Cop Kills Kid

This has been around the net for a few days now, but I couldn’t bring myself to post anything about it. It involves an “Only One” who, in the process of trying to shoot a snake out of a tree, didn’t pay attention to his backstop and shot a five year old boy in the head. I have small children of my own and it was all I could do to sit through reading the story, let alone the video.

For all of those anti-rights people out there, remember this the next time you think that cops or the military are the “Only Ones” professional enough to have firearms.

Read the story and then follow the link to the video if you can handle it, and listen as a grandfather tearfully recounts the death of his grandson.

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Cop shoots at snake, kills boy, 5

NOBLE, Oklahoma (AP) — A police officer shooting at a snake apparently killed a 5-year-old boy who was fishing at a nearby pond, officials said.

Jack Tracy was fishing with his grandson when a bullet fired by a police officer struck the boy in the head.

Austin Haley was fishing with his grandfather, Jack Tracy, when Tracy said he heard a shot and saw something hit the water just a few feet in front of the boat dock where he was standing.

Moments later, a second shot hit Austin in the head.

A Noble police officer who had responded to a report of a snake in a tree apparently fired the deadly shot while trying to kill the snake on Friday, City Manager Bob Wade said.

“I was told that they tried several ways to get the snake down, but it was still hissing at them and firmly lodged,” Wade said. “What I was told is that the owner of the home either suggested or agreed that they should go ahead and shoot the snake, and then everything happened from there.”

Tracy thought someone must be trying to kill him and his grandson, so he put the child on the back of a 4-wheeler and drove to his daughter’s house about 200 yards away. Watch the tearful grandfather say the bullet should have hit him »

“Then two officers came out of the brush over there,” he told The Oklahoman. “They didn’t tell us they were the ones who had been shooting or that they had shot him. They didn’t admit a doggone thing.”

The boy was pronounced dead at an Oklahoma City hospital, about 25 miles north of Noble.

Wade refused to identify the officer but said the person had been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

“This is so bizarre it has to be fully investigated,” he said. “We’re pretty sure circumstantially that it is the bullet from the police officer’s gun, but it might be a bullet from someone else.”

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown said a state investigation was under way, though it appeared the fatal shot had been fired by the officer.

Tracy has little doubt. “I’m not saying the cop shot him on purpose,” he said. “But let me tell you — if I had a kid and put him in this car and didn’t put him in a car seat and he got killed on the way to town, they’d charge me with murder … and what this cop did is a lot worse than that.”

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Another Only One…

The one, the only, the classic…

Update: Apparently he’s suing the DEA. What a joke!

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Only Cops Should Have Guns…

…because only they are properly trained in their use.

For the record, I didn’t name this video. I have nothing against women being cops, if they so choose to be. And for the cop in this video, it’s called trigger control. Keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to shoot.

Anyway, here’s the video.

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Come again?

Does he seriously think we’re stupid?

“CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — A police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to beating a female bartender, and to threatening to arrest bar employees in a failed attempt to suppress a video of the attack that has been viewed around the world.

In a brief hearing, Anthony Abbate’s attorney entered not guilty pleas to all 15 felony counts of aggravated battery, official misconduct, intimidation, conspiracy and communicating with a witness.

“He’s pleading not guilty because he is not guilty,” Peter Hickey said after the hearing. “And we expect at the end, the conclusion of the trial, that that’s what the outcome will be.”

For those of you with short attention spans, here’s the video of him not misbehaving.

…and these are the very same people the Brady Bunch would have us believe are the only ones who should have guns?

Yeah right…tell me another one Sarah!

-Yuri

Also found on The War on Guns.

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