarmed considering he was LITERALLY SHOOTING AT THEM LESS THAN 2 MINUTES BEFORE HE WAS SHOT.

I can already see the excuses. Enough time had passed apparently.

"Not the same situation! Stop deflecting!"

So give me a number. How many bullets per officer is reasonable for the situation?

Wanting police to not fire 90 bullets on a public street on an unarmed fleeing suspect shouldn't be such a polarizing battle.

A reasonable amount of officers, firing no more 5 or 6 shots, at a suspect they know for certain is armed, facing them or an innocent bystander, with no more than a single shot missing

If soldiers can handle this task with no issue, then this should be the standard. Too hard? Become a desk sergeant or find another job.

13 cops is overkill.

That briefs well in a vacuum but you're ignoring that they did not know he was unarmed. All they knew is that he had fired a shot (likely intended at them but the video of the chase it looked like he just kind of stuck the weapon out and shot) and was now on abandoning his vehicle, failing to obey orders and was fleeing on foot (presumably with his weapon in tow). They had every reason to believe he was still armed. In the world of policing, presuming he wasn't armed could have gotten at least one of them wounded or killed. So you can see why they treated him as if he was armed when he turned around.

I like how you can remove the unarmed part of my post and still come up with the same point you are so egregiously missing.

I'm glad you have such faith in soldiers lmao

Hard to drive and shoot

What are you implying?

As far as the officers' reaction, it's hard to fully justify it even if I can understand it. 90 shots is a volley of gunfire. If 30 of those shots were stray, that's 30 chances for bystanders to be struck, which then defeats the purpose if the concern was bullets and bystanders.