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MrScorpio

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Tue Jan 10, 2017, 01:34 PM Jan 2017

Cops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them - Supplemental 10/01/17

Jesse Williams: “We know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.”


Georgia cops spend six hours soothing white suspect to give up after he shoots deputy in the head
David Edwards DAVID EDWARDS
10 JAN 2017 AT 11:54 ET



After a six hour standoff on Monday, law enforcement officials in Georgia successfully took a suspect into custody after he allegedly shot Troup County sheriff’s deputy Michael Hockett in the head.

According to WSB-TV, Hockett was performing a welfare check on Matthew Edmonson when a shotgun blast hit him in the forehead, elbow and waist.

“The deputy then retreated, at which time the individual got into a truck and began driving toward the deputy,” Troup County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Stewart Smith told WSB-TV.

Following the shooting, Edmonson barricaded himself in his home with a pistol and long rifle, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

The paper said that family members were able to convince Edmonson to turn himself in after a six hour standoff with law enforcement agencies, including “the FBI, GBI, local police and a SWAT team.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/georgia-cops-spend-six-hours-soothing-white-suspect-to-give-up-after-he-shoots-deputy-in-the-head/
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