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Originally Posted by photostill
Not to be critical of news posts, as I really enjoy them, I question the newsworthiness of this particular article. Mainly because accidents do happen to all of us. Getting shot by accident as a result of your own actions doesn't seem noteworthy.
Nor does being shot because you refuse to stop threatening someone with a weapon. I know I'm not a kung fo expert and I don't expect anyone else to be. If the individual did not give up with several doses of pepper spray, one can assume he is deadly in his intent. Shooting to wound seems smarter than attempting to deal with it by hand.
I can't fault the police on either of these actions. Both seem reasonable outcomes, given the circumstances.
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*edit* After reading what I responded with it sounds sort of harsh. This is not a fault of yours, FreaknDavid. Rather I take it to be a fault of CNN, a national news service, and it's reporting methods. I'm left with the idea that despite all the political foo-fa-raw going on, the idea they could be spend the valuable time the reporters provide with fact checking, exposure of lies and schemes, and investigative reporting; they turn to something like this for a page filler. No wonder CNN is in such dire straights for viewership. Looks to me like they need some serious head chopping and the highest levels to set things right again.
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CNN are crap and usually always late on any reports....for example, they have recently just reported that teeth whitening damages teeth...halloooooo the UK has known this for years and dentists there wont use it.
They have just in the last couple of days that the US "discovered" other damaging things to peoples health, like caffinated coffee may be good for the heart after all... what a joke... As a person that has serious heart problems, I discovered that a long time ago,,, it stimulates the heart, NOT damages it..
Check the BBC and The Guardian UK, & the Telegraph UK newspapers on line...... CNN usually report what is in there days/weeks later.... gee you have to laugh dont you? DUH!
I most certainly fault the US cops on many things photostill, cos I read a lot like you do, and to my mind they are way too heavy handed and brutal, especially towards black & hispanic people in the US. They make many mistakes in both their handling of incidents and their investigations thereafter,,,,,,thus many innocent people are in jail because of that. & the pertaining DA's will never admit they are wrong, so some innocent people remain in jail.... Sad.
Freak's report said
Cuevas,
who was unarmed and was the nephew of the store's owner.... was the clerk working that day, and probably ran out cos he was scared. The cops did NOT check that before they shot him....Double DUH!
Thanks for the report Freak
