Trial has concluded with a not-guilty verdict for Officer Craig Taylor, the cop that tasered and then shot multiple bean bag rounds fired from a shotgun that killed John Wrana Jr., who was only days away from celebrating his 96th birthday as one of our oldest living World War 2 veterans.
Taylor was charged with felony reckless conduct, although he should have been be tried for murder. When excessive force becomes this blatant we are outside of the bounds of considering that the officer was operating within police authority.
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People don’t understand that police are obligated to stay one level of force above the threat.
It’s because they are ignorant to the force continuum scale. Arm chair police officers
the pigs are going to keep there $#%&!@* up and one day its going to smack them on there ass and its not going to be so funny then
cops get off on hurting people….every time i had one smack me around and stick me in the back they allways stand around and have there after beating sex smoke before they take me to jail.
Black cop gettin back at the old cracka
It is a tragedy. Sorry the man died. A knife in a WW2 veteran is exceptionally dangerous. They (WW2 soldiers) were trained extensively in hand to hand combat. Bayonets were standard issued equipment in WW2. Below is an image of an officer who thought his body armor would protect against an edged weapons. Ballistic body armor is designed to stop spinning projectiles not edged weapons. The officers deployed less than lethal device … In attempt to disarm and less chance of killing but it does happen.
You read a news clip written by a biased reporter. Then you determine you know the facts better than a jury who sat through and listened to witnesses, experts and saw physical evidence first hand. Well thank God that’s not how our system works.
So you people who took karate in elementary school or watched Law & Order, please tell me based on you VAST police expertise how you would handle this situation? Run at the armed man? Shoot the knife out of his hand with your superior marksmanship, or allow yourself to be carved up like a thanksgiving turkey while you hope and pray your partners stop him before he kills you? SMH
The amount of human stupidity grows by the minute. Don a uniform and see first hand….stop armchairing…that’s easy. MORONS
Jeff this was not some frail old man… He was tasered and stood his ground only after 5 bean bag hits were they able to stop his threatening act. It is a tragedy he died as a result … But his actions caused the police response…police tried less than lethal response but a knife is a deadly weapon and even more dangerous in a trained person’s possession … I would love to see one of these keyboard experts attempt to handle this type of situation. Hopefully they would not get themselves or some innocent third party killed
RIP so sad
Biull $#%&!@*! I’m sure a 95 yr old man could have stood off one good cop much less 6 usless ones.