by Bob Walsh
One would hope that the public safety people at Georgia Tech would be competent and that this is just one of those AW SHIT moments. Thena gain, depending on who you ask, the cops reacted completely appropriately.
Scout Schultz, 21, was a student at Georgia Tech and is never going to make it to 22. He called the campus cops Saturday night to report an armed and suspicious person and when they showed up they shot him instead. He died. The shooting led to the now-expected violent protest which ended up in at least three arrests.
When the cops showed up Schultz approached them with a multi-purpose tool in his hands. The cops said it was a knife. The school is saying that it wasn't, and the knife blade was NOT extended on the tool. Why he would walk towards the cops with the tool in his hand and refuse multiple orders to drop it is so far a mystery. They found three suicide notes in the kids dorm room. Damn, mystery solved.
Schultz was the president of the Gay Pride Alliance at Georgia Tech and described himself as a non-binary intersexual as well as a bisexual. (Must be rough growing up in Georgia in that situation.)
The family lawyer is screaming at the school for not providing officers with "stun guns." It should be known that contact weapons such as stun guns are NOT used against armed individuals. You don't try to shock somebody who has a knife in his hands. .
2 comments:
He was repeatedly told to drop the weapon. He didn't comply. He's dead.
What a shame that the family that loved him so much never bothered to get him the psychiatric help that he so obviously needed.
Closed knife partially concealed in ones hand and pointed at someone might look like the barrel of a gun. The officers ordered him to drop the weapon multiple times and his response, before advancing on one of them, was "shoot me."
Ge got his wish.
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