Georgia Tech LGBT Student Shot Dead by Campus Police

Ignorant fool. How can so many posters be so ignorant? Campus police are almost always trained in the same academies as city/county PDs and SOs. They are hired as state peace officers, armed and with the same policing powers as their colleagues in the city/county next to them. The juvenile and ignorant posters who don't understand these things, study a little. If you approach a police officer, ANY police officer in the US, with a weapon, you are almost certainly going to be shot. If you believe that being a police officer includes any requirement to grapple with armed attackers, ever, you're deranged.

5th Man for Life wrote:

Boom Goes Dat wrote:

For those attacking the police, you have no idea and should STFU. Police are trained not to allow an attacker to close the gap with them. An armed attacker, who is clearly unstable and likely suicidal, is incredibly dangerous.

When police maintain their distance and shoot an armed attacker, it's life or death, for the attacker.

It's a campus cop, nd not an 'active shooter' or anything close to it. College police, though granted certain powers, have a different remit.

Let's Run's bootlicking authoritiarian set will never admit it but there gross ignorance is one of the glories of the anti-Enlightenment Age here.

Atlanta lawyers will rightly DEVASTATE Georgia Tech for this unecessary tragedy.

Amen!

Campus police are as qualified to police as city/county police. If you dial 911 on campus the campus police are dispatched. The surrounding municipalities don't have jurisdiction on university property and aren't alerted.

Stop crying about police brutality like the above poster noted it is a "fail" if police are involved in hand to hand combat with a attacker. You have all been watching too much TV.

"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." GT is not at fault here the man with a knife confronting police and endangering fellow students is the criminal.

Bleu wrote:

"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." GT is not at fault here the man with a knife confronting police and endangering fellow students is the criminal.

Wanna bet GT pays and-- properly-- pays "bigly"?

If you're too stupid to recogize a difference between a campus environment and the big scare world municipal / state police face you're hopeless. (And more farm workers died on the job last week than cops, ooh the "danger.")

Stupid scared little piggies. If it was one-on-one, maybe I could see shooting if the person came at them. But they had FOUR piggies. All they needed to do was keep three guns pointed and then have the fourth use the taser. So simple.

We need to get rid of the gross firefighter pensions and pay and train police more.

I'm too stupid so why don't you tell me the difference between a 19 yo coming at an officer with a weapon on campus vs two blocks outside of campus.

If my child were a student at GT I would expect protection from fools like this guy.

John Chaplyn wrote:

Bleu wrote:

Exactly! This is why campus police are armed and why someone with a knife who won't stand down is shot.

Because the campus police are inept?

Inept? Looks like he made the shot, center mass.

Bleu wrote:

I'm too stupid so why don't you tell me the difference between a 19 yo coming at an officer with a weapon on campus vs two blocks outside of campus.

If my child were a student at GT I would expect protection from fools like this guy.

And that "weapon" was? And who precisely was nearby? Two guys from the Georgia Tech football team could have defused this situation more quickly and appropriately.

Georgia Tech will pay.

That's your opinion and I totally disagree with your opinion. Police are trained to shoot people who have a weapon and won't stand down. Individuals need to be responsible for their own actions. That is the fundamental element of human existence, of nature, of reality in this world.

It's nobody's fault but the guy with the knife. He had every opportunity to stand down but he didn't. He made his decision. It's sad, but it really shouldn't be any other way.

Don't underestimate the risks of being a police officer. You only see a few select interactions and what you see is not the reality of what is happening on the ground, real time. Cops get killed all the time dealing with maniacs, drug addicts, etc.

You didn't answer the question.

Refuse orders pay consequences wrote:

The shooting victim - identified by relatives as Scout Schultz, 21, a four-year engineering student - was seen walking toward police and ignored numerous orders to drop what was believed to be a knife.

Police were originally alerted the unidentified person had a knife and a gun. But faulty 9-1-1 callers never get blamed.

Maybe because police officers are supposed to use their eyes in conjunction with their brains and come to the conclusion that the suspect is not holding a gun for themselves?!?!??

5th Man for Life wrote:

Boom Goes Dat wrote:

For those attacking the police, you have no idea and should STFU. Police are trained not to allow an attacker to close the gap with them. An armed attacker, who is clearly unstable and likely suicidal, is incredibly dangerous.

When police maintain their distance and shoot an armed attacker, it's life or death, for the attacker.

It's a campus cop, nd not an 'active shooter' or anything close to it. College police, though granted certain powers, have a different remit.

Let's Run's bootlicking authoritiarian set will never admit it but there gross ignorance is one of the glories of the anti-Enlightenment Age here.

Atlanta lawyers will rightly DEVASTATE Georgia Tech for this unecessary tragedy.

Do you think a college campus is some kind of isolated sovereign territory like an embassy or an Indian Reservation? That's ridiculous.

This is as basic as it gets. Walk around wielding a weapon and refuse to stand down in the face of police directives then you get shot.

Boot licking authority? That's also absurd. Yes, law and order. I'm for it.

on the campus of Georgia Tech, whose students-- & students-- generally are known to be under various pressures (many still "kids" in developmet), thus schools have mental health, counseling etc.

this ill-trained, ill-supervised cop vastly overreacted in a non-lethal-- not even close, to anyone-- situation and EVERYONE complicit in this shooting should be excoriated.

Georgia Tech will pay $$$$$$$.

WTF?

I don't think that anyone is arguing that the officer should've engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

+ 1

Rme wrote:

Police should try to disarm a person with a knife? Hahaha police are not ninjas. If a cop tried to fight a guy or wannabe girl with a knife they would most likely get injured severely and have to retire. The majority of police don't train everyday like a high school athlete or college athlete would. Most training is 8 hours every two years or so.

How about a multi-tool? This is what the person had. A freakin' multi-tool.

Boy/Girl had a knife, said that they had a knife. Was told to drop the knife, did not drop the knife. Told the police officer to "shoot me", police officer shot them. Good shot.

Try being black, dude. Different shit happens.

John Utah wrote:

Comply with police directives or get shot.

Keep advancing, with weapon in hand, towards a policeman who is pointing a gun at you - and get shot.

Obey the law.

It's so easy to NOT get shot by the police. Is there anything easier in this world? It's so easy that it appears that Darwinian evolution is taking place at GT.

Inept wrote:

Rme wrote:

Police should try to disarm a person with a knife? Hahaha police are not ninjas. If a cop tried to fight a guy or wannabe girl with a knife they would most likely get injured severely and have to retire. The majority of police don't train everyday like a high school athlete or college athlete would. Most training is 8 hours every two years or so.

How about a multi-tool? This is what the person had. A freakin' multi-tool.

It could have been a slide rule!

Horrible policing by a non-risk emotionally disturbed person. GT should suffer.