[davebaron666]

Sorry but fuck this `black lives matter` bullshit.

If you dont protect your own life no one else will. Start running from cops by pushing them while they are arresting you and your life doesnt matter.

Be an idiot and die or be smart and bring your case to court if you think they are doing something wrong.

Simple as that.

[GiJoe7898]

Salt Lake Tribune article:



When asked for identification, according to the report, Harmon gave the officer a name that did not have a match in a police database. Body camera footage released Wednesday shows the officer searching for a name in the police database unsuccessfully.

In the video, the officer again asks Harmon for the spelling of his last name. The district attorney’s report said Harmon gave “a couple of different names.” Body camera footage shows Harmon quietly spelling his name and the officer asking for clarification multiple times.

Before the officer returned to his squad car, Harmon told the officer he may find a warrant related to a felony charge.

The officer called for backup on his radio, and two more officers soon arrived.

The officer did another check in the police database and found that Harmon had arrest warrants, including one for a felony. That warrant was for an aggravated assault, according to the report. Court records show that a $10,000 felony warrant had been issued in April, after Harmon did not show up for the sentencing. In that case, Harmon had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, a second-degree felony.



In May, a judge issued a warrant for Harmon when he did not comply with probation requirements after pleading guilty in a misdemeanor drug possession case, court records show.

The officers on that August night told Harmon he was going to be arrested for his warrants.

Harmon pleaded with the officers to not take him to jail, an officer told investigators, and as police put the man’s hands behind his back to handcuff him, Harmon “bolted and ran.” As the three officers pursued him, the man “turned quickly” back toward them.

The officer who originally contacted Harmon drew his stun gun, and another, Officer Clinton Fox, drew his gun. All three officers reported hearing Harmon threaten to cut them. They saw him reach toward his right pants pocket and that he had something in his hand, the report said.

Fox later told investigators he saw a knife in Harmon’s hand with the blade exposed. He believed another officer was dangerously close to Harmon, he said.

In the footage, Fox shouts, “I‘ll f------ shoot you!” before firing three rounds at Harmon. Simultaneously, the other officer fires his stun gun.

Fox felt “terrified by how close Mr. Harmon was to the officers,” he told investigators. “Fox said that in ten years of law enforcement and two military deployments, it was the scariest situation he had ever been in,” according to the report.



Critically injured, Harmon was handcuffed and given first aid at the scene by police, and then was transported to the hospital by ambulance, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Body camera footage shows officers administering medical attention and saying, “Patrick, stay with us.“

At the scene, investigators found a knife on the ground, the report says.

The three officers wore body cameras that recorded the confrontation, the report says. The report includes several still frames from that footage, showing Harmon turning toward officers, Fox firing at Harmon and Harmon lying near a knife. There’s also a photo of the knife, taken by investigators.

(Courtesy of Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office) The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office determined that Salt Lake City Police Department Officer Clinton Fox’s use of deadly force in the August 13, 2017 stop of Patrick Harmon was justified under Utah State law.

[GiJoe7898]

[BLACKOUTx4500x]

The guy was running away so why shoot him? Did he start to charge the officer off camera? Granted the dude should have done what the officers wanted. Crazy stuff!

[wildaxboxer]

If he kept running, he might have survived, turning round, and confronting the cops.. Got his suicide by cop wish..

[ZissyBee25]

When the fuck does running from the cops warrant to be shot in the back and be killed? If these cops claim to be afraid of a man running away, then I suggest they find another job. Seems that's all they claim, they fear for their life, then they need to find another job where they want be so afraid of black men and stop shooting & killing them everyday. FOH

[DanteAntonelli]

Black children should be taught how to deal with cops from an early age to avoid these occurrences.
I would tell the black children to deal with cops in this way by reciting the following prayer:

Our father who art in heaven... er... I mean

When in front of a cop I am dealing with a law appointed murderer with a badge who will face no accountability for shooting even a baby in the back, they have ZERO incentive to let me walk alive out of ANY confrontation at the slightest perceived resistance, imagined or made up threat from me, I MUST DO AS THEY SAY even if I don't agree or I WILL BE MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD, amen.

[n2ecosystems]

That's what I love about DR, the comments say exactly how I feel, use common sense. If this was youtube all the libtards would be crying injustice. But, how many times has a black guy ran and pulled a gun and turned around, too many to count. So, the officer's man job is to come home to his family at night.

[moloch]

I don't comment here much, so I hope it's not out of line for me to say:

When y'all talk about "just doing what the cop says" or you'll get hurt and how running away should get you shot you sound like some bootlicking fascists

[joos]

Politics and childish name-calling aside, I thought even from the low quality video, it was pretty easy to see the guy pulling a knife and then swinging it back toward the cop the instant before getting shot. You have to rewatch a key few seconds of the video just before the shots, but you can see the blade and the swing toward the cop. So, ultimately, fuck him.