White Man in California Shoots at Cops With Gun, Gets Shot With Beanbags and Arrested

[TheWinningFam]

White Man in California Shoots at Cops With Gun, Gets Shot With Beanbags and Arrested

BY ELIZABETH KING


Elizabeth is a writer based in Chicago, IL. Follow her on Twitter @ekingc.


1 HOUR AGO
less-lethal" bean bags and arrested at the scene of the stand-off in a Brea motel, according toABC 7 Eyewitness News. The fact that the man who fired at police was not killed and was taken away into police custody has started another of many conversations about the preferential treatment white people receive from police.

The suspect was also tackled by a SWAT team,ABC 7 reported Monday, and was taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

For many, the arrest in Brea calls attention to the fact that it is possible for police officers to arrest people without seriously injuring or even killing them, a topic that is raised repeatedly in discussions of police brutality against people of color.

The Brea suspect certainly isn't the first white person to fire a weapon and not be fatally shot by police in pursuit of an arrest. Dylann Roof, the white shooter who allegedly shot and killed nine black people last year in Charleston, South Carolina was not shot by police when they arrested him, and copsbought Roof a meal from Burger King after he complained about being hungry after his arrest.

In 2014, Joseph Houseman, a white open-carry advocate in Michigan pointed a rifle at cops and insulted the officers who were asking him to drop his weapon, according to the Huffington Post. Houseman was shown on video with his gun, also yelling about starting a revolution. Houseman was not arrested, his rifle was confiscated, and he got the gun back a month later.



All of these arrests of white men who were armed, confessed to shootings, and shot at police stand in stark contrast to the recent fatal police shootings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana. Footage of the shootings of both men showed that they were not behaving in a threatening manner at the times they were shot by police.Tamir Rice was only 12 years old and holding a toy gun when he was fatally shot by police in Ohio, an open-carry state. There's also the case of Korryn Gaines, a black woman in Baltimore who was shot and killed after an armed stand-off with police where she did not fire her weapon



Article:http://www.complex.com/life/2016/08/...nbags-arrested

[Facepalm]

Should have shot him real bullets tbh

[Akrazotile]

Whites stay winning.

[longtime lurker]

Watch the usual ISH tea party avoid this thread like the plague. Amazing how the cops didn't fear for their lives in this case.

[warriorfan]

Why could they not have done that in Milwaukee? Black lives matter too.

[Hawker]

One Incident Dictates All Incidents Are The Same Circumstances

[TheWinningFam]

Still waiting on the other suspected white supremacist comments on the topic

One Incident Dictates All Incidents Are The Same Circumstances

Noone's saying that, the issue is over the past couple months we've had unarmed black people getting shot/killed while white criminals shooting at officers with guns and getting shot back with beanbags. Using those old supremacist deny tatics don't work here

[UK2K]

Cause it was a standoff. He wasn't chasing him down an alley and then suddenly engaged.

Kinda the same, but not really...

Should have killed him.

[97 bulls]

Typical. Swat could tackle this man but Korryn Gaines had to be killed by swat. Who were helping to serve a damn traffic warrant.

[97 bulls]

One Incident Dictates All Incidents Are The Same Circumstances

Again. Typical. No matter how many times this happens, its considered an anomaly.

[TheWinningFam]

Cause it was a standoff. He wasn't chasing him down an alley and then suddenly engaged.

Kinda the same, but not really...

Should have killed him.

Lets play a game, Which one got with real bullets and which one got shot with rubber bullets? both happened in the same state.

[SpecialQue]

OP is a worthless piece of shit.

[warriorfan]

OP is a worthless piece of shit.

You probably think Black Lives Matter is a big joke too, huh? Sad.

[qrich]

Lets play a game, Which one got with real bullets and which one got shot with rubber bullets? both happened in the same state.

Can we play another one?









Damn, they black huh.

[SpecialQue]

You probably think Black Lives Matter is a big joke too, huh? Sad.

No, I think OP is a joke.