Does no one understand ...

... how 'suicide by cop' is a bad thing?

After about 90 minutes, Howard City Police Chief Steve DeWitt said he saw Speese exit the home and he was marching, not r''welfare checks'welfare checks'unning, as if he were on a mission, Krause said.

He had what looked like an assault rifle and he was holding it at waist level, pointed straight down the driveway.'welfare checks'
“He was yelling something about shooting cops,” Krause said DeWitt reported.

DeWitt started yelling repeatedly at him to drop his gun, but Speese kept marching.

Believing that he was about to shoot other officers who could not see Speese, DeWitt fired one round at Speese but it was unclear if it hit him.

 No matter what you do, the po-po are going to shoot and kill you.

This look to have been a bad situation all around - former Marine, combat veteran, shows suicidal tendencies, family says he just wasn't the same.

Sad.

But look at how the reporter treats this. Speese had what 'looked like' an assault rifle, but he never gets any more specific about what it actually was beyond 'long gun' (the Scribd report says that officers identified the rifle as a .22lr/.410 rifle/shotgun combination). Narrows it down quite a bit not at all. But they make great mention that the officer that fired 3 rds at Speece used his 'departmental-issued AR-15.'

Otherwise known by journalists everywhere as an assault weapon. Because when you or I use an AR-15, it's an 'assault weapon'; when the police have the exact same thing, it's known as a departmental-issued patrol rifle.

And of course, in the Scribd report, the Chief didn't even have a department-issued AR-15; he only gets a .223 rifle.

When someone is threatening suicide and that if police are called he'll start shooting them, why the fuck is the first thing that happens is that the Veteran's Crisis Line calls the police to go check on the guy? Don't they know how police 'welfare checks' turn out?

Face it ... the police are only your friend in theory; make no mistake they work for the state. If you're an enemy of the state ... well ... then the police will act accordingly.

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