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Liberal_in_LA

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Sun Nov 30, 2014, 03:34 PM Nov 2014

off duty Texas cop responds to honk with bullet aimed at motorist's head [View all]

A reserve police officer in Houston has been charged in the shooting on a woman in an apparent road rage incident in which he shot her in the head.

Kenneth Caplan, the reserve deputy, cut the woman off and she responded by honking her horn. Caplan then got out of his car and shot her; the bullet grazed her in the head.

“I honestly got a taste of death. My heart was slowing down and I couldn’t really breathe,” the woman, who wants to protect her identity, told NBC2 in Houston. ”He was aiming at me and I thought he was going to cuss me out. It didn’t register that I was, you know, going to get shot. The blood was in between my nails, just crazy blood, and all over my cellphone, just covered.”

Investigators said Caplan’s female passenger leaned back in her seat while Caplan shot at the woman’s car. Caplan reportedly fled the scene, and has been charged with aggravated assault. The woman was hospitalized, but had “non life-threatening injuries.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/texas-reserve-police-officer-shoots-woman-in-face-in-road-rage-incident/

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Give the guy a break. Socal31 Nov 2014 #1
This is one of the good guys or non criminal upaloopa Nov 2014 #2
I'm quite sure you believe that's true- I, for one, would *never* imply that a fellow DUer... friendly_iconoclast Nov 2014 #10
ammophobic AAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAAAGHA belzabubba333 Nov 2014 #13
"Never serve a dish you wouldn't want to eat." friendly_iconoclast Nov 2014 #16
theyre all good guys/gals with guns until they kill with someone belzabubba333 Nov 2014 #14
I'll wager the badge motivated him more than the gun did. nt Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2014 #20
Actually, he's one of the cops anti-self defense sorts rely on to enforce gun control laws. nt Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2014 #19
So he's not? BrotherIvan Nov 2014 #38
Yeap. Another responsible gun owner until he wasn't. Something the madinmaryland Nov 2014 #24
We get that the concept of "precrime" is un-American. Do you? friendly_iconoclast Nov 2014 #33
Obviously you and Wayne LaPierre do not... madinmaryland Nov 2014 #37
Explain, if you would- your statement is somewhat...murky friendly_iconoclast Dec 2014 #43
road rage or roid rage olddots Nov 2014 #3
When are police departments going to start testing these bastards Warpy Nov 2014 #11
Athletes are role models for our youth Fumesucker Nov 2014 #32
Agree 100% BrotherIvan Nov 2014 #40
"aggravated assault" ScreamingMeemie Nov 2014 #4
She was honking like a demon. bravenak Nov 2014 #5
'jaydriving' ScreamingMeemie Nov 2014 #6
I know. bravenak Nov 2014 #7
I am too. ScreamingMeemie Nov 2014 #9
Either laugh or go completely out of your mind... NoJusticeNoPeace Nov 2014 #27
She had honked at somebody up the road BrotherIvan Nov 2014 #41
WE NEED MORE "GOOD COP" THREADS OBVIOUSLY!!! Katashi_itto Nov 2014 #8
#notallcops belzabubba333 Nov 2014 #15
You stake your life on that idea. Not me. Katashi_itto Nov 2014 #23
I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation gollygee Nov 2014 #12
Some cops behave like delicate little flowers over the smallest things, I declare. nc4bo Nov 2014 #17
Caplan probably is contacting Ferg PD about a recent position that has just open. nt NCjack Nov 2014 #18
and remember only cops should have firearms... ileus Nov 2014 #21
Yes, she should have been armed so she could shoot back. louis-t Nov 2014 #22
After the incident in Illinois a few years back where a nut shot up a lecture hall, the gunsters Doctor_J Nov 2014 #26
No shit, that there is downright HIlarious NoJusticeNoPeace Nov 2014 #28
You *do* realize people just might not want to answer your questions, right? friendly_iconoclast Nov 2014 #31
Since you read no such posting at DU, where *did* you read this? friendly_iconoclast Nov 2014 #30
Sounds like Daily Kos. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Nov 2014 #34
Well give me slightly expanded explanations of these attitudes among the 2A crowd Doctor_J Nov 2014 #39
None of the first two statements were made about the incident in the OP... friendly_iconoclast Dec 2014 #44
"(T)hat's where ammosexuals go with this story?" friendly_iconoclast Nov 2014 #29
Only in Texass! n.t. RoccoR5955 Nov 2014 #25
That's a bullshit post... ScreamingMeemie Nov 2014 #35
But what had she been up hours before, HUH? WinkyDink Nov 2014 #36
No a RESERVE police officer did a stupid thing whistler162 Nov 2014 #42
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