Sep 22 - Houston officer k!lls double amputee in wheelchair

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston police officer shot and k!lled a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair Saturday inside a group home after police say the double amputee threatened the officer and aggressively waved a metal object that turned out to be a pen.
Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the man cornered the officer in his wheelchair and was making threats while trying to st@b the officer with the pen. At the time, the officer did not know what the metal object was that the man was waving, Silva said.
She said the man came "within inches to a foot" of the officer and did not follow instructions to calm down and remain still.
"Fearing for his partner's safety and his own safety, he discharged his weapon," Silva told The[..]ociated Press.
Police did not immediately release the name of the man who was k!lled. They had been called to the home after a caretaker there called and reported that the man in wheelchair was causing a disturbance.
The owner of the group home, John Garcia, told the Houston Chronicle that the man had a history of mental illness and had been living at the house about 18 months. Garcia said the man had told him that he lost a leg above the knee and all of one arm when he was hit by a train.
"He sometimes would go off a bit, but you just ignore it," Garcia told the newspaper.
Silva identified the officer as Matthew Jacob Marin, a five-year veteran of the department. He was immediately placed on three-day administrative leave, which is standard in all shootings involving officers.
Houston police records indicate that Marin also fatally shot a suspect in 2009. Investigators at the time said Marin came upon a man st@bbing his neighbor to [rip] at an apartment complex and opened fired when the suspect refused to drop the knife.
On Saturday, Marin and his partner arrived at the group home around 2:30 a.m. Silva said there were several people at the house at the time. The caretaker who called police waited on the porch while the officers went inside, she said.
"It was close quarters in the area of the house," Silva said. "The officer was forced into an area where he had no way to get out."

Houston officer k!lls double amputee in wheelchair - Yahoo! News

I think this one is generally agreed upon, that cop deserves to get fired.

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swinging a metal object the size of a pen...

he's in a wheel chair with 1 and 1/2 legs and only 1 arm

but the cop decides to shoot him [pic]

just kick that !!er in the chest and he'll back up... not like he can stop his wheelchair when his 1 arm is "swinging a 'metal object' within 'inches' of the officer"

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how in the !! is a pen....in the arm of a wheelchair bound man going to threaten anybody?


WOOOOOOOOOW........



cop should be fired.

LET ME FIND OUT THEY GOT BLIND[..] COPS WITH GUNS OUT HERE NOW [pic]

HOW THE !! DO YOU GET CORNERED BY SOMEONE IN A WHEELCHAIR [pic]

MUCH LESS NOT BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT THE HELL HE HAD IN HIS HAND IF HE WAS SO CLOSE TO CORNERING YOU? [pic]

IF THESE COPS AREN'T FIRED FOR THE SHOOTING, THEY SHOULD BE FIRED FOR BEING INEPT AND UNFIT TO WORK [pic]

A MAN WITH ONE ARM AND ONE LEG ALMOST k!llED YOUR[..]ES [pic]


WITH A PEN [pic]







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inb4excusesandjustifications

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I can care less about him being fired. He should be arrested and convicted for 2nd degree murk tho.[pic]

don't these cops have batons? just take 1 swing at him with it and he'll back off. fuking pigs fuk you. police department should be sued for whatever they have

Why not turn the chair over?

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WTFFFFFFF



My !!ing 11 year old brother probably would've pushed this nicca in the wheelchair and walked away slowly

wtf is wrong with these cops !!ing pussies

especially because dude didn't even have a gun....only a pen....and was disabled. when is this !! going to stop. you're a cop and you shoot a disabled man in a !!ing wheelchair??? with half a whole body??? and you're threatened for your life???? please, gtfoh. cops need to start getting charges like how citizens get. especially because they know the law. if there were so man accidental cop shootings like they are accidental citizen shootings, the fbi, cia, nsa, national guard would be up everybody's[..] and have this country on lock down. but they keep on k!lling people and just get put on administrative leave and keep getting a check. !! is !!ing pathetic. [pic][pic][pic]

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I disagree. I think he should be executed.

A man with ONE arm and ONE leg in a WHEEL chair. You have to be !!ing kidding me. Someone who is VERY LIMITED to speed and movement, and you k!ll them.

There is no excuse for this. I do not want to hear anything from anyone about this.

this officer needs to be charged and fired.


he's k!lled two people in his life on seperate occasions. only time will tell when he will k!ll again