Police video of fatal shooting shows
victim fired on cops
Detroit News,
by
George Hunter
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
7/11/2020 12:07:11 PM
Shaky Detroit police body camera video shows eight shots were fired in five frenzied seconds Friday during a fatal incident on the city's northwest side that sparked protests in which bottles, bricks and other projectiles were thrown at officers. Detroit police released the body camera video, along with another video from a squad car's dashboard camera which showed officers fatally shooting 20-year-old Hakim Littleton after he pulled a pistol from his left pocket and opened fire. Detroit police chief James Craig said he released the video hours after the incident to quell "a false narrative" that the shooting was unjustified. The "erroneous information that was put out has incited violence,"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Grounded 7/11/2020 12:24:43 PM (No. 474757)
Good thing the kid was a crappy shot or you'd have a dead cop to mourn. Littleton missed a cop who was standing about 6 feet away. He didn't get off a second shot.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TJ54 7/11/2020 12:32:48 PM (No. 474762)
I guess the cops should have allowed themselves to be shot
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/11/2020 12:32:59 PM (No. 474763)
The perp shot at a Detroit cop, and got killed for it. Yet STILL the neighborhood was engulfed in a riot about "police brutality."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 7/11/2020 12:45:52 PM (No. 474777)
This report is worth spending some time on. Watching the video itself, and then listening to the chief do a very good job of describing a very explosive, hectic, confusing shooting scene. It takes many times through this short, frantic scene to sort out what is happening. Watch the guy in the orange shirt, as he reaches into his shorts pocket to pull out the gun and shoot at an officer a couple of feet away.
THIS is why police officers often have a very difficult job.Violence happens in a literal instant, and is extremely fast, short, and potentially deadly. There were a total of 8 shots fired in 5 seconds. Four by the
bad guy, and four by three police officers.
IMO, that the officers fired four shots total, and took the perp down VERY quickly is impressive.
Two officers fired one shot each, one officer fired two shots, and this immediately put the perp down, with an officer very close to the moving suspect that they were shooting at. Accurate shooting was critical to avoid shooting the officer.
Well done, IMO. A very difficult situation, handled with tremendous speed and skill. And the world is a better place with this deliberate would-be cop killer out it.
Most people have no clue how difficult a police officer's job can INSTANTLY become.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 7/11/2020 12:46:54 PM (No. 474780)
Actually, #1, the bad guy fired two shots standing, two more on the ground, firing all the way until 'lights out'.
Watch the videos, especially the police chief. It is worth the time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MissGrits 7/11/2020 12:49:50 PM (No. 474782)
The hard work is going to have to be done by the black community ... not whites, not police, not govt. They have to reach a point where “bein bad azz in da hood” is not their preferred moniker. They have to WANT a culture whose respect is gained by high standards, productivity and assimilation into the American fabric! Until then they will continue to make themselves easy targets for those who would manipulate and convince them of victim status.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
spacer 7/11/2020 12:52:40 PM (No. 474788)
Not a "victim". Just another,sadly, dead crook.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/11/2020 12:57:21 PM (No. 474794)
What #BLM and its supporters demand is nothing less that compete immunity from prosecution for any crime committed by blacks.
They refuse to accept any responsibility for their actions. It is a psychopathic ideology.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
singermom9 7/11/2020 1:26:32 PM (No. 474831)
According to BLM if you shoot and kill white people it is OK. "For the cause".
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 7/11/2020 2:02:31 PM (No. 474868)
I really dislike the cockroaches who crawl out of their rat-holes to vehemently and ignorantly “protest”...
What a bunch of devil morons...
Their dnc fake news media loves these bastids
I don’t!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 7/11/2020 2:08:43 PM (No. 474874)
Was he a peaceful BLM protester?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 7/11/2020 2:35:39 PM (No. 474903)
The local media was breathlessly reporting that the shooter was "shot in the back", and had "his hands in the air" per their "witnesses". A good portion of this problem rests on the media's shoulders. The media establishment is evil.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
columba 7/11/2020 3:08:52 PM (No. 474926)
A young man fires at policeman AT POINT BLANK RANGE and misses. Policeman charges shooter without gun. Meanwhile other policemen at the scene fire four (4) shots at the shooter and one shot hits him in the head.
Lesson #1: Do not fire gun at cop.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/11/2020 4:47:49 PM (No. 474982)
Shocker! Hakim is not white. Maybe he thought that after watching for over a month of police standing down that they would not shoot back.
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It is unknown whether Littleton was going to buy candy when he opened fire on the cops. Despite his death, there is a previous mug shot that was in police files.