Off-duty deputy shoots, kills suspected Walmart shoplifter

[volmaverick]

HOUSTON – A Harris County Sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a shoplifting suspect who was trying to flee from a Walmart Thursday night.

Campbell chased Frey around the parking lot. She got in a car with the other suspects and two children. Campbell opened the door and commanded them to stop, but the car was placed in drive and moved forward, investigators said.

“I think it knocked him off balance and, in fear of his life and being ran over, he discharged his weapon at that point,” said Thomas Gilliland, Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

Frey was struck in the neck.

Gilliland said it was clear that the deputy was law enforcement.

“He was clearly marked in uniform as a Harris County deputy. And identified himself as the suspects were leaving the establishment,” Gilliland said.

Off-duty deputy shoots, kills suspected Walmart shoplifter | khou.com Houston

Guess she should have listened and stopped...some mother takes her kids on a shop lifter spree..and if you're a responsibe parent, you don't go out at night and steal from stores or try to run-over people with your kids in the car

Grateful the deputy was not hurt or killed.

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

Why is this politics forum worthy, unless you have a hidden agenda...

 

[volmaverick]

Why is this politics forum worthy, unless you have a hidden agenda...

A gun was used!

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

A gun was used!

He was an off-duty cop, so it seems likely he'll carry a piece. Luckily he was in fact an off duty cop because a regular citizen would probably be arrested and questioned.

 

[volmaverick]

Luckily he was in fact an off duty cop because a regular citizen would probably be arrested and questioned.

true

 

[DinkinFlicka]

Mav, does the deputy deserve praise?

 

[volmaverick]

Mav, does the deputy deserve praise?

Nope! He was just doing his job!

 

[DinkinFlicka]

Nope! He was just doing his job!

Do you think the shoplifter was trying to run the officer over?

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

Nope! He was just doing his job!

So I am still trying to figure out the point of the thread. Yep, he was a cop who carries a gun. Whoopdy freaking doo da.

 

[volmaverick]

Do you think the shoplifter was trying to run the officer over?

shoplifter was trying to keep from being arrested if that meant running over the cop or another person in the lot..then shoplifter would have done it!

 

[DinkinFlicka]

So I am still trying to figure out the point of the thread. Yep, he was a cop who carries a gun. Whoopdy freaking doo da.

He's trying to piss people off by saying "good job" to a cop for killing a black mother for shoplifting and fleeing.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

shoplifter was trying to keep from being arrested if that meant running over the cop or another person in the lot..then shoplifter would have done it!

Sounds like you're a ****ing mind reader.

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

He's trying to piss people off by saying "good job" to a cop for killing a black mother for shoplifting and fleeing.

Oh, I knew he was taking the black mother angle. I just wanted to make him admit it.

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

Question for you volmaverick:

Does a suspected shoplifter deserve to die for shoplifting?

 

[volmaverick]

He's trying to piss people off by saying "good job" to a cop for killing a black mother for shoplifting and fleeing.

Till now I didn't know the color of the shoplifter!

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

Till now I didn't know the color of the shoplifter!

I laughed. Not because its funny but because you're pretending to be ignorant.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

Till now I didn't know the color of the shoplifter!

Yeah, and I piss liquid platinum.

 

[volmaverick]

Question for you volmaverick:

Does a suspected shoplifter deserve to die for shoplifting?

NOPE

If she would have stopped when the cops ask she would just be a shoplifter and alive and at home

She chose to put it in drive and floor a 3500 pound car

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

NOPE

If she would have stopped when the cops ask she would just be a shoplifter and alive and at home

She chose to put it in drive and floor a 3500 pound car

To me, if someone is stealing some s*** and is in a car, I let them go. Take some tag numbers. Call in backup.

 

[volmaverick]

To me, if someone is stealing some s*** and is in a car, I let them go. Take some tag numbers. Call in backup.

Are u a cop?

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

Are u a cop?

You mean am I an off-duty cop? Nope. But logic applies to all people regardless of profession.

 

[volmaverick]

They said the officer was being dragged by the car and feared he was going to go under it and be run over so he shot her. They showed a photo of his shoes in the parking lot where he was pulled out of them.

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

They said the officer was being dragged by the car and feared he was going to go under it and be run over so he shot her. They showed a photo of his shoes in the parking lot where he was pulled out of them.

Who in their right mind keeps holding on to a moving car? The moment that car moved forward an inch, he should have let go. Unless, of course, he is robocop. And in his mind, he may think so.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

They said the officer was being dragged by the car and feared he was going to go under it and be run over so he shot her. They showed a photo of his shoes in the parking lot where he was pulled out of them.

so, instead of simply reporting the vehicle and letting the interceptors grab him (like they eventually did), he shoots her.

stop playing dumb.

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

Regardless of semantics, the cop is getting no sympathy from me. He did what he thought he had to do to apprehend a Walmart shoplifter. I don't agree with it, and a woman is dead.