Man tries to run down police; they shoot, kill him

[mick silver]

Man tries to run down police; they shoot, kill him

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Man Shot, Killed by Police Accused of Trying to Run Over Officers in Drexel Hill


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UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — A man who had posted an online video threatening to kill police and FBI agents tried to use his car to run down officers seeking to arrest him on Tuesday so, fearing for their lives, they shot and killed him, authorities said.
Police did not immediately identify the man, who was killed in Upper Darby, in suburban Philadelphia, as officers ordered him out of the car and he appeared ready to accelerate at them as they manned a blockade.
Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said the officers feared the man would kill them and they "did what they had to do." He said five officers fired at the man and no officers were injured.
Police had secured an arrest warrant for the man after he threatened to kill police and FBI agents in the online video, Chitwood said. The man's death comes a little more than a week after a man who made similar threats shot two New York Police Department officers dead in their patrol car and then killed himself in a subway station.
Police said they began following the man after he left a home in nearby Clifton Heights. They said when officers stopped him at an intersection and ordered him out of the car, he reversed and slammed into a police vehicle and then prepared to run over other officers.
Officers opened fire, killing the man, Chitwood said. The man did not fire at police, and Chitwood said he did not know if the man had a weapon.
In the New York case, Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were ambushed on a Brooklyn street as they sat in their marked car on Dec. 20. Their attacker, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, had referenced in online posts the high-profile killings by white police officers of unarmed black men, specifically Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner on Staten Island. Soon after the officers' shooting Brinsley, who was black, killed himself.
Decisions by grand juries not to indict the officers involved in the killings of Brown and Garner have sparked protests around the nation, with demonstrators lying down in the streets as though they're dead. Many protesters have chanted "Hands up! Don't shoot!" a reference to their contention Brown's hands were raised when he was shot dead by police, and "I can't breathe," which Garner was heard saying on a video recording of his encounter with a policeman who put his arm around his neck.
On Sunday, two men opened fire on a police car patrolling a tough part of Los Angeles, but the two officers inside were not injured and one was able to shoot back, authorities said. One suspect was later arrested, and the other was on the loose. Police haven't determined a motive for the shooting in South Los Angeles, an area plagued by gang violence, but said there were no indications it was linked to other attacks on police.


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[mick silver]

comment .......I think that this goes way beyond racism, I truly believe people are using this to be martyr's for a cause that is not being looked at rationally it is being looked at as a threat to our Nation. We need to come together as a Nation or we will have a civil war and many, many innocent people of all colors will suffer. This is not the way to handle this. I am on the side of the Law when it is right and when it is not I will speak up but not in looting, burning and killing others that is not the way to handle any of this. Al Sharpton needs to go to jail for his tax evasion he owes 4.5 million in back taxes he is a criminal and for that he has no credibility with me and cheated on his wife many times, he is not a credible source for any information regarding blacks he is a criminal and so are the people that do these crazy acts of violence

[madfranks]

Was it a youth™?

[crimethink]

Good for them! If someone tries to run me over, I'm going to respond with justified deadly force, as well. A car ranks up there with an automatic weapon in deadliness.