Iowa police kill son whose father only wanted to ‘teach him a lesson’

[Snake Plissken]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/08/iowa-police-kill-son-whose-father-only-wanted-to-teach-him-a-lesson/

Police in Ames, Iowa began pursuing 19-year-old Tyler Comstock after his father, James, reported the van he was driving as stolen. By the time the chase ended, Tyler was dead, shot six times by Ames police officer Adam McPherson.

But the van wasn’t stolen, according to James Comstock, it was borrowed by his son, who wanted to buy cigarettes.



Ring ... Ring ... Hello You have reached 911 Dispatch, who would you like us to execute?

The money required to pay out on lawsuits for this type of police behavior should be taken directly form the retirement accounts of the police department. It's the only way you'll get these neanderthals to think twice before they empty their guns

[Heather MC]

1. Damn! This is what happens when we Raise

A police force to value property over people.

That poor father had no idea he was ordering hitmen to go after his son

[LisaL]

9. What did he think was going to happen?

If a truck was "borrowed" why did he report it as stolen?

[pscot]

2. That cop committed murder

He belongs in jail.

[LisaL]

8. I am not sure why this same topic is being posted multiple times.

People should really do a search before they start a new thread. As regarding "murder" that's ridiculous. Car could be a deadly weapon. This teen already rammed his truck into a police car during the chase.

[jberryhill]

3. Video of chase

The audio seems a little out of sync, since you hear the collision from him backing the trailer into the police car before he does that.

Likewise the time he spins around and rams the police car.

[gopiscrap]

7. also a good reminder:

the police are not your friends, they think the worst of you and would rather kill you than sort out the problem!

[jberryhill]

11. Ramming them with a trailer and then a truck doesn't make them any friendlier, either

[sarisataka]

12. So after watching the entire video

I think there is another piece of information we do not have. From what has been reported, there is no rational reason he should have fled from the police.

As for police actions, given that he went out of his way to twice ram the pursuing officer's car, possibly struck a vehicle with his trailer, nearly hit three others and just missed hitting a pedestrian at the university I regretfully agree that deadly force was not excessive. It was only a matter of time before he would have killed someone with his vehicle.

[otohara]

4. Killler Cops

never will I reach out to the police

[gopiscrap]

5. fucking cops

[gopiscrap]

6. exactly

[Rex]

10. What lesson did the father learn from his son's murder?

NEVER call cops to help you solve domestic issues. Unless it is domestic violence. I would say a person has a 50/50 chance of being shot by the cops, no matter what the situation when they show up.

[cthulu2016]

13. Um... the cops are pigs and all, but this isn't a super sympathetic story

The father should be prosecuted, for starters.

As for the kid... the moment he runs it doesn't much matter whether the truck was actually stolen, so that's all a red herring.

The police tried to pull over a stolen vehicle (from their rational perspective) that took off in a very community-threatening chase featuring use of the vehicle as a weapon.

This is not much different from the lady at the Capitol last month.

This story is or is not outrageous based on the outrageousness of police shotting someone after a dangerous high speed chase featuring driving into police cars twice.

And that is certainly arguably outrageous.

But the presentation of the story is kind of a load of bullshit. It's like, "cops shoot honor student." It implies wrongful death from factors having nothing to do with the question.

Or those "Cops shoot man over broken tail-light" stories... as if what a car was pulled over for is the key factor, rather than the subsequent events.