Gun-toting man shot, killed by Chicago police.
Sheriff Pat Garrett vs. Billy The Kid.
If you are slow on the draw, do not draw on the police or any other equally armed person for that matter.
A favorite Country Western song about a battle between a gunman and lawman so describes the duel:
It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered ’round. There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground. (They weren’t protesting, just wondering at the stupidity of the outlaw)
Oh, he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip when he tried to match the Ranger/lawman with the big iron on his hip.
There were forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play and the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today.
Texas Redd/the gunman’s gun had not cleared leather (his waistband) when a bullet clearly ripped and the Ranger’s aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip. Big iron on his hip. Marty Robbins.
Some believe the Chicago gunman is somewhere in purgatory singing: I fought the law, and the law won.
It makes one wonder: What could possess someone to attempt to pull a gun and shoot when that person is out-numbered and surrounded by trained shooters/police officers.
Something about the behavior of Harith Augustus doesn’t compute.
Fred Waller, the chief of patrol for the Chicago police, made this statement about the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Harith Agustus.
“When they (officers) approached him (Augustus), he tried to push their hands away,” Chief Waller said. “He started flailing and swinging away, trying to escape. And as he escaped, he reached for the gun.”
The chief’s statement is partially correct. The video shows Agustus presenting some form of identification to police when a female officer grabbed his waist. Augustus pulled away, at which time he reached for his gun that stuck in his waistband.
One of the four officers surrounding Augustus pulled his service weapon, shot and killed Agustus.
The sayings go: criminals with guns aren’t looking for a gunfight, they’re looking for victims, because as soon as the purported equally armed victim put up a fight, the criminals either run or get killed.
Agustus was a state-licensed barber and father of a five-year-old daughter.
He was not licensed to carry a concealed firearm — per the police.
The latest Chicago police killing (although at face value seems justified) of an African-American should not be associated with murders committed by police officers against unarmed African-Americans.
And to name a few state-sanctioned murders committed by police officers, including but not limited to the killing of Laquan McDonald, murdered by Chicago PD.
Others include Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Arthur Mc Duffy, Sandra Bland, Neville Johnson Clement A. Lloyd and, Eric Garner.
New York police Officer Daniel Pantaleo lynched garner, instead of using a rope around Garner’s neck, Pantaleo placed his arm around Garner’s neck and choked his soul and life from his body four years ago.
And to date, four years later, the US DOJ’s refuse to file charges against Pantaleo for the murder of Eric Garner while the NYPD has Pantaleo on desk duty — collecting a paycheck — as he moves closer towards retirement age where he can leave the NYPD and get a full pension.
Just as in the past legal lynching which is now banned, the chokehold used by Pantaleo had been prohibited at the time of its application on Garner.
The US (DOJ) Department of Justice under US Attorney General Jeff B. Sessions, an old racist relic, whom many believe used to watch his father and grandparents lynch black people, refuses to bring charges against murderer Pantaleo.
Staff Writer: Clinton Franklin
