- Posted by Christopher Estep on November 23, 2008
I’ve been in the military, I’ve watched a lot of TV & movies, I’ve held numerous jobs, and so on. I have a pretty good notion of what “disobeying orders” is. Apparently, I’m alone in Georgia because when I saw this headline:
I immediately had this image of deputies shooting someone for failing to pick up litter, refusal to “step out of the car, ma’am” or shooting him in the back for the old, “stop in the name of the law!” line.
Let’s follow what happened, shall we?
Around 11p.m. , residents from the McIntosh Estates Subdivision located Southeast of Peachtree City called 911 to report a suspicious car in their neighborhood.
When officers arrived quickly found the car and asked the driver to step outside.
This must be where they shot him, right? Because they gave him an order and he didn’t obey.
When the unidentified man exited the car, he garnished a weapon.
He did what?? He garnished a weapon? That’s kind of an unexpected thing to do. Was it something like this?
I realize that it’s rather odd to dress up a knife after exiting a car, but is it really any reason to shoot him? I bet they told him to stop garnishing that knife because someone could cut themselves if they didn’t see the knife behind all that parsley and mint.
According to Coweta County Investigators, the deputies ordered the man several times to drop his weapon. Instead the man turned his weapon, pointing at the deputies.
Ok, I understand that technically pointing a knife at an officer is wrong, even if it’s been garnished. But let’s get real. Who’s going to be afraid of a garnished weapon? Apparently the deputies in Coweta County, Georgia are:
The deputies then fired their guns striking, killing the suspect.
Or maybe they just don’t like parsley.
But what about the anti-cop part? Well, I did skip over the first paragraph to make the above commentary of the illiteracy of the NBC 11-Alive reporter.
Coweta County deputies fatally injured a man Saturday night. After, he failed to obey orders to drop his gun.
It sheds a new light on it, doesn’t it? But channel 11 would rather have a sensational headline that makes it appear that the cops did something wrong.