At Least 24 Memphis Police Officers Hurt
In Protests After Deadly Shooting
National Public Radio,
by
Bill Chappell
Original Article
Posted By: Toledo,
6/13/2019 11:34:02 AM
At least 24 Memphis Police Department officers were injured during a large protest Wednesday night, Mayor Jim Strickland says. The violence erupted after officers of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed Brandon Webber, 20.
The shooting occurred around 7 p.m. local time, as officers from the U.S. Marshals Service as part of the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force tried to take a man into custody. When the officers approached the man, law enforcement officials said, he was getting into his car in the Frayser community in northern Memphis, Tenn.
That man was Webber, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the case.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
HPmatt 6/13/2019 11:39:39 AM (No. 97466)
Another multi-generational Democrat run ecosystem...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
0658 6/13/2019 11:46:34 AM (No. 97471)
A new euphemism for "youths" popped up in this article. "Residents".
At some point they will run out of words to describe this criminal subculture that uses any excuse, valid or not to riot or cause trouble. The "Residents" could care less about the individual person involved; all they desire is a reason to loot and rebel against society.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/13/2019 12:11:26 PM (No. 97492)
Oh this one is gonna be tough for the grievence crowd. US Marshalls, not easy to extort local police force, did the shooting. I don't think Trump's Just-Us department is gonna play the racism card on the US Marshalls' service. Looks like no money to be made on these riots.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/13/2019 12:18:37 PM (No. 97498)
No pictures so I'll have to assume they were Swedish.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
coyote 6/13/2019 12:27:41 PM (No. 97505)
Well Tami, if you don't want to morn over your youth maybe you should teach them to be law-abiding citizens. When this young guy, already wanted on warrants for who knows what, rams police cars and brandishes a gun towards officers, what do you think will happen. You can keep your victim mentality or you can do something that will really improve things.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/13/2019 1:03:29 PM (No. 97522)
You just can’t use your motor vehicle to deliberately crash into US Marshal Task Force vehicles when they are there to serve felony warrants on you, and then jump out of your vehicle and aim a weapon at the US Marshals. By doing that you are asking for an immediate death sentence or are intent on committing suicide by cop, take your pick!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/13/2019 1:06:51 PM (No. 97527)
Any excuse will do to riot and loot. The "victim" was 20 years old with multiple warrants for his arrest, and when confronted, rammed police cars and brandished a gun at the U.S. Marshals. Sounds like he didn't want to be taken alive and got his wish. I wonder how many true victims this maggot left in his wake.
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Feral animals will use any excuse for violence.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/13/2019 1:42:00 PM (No. 97556)
Sounds like the police showed remarkable restraint if so many of them were injured.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/13/2019 2:17:15 PM (No. 97579)
It must be rough to grow to physical adulthood without any of the time tested disciplines that used to equate to survival ever applied to your life or taught to you. Then suddenly some day an authority figure enters your day and uses completely unfamiliar language yet you are expected to understand and comply. Complicated words like "no" and "put the gun down," turn around," interlace your hands." Why nobody ever gave me a directive before I'm so confused.
How sad, my GGGrandfather is a permanent subterranean resident of Memphis having perished so these residents can live free. Not so sure what the boys of 61 through 65 would have done had they known free would devolve into feral.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/13/2019 2:24:24 PM (No. 97581)
The Daily Mail reports that he was an honors student (high school), enrolled in college and father of two (at 20) by two "baby mammas." Never mind that he had multiple felony warrants, rammed several police cars and pulled a gun before he was shot.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
coldborezero 6/13/2019 2:37:10 PM (No. 97587)
I revel in the death of Brandon Webber. I am ecstatic that he met a violent and painful end. Does that offend you? I don't care.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/13/2019 4:18:15 PM (No. 97678)
Over the last several years, Memphis whites have bent over backwards to atone for who knows what exactly, beyond being white.
It's been a pathetic, obsequious display. It's exactly the attitude many blacks will exploit to the max and exploit they have. Today's news is part of an ongoing pattern.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 6/13/2019 4:35:40 PM (No. 97694)
If a cop shoot a black there's a riot, but if the same black was shot by another black....crickets. And the latter happens all the time.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 6/13/2019 4:42:58 PM (No. 97701)
The reason so many police officers were hurt, was due to the hands off approach mandated by so many cities. The reasoning being that, it's the cops causing all the problems. Cops have to dodge bricks and rocks thrown at them, but aren't allowed to touch the innocent souls who threw them. It would be racist you know.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
spacer 6/13/2019 5:16:11 PM (No. 97729)
These are democrat Cohens planta....er constituents.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rubinski 6/13/2019 5:16:48 PM (No. 97730)
From another story about the riot: Shelby County Commissioner and mayoral candidate Tami Sawyer tweeted that he had been shot several times in his family's front yard "Every life lost should matter...every single one. How many times will this be ok? It cannot continue to be," she wrote. O M G. The suspect who was shot pulled a gun on U S marshals and then got in his car and rammed his car into their vehicles several times and then was shot when he jumped out again with the gun. It is TOTALLY irresponsible for politicians to act like this behavior is OK.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
web 6/13/2019 7:08:14 PM (No. 97803)
I guess we have to explain to NPR that when you attack and injure police officers by throwing rocks and bricks, it's not a "protest," it's a violent riot. It doesn't sound like the residents in the streets, looking for answers, were doing much listening.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rubinski 6/13/2019 9:02:51 PM (No. 97837)
Sorry for the double post, but the reason that the guy was being arrested in the first place is because he allegedly went to look at a car under the guise of buying it and executed the seller and stole the car. The crime occurred in Mississippi, hence the federal marshals.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hershey 6/13/2019 10:35:25 PM (No. 97859)
Ah, one more that won't have to be fed and housed for the rest of his life...cruel? And his list of transgressions don't matter???
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/14/2019 11:54:58 AM (No. 98226)
What happened after the perpetrator was killed is a prime result of racially based US politics these days.
The fact that the perpetrator was an “Honor Student” who graduated from high school and was enrolled in college is completely irrelevant to his criminal actions during his encounter with US Marshals, or the appropriate law enforcement response to his actions which caused him to loose his life.
The Daily Mail, a foreign newspaper, always tries to create a historic racial angle to any incident involving Black people being legitimately confronted by the police in the USA, clearly attempting to drum up controversy and racial animas that will lead them to another follow up story and even get innocent people hurt or killed.
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