107-Year-Old Killed by SWAT team

[FourScore]

Ark. SWAT officers kill man, 107, in standoff
AP 12:35 p.m. EDT September 8, 2013

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Police in the southeast Arkansas city of Pine Bluff say a 107-year-old man is dead after SWAT officers shot back at him during a standoff at a home.

Pine Bluff Lt. David Price tells KATV that police officers called to the home Saturday were told Monroe Isadore had pointed a weapon at two people there.

Officers had the threatened pair leave the home and approached a bedroom. Police say Isadore shot through the door at officers but missed hitting them.

More officers were called, including a SWAT team that inserted a camera into the room and confirmed Isadore had a handgun.

Police say SWAT officers released gas into the room when negotiations didn't work. They say Isadore shot at officers and they fired back, killing him.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/08/arkansas-standoff-107-year-old-man/2782117/

Wow! I feel safer!

F**king idiots!!

[Jesus Malverde]

1. sad..nt

[Trillo]

2. Euthansia via cop. NT

[sagat]

3. "...Isadore shot at officers..."

I don't see what the problem is. What were they supposed to do?

[FourScore]

4. They never should have provoked him.

He was 107!!! Wait'll he nods off, for God's sake! The old man was holed up in a room by himself!

[FarPoint]

6. Let's not forget...

negotiating skills would've been quite useful. Ahhh what a concept.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

10. Exactly. A little common sense brought to bear...

... would resolve most of these situations with no one being killed or injured.

Apparently not part of their training.

[indepat]

14. How easy it must be for a hair-triggered militarized police force to use lethal force against

against an octogenarian in a gun-crazed 'murika.

[alphafemale]

9. Bullets fired by a 107 year old are less lethal.

Obviously.

Firing at cops.

Some people never wise the fuck up it seems.

[tblue37]

16. He was locked by himself in his bedroom in his own home. They had a camera on

him. He wasn't going anywhere and wasn't in a posituon to harm anyone who did not approach him. All they had to do was wait a bit. He would have conked out--probably sooner rather than later, andcwith the camera on him, they would have been able to tell when he was asleep.

He did bot need to be shot. The cops are just trigger-happy. Probably, too, one of them decidedthe old guy needed to be "taught a lesson" about respecting their authoritay!

The other possibility is mere cowardice: one of the cops might have reflexively,--quite thoughtlessly--returned fire because being shot at blanked his mind with fear so that he just reacted.

[sabrina 1]

21. Well this is America where some people never see any options but to shoot to kill no matter how

minor the threat. Any excuse will do.

Let's see, if that had been Norway eg, the police would have waited, understanding that a 107 year old man was certainly no threat to them.

When, eg, someone managed to sneak into Buckingham Palace and go right to the Queen's bedroom, instead of mowing him down, the cops talked to him and escorted him out of the Palace.

But in the Home of the Brave everyone is so afraid, even of an old man who obviously couldn't shoot straight, there was no other option but to kill him.

What a country!

[kestrel91316]

5. You know, it's a wonder this old crackpot lived as long as he did.

I'm betting he was a lifelong gun nutter. HE SHOT AT THE COPS.

[Rex]

7. I cannot believe he shot at the cops.

Was he hold out behind the bed? A 107 old prepper? They probably threw in the gas and he went apeshit with the gun.

[darkangel218]

8. Apparently he assaulted 2 people.

Then started shooting at the swat team. I'm not a cop defender or anything, but seriously, what shouldve they done? Let him keep shooting because of his age?

[tblue37]

17. Who knows? Maybe they were abusive caretakers. We have very little information. nt

[darkangel218]

18. True that.

His mistake was shooting at the cops though. There is only one outcome when that happens, regardless of age.

[tblue37]

22. There's NO REASON why there should be "only one outcome to that."

Considering his age and other aspects of the situation, NOT killing him would have been quite easy, and NOT killing *unless it is actually necessary* should be cops' default mode.

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. They could have waited until he fell asleep.

[darkangel218]

12. Why, because he was old?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Actually this followed an escalation of force

It might be shocking due to the age, but once he opened fire the escalation was expected

[tblue37]

23. IT SHOULD NOT BE EXPECTED! The situation was under control.

He was too old to outlast them. They had a camera on him and he was not in a position to threaten anyone who didn't *present* themselves as an easy target.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. I am sorry, but once anybody opens fire

Deadly force *is authorized* for any police department around the world, not just the US.

This is pure speculation, and the investigation could discover this, was this suicide by cop?

[sibelian]

15. Hm. Well it's sad... but he shot at them.

Difficult to see what they could do?

[tblue37]

20. THEY COULD WAIT! He was OLD, they had a camera on him,

he was locked in his room, so no one was in any immediate danger. He would have fallen asleep soon enough--and with the camera on him, they would know when he did.

They were in a hurry and didn't want to take the time to do it right when it is so easy just to blow the old guy away.

[Precisely]

19. Aging while black?

"The SWAT team inserted a camera into the room and confirmed Isadore was armed with a handgun, Price said."

Was he white or ....?