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St. Louis police fatally shoot teen while trying to issue search warrant
Police say a young black man pointed a gun at officers about 11:30 a.m. after they arrived to serve a search warrant. Two officers, both white men, fired a total of four times.
link:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...e-a3da-e6c094f6a57b.html#.VdURFYQq9zI.twitter
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This is a fascinating article. This describes a perfect example of why many cops are wanting to change careers nowadays. The article describes the backstory to the attempted arrest:
"Dotson said police had been at the same address to serve a search warrant about 18 months ago, and found several illegal guns.He said police have been in the area in recent days because of several shootings and the carjacking of a 93-year-old Tuskegee Airman on Sunday. Its the same block where a toddler in July shot himself in the head after an uncle allegedly left him in a room with loaded weapons. The boy survived.This was an area we needed to be focusing in, Dotson said. Certainly the good people in this neighborhood should not be plagued by the violence.
So the cops are focusing on this violent block , in an attempt to protect the local residents. And they go to this address to serve an arrest warrant for illegal/stolen weapons and drug sales.
"Along with Ball-Bey, a second suspect described as black and in his late teens, fled the house in the 1200 block of Walton Avenue and also was armed. He remained at large. At the house, near Page Boulevard, police confiscated crack cocaine and four guns, including the one police say Ball-Bay had in his possession. It was described by police as a handgun with an extended magazine stolen from Rolla, Mo.The search warrant that police came to serve was for guns and narcotics involved in a felony."
SO THE COPS COME WITH A VALID WARRANT TO TRY AND CLEAN UP THIS HOUSE OF STOLEN WEAPONS AND DRUG DEALERS, they get in a shoot out, and what happens?
Within moments, twitter had called out all of the local BlackLivesMatter activists, and an agitated crowd forms, surrounding the officers. It becomes dangerous for them. The officers who had served the warrant and defended themselves were placed on leave, and their family had to be moved from their home because of death threats after some protesters figured out who the officers were.
The protesters began setting car fires and kicked in a door of a local store and threw bricks and bottles at cops, who threw smoke cannisters back in response. And all of that, in response to a LEGAL ARREST WARRANT being served, in a violent neighborhood.
The local cops were trying to HELP the troubled neighborhood by rooting out some stolen guns and arresting some gang members ---in response, BLM comes out, SPREADS LIES about the shoot out, and incites a mini-riot.
On twitter, they were saying that the cops shot 3 unarmed teens in the back.
How are the cops supposed to do their jobs under these kinds of circumstances? Many do not want to continue.
Police say a young black man pointed a gun at officers about 11:30 a.m. after they arrived to serve a search warrant. Two officers, both white men, fired a total of four times.
link:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...e-a3da-e6c094f6a57b.html#.VdURFYQq9zI.twitter
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This is a fascinating article. This describes a perfect example of why many cops are wanting to change careers nowadays. The article describes the backstory to the attempted arrest:
"Dotson said police had been at the same address to serve a search warrant about 18 months ago, and found several illegal guns.He said police have been in the area in recent days because of several shootings and the carjacking of a 93-year-old Tuskegee Airman on Sunday. Its the same block where a toddler in July shot himself in the head after an uncle allegedly left him in a room with loaded weapons. The boy survived.This was an area we needed to be focusing in, Dotson said. Certainly the good people in this neighborhood should not be plagued by the violence.
So the cops are focusing on this violent block , in an attempt to protect the local residents. And they go to this address to serve an arrest warrant for illegal/stolen weapons and drug sales.
"Along with Ball-Bey, a second suspect described as black and in his late teens, fled the house in the 1200 block of Walton Avenue and also was armed. He remained at large. At the house, near Page Boulevard, police confiscated crack cocaine and four guns, including the one police say Ball-Bay had in his possession. It was described by police as a handgun with an extended magazine stolen from Rolla, Mo.The search warrant that police came to serve was for guns and narcotics involved in a felony."
SO THE COPS COME WITH A VALID WARRANT TO TRY AND CLEAN UP THIS HOUSE OF STOLEN WEAPONS AND DRUG DEALERS, they get in a shoot out, and what happens?
Within moments, twitter had called out all of the local BlackLivesMatter activists, and an agitated crowd forms, surrounding the officers. It becomes dangerous for them. The officers who had served the warrant and defended themselves were placed on leave, and their family had to be moved from their home because of death threats after some protesters figured out who the officers were.
The protesters began setting car fires and kicked in a door of a local store and threw bricks and bottles at cops, who threw smoke cannisters back in response. And all of that, in response to a LEGAL ARREST WARRANT being served, in a violent neighborhood.
The local cops were trying to HELP the troubled neighborhood by rooting out some stolen guns and arresting some gang members ---in response, BLM comes out, SPREADS LIES about the shoot out, and incites a mini-riot.
On twitter, they were saying that the cops shot 3 unarmed teens in the back.
How are the cops supposed to do their jobs under these kinds of circumstances? Many do not want to continue.
