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Originally Posted by LakeCleElum
Jeff - No disagreeing with you at all, but I think the rest of the story is: When confronted by a store employee and a citizen, he pulled either a Stun gun or real gun (not sure which). That elevated the crime to a robbery.
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I guess it's still "armed robbery", even if it's a stun gun. The article says it was, but I'm not sure they knew that before they apprehended him. So, yes, he was probably considered "armed and dangerous", which even under the strictest departmental guidelines I suspect would allow them to pursue.
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Originally Posted by LakeCleElum
Seems it wasn't much more than a year ago that a Kent PD officer was killed while deploying spike strips also.....Very sad indeed.....RIP Justin.
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Yes, I remember that story as well.
Terribly sad in both cases. Maybe it's time to take a hard look at spike strip protocols. Never having done it nor having seen it done, I have to wonder why it is so dangerous. Or maybe why it is still in use in light of its dangers. I dunno - it just seems something is amiss if we have lost two young men in just about a year.