Comments on: 85-Year-Old Man Pulls Gun on Officer in Police Station And Does NOT Get Tasered or Shot

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By: Yirmiahu

Yirmiahu — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:21:18 +0000

Ah, bulletproof glass, I can live with that.

Of course I still maintain that if you don’t want to get tazed don’t point guns at people.

By: Yirmiahu

Yirmiahu — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:19:58 +0000

Uh, So he hesitated when someone is threatening the life of someone else, and since he happened to comply instead of busting a cap in the guy’s head, this is “restraint” we should applaud?

If you don’t want to get tazed or shot, don’t point guns at people. Its the polite thing to do.

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:44:37 +0000

John,
Thanks for that info. I was starting to think our police forces were going soft.

By: John

John — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:41:13 +0000

The ticket was for $250 parking in a hadicap slot. And the officer was behind bullet prof glass. By the way the Huntley PD is accreited PD and probally 75% of calls are from Del Web a retirement comunity. Which explains the restraint.

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:13:50 +0000

Good thing he wasn’t an unarmed Black Groom celebrating his upcoming marriage in New York or they would have blasted him with ove 50 rounds. Or a Black Grandmother in her Berkeley, CA home or they might have shot him in the back. There’s different ways to handle threatening situations unless you’re a person of color then there’s only one way: Lethal Force.

By: BuelahMan

BuelahMan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:40:00 +0000

Makes me wonder if the old man was a relative.

I suppose we should give them some credit, except, perhaps, for the fact that any law enforcement officer would know when a BB Gun is being pointed at them.

A Taser is worse than a BB Gun, for goodness sakes.

I would be more impressed had it been a Uzi.

By: Stel Pavlou

Stel Pavlou — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:32:37 +0000

Bravo to the officer.

By: Anonymously Yours

Anonymously Yours — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:03:04 +0000

This is what good police work is supposed to be. I do not think that people would react so offensively to the police selectivity in use of a taser. I certainly don’t. Good yob HPD.