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ORIGINAL: Kirata



I rate this one a Darwin Award.

K.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Really fucking tragic, but a vehicle is very easily a deadly weapon, and according to the report you posted, Lucy, he tried to use it that way. I have plenty of issues with how law enforcement is carried out in my country, but cops will kill people for doing what this dumbass kid did, when his dumbass father set the law on family.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
James Comstock refused to buy a pack of cigarettes for his 19-year-old son, Tyler, and now he’s planning his son’s funeral.
“He took off with my truck. I call the police, and they kill him,” James Comstock told The Des Moines Register on Tuesday. “It was over a damn pack of cigarettes. I wouldn’t buy him none.
“And I lose my son for that.”
Comstock said he’s outraged police shot and killed his son Monday morning on Iowa State University’s campus.
Latest updates:
COMPLETE COVERAGE: Dash cam videos from the chase, photos and family reaction at DesMoinesRegister.com/ISUshooting
Police began pursuing Tyler Comstock of Boone after his father reported the truck stolen. The truck belonged to a lawn care company.
Ames Police Officer Adam McPherson pursued Comstock into the heart of ISU’s campus. During the chase, Comstock rammed McPherson’s car. The truck eventually stopped, but Comstock revved the engine and refused orders to turn it off.
McPherson fired six shots into the truck. Comstock died from two gunshot wounds, according to the Iowa state medical examiner’s office.
http://gawker.com/dad-calls-cops-on-son-to-teach-him-a-lesson-cops-shoot-1460159897
video and radio of the event available
This is just PHUCKED up...like the kid in the streetcar in toronto, this is cops with itchy fingers, when they think someone might have a gun..
and a dumb kid, who died, because he wouldnt stop..
THe cops were told by dispatch twice to back off, that they knew the situation/suspect and father.

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
James Comstock refused to buy a pack of cigarettes for his 19-year-old son, Tyler, and now he’s planning his son’s funeral.
“He took off with my truck. I call the police, and they kill him,” James Comstock told The Des Moines Register on Tuesday. “It was over a damn pack of cigarettes. I wouldn’t buy him none.
“And I lose my son for that.”
Comstock said he’s outraged police shot and killed his son Monday morning on Iowa State University’s campus.
Latest updates:
COMPLETE COVERAGE: Dash cam videos from the chase, photos and family reaction at DesMoinesRegister.com/ISUshooting
Police began pursuing Tyler Comstock of Boone after his father reported the truck stolen. The truck belonged to a lawn care company.
Ames Police Officer Adam McPherson pursued Comstock into the heart of ISU’s campus. During the chase, Comstock rammed McPherson’s car. The truck eventually stopped, but Comstock revved the engine and refused orders to turn it off.
McPherson fired six shots into the truck. Comstock died from two gunshot wounds, according to the Iowa state medical examiner’s office.
http://gawker.com/dad-calls-cops-on-son-to-teach-him-a-lesson-cops-shoot-1460159897
video and radio of the event available
This is just PHUCKED up...like the kid in the streetcar in toronto, this is cops with itchy fingers, when they think someone might have a gun..
and a dumb kid, who died, because he wouldnt stop..
THe cops were told by dispatch twice to back off, that they knew the situation/suspect and father.

If the cops didn't follow direct orders (I don't know if dispatch was in position of authority or not), then there will be consequences for their actions.

Why the fuck did the kid not obey the LEO's?

Fucked up situation. Made worse by a headstrong teen and, imo, cops with twitchy fingers.

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ORIGINAL: EdBowie

There's a reason they are called 'dispatchers', not 'Off Scene Commanders'. What you are imagining is from the movies.


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THe cops were told by dispatch twice to back off, that they knew the situation/suspect and father.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: EdBowie

There's a reason they are called 'dispatchers', not 'Off Scene Commanders'. What you are imagining is from the movies.


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THe cops were told by dispatch twice to back off, that they knew the situation/suspect and father.

If the cops didn't follow direct orders (I don't know if dispatch was in position of authority or not), then there will be consequences for their actions.

Why the fuck did the kid not obey the LEO's?

Fucked up situation. Made worse by a headstrong teen and, imo, cops with twitchy fingers.

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ORIGINAL: SeekingTrinity

~FRing it~

When I first read the story somewhere else, I was wondering what all the hell was going on.

But after seeing the dash cam footage, though it is incredibly tragic...I just don't see what choice the officers had. A full sized truck like that could kill someone. He already rammed patrol cars, flung that trailer into traffic after it became detached from the truck, drove the wrong way on a one way street at high speed on a college campus, and then was crashing into things all over the school lawn. There was a tent on the grass, which could have been filled with students. The bumper cars thing over in the trees showed me he wasn't going to stop, throw his hand up, and call it good.

If he had hit and killed someone on the campus or perhaps killed an officer or innocent motorist by driving though town like a Class A jackass, people would be screaming for cop blood wondering why they didn't do anything to stop that kid before he killed someone.

It was a no win situation. If you call in your vehicle as stolen, you have to expect a hardcore response. If you ram a cop car and drive like a maniac endangering the lives of people, you can't expect the police to come at you bearing kittens and hugs.

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ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt

If you have to lay blame on this tragic result, I blame the father first, the kid second, the cops last.

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ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt

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ORIGINAL: SeekingTrinity
~FRing it~
When I first read the story somewhere else, I was wondering what all the hell was going on.
But after seeing the dash cam footage, though it is incredibly tragic...I just don't see what choice the officers had. A full sized truck like that could kill someone. He already rammed patrol cars, flung that trailer into traffic after it became detached from the truck, drove the wrong way on a one way street at high speed on a college campus, and then was crashing into things all over the school lawn. There was a tent on the grass, which could have been filled with students. The bumper cars thing over in the trees showed me he wasn't going to stop, throw his hand up, and call it good.
If he had hit and killed someone on the campus or perhaps killed an officer or innocent motorist by driving though town like a Class A jackass, people would be screaming for cop blood wondering why they didn't do anything to stop that kid before he killed someone.
It was a no win situation. If you call in your vehicle as stolen, you have to expect a hardcore response. If you ram a cop car and drive like a maniac endangering the lives of people, you can't expect the police to come at you bearing kittens and hugs.

Thanks for saving my typing fingers, Trinity.
If you have to lay blame on this tragic result, I blame the father first, the kid second, the cops last.

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ORIGINAL: Anuser
You don't think the cop could have handled the situation differently, like say shooting out the tires on the car instead of shooting the 19 year old? The kid acted stupidly, for sure, but I'm not convinced it was an offense punishable by death.

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ORIGINAL: Anuser

, like say shooting out the tires on the car instead of shooting the 19 year old? The kid acted stupidly, for sure, but I'm not convinced it was an offense punishable by death.

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I am of the opinion that both father and son are hot heads, letting their temper over-ride common sense.. kids tend to learn behaviors from their parents.. this is (imo) what dad taught him..

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam


1. Even if you're a really good shot (Most cops aren't) shooting the tires of a moving vehicle with a handgun is REALLY difficult.

2. Why does his age matter? He was an adult with all the rights and responsibilities of same.

3. When people do stupid things, bad stuff happens up to and including death.

It's called Darwinian evolution.

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ORIGINAL: Anuser

You don't think the cop could have handled the situation differently, like say shooting out the tires on the car instead of shooting the 19 year old? The kid acted stupidly, for sure, but I'm not convinced it was an offense punishable by death.