Nicky2013
09-05-2012, 03:50 PM
story (http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10962981/)
Fayetteville, N.C. — Fayetteville police say officers investigating a shooting at a party early Tuesday fired at a man who tried to run them over. The man was then found dead in his crashed car.
Witnesses told police that people at the party exchanged gunfire during a fight in a house in the 1500 block of Blan Street, near Murchison Road, around 2:15 a.m. Roman Drake, 26, drove away from the house and returned after police were there.
Police said Drake tried to flee when he saw the officers, and he struck a police car and tried to run over an officer standing next to another cruiser.
This shooting seems justified. But as a New Yorker, I am always skeptical when officers claim that someone tried to run them over so they opened fire. Because the same was said after the Sean Bell shooting. In which cops fired into a car a bunch of times, killing Mr. Bell. Their claim was he tried to run them over while leaving a club. The case got major play here in New York.
Fayetteville, N.C. — Fayetteville police say officers investigating a shooting at a party early Tuesday fired at a man who tried to run them over. The man was then found dead in his crashed car.
Witnesses told police that people at the party exchanged gunfire during a fight in a house in the 1500 block of Blan Street, near Murchison Road, around 2:15 a.m. Roman Drake, 26, drove away from the house and returned after police were there.
Police said Drake tried to flee when he saw the officers, and he struck a police car and tried to run over an officer standing next to another cruiser.
This shooting seems justified. But as a New Yorker, I am always skeptical when officers claim that someone tried to run them over so they opened fire. Because the same was said after the Sean Bell shooting. In which cops fired into a car a bunch of times, killing Mr. Bell. Their claim was he tried to run them over while leaving a club. The case got major play here in New York.