Police Examine Death of Man Who Was Hit by Patrol Car

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Source: NY Times

The Police Department is investigating the death of a man who was struck by a police car after a chase in the Brooklyn housing project where he lived.

The man, Tamon Robinson, 27, was on the grounds of the Bayview Houses in Canarsie early in the morning on April 12 when police officers answered a call reporting that a man was stealing paving stones used as borders for trees there.

When officers arrived, Mr. Robinson ran toward his building, but a police car hit him before he reached it, according to a police report about the events, which took place around 5:30 a.m.

The report said Mr. Robinson had shoulder and head injuries. He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was in a coma until Wednesday, when he was pronounced dead, according to his family.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/nyregion/man-hit-by-police-car-at-bayview-houses-in-brooklyn-dies.html

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. ...and, after exhaustive investigation, find they did nothing wrong.

Any takers?

[Suji to Seoul]

2. This is the NYPD investigating itself and the victim is black. Two months before your hypothesis

is proven accurate.

I agree!

[panzerfaust]

3. Odds seem high that NYPD will find this was entirely

the fault of the fleeing man - that NYPD did nothing unreasonable.

[xtraxritical]

4. If a citizen even ever so slightly rolls a vehicle in a cop's direction it's attempted murder!

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. And he's usually riddled with gunfire...

...by a cop who will explain that "I feared for my life." The end.

It's always that the driver is trying to run over the cops; never that he's trying to escape.