What is the object in this man's hand?  
You have .5 seconds or less to identify it properly, go...

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				A gun.
			
			
			
				The video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=WAMPexQ7iVw
"community" response--
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/04/05/police-shoot-and-kill-brooklyn-man-after-mistaking-a-metal-pipe-for-a-gun/?utm_term=.b77293b4a87d
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"They just hopped out of the car," Hinds told the newspaper. "It's almost like they did a hit. They didn't say please. They didn't say put your hands up, nothing."
Police on Wednesday did not address whether they gave Vassell any warnings. NYPD representatives did not immediately respond to questions sent by email Thursday morning.
"Ten times?" another man demanded, referring to the number of rounds reportedly fired. "For what?"
			 
			
			
				We don't know what happened for sure when the police arrived.
			
			
			
				Quote from: "Fashionista"
The police would have told him to drop what appears to be a handgun. He probably kept pointing it in a threatening manner and they shot him. He committed suicide by police.
			 
			
			
				I agree, he wanted to be shot.
			
			
			
				If it looks like a gun, and is being used like a gun...its a gun.
			
			
			
				Quote from: "Bricktop"
Precisely.
			 
			
			
				It's a gun in my eyes.
			
			
			
				i dunno what the object is.... but since hes black, i'm assuming its stolen.... whatever tha fuck it is....
			
			
			
				Quote from: "deadskinmask"
I thought it was a gun, but I don't know anything about guns.
			 
			
			
				The legal principle when confronting an object that has all the appearance of a firearm is to shoot first, verify later.
If someone wants to run around with a facsimile, the risk and consequences are on them.
			
			
			
				Quote from: "Bricktop"
If someone wants to run around with a facsimile, the risk and consequences are on them.
As it should be.
			 
			
			
				Quote from: "Wazzzup"
You have .5 seconds or less to identify it properly, go...

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A weapon. He's dead.
			 
			
			
				I believe he is, isn't he?
			
			
			
				Quote from: "Bricktop"
You have less than a second to decide.
			 
			
			
				That long?
Were I called to that, he'd be dead.
			
			
			
				Quote from: "Bricktop"
Were I called to that, he'd be dead.
He would be shot by the police anywhere.
			 
			
			
				A dildo that just came out of Eds ass.
			
			
			
				
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				I witnessed a couple of poorly dressed slobs in mixed camo and assorted blue collar workwear leap out of a ute, one with an AR15 and the other with a pump action shotgun proceed to aim their weapons and shout loudly get down! Get down! Get down! commands along a fence line awhile ago. 
My first impression was that I was watching a pair of criminals rob someone. 
Then a bunch of morbidly obese people with holstered sidearms on their belts poking out from underneath their vast muffin tops began piling out of a dozen converging well waxed cars, with clipboards and laptop bags over their disgusting bellies and underneath their massively flabby arms. 
And I knew. I was right. Somebody refused to pay the State's ransom and all those pigs might wither away into a normal sized human beings with better ethics and rational thought processes for once if their food got away from the banquet table. 
I recall making a wish that at least a few of the thieves got shot in the face. 
Not a direct hit. Just a really degrading facial reconstruction attempt gone wrong. Because they deserved at least that. But alas, those disgusting eaters of civilization hobbled away on their portly legs scot free with the sounds of ching ching in their bank accounts and possible award ceremonies for being disgusting contagions on the human experience. 
Quick test. 
Is anyone in doubt about these wretched wrecks of human beings to which I refer but would prefer to watch being eaten alive by giant snakes?
			
			
			
				Never bring a pipe to a gun fight :sad:
			
			
			
				
Witness Jacccpot Hinds told CBS News: "I seen the police car [come] in, police jump out and pop, pop, pop, pop".
"They didn't say 'freeze,' 'stop,' do anything, 'put your hands up,' nothing. Straight gunfire come out the gun."[/quote]
A good reporter would have found out what police training says to do and included it in the story.  If you are a cop, do you issue a warning when someone points what looks like a gun at you, or do you just fire?
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				So, does their training say to  shoot in that type of situation?
			
			
			
				Quote from: "Fashionista"
Couldn't find one for New york, where the shooting occurred, but I found one for Cleveland
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/how_police_are_trained_to_deal.html
1.officers should draw their weapons and command the suspect to drop their gun and get on the ground.
2.If the suspect points a gun at someone, or reaches for a gun in a way that indicates they're going to shoot, police are allowed to fire.
I think this picture fits #1

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and this #2

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It makes perfect sense, With #2 shouting a warning is bad idea,  your bound to have a face full of lead long before you can finish saying "freeze reach for the sky"
of course an investigation should and will occur.  But I think unless something odd happen,s they will find that this guy pointed what looked like a gun at the cops, and they fired without warning, because that is what they were trained to do.  Unfortunately most of the black community seems to think cops are guilty when a black person gets shot, no matter what the circumstances.  Although IMO the media is more to blame than they are.
			 
			
			
				Thank you Wazzzup.
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				In pic 2, the gun isn't loaded.
			
			
			
				You can't say that for sure. The chambers you can see aren't loaded. There could be one in the top and one in the bottom. 
Quick! Tell us all how you can tell if it's a single or double action revolver. 
Fuckwit.
			
			
			
				You point a weapon that looks like a gun at a cop, you get shot.  Easy as that.  Police assisted suicide, as had already been mentioned.
Niggers will always cry about how their little Dindu was just on his way to peacefully enroll at the local college, when he was shot for no reason by the evil White Man.  We've seen this enough to know the truth, time and time again.
And as a side note, in Canada, the public and the police must follow the same rules when it comes to deadly force.  Many do not know this...  A civilian and a cop are ruled under the exact same laws when deadly force is unfortunately the outcome.  Only difference is, is that the Police Act enables Cops to be armed almost everywhere, whereas civilians are somewhat limited.  Nonetheless, the laws are the same.
			
			
			
				Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
Quick! Tell us all how you can tell if it's a single or double action revolver. 
Fuckwit.
Why do I need to discern the action?
I'd just shoot the fucker.
			 
			
			
				Quote from: "Bricktop"
Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
Quick! Tell us all how you can tell if it's a single or double action revolver. 
Fuckwit.
Why do I need to discern the action?
I'd just shoot the fucker.
Yet you were supposedly a once armed copper who just said that he could tell the firearm wasn't loaded, when it could have been. 
You were clerical, weren't you.
			 
			
			
				
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				Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
Quote from: "Bricktop"
Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
Quick! Tell us all how you can tell if it's a single or double action revolver. 
Fuckwit.
Why do I need to discern the action?
I'd just shoot the fucker.
Yet you were supposedly a once armed copper who just said that he could tell the firearm wasn't loaded, when it could have been. 
You were clerical, weren't you.
WTF are you gibbering about?
You point a piece at me, you die.
We'll figure out if it was loaded later.
			 
			
			
				Quote from: "Bricktop"
 ac_lmfao 
You must have been a paper pusher with less than a few hours down at the range under your belt.
			 
			
			
				in pic 2, the 'gun' isn't even a gun.... you can see the seam down the middle that means it was made in a mold. the barrel would split if fired.... not to mention,the top 'cylinders' aren't round enough. they have flat spots that would cause insant misfire. 'loaded' isn't even a question at this point as it would be more dangerous to the shooter than the intended target....
			
			
			
				Quote from: "deadskinmask"
LOL...Probably a Dick Tracy costume pistol or something along those lines.
			 
			
			
				Quote from: "kiebers"
Quote from: "deadskinmask"
LOL...Probably a Dick Tracy costume pistol or something along those lines.
more than likely.... considering its probably a stock photo by a small time photographer, he didn't wanna pay the additional insurance of having an actual firearm on the set....