We all know that apprehending a couple of shop lifters is more important than
1. The life of the officer
2.the life of shoplifters.

No sense in backing off an waiting for a better opportunity to deal with it. My guess is the 90 days of training at door shaker school and the overwhelming need to make up for a small penis forced the cop to charge in and make the bust of the century. Common sense failed on both sides and as long as people continue to be afeared they will allow cops to pull this BS. This door shaker has proven unqualified to carry a gun.

Its irrelevant . What led up to the cop getting hit with the skate board and how much opportunity was there to avoid the altercation in the first place? Back up? Taser?

I guarantee you your two boys are about to enter a phase of life that requires them to suspend common sense at times on the name of fun. You ok with them getting shot over it or do you hope someone with some common sense will exercise judgement?

You need to do your homework being a cop is not anywhere near as dangerous as you believe . I thought the officers worked for the citizens and by definition are accountable to the citizens? They are not atonomus entities. I meet traditionally every six months with the King County Sheriff as a part of my communities organization. We have met every 45 days recently due to a spike in property crime. their response is we need more money to hire more officers even though crime is down and the size of the police force has quadrupled in the past 20 years. Citizens have a huge role in how the officers are trained and expected to react with their comunities. I was shocked to hear how little training they undergo to be put into the field and how little they receive over time. If an officer is shooting an unarmed shoplifter or is even putting himself into position have to use deadly force against said , something is wrong. Take police off the pedestal treat them like every other profession and hold them accountable. Since 911 cops and firemen have become gods. Great PR campaign sucks for freedom.

What nobody seems too worried about is he was living here illegally for 10 or so years. If they had deported him after he f'd up a couple of times he might still be alive.

On the other side of the coin Why don't the police sit outside every bar in town and wait for drunks to drive off they kill 10's of 1000's every year

Hookup,

Lots of assumptions on both sides as the facts have not been vetted yet. My big question is how is it in the publics interest to escalate a simple shop lift to this level? How does the public benefit? How many people were harmed by shop lifters in the past 10 years ? Would the officer have attempted to take the suspects in custody without a gun? What would have happened if he waited for back up? Followed them or taken a less confrontational approach . Could the public have been served just as well?

On the other side of the coin Why don't the police sit outside every bar in town and wait for drunks to drive off they kill 10's of 1000's every year but they sit on on ramps during rush hour to bust commuters speeding? Why does King county Sherriffs office not respond to property crime calls under $10k in loss but a simple fender bender draws 9 squad cars and two aid units?

Rob Roy, you are an idiot and embody everything wrong with the state of this country at the moment.

You think police are overpaid, undertrained and work at a job that isn't dangerous. Even so, you want more of them in your neighborhood to deal with an increase in property crimes.

I think you're full of sh!t.

What we have here is just a simple matter of opinions that differ.

escalating a shop lift to a shooting is poor police work and there are better ways to handle it.

Just google skateboard attacks.

Hank only a dumfuk would read what I have posted and say I want more police presence . I want less. People should be responsible for their own safety and we should expand self protection rights. I believe we live in a police state. I want fewer police harassing innocent citizens and would like more focus on the 5% of the population that commits 90% of crime.

. . . I want fewer police harassing innocent citizens and would like more focus on the 5% of the population that commits 90% of crime.

NBN

So sad.

However it is ridiculous the public chooses to call these two boys and insists on making this about race.

Sister and two brothers all out at 2:00 am in the morning???

I don't know about the rest of you but I would guess most here were home resting up for the next day ahead.

Careful Chuck, Rob Roy will label you as a psychopath.

Last time I checked we were a nation of laws. It would be interesting to know what you consider an ideal world.

Looks like the Fresh Pince and Rob Roy are sharing a room. Soulmates?

Those are biological facts hank, if you want to read the studies that have been done go Google it up. Or just keep your head planted firmly up your ass chanting 'murica. I'm sure you will do the latter but even if you read the studies you wouldn't believe them anyway because this brain damage causes people to reject facts that contradict what the authority told them.

I know I'm an asshole. One of my better traits.

Anyway, getting back on topic. One of the robbery suspects was released to go home from the hospital. Charges will likely be filed after they finish their investigation. Any other robbery suspect would likely be jail now, awaiting their first court apearance.

One could argue that in the Olympia and Sea-Tac incidents, the police were under trained and the EMTs were over trained.

Judging such incidents from afar is prone to errors. But here goes.

In this case, I think the cop did what was necessary. He apparently was defending himself against two violent a-holes who were attacking him.

But I have had a change of heart about the Pasco incident from a few months ago. I don't think those Pasco cops should've shot the dirt clod thrower afterall.

Judging such incidents from afar is prone to errors. But here goes.

In this case, I think the cop did what was necessary. He apparently was defending himself against two violent a-holes who were attacking him.

But I have had a change of heart about the Pasco incident from a few months ago. I don't think those Pasco cops should've shot the dirt clod thrower afterall.

But regardless of the case, there is one way to avoid such situations completely: Don't resist arrest! Take your dispute to court!

I even knew that when I was a kid for chrissakes.

Sorry. The people of Ferguson or elsewhere are not special and do not deserve a separate set of rules. There are rules and laws when you live in a community. Conform, somewhat, and you'll be fine.

If agree that most of think this is the way it should work. Unfortunately, the official report seems to indicate that the residents of Ferguson WERE living under rules and practices that are far different than other communities. They were being systematically targeted for city revenue. If the citizens were somehow able to pull the same thing on the city, I suspect they'd be labeled as "Economic Terrorists". It's hard to believe that any of the Johnny Badasses around here would put up with that BS without verbal or violent pushback.

MO has a state income tax on top of the sales tax.

What states and municipalities lack in taxes they make up for in fines. They're continually increasing the fines and searching for new ways to get revenue. Got any red light cameras up there?

I saw a warning sign on a dumpster this weekend. Apparently tossing trash in someone else's dumpster in wa. Is punishable by 10
Years in the pokey and a 10k fine. Sounds like a opportunity to set up a trail cam and a treestand and whack some real "dirtbags".

So this morning's Olympian says one of the two brothers is paralyzed from the waist down and still has a bullet lodged in his spine.

Turns out only the left side of his body is paralyzed. So he's going to be all right.

This guy is a warning to all skateboarders, skateboards are dangerous and one accident can land you in a wheelchair.

After stealing this beer and assaulting an officer, people will be looking down on him forever. Not because of his terrible reputation but because he'll be sitting in the wheelchair.

Being in a wheelchair isn't all bad, once he steals some rims for that wheelchair I bet it will look pretty pimped out. You see pimps with a cane and a limp all the time. So two gimp legs should get all the fly honeys. No matter how cheap of a place he takes them on a date, it will always be a sit down meal and he never will stand them up.

The store is remodeling their entrance so this can't happen in the future. They are adding two steps.

This guy will never be able to buy beer again. No one will sell it to him because he can't even stand up straight.

On the bright side he will always have a clever answer for that awkward job interview question "What is your greatest weakness?" It's not the wheelchair it's 13 year old jailbait ass. Oh wait that last joke was potentially defamatory, oh well I don't think it will stand up in court.

I'm sometimes critical of our lienent legal system. It seems they let a lot of guilty men walk. Speaking of lienency, don't you think being in a wheelchair is punishment enough? I heard he can't stand it.

His greatest dream was to be on dancing with the Stars, so I sat him down for a frank discussion about why he could never become a ballroom dancer. He just isn't a homosexual.

Now that he got his gangster status he will soon feel the hot breath of a female panting on the back of his neck. That's of course when his mom pushes his wheelchair up the hill to the courthouse.

Good thing the courthouse is wheelchair friendly. They pamper the wheelchairs with a cup of cocoa and a blanket while the useless paralyzed crippled thief looks in from outside.

This guy never has to wonder what to go as for Halloween ever again. Superman.

Now that he is in a wheelchair he is finally getting that marijuana grow room he always wanted. It's going in where his walk in closet used to be.

I'm sure it gets annoying sometimes to be in a wheelchair. Dude goes over to his homies house to skin up a J and everytime someone says "roll it up" he gets taken upstairs.

This guy challenged me to a game of wheelchair basketball but I didn't think it was very fair. I threw his wheelchair up there like five times and there was no way it would go in.

This guy could do a comedy roast to raise money for his defense. He's going to need it. Of course it wouldn't be stand up comedy but it still could be wheelie funny.

Seeing this guy in a wheelchair makes me thank my lucky stars that I'm not in his horrible condition. I'm white.

Judging from reports he is going to have to put on quite the act to beat this in court. Is it tasteless to toast "break a leg" to a man in a wheelchair? What about "blow out a tire"?

I can't believe they are trying to make a martyr out of this wheelchair guy. He is a spineless douche who won't stand up for anything and lets other people push him around.

Maybe I shouldn't be making all these jokes about this wheelchair guy because after all he isn't going to be doing much but sitting around for the rest of his life. He probably will be spending most of his time on the computer, he might even read this thread. After all he still has feelings, well not in his legs he doesn't. More importantly all that rolling around probably gave him good upper body strength and the wheelchair puts his fist right at testicle level. I hope if he does read this post he takes it all in stride. Don't worry fellow, it's all downhill from here. Which normally is a good thing unless you happen to be in a wheelchair.

This guy is a warning to all skateboarders, skateboards are dangerous and one accident can land you in a wheelchair.

After stealing this beer and assaulting an officer, people will be looking down on him forever. Not because of his terrible reputation but because he'll be sitting in the wheelchair.

Being in a wheelchair isn't all bad, once he steals some rims for that wheelchair I bet it will look pretty pimped out. You see pimps with a cane and a limp all the time. So two gimp legs should get all the fly honeys. No matter how cheap of a place he takes them on a date, it will always be a sit down meal and he never will stand them up.

The store is remodeling their entrance so this can't happen in the future. They are adding two steps.

This guy will never be able to buy beer again. No one will sell it to him because he can't even stand up straight.

On the bright side he will always have a clever answer for that awkward job interview question "What is your greatest weakness?" It's not the wheelchair it's 13 year old jailbait ass. Oh wait that last joke was potentially defamatory, oh well I don't think it will stand up in court.

I'm sometimes critical of our lienent legal system. It seems they let a lot of guilty men walk. Speaking of lienency, don't you think being in a wheelchair is punishment enough? I heard he can't stand it.

His greatest dream was to be on dancing with the Stars, so I sat him down for a frank discussion about why he could never become a ballroom dancer. He just isn't a homosexual.

Now that he got his gangster status he will soon feel the hot breath of a female panting on the back of his neck. That's of course when his mom pushes his wheelchair up the hill to the courthouse.

Good thing the courthouse is wheelchair friendly. They pamper the wheelchairs with a cup of cocoa and a blanket while the useless paralyzed crippled thief looks in from outside.

This guy never has to wonder what to go as for Halloween ever again. Superman.

Now that he is in a wheelchair he is finally getting that marijuana grow room he always wanted. It's going in where his walk in closet used to be.

I'm sure it gets annoying sometimes to be in a wheelchair. Dude goes over to his homies house to skin up a J and everytime someone says "roll it up" he gets taken upstairs.

This guy challenged me to a game of wheelchair basketball but I didn't think it was very fair. I threw his wheelchair up there like five times and there was no way it would go in.

This guy could do a comedy roast to raise money for his defense. He's going to need it. Of course it wouldn't be stand up comedy but it still could be wheelie funny.

Seeing this guy in a wheelchair makes me thank my lucky stars that I'm not in his horrible condition. I'm white.

Judging from reports he is going to have to put on quite the act to beat this in court. Is it tasteless to toast "break a leg" to a man in a wheelchair? What about "blow out a tire"?

I can't believe they are trying to make a martyr out of this wheelchair guy. He is a spineless douche who won't stand up for anything and lets other people push him around.

Maybe I shouldn't be making all these jokes about this wheelchair guy because after all he isn't going to be doing much but sitting around for the rest of his life. He probably will be spending most of his time on the computer, he might even read this thread. After all he still has feelings, well not in his legs he doesn't. More importantly all that rolling around probably gave him good upper body strength and the wheelchair puts his fist right at testicle level. I hope if he does read this post he takes it all in stride. Don't worry fellow, it's all downhill from here. Which normally is a good thing unless you happen to be in a wheelchair.

Do you intentionally change the subject? The subject of my post was the bogus idea of giving "all the jobs to illegals".

Somebody smarter than you would be able to figure out why black unemployment has increased and Hispanic unemployment has decreased.

The price of pot is up because you Washingtonians tax the sh!t out of it. Are you guys buying it in the state stores for $25/gm, or are you still getting it on the street?

So you think the number of jobs is infinite and one group of people having a lower unemployment rate wouldn't reflect on the other group of people with a higher unemployment rate? Jaybus.

Last time I looked the store price for pot up there was $25/gm. Is that the street price now?

most places capped it at 16, theres a few stragglers out there...

no its not the street price...

The last time I looked you were Tinker Bell Troll.

Nothing has changed.

drip, drip, drip...............

Bent Over, do you have a special mirror for seeing your rust ring, or do you take a selfie?