SUICIDE BY COP
d3ad baby 3at3r
hairbrush died Monday night in a hail of bullets fired by New York
police.
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Khiel Coppin's brother Joel Coppin spoke briefly with reporters saying,
"We want justice."
Authorities were responding to a 9-1-1 call his mother made about a
"family dispute with a gun," police said.
In the background of the call, played at a news conference Tuesday, 18-
year-old Khiel Coppin can be heard saying, "I've got a gun, I've got a
gun," New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told
CNN.
The teen put an object under his shirt and told his mother around the
time she phoned 9-1-1 that he was going to say he had a gun, said New
York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
The teen told her, " 'I'm prepared to die,' " Kelly told reporters.
When authorities arrived at the Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, the
teenager had something stuffed under his shirt and several times showed
a knife to police. "Shoot me, kill me," he shouted, according to Kelly.
"Come get me. I have a gun. Let's do this."
Coppin ignored repeated commands to stop and get on the ground.
Witnesses said the teen appeared to be holding an object underneath his
shirt and pointed it at the officers. Coppin continued to approach
officers, as they ordered him to stop, said Kelly.
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Twenty shots were fired; Coppin was struck eight times, Kelly said.
"This was a terrible tragedy for Khiel's family, no doubt about it,"
said Kelly. But the commissioner stressed that officers reasonably
believed they were about to receive fire.
Kelly said the teen's mother reported he had not taken his anti-
depressant and anti-psychotic medication.
Police have not recovered a gun and do not believe that Coppin was
armed, Kelly said.
A reporter asked Kelly if it's possible the young man was goading police
to shoot him, a phenomenon known commonly in law enforcement circles as
suicide-by-cop.
"That's certainly a possibility," said Kelly.
"The boy didn't have no gun, he had a brush on him," said Andre Wildman,
a neighbor who told CNN that he saw the shooting. Video Listen to
mother's 911 call ยป
Another neighbor, Wayne Holder, said police should be required to see a
weapon before opening fire on a suspect. "At least see a gun before you
start to discharge it," Holder said. Police "don't even have to see it,
[if] they think you got one, you're going to get shot."
Coppin was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead. An autopsy is
scheduled for Tuesday, the medical examiner's office said.
The Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network is expected to hold a
news conference on Tuesday about the shooting.
Police said they were investigating whether Coppin had a history of
mental illness and whether his mother had tried to have him hospitalized
earlier Monday.
The shooting came a year after unarmed groom Sean Bell, 23, was killed
hours before his wedding in a shooting involving New York police. In
1999, unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo, 22, died when police in
the Bronx shot him 19 times.
Bystander Dyshawn Gibson described Monday's shooting to CNN affiliate
WABC-TV. "He dropped the brush," Gibson said. "He put his hands up.
Police just started firing."
Coppin was seen pacing around the apartment prior to the shooting,
according to an initial police statement issued Monday night.
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"He began screaming from the window at his mother and the police," the
police statement said. "At some point, the male climbed out of the
window and began crossing the sidewalk toward the police."
That's when police began firing, a police spokesman said.
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Rob Cypher
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RickyBobby
"d3ad baby 3at3r" <deadhea...@spine.org> wrote in message
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> NEW YORK (CNN) -- A young man carrying what turned out to be a
> hairbrush died Monday night in a hail of bullets fired by New York
> police.
> art.shooting.brother.ny.jpg
>
>
Everybody knows that cops are the losers who could never win a fight in
grade school or high school so they get that badge and that gun and that
immunity and they try to get even for all the years of scorn and humiliation
that they so richly deserved.
There may be one good cop out of ten but the other nine are total worthless
bags of manure with a big inferiority complex.
I hope these gunslinging heros are proud of themselves for standing up to a
hairbrush wielding disturbed man.
Husky
> "d3ad baby 3at3r" <deadheadkil...@spine.org> wrote in messagenews:Xns9A0392181...@62.76.176.130...
It sounds like you recently got a ticket.
who'sthat
wrote:
I'm guessing you tried to be a cop and didn't make it
RickyBobby
"Husky" <Cyn...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Not in the last ten years. I know how to drive with respect to the law.
RickyBobby
"who'sthat" <whosthat> wrote in message
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LOL I am too good natured to be a cop. I would never arrest anyone or
give anyone a citation if they asked me nicely not to. Even if I got through
the vetting and training I would not last a month on the job. It is a tough
job but somebody has to do it. Unfortunately, they get a bunch of lames to
do it.
There was this funny story about a year ago about some head cop who got a
phone call about some climbers caught up on a mountain. He told the person
who called that he was watching the important college football game on TV
and he did not wish to be bothered. The climbers died.
who'sthat
wrote:
You make a blanket statement that any reasonable person knows to be
untrue and you back it up with a story you can't cite?
HJAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
RickyBobby
"who'sthat" <whosthat> wrote in message
I do not have to "cite" anything that is common knowledge. Everybody who
follows the news knows that those climbers were lost because the head cop
was watching a football game and would not call out the rescue folks. So
sorry for your ignorance.
who'sthat
wrote:
No, 'everybody' doesn't know it. Prove it.
who'sthat
Or somebody else cite it.
And then tell me how the actions of one cop represent all cops.
RickyBobby
>>follows the news knows that those climbers were lost because the head cop
>>was watching a football game and would not call out the rescue folks. So
>>sorry for your ignorance.
>
> No, 'everybody' doesn't know it. Prove it.
It was almost a year ago and I am not sure if the internet holds stories
that long. So I cannot prove anything. But in general terms some
adventurers were trying to climb Mt Hood and some weather set in and
somebody called the head cop and asked him if he should declare a situation
and send some helicopters. The Head Cop was busy in front of his teevee
watching Boise State or somebody in some college football Bowl and did not
care to be bothered with those details. So the adventurers all died because
the cop was lazy and self-indulgent.
who'sthat
wrote:
You don't know how long the Internet holds stories? Does that sort of
excuse work with your friends?
Until you cite it it's just something you made up.
MZ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_proof
who'sthat
Doesn't change a thing other than you're so pissed off your resorting
lack of proof to prove something.
I like pissing off trolls!
J Buck
You piss yourself off 2 dozen times a day, apparently.
MZ
It's a shame you couldn't understand the description they provided. But I
have to tell you that I'm not surprised in the least.
Rick Rockett
"MZ" <ma...@nospam.void> wrote in message
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> It's a shame you couldn't understand the description they provided. But I
> have to tell you that I'm not surprised in the least.
Now there's something we agree on
who'sthat
I'm not surprised you took the description seriously. People who can't
handle being proved wrong need this sort of thing.
who'sthat
"J Buck" <jbu...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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> who'sthat wrote: <I like pissing off trolls>
>
> You piss yourself off 2 dozen times a day, apparently.
>
Actually I piss on myself 2 dozen times a day. It's all part of my ASSHOLE
training. I'm going for my double black belt in ASSHOLE.