Reply #7: This is the kind of cop bashing reactionary bullshit that make me stay away from DU [View All]

I work for a metropolitan police department and these types of completely misrepresented stories and videos are posted almost daily. The majority of them are titled with a lie or, at the least, the OP's incredibly slanted bias, or both. And as soon as someone points out the true facts of the story, the comments dry up but there is never a retraction or correction by the OP.

When cops screw up, I acknowledge it. But I will not stand by while this type of slanderous crap is posted. This is the kind of "journalism" FoxNews perfected and it is used against all the boogeymen on DU, including the President. Shame on the OP and shame on anyone who does this kind of one sided, truth be damned, posts.

Why don't you change your headline to "PISTOL WIELDING MURDER SUSPECT WHO KILLED PREGNANT WOMAN IN COLD BLOOD IS SHOT BY RETURN FIRE AFTER POLICE TRY TO LAWFULLY ARREST HIM!!!

From the story mentioned by the previous poster:

The man, who was fatally wounded Saturday afternoon while fleeing from officers who had tried to cite him for Muni fare evasion, had recently been released from a prison in Washington after serving time for convictions stemming from a King County sex offense, said Chief Greg Suhr.

Suhr did not release the man's name. But he said Seattle police detectives were seeking him as a person of interest in the slaying Wednesday of Tanaya Gilbert, 19, which also killed her unborn child. Three others were injured. A day after the shooting, gunfire marred a vigil for Gilbert.

In San Francisco, the man was stopped at 4:44 p.m. by two uniformed officers who, while patrolling Third Street between Oakdale and Palou avenues as part of a violence-reduction effort, conducted a fare inspection on a light rail platform.

The man took off, drew a gun, and ran more than a block into Mendell Plaza as the officers chased him, Suhr said. "He was shooting indiscriminately, more than one time," Suhr said of the man, who apparently fired over his shoulder. "He fired at them, they fired back. That is what officers are going to do. If you fire at the police, they are going to shoot back."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/17/BA2G1KBJ9G.DTL#ixzz1SSuhBUzc