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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Good thing he didn’t chew a pop tart into a pistol shape…..

For the record, I do that when I eat a pop tart

Then don't eat the barrel. They will add 'destroying evidence' to the charges.....

Well my memory was wrong. He never told the man to stay in the vehicle. This happened over a decade ago and the video is at the link.

Deputy heard crying after shooting man, 70, who was grabbing cane

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/v...ing-70-year-old-man/

The South Carolina deputy who shot a 70-year-old man during a traffic stop after mistaking his cane for a shotgun during an after-dark traffic stop broke down in tears as other officers arrived, according to dashcam video released Wednesday.

York County Deputy Terrance Knox is on administrative leave as state agents investigate the shooting last month of Bobby Canipe of North Carolina. In the video, Canipe quickly pulls over on the four-lane highway near Clover outside Charlotte after Knox puts on his blue lights and siren.

Officials say Knox, a three-year veteran of the department, pulled over the pickup truck because of an expired license plate, CBS affiliate WBTV reports.


Canipe gets out of the pickup and turns toward the bed without acknowledging Knox as the deputy yells "Sir!" three times. Canipe reaches in the back and pulls out a slender object with the tip pointed at the officer. Knox yells "Whoa!" several times as he fires a half-dozen shots.
"It's a walking stick," Canipe said as the shots ended.

Knox shouted an expletive as he immediately ran to check on Canipe, who was hit once and expected to recover. The whole sequence takes about 15 seconds.

Knox begins to sob when another officer arrives a few minutes later and puts his arm around him.

"I promise to God I thought it was a shotgun," Knox said in tears.

It's not quite like the umbrella that John Steed would carry, but...

Then there's the Bulgarian Umbrella Gun. Actually used by the KGB in a political assassination...

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The man was taken to the Syracuse Police Department for questioning. After reviewing video footage and speaking with witnesses, investigators determined he had committed no crime. Police said he cooperated fully and was released without charges.

They took him in? I’m sure I would have cooperated fully also while rolling my eyes and probably running my mouth. That paragraph is plain insulting. I wish Greta Stuckey the author had the intelligence and courage to call out the real problem.

Great. Now we are all going to start getting marketing pitches for "tactical umbrellas."

He never should have went for questioning, where is the crime? Police encountered him, discovered an umbrella, no rifle, no contraband, end of Terry Stop, no need for him to be taken to the station. What crime was committed, scaring a snowflake?

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Originally posted by sigspecops:
Huh, have you guys ever seen the Penguin’s umbrella?

Nice, but here's the Tier One State of the Art umbrella:

My first thought was..."what were the questions they were going to ask?"

At the police station: "What was the capacity of the magazine you had in the umbrella?"

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Syracuse, my hometown. Now you know why I left!

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Originally posted by spunk639:
What crime was committed, scaring a snowflake?

You don’t understand, someone made a call. At that point, they were just doing their job.

^^ Showing up, yes...Bringing him back to the station for questioning, no fucking way!

It’s NY. The average level of intelligence towards a weapon is a single digit level IQ

No one recognized an umbrella as an umbrella and even the responding cops showed a significant lack of intelligence.

But it’s NY.

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Originally posted by 400m:

They took him in? I’m sure I would have cooperated fully also while rolling my eyes and probably running my mouth.

Not me. "Yes, officer, it is an umbrella. Go ahead and inspect it". "Am I being detained or am I free to leave". "No? You're taking me to the station? I am asserting my 5th Amendment right to remain silent".

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Originally posted by Voshterkoff:

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Originally posted by spunk639:
What crime was committed, scaring a snowflake?

You don’t understand, someone made a call. At that point, they were just doing their job.

Actually I do understand, spent close to two decades wearing that uniform, and now practice law. Once you've established that no crime was, is or about to be committed, there is no lawful basis for further detention. The police had absolutely no basis to bring him to the station.

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The police had absolutely no basis to bring him to the station.

It’s commmieland. They don’t need no stinking basis.

They do, however, have need of liability insurance for false detention and arrest. I’d have made a call to the most aggressive ambulance chasing sleazeball I could find if I said “no” and they insisted without consent. The taxpayers sanctioned this behavior and they’d be the ones to pay the bill.

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Originally posted by 6guns:

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The man was taken to the Syracuse Police Department for questioning.

Seriously, they detained a man with an umbrella?

Next time he better carry one of those little folding umbrellas. At worst, someone will think it’s a glock lol