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Seattle Police fatally shoot man whittling wood

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12 Responses to “Seattle Police fatally shoot man whittling wood”

  1. Donnie Cole says:

    the man wasn’t even doing any thing wrong

  2. Eric S. Harris says:

    Don’t you know whittling is a “gateway activity”? First, the whittling. Then it’s telling stories by a pot-bellied stove. Before you know it, he would be raising barns or planting crops.

    He might infect his female relatives and friends and neighbors. They’ll start spinning yarn. Then it’s knitting or — in extreme cases — making thread and weaving cloth. Before you know it, they’re making quilts.

    And when those dastardly crop-weeders and sampler cross-stitchers get together, you know what they do? Square dancing!

    Shooting a whittler was a mercy, for him and all those whose life he might have touched.

    Seattle is all the safer for it.

  3. Michelle says:

    Hey this is horrible. Paid administrative leave sick!

  4. Phil says:

    Shoot first, ask questions later.

  5. Ed says:

    Police spokeswoman (apologist/cover-up artist) Renee “Dim” Witt seems to have no problem with a cop murdering a man for simply engaging in the “peculiar” act of carving a piece of wood while on Seattle public streets.

    Was the man threatening anyone with the knife? No! Was the man raging out of control? No! Was the man creating disorder or intimidating anyone around him? No! Was the man obstructing traffic? No!

    The man was peacefully carving on wood and the cop found that peculiar ; and so, without any lawful justification for approaching the man, the cop proceeded to get out of his car and murder the man for that peculiarity.

    I have a piece of advice for the Seattle police. When you are driving along and see a person peacefully engaged in lawful conduct, and when you have no justifiable reason for contacting that person, keep on driving along…and mind your own fucking business.

  6. mike says:

    If a person with a knife is told by an officer to put it down…….he doesn’t…..and moves toward the officer……….then it should be no suprise that he was shot. Have any of you ever been stabbed? It’s no fun!

  7. Ed says:

    @Mike….So, says the cop. However, given cops have a history of doing little things like: making false reports; planting guns and such on unarmed people after they have been wrongly shot and killed; other cops and administration covering up cops’ criminal conduct; lying and making up false charges, by which they falsely arrest innocent people, etc., etc…..forgive me if cops’ aversion to truth-telling doesn’t lend itself to giving their statements about Mr. Williams’ conduct any credibility whatsoever.

    This is especially true since we have at least three non-cop witnesses to the event who don’t seem to have seen things in a quite the way the cop who shot Mr. Williams saw them.

    (http://www.seattlecrime.com/2010/08/31/witness-disputes-police-account-of-shooting) , and

    (http://www.krem.com/news/northwest-news/Witness-disputes-police-version-of-shooting-death-101985473.html)

    It seems even the police aren’t sure about the veracity of the officer’s tale either:

    “Seattle police Tuesday offered different details of Monday’s fatal shooting of a homeless man by a patrol officer, with commanders saying they now don’t know if the man advanced toward the officer with a knife as police originally reported.”
    (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012769201_copshooting01m.html?syndication=rss)

  8. john says:

    No Mike, it isn’t fun to be stabbed with a three inch knife by a homeless whittler. The man was obviously a little too peculiar to go on living. There was no room for him in our city but he just wasn’t getting the message. Must have been hard of hearing. Ha!
    Stay in line, keep your hair short, and one day it can be your job to mow down some disposables. If you’re lucky, you just might get a paid vacation out of it.

  9. Eric S. Harris says:

    Funny how much some police officers oppose the presence of video cameras. It’s as though they didn’t want more information available to help establish what did and didn’t actually happen.

    For those who think photography is not a crime — and especially for those who do — a link.
    http://www.facebook.com/photographyitsnotacrime

  10. YOU ARE NEXT says:

    *YOU* are next. The police state has arrived. They don’t care about the constitution, your rights as individuals, or even the law. They care about getting hopped up on steroids (best kept secret in America today, cops on steroids) and carrying on a video game type street battle to protect THEIR TURF. The money they get from SUCKER taxpayers who can’t be bothered (you know I pay my money, leave me alone – THAT is why things are coming unwound people INDIFFERENCE and IGNORANCE) to fund the building up of the police state and militarization of our “officers of peace.” The few good cops are far outnumbered by the redneck pit bull type cops. The are TRAINED to lie to you, to violate your rights and to collect revenue for the police state. What did you people think would happen when you turned your backs, quit caring and hurried off to Wal-Mart and Costco to stuff your faces? Most people are nothing more than chattel for the New World Order and they don’t even get that they are. WAKE UP AMERICA.

  11. Let us read what you said once again.

  12. rostboa1234 says:

    Каждому Привет! Измени свое мировоззрение! Сад Дзен. О жизни, Вселенной и вообще!.

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