OMG: Police Shoot Department Store Mannequin 67 Times After Mistaking it for Gunman

[uponit7771]

Police Shoot Department Store Mannequin 67 Times After Mistaking it for Gunman

http://realnewsrightnow.com/2016/08/police-shoot-department-store-mannequin-67-times-mistaking-gunman/

SCRANTON, Pa. – While responding to a call about a suspicious person in the vicinity of Viewmont Mall early Sunday morning, Scranton police opened fire on a discarded department store mannequin which they initially believed was a man armed with a handgun.

The mishap began shortly after 12:15 a.m. on Sunday morning when police received a call about a possible homeless man lurking in the alley behind the Macy’s department store on Viewmont Drive. Officers arrived on the scene to find what they believed was a muscular African-American man standing idly behind a dumpster. “The individual in question was dressed in a tan hoodie-style sweatshirt and appeared to be naked from the waist down,” Major Howard Colvin told the Scranton Times.

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Sad its too close to the truth

[Glassunion]

1. If the mannequin was white they would have tazed it instead.

[uponit7771]

3. +1

[Hoyt]

4. It's a sad comment on today's reality, but I was thinking something along the same lines.

[sarae]

6. So true...

[jpak]

2. Is this a fake news website?

[jpak]

5. Fake story - Snopes

http://www.snopes.com/police-shoot-department-store-mannequin-67-times-after-mistaking-it-for-gunman/

[lapucelle]

7. This may have happened, but the source seems a little dicey.

They're also reporting this:

"President Barack Obama will exercise his presidential powers this week when he signs an executive order directing the Supreme Court to indefinitely suspend the 22nd Amendment. Coming on the heels of the Conservative Political Action Conference held at Maryland’s National Harbor, President Obama announced his decision to temporarily end presidential term limits, saying, “I’m not seeing any potential presidential candidates on either side of the aisle who are capable of carrying out the task of running the country.”

Citing “poor performance” on the part of a Republican-controlled congress, the struggling economy, and the continuing situation with ISIS, Obama said he feels “obligated” to continue his term in order to steer the country away from crisis “just like Roosevelt.”

[B Calm]

8. Self delete this phony news story!

[uponit7771]

9. Its meant to be phony, that's a broke version of the onion site