A witness tried to throw the man a preserver. Another witness said the man growled at them when they tried to help.
  • someguy3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    7 days ago

    A witness told detectives they saw the suspect run at deputies with the shears. He was tased twice, but it didn’t stop him.

    Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said he climbed into the passenger side of a PCSO patrol vehicle, trying to get a deputy’s rifle.

    That’s when two deputies, identified as a trainee and his trainer, opened fire on the suspect, killing him.

    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      7 days ago

      If you look up “failing up” in the dictionary, there is a picture of Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd staring back at you with his dead, dead eyes.

    • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      7 days ago

      Gotta train them to kill young. Or when their brain is fully developed they’ll think about it. Someone would have died anyway. If not this guy then some poor black kid probably.

    • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      7 days ago

      A man in Polk County was shot and killed by deputies on Monday after they say he was armed with garden shears and acting erratically after surviving an apparent gator attack.

      Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputies began searching for Timothy Schultz, 42, just before 6 a.m. after a convenience store clerk reported he was acting “bizarre.”

      Deputies spend about 40 minutes looking for the man, WFLA says.

      Schultz then began swimming in an alligator-infested lake, nearby residents told officials.

      A witness tried to throw Schultz a life preserver and another witness said Schultz growled at them when they tried to help, PCSO said.

      Witnesses told deputies an alligator was spotted close to him as he swam across the lake.

      Schultz emerged from the lake with an apparent alligator bite and began walking between houses while holding a pair of garden shears.

      PCSO said he then used a brick to attempt to break into a resident’s truck.

      A witness told detectives they saw the suspect run at deputies with the shears. He was tased twice, but it didn’t stop him.

      Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said he climbed into the passenger side of a PCSO patrol vehicle, trying to get a deputy’s rifle.

      That’s when two deputies, identified as a trainee and his trainer, opened fire on the suspect, killing him.

      Judd said Schultz had a lengthy criminal history that included several arrests for methamphetamine.

      This is a developing story and will be updated

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        181·
        7 days ago

        GDPR most likely.

        It’s less effort to geoblock europe than to make sure their site complies. Also their website isn’t for europeans, so they have no reason to put in any effort to make it work.

        • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          Technically fine explanation but I’d add that it’s actually not less effort to be compliant, they would just have to stop fucking tracking their visitors and they don’t want to. Problem is surveillance capitalism ruining our internet, not regions having privacy laws protecting their citizens

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
          33·
          7 days ago

          If they aren’t in Europe why would they care if it is GDPR compliant?

          I’m probably overthinking this

    • Ghost_Pepper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1211·
      7 days ago

      RTFA. PCSO said he then used a brick to attempt to break into a resident’s truck.

      A witness told detectives they saw the suspect run at deputies with the shears. He was tased twice, but it didn’t stop him.

      Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said he climbed into the passenger side of a PCSO patrol vehicle, trying to get a deputy’s rifle.

      That’s when two deputies, identified as a trainee and his trainer, opened fire on the suspect, killing him.

      Judd said Schultz had a lengthy criminal history that included several arrests for methamphetamine.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      6·
      7 days ago

      https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=florida

      Nobody seems to have created a dedicated Florida Man community as of this writing, but there is !florida@lemmy.world.

      EDIT: Oh, wait, yes there is. Just no banner. !floridaman@lemmy.world:

      • Florida Man Arrested For Having Three Wives In Different Counties After Dating App Scam Uncovered

      • Man in Florida 'shoots two Israelis he thought were Palestinian

      • Florida attorney allegedly strikes slimmer man with a dinner plate at the meat station after his daughter cuts in front of him in the buffet line

      • Florida Man eating 6-9 pounds of butter and cheese a day develops ‘cholesterol hands’ while on carnivore diet

      • Florida Clown School Student Who Tried to Smuggle Gold-Plated Pistol into Australia Claims Google Said It Was ‘OK’

      • Sarasota man drove stolen car to Mar-a-Lago to talk to Trump in Palm Beach, police say

  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1611·
    7 days ago

    Assuming what is said in the article is true, this is a rare case where I think the lethal force is justifiable. The dude was probably on meth and their tasers where doing nothing as he attempted to take one of their rifles.

  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1013·
    7 days ago

    Classic cop shit. Show up after all the drama is over. Makes it worse.

    There is only one bigger waste of money than cops. And that’s the Military. We have nukes. Fuckin’ try it. Go ‘head. I’ll pull the fuckin’ temple down on all of us.

  • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    920·
    7 days ago

    The ACAB brainrot is so pervasive that people are defaulting to reflexive posts that mean jack shit, and pay no attention to the actual context anymore.