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Title: Cop ordered to holster gun, then shot dead
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WND
URL Source: http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/cop-orde ... to-holster-gun-then-shot-dead/
Published: Mar 24, 2016
Author: Cheryl Chumley
Post Date: 2016-03-25 19:28:46 by IbJensen
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Views: 1364
Comments: 8
Officer Alan Lee Jacobs A policeman who was shot and killed while chasing a 17-year-old through the streets of Greenville, South Carolina, may have fallen victim to his own department’s politically correct policy that requires officers to keep their guns holstered, except in the most dire of circumstances. According to the Greenville Police Department’s force policy, an officer is prohibited from using lethal force against those “believed to be unarmed or are not presenting an imminent threat to human life or serious bodily harm unless immediately apprehended — whether or not they are fleeing from police.” The policy was made public in a story about the killing of Allen Jacobs, 28, a decorated Iraq war vet and a four-year veteran of the Greenville Police Department, published in the Greenville News. On March 18, Jacobs and his partner stopped a suspect known to the officer as a self-identified gang member, Deontea Mackey, to question him about a weapon he was alleged to have been trying to acquire. Mackey, 17, turned and ran with Jacobs in pursuit on foot. The teen reportedly shot and killed Jacobs during the chase. Police said Mackey then turned the gun on himself, committing suicide. Deontea Perry Mackey Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller said shortly after the shooting that Jacobs never even fired at Mackey – that Jacobs’ gun was still holstered when emergency responders found him and took him to the hospital, where he later died of multiple gunshot wounds, the newspaper reported. Colin Flaherty’s book, “Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry: The Hoax of Black Victimization and Those Who Enable It,” documents black crime in America and exposes how the media and politicians are willing partners in what the author calls “the greatest lie of our generation.” As Greenville News reported, paraphrasing Miller: “Jacobs had no idea Mackey had already obtained that weapon when he chased after the teen on foot. To Jacobs, Mackey was an unarmed 17-year-old.” The deadly encounter wasn’t the first time Jacobs and Mackey crossed paths. The officer arrested the teen a year earlier on a strong-arm robbery charge, according to police reports obtained by the newspaper. According to other officers on scene, Mackey was “irate and began yelling he would not go to jail,” when Jacobs handcuffed him and put him in the back of a patrol car. In his own half-page report, Jacobs said he asked Mackey if he belonged to any street gangs. “I asked him which gang he was a member of, and he quickly replied, ‘blood in blood out,’ to inform me that he was indeed a blood-affiliated gang member,” Jacobs said. Mackey, who pleaded guilty in February to the robbery, died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head as law enforcement closed in on him, the news outlet reported. Mackey, who wasn’t in prison at the time of shooting because he had been given at 10-year sentence suspended to 251 days time served, wasn’t allowed to possess a weapon, according to court records. Circuit Court Judge Robin Stilwell, who sentenced Mackey to the suspended sentence for robbery, released a statement of condolences to the family of Jacobs, but stood by his February determination. “It appears, given the specific facts and circumstances of the case, the defendant’s age and lack of any admissible adult record, and the input of the victim, that the state and the defense were in agreement with a proposed sentence for consideration by the court,” he said, Fox Carolina reported. “The court agreed with the parties’ analysis of the case and sentenced the defendant accordingly.” Jacobs, the son of two Bob Jones University professors, leaves two sons, ages 5 and 6, and a pregnant wife, Meghan. They were expecting a daughter in July. That would be Deeyonteeah. If his mother had seen a moving van before naming this piece of human debris his name would be 'Mayflower'. 
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#1. To: IbJensen (#0)
So sad & senseless. I have a nephew that is a state trooper down there. May God bless the family of the fallen officer! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Guess what? Had he lived, he still wouldn't have an "admissable adult record". He's 17. A juvenile. This has gotta change. You do adult crimes, you need to be charged as an adult. Period.
I want an expanded death penalty, but with swift execution of sentence. Too bad we can't have a giant overhaul of our corrupted system of courts. Never a lifetime appointment!
A long time ago I was listening to Rush and he said something that stuck with me. I'm going from memory, but he said, "People say the death penalty is no deterrent. We have 20,000 murders every year. Imagine if we caught the murderers and had 20,000 executions every year. Think that wouldn't be a deterrent?" We're down to about 15,000 murders per year. Number of executions last year? 28.
The death penalty is indeed a deterrent!
Last year it deterred 28 people.
As I've stated many times here and on the (so-called) Free Republic, the death penalty should be expanded and justice should be administered quickly. The only way stupid Americans will be cured of their drug habit is to follow Singapore's example of administering hanging to those who sell or buy narcotics.
It damn sure deters repeat offenses. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#2. To: IbJensen (#0)
"he had been given at 10-year sentence suspended to 251 days time served (because of) the defendant’s age and lack of any admissible adult record ..."
#3. To: misterwhite (#2)
#4. To: IbJensen (#3)
"I want an expanded death penalty, but with swift execution of sentence."
#5. To: misterwhite (#4)
#6. To: IbJensen (#5)
"The death penalty is indeed a deterrent!"
#7. To: misterwhite (#6)
#8. To: IbJensen (#5)
" The death penalty is indeed a deterrent! "
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