Courtesy of an e-mail from Australian reader Andrew S., we learn of the shooting of an alleged armed robber - and an incredible statement from his girlfriend.
Mr Douglas was shot in a St Kilda street by officers investigating a stabbing earlier that night at the nearby Gatwick Hotel and police have since confirmed they are probing his connection to two armed robberies at Geelong post offices last month.
The Geelong Advertiser reported the 31-year-old was also arrested in February at the scene of a stabbing at the North Geelong commission housing complex where he had lived since last year.
Miss Tuck, who was taken into custody after Sunday's shooting and later released pending further inquiries, claimed her partner had no involvement in the hotel stabbing and had done nothing to warrant the officers' use of lethal force.
"I'm devastated. I loved him he's my heart," she said.
"How dare those evil police shoot an innocent man who just happened to be advancing towards them with a knife out? It's every ones right to stab people, how dare they take that away from us?"
"It shouldn't be like this. He should be here with me today."
There's more at the link. Bold print is my emphasis.
I could hardly believe what I was reading. Is it even possible that someone could say something so stupid? I don't know what to say about the lady (?) in question . . . except that she instantly qualifies for our latest Doofus Of The Day award!
Peter
(EDITED TO ADD: I note, on returning to the linked news report several hours after I first read it, that the statement in bold print has been removed: but if you read the comments at the foot of the article, you'll see that other readers also quoted it. It was there, all right. A more detailed report of the shooting may be found here.)
3 comments:
I have the right to stab people? Woot!
Or is this the equivelent of "He was a good man! Why did the bad men have to kill him? Couldn't they have just shot the knife out of his hand?"
I wonder if they removed it because they mis-quoted her, though the part about "evil police" is still in the headline.
From a related article:
"The woman said she was shocked how many times police pulled the trigger.
"Apparently they didn't have Tasers on them," she said.
"Either way I don't believe they should have shot him that many times. I mean in the leg or something he would have been able to run off.""
Three shots fired, two hits apparently. If a man came at me with a knife the only reason I would have to fire three shots would be that I only had three bullets in my gun.
Happens all the time in domestic violence cases. Man beats up woman (or the other way these days) and the victim, or witness calls the police. As the police take the suspect into custody, the victim cries, tries to stop the police from arresting the suspect (to include assaulting the police), and generally tries to play the assault down to prevent the arrest. I only had this happen to me once when I was a LEO, but of course I was a highway patrolman, and it just didn't happen that often on the side of the road. It did happen, however.
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