Protests broke out in the city of Memphis Wednesday night after U.S. marshals fatally shot a man, leaving 24 police officers and two journalists injured.
According to CNN, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said that six of the officers were hurt badly enough to require medical attention, as protesters lobbed rocks and bricks.
Per the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the man, who police have not publicly identified, “reportedly rammed his vehicle into the officers’ vehicles multiple times before exiting with a weapon.” Police shot and killed him without sustaining any injuries themselves.
They don’t say what the weapon was, but apparently people get upset when cops shoot people. Maybe law enforcement should rethink their shoot first mentality. Maybe they should start offering radical de-escalation training and dispense with this warrior training crap.
What is the story that has caused protests to erupt?
this is one of those “best wait for the facts” stories.
The cops account has the story as the guy was wanted on multiple warrants, and a US Marshall Fugitive Apprehension team tried to grab him. The guy got in his car, rammed the police car several times “before exiting with a weapon”
according to a county commissioner-- the guy was shot 16-20 times.
The use of the word “weapon” bothers me for some reason. If the guy had a gun, then the shooting was justified, IMO. But “weapon” doesn’t always mean gun, and 16-20 shots seems excessive (even if the shooting was justified).
Is this the cops Inflating the numbers? That seems like a crazy high number of cop injuries.
Is it an injury if you don’t need medical attention? I suppose we’d need to know the definition of “medical attention”. Paramedics? The hospital? A bandaid?
You are taking away all the fun part of being a cop, next you are going to take away his guns and turn the job police officer into a dangerous nightmare like in England, that we all know there are rivers of blood of so many stabbings…