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Triple-murderer resists arrest, attacks bystander, somehow doesn't get shot. Guess his skin-color.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/28/1881992/-If-this-suspect-had-been-black-he-d-have-been-shot-20-times-instead-we-get-a-Benny-Hill-sketch?utm_campaign=trendingA post on the Pittsylvania County Public Safety Facebook page described Bernard as “armed with a rifle and very dangerous.” When police found him, he was naked. And it didn’t take him long to turn violent:
In the video, a naked man runs toward an armed officer in tactical gear. The officer appears to spray something at the man, who wipes at his face and eyes but doesn’t stop. At one point, the suspect runs up behind another man in a parking lot, later identified by WSET as a church groundskeeper, and puts his hands around the man’s neck. The naked man then chokes the groundskeeper, only letting go and sprinting away after an officer swings his baton at him.
Ah, but he’s safe. The local sheriff, Mike Taylor, stated that Bernard was now in custody: “Bernard was taken into custody around noon on Tuesday after trying to escape, noting that about 100 officers responded to the scene. The sheriff also said he did not have information on Bernard’s relationship to the three victims and declined to say whether a weapon had been found.”
In the video, a naked man runs toward an armed officer in tactical gear. The officer appears to spray something at the man, who wipes at his face and eyes but doesn’t stop. At one point, the suspect runs up behind another man in a parking lot, later identified by WSET as a church groundskeeper, and puts his hands around the man’s neck. The naked man then chokes the groundskeeper, only letting go and sprinting away after an officer swings his baton at him.
Ah, but he’s safe. The local sheriff, Mike Taylor, stated that Bernard was now in custody: “Bernard was taken into custody around noon on Tuesday after trying to escape, noting that about 100 officers responded to the scene. The sheriff also said he did not have information on Bernard’s relationship to the three victims and declined to say whether a weapon had been found.”
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