THE FECES ARE SURE TO HIT THE FAN OVER THIS POLICE SHOOTING (UPDATE)

It’s real easy to sit back and condemn police ‘violence’ from the comfort and safety of one’s living room

On Saturday, a Houston cop shot and killed a double amputee in a wheelchair inside a group home. The officer feared that his partner, who had been cornered by the wheelchair-bound man, was about to be stabbed with a metal object. The object turned out to be a silver pen.

I predicted that the armchair experts and perpetual police critics would not buy the story that the cop thought his partner was about to be stabbed by a man with one arm and one leg in a wheelchair. It didn’t take but a nanosecond for the shit to hit the fan.

According to the Houston Chronicle, Arlene Kelly, co-founder of Civilians Down, a support group for victims of police violence that tracks misconduct, blasted the police by saying: "How difficult is it, if nothing else, to get away from someone in a wheelchair who has no weapon, has only one arm and one good leg? It's totally and completely needless. Those officers should have had that matter well in hand. The gun should have never been out of the holster."

Randall Kallinen, a civil rights attorney and member of Greater Houston Coalition for Justice, practically accused the officers of murder when he told a KHOU reporter: "It is just as quick to whip out a Taser as it is to whip out a gun. The officer who allegedly felt threatened, he didn’t pull out his Taser, his gun. So why did the other officer? Officers should be better trained to recognize things. There have been many shootings with people with cell phones or pens. Who doesn’t have a cell phone or pen on him?”

“It was a guy without an arm, without a leg, in a wheelchair with a pen in his hand, gets shot in the head and killed,” said Kallinen. “That’s insane!"

Other activists also piped in by accusing the officers of “shooting a double-amputee in a wheelchair down in cold blood" and demanding HPD reforms in the hiring of officers, in the training of cops on how to deal with a ‘mental health’ crisis, and in disciplining officers.

Houston’s police chief couldn’t stand the heat when the armchair experts and perpetual police critics got their bowels all in an uproar. He asked the FBI to investigate this shooting and asked the public to withhold its judgment until that investigation has been completed.

Now it’s real easy for Arlene Kelly, Randall Kallinen and their ilk to sit back and condemn police ‘violence’ from the comfort and safety of their living room. It is the height of absurdity for Arlene Kelly to say, “The gun should have never been out of the holster." The activists who are so quick to find fault in almost every police arrest that involved the use of force, deadly or otherwise, have never taken a single step in the shoes of a police officer.

With an ever increasing nationwide number of assaults and deadly ambushes against the police, it’s no wonder that the cops are on edge as they go about their duties of protecting the public. The critics will never understand that during a volatile incident, an officer could easily mistake a writing pen or a cell phone for a deadly weapon. And yes, even a double amputee in a wheelchair could be an imminent threat to the lives of police officers and members of the public!