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Reason
01-06-2011, 04:10 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyUQamT33vk

Info from YT desc:

NEWS Four separate investigations were underway Tuesday after cell phone video surfaced of San Francisco police shooting a man in a wheelchair following an incident during which he allegedly stabbed an officer in the city's South of Market district. Officers had responded to reports of a man vandalizing city vehicles in the area of 10th and Howard streets Tuesday morning at approximately 10:15 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KyUQamT33vk#) a.m. The intersection is next to the San Francisco Behavioral Health Services building. The man, whose name has not yet been released, was in a wheelchair but was not confined to it, San Francisco Police Officer Chiang said. "He was seen up and moving about a number of times," he said. The suspect had a rock and knife in his hand and was slashing the tires of some city vehicles in the area, Chiang said. He did not know what the man's motive was for vandalizing the cars." - KTVU. s/o to UrbanReup

Brian4Liberty
01-08-2011, 03:12 PM
Klinger also said the officers may have experienced perceptional distortion - a momentary loss of time and distance awareness during heightened states of perceived threat.

"They may look at that video and say, 'Oh my gosh, I thought I was much farther away from him.' Or they might say, 'I thought I was right on top of him.' "

The sensory alteration may also explain why San Francisco police initially reported the suspect was standing when he was shot, not seated as the video shows.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/05/BANM1H4I8T.DTL


Yeah, that would explain it...

Brian4Liberty
01-08-2011, 03:13 PM
Use-of-force experts who viewed the video recording of San Francisco police shooting a man in a wheelchair questioned why officers moved dangerously close to the knife-wielding suspect and said an electronic Taser would have been the ideal weapon to use in that confrontation.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/05/BANM1H4I8T.DTL


The Police immediately used this incident as "proof" that they need to (re)issue Tasers...

CCTelander
01-08-2011, 03:16 PM
Just the usual "protecting and serving" going on.

Nothin' to see here, mundanes.

Move along.