Officer charged in death of Black man who family says was trying to break up dispute
October 6, 2020
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Officer charged in death of Black man who family says was trying to break up dispute
A Texas police officer has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a Black man in East Texas over the weekend.
a man standing in front of a wall: Wolfe City (Texas) police officer Shaun Lucas is seen in this photo provided by the Texas Rangers, Oct. 5, 2020.© Texas Rangers Wolfe City (Texas) police officer Shaun Lucas is seen in this photo provided by the Texas Rangers, Oct. 5, 2020.
Wolfe City police officer Shaun Lucas was being held on a $1 million bond following his arrest late Monday night, according to the Texas Rangers, who are investigating the incident.
According to a Texas Rangers statement, on Saturday night Lucas responded to a disturbance call for a possible fight in progress, where he found a man later identified as 31-year-old Jonathan Price, who was reportedly involved in the disturbance.
The statement said the officer, who is white, attempted to detain Price, who resisted in a non-threatening posture and began walking away.
a person standing posing for the camera: Wolfe City (Texas) police officer Shaun Lucas is seen in this photo provided by the Texas Rangers, Oct. 5, 2020.© Texas Rangers Wolfe City (Texas) police officer Shaun Lucas is seen in this photo provided by the Texas Rangers, Oct. 5, 2020.
Lucas deployed his Taser and then discharged his service weapon, striking Price, according to the statement. Price was transported to Hunt Regional Hospital, where he later died.
According to the statement, "the preliminary investigation indicates that the actions of Officer Lucas were not objectionably reasonable."
An attorney for Lucas was not immediately available for comment Monday night.
Family and friends of Price told the Associated Press Monday that the one-time college football player was intervening in a domestic disturbance at a convenience store when the officer shot him.
"He noticed a man assaulting a woman and he intervened. When police arrived, I'm told, he raised his hands and attempted to explain what was going on," civil rights attorney Lee Merritt said in a Facebook post. "Police fired Tasers at him and when his body convulsed from the electrical current, they 'perceived a threat' and shot him to death."
Price's relatives and friends said Price, a Wolfe City employee, was well-known in the close-knit community, the AP reported.
"What's really sickening is that he was doing the right thing... he saw a man putting his hands on a woman and stepped in to stop the altercation," tweeted former Major League Baseball third baseman Will Middlebrooks, who grew up with Price. "The man then fought him... then the police shot him. He was unarmed. I'm heartbroken."
A GoFundMe page started by Middlebrooks, who is white, had raised more than $60,000 to cover Price's funeral expenses as of Monday night.
Poster Comment:
I suppose we will see more riots now.
#1: Lod To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Lod posted on 2020-10-06 12:25:05 Reply Private Reply
#2: Pinguinite To: BTP Holdings (#0)
On the flip side, there's no evidence as yet that the shooting, even presuming unlawful, was anything racial, but of course BLM and all will claim it is because that's their job.
Pinguinite posted on 2020-10-06 12:36:01 Reply Private Reply
#3: StraitGate To: BTP Holdings (#0)
If the Texas Rangers are under the impression that police officers' actions should be "objectionably reasonable", then they are not qualified to investigate the incident.
StraitGate posted on 2020-10-06 13:00:52 Reply Private Reply
#4: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Some such incidents have always gone on, but this idea of taking the worst ghetto scum and making martyrs of them one after another is new. The requirement is that they be worthless drugged-up criminal scum in order to flaunt the exercise of power over middle-class whites.
With Soros et al bankrolling the whole sick farce we'll be lucky if it subsides after the election like in 2016 (with the farcical exception of Russiagate).
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-10-06 13:08:58 Reply Private Reply
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Lod posted on 2020-10-06 14:12:43 Reply Private Reply
#6: Pinguinite To: Lod (#5)
Pinguinite posted on 2020-10-06 15:30:21 Reply Private Reply
#7: NeoconsNailed To: Pinguinite (#6)
This reminds me of the getting sworn in as witness here in SC. Diversity girl mixed up 'Do you solemnly swear to tell the....' and 'Do you solemnly swear your testimony to be the....' exactly the same on all of us ;)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-10-06 15:44:10 Reply Private Reply
#8: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed, Pinguinite, Lod (#7)
"If" -- because a modern day journalist might easily have misquoted the Texas Rangers' statement.
StraitGate posted on 2020-10-06 16:00:08 Reply Private Reply
#9: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#8)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_words_suffixed_with_- aster
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-10-06 16:20:22 Reply Private Reply
#10: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#9)
I'll second your journalaster, and raise you a humanaster.
StraitGate posted on 2020-10-06 17:59:15 Reply Private Reply
#11: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#8)
When we would pick up flowers in the big truck near Miami, we would go into a Cuban restaurant for lunch. The daughters of the owner were waitresses.
I would say something to the one little one and she would stomp her foot since she could not think of a proper response. I am thinking they always spoke Spanish in their household. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-10-06 18:48:02 Reply Private Reply
#12: IRTorqued To: NeoconsNailed (#4)
at what point did this one of the peoples of the various state become ghetto scum?
IRTorqued posted on 2020-10-06 20:47:47 Reply Private Reply
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Lod posted on 2020-10-06 21:09:36 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-10-07 00:49:41 Reply Private Reply
#15: NeoconsNailed To: IRTorqued (#12)
Come again?
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-10-07 00:57:53 Reply Private Reply
#16: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#4)
Trayvon Martin was not even shot by a cop. George Zimmerman was on neighborhood watch and plugged him.
I do not recall all of the sordid details, but I think Zimmerman was acquitted of any wrong doing. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-10-07 08:50:31 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-10-07 09:57:59 Reply Private Reply