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Now i just wanted to point out that i would have probaly been shot within seconds, he lasted an hour
SAN DIEGO - A possibly suicidal man waving what appeared to be a gun was wounded Wednesday in an officer-involved shooting near De Anza Cove, authorities reported.
San Diego police got a report that an armed man was making threats and comments about killing himself in the 2800 block of North Mission Bay Drive in Mission Beach shortly after 11 a.m., SDPD public-affairs Lt. Kevin Mayer said.
Officers tried in vain to persuade the man to drop the weapon and surrender.
The photographer who captured video of the man waving the gun spoke with 10News about being in the line of fire.
"I knew he was going to do something," said local photographer Ed Baier.
Baier was one of the first on the scene and one of the only ones to capture every minute of what would turn out to be a standoff that would last for more than an hour.
http://www.10news.com/news/san-diego-police-respond-to-possibly-armed-man-in-mission-bay
HipChick
(25,485 posts)el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)I mean it's also possible that the San Diego Police are better trained at defusing situations, but . . . still pretty glaring difference.
Bryant
Mr Dixon
(1,185 posts)SDPD maybe different but that is a risk I'm not prepared to take .
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)FREE MONEY!
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)A black man with a BB gun he took off the store shelf to look at was shot dead in a second.
Yeah, white privilege.
It's the assumption that white men can be negotiated with and black men are just thugs.
Well said
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)does sd pd have any history of racial abuse?
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Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)So tired of racist cops.
Mr Dixon
(1,185 posts)They should handle all people like this, take the time to talk instead of just shooting people.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Mr Dixon
(1,185 posts)black man with a BB gun, would begging to differ
BklnDem75
(2,918 posts)Pointing a gun at children and cops in a very active park in the middle of the day. Very different response compared to the guy with a knife taken down in less than 60 seconds.
Is pretty Clear to me, always has been.