Cops shoot kid dead for not turning off engine.

[Sidney]

Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
The father called the cops, wanted to teach his son a lesson, for taking work truck.
Kid refuses to comply with turning off engine, so they filled him with holes. Unreal.
Il see if I can find a video to embed here.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/dad-calls-cops-on-son-to-teach-him-a-lesson-cops-shoot-son-dead.html

This YT vid. is a news clip. I recommend listening to the clip on prison planet too as it is the recordings of the actual ongoings. The cop clearly states that they know the kid. What in hell is going on, that they just open fire, after the kid runs into a tree. It really is outrageous.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9finFDQmXY

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[RAW] DRAMATIC Moment Police Shoot Dead Teen Who Stole Dad's Truck
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Published on Nov 9, 2013

DRAMATIC Moment Police Shoot Dead Teen Who Stole Dad's Truck

Dramatic dashcam video shows car chase before teen is shot dead after his own father reported his truck stolen to stop the teenager buying cigarettes.



Dashcam footage has been released of the car chase that ended with an Iowa teen shot dead by police after his father dialed 911 to report his truck stolen.



Tyler Comstock, 19, had taken the truck to buy cigarettes. His father reported the truck stolen in an attempt to teach his son a lesson, instead he was gunned down by Iowa State University police after ramming multiple squad cars.



Tyler Comstock's father will never know why his son fled and rammed into officers, but the dashcam footage shows his son's violent driving, and his horrifying death.

The footage starts with an officer pulling behind the white pickup with a black trailer at a traffic light.



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Dad Calls Cops on Son to Teach Him a Lesson, Cops Shoot Son Dead
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Published on Nov 7, 2013

A teenager was shot dead by police after his dad phoned them to say he had stolen his works van to go and buy cigarettes.

Tyler Comstock died at the wheel of the pick-up on a university campus where he rammed a squad car.



Devastated dad James said he only called officers to teach the 19-year-old a lesson.




He added: "He took off with my truck. I call the police, and they kill him.

"It was over a damn pack of cigarettes. I wouldn't buy him none.

I lose my son for that."

Tyler's mum Shari had listened to a police tape of the shooting on which one officer said: "We know the suspect, so we can probably back it off."

[Sidney]

Obviously the kid was being dangerous. Lived in a homeless shelter. The fact remains, he hit a tree, the truck was not moving, they could have shot the tires out. But they just opened fire on the truck, and it states in one news article, that the officer was found with no wrong doing. Case closed. However the officer still on administrative leave. Why , if there was no wrong doing. 19 years old. Well, God bless Tyler Comstock. He is in a better place.

[gittarpikk]

Ok...

He's a kid... and didn't 'approve' of his dad not buying him his cigs...so he stole his dads truck to teach HIM a lesson that he should have bought his cigs...

so far typical rebellious punk kid...and seems to know quite a lot about evading the law...many techniques to evade capture...willing to try most everything imaginable to ....hopefully brag to his buds that he escaped...and what a story that would be......a true 'gangsta' he would be undisputed

All this can easily be found at just about any point in ... the game "Grand theft auto"...and ya know...there just happens to be a new one out...my bet is it was a great inspiration here..

We , as a society are really the ones that let kids watch this garbage and wonder why they do this stuff...and the police get yet another blame...yes...maybe an overreaction....but who is >really< to blame

No , I dont know if the game was involved... but it is written all over the kids reactions...and I know this kind of thing exists...same ole pc game...different conditions....and a nephew that has spent MANY years in the pen (I guess he was lucky...this was a few years before the point where they just 'shoot em' now)

[ghostrider]

the police state is here ... do what they say or they will shoot you dead , and no one will hold them accountable ...

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 he was gunned down by Iowa State University police after ramming multiple squad cars.



IMO Threads like this and the way they are spun do Avalon no credit at all.

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Anyway, here is a good comment on the story http://gawker.com/dad-calls-cops-on-son-to-teach-him-a-lesson-cops-shoot-1460159897


We know there is more to this story. There are plenty of posts below that go into the story and the kid ****ed up. There were many points along the way that he could have prevented his own death...but he is a ****ed up teenager. The police could have also done many things differently and prevented this kids death. It seems that police are no longer there to deescalate situations but rather to escalate them. I believe that there are several major cities across the country that have learned a lesson with regards to police chases and have a policy not to pursue unless the person is a violent criminal or a danger to others. This kid would not have ran the red lights, ran into a cop car, etc had he not been chased. The cops certainly knew where he lived and could have just waited a while then gone to his house to speak with him. It's almost like a pissing contest—the cops get mad that the kid runs away and then become determined to show the kid a thing or two rather than keep the community safe. The whole thing is made more tragic by the fact that the police were told by someone else in the department to call off the chase...too bad cooler heads didn't prevail

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He drove onto the college campus quad (grassy area) and knocked down several large homecoming decorations which students could have easily been behind (luckily they were not). At that point, he had been running from the police for 5 minutes, running red lights and had several near misses with pedestrians. There is a concealed carry law in Iowa, so there was no way to know Comstock was unarmed. I am sorry he died, but the police have a campus of 32,000 students, plus staff and faculty to think of


He drove onto pedestrian and bike paths, I was less than ten yards away from one girl who nearly got killed by him. There was definitely a threat to the public safety. In addition, before the officer even initiated a pursuit, he was following the truck. The kid rammed the police car by backing into it with the trailer that was attached to it.

That shows both aggression against police, and disregard for public safety.

If he was willing to ram a police car, that showed he was willing to hurt law enforcement. And they couldn't let them drive away again because he had already shown recklessness and almost killed people.

I suspect you'd be the same person here commenting how they should have shut him down sooner had he managed to run someone down and kill them.

You weren't there. I didn't see him get shot, but I damn sure saw him nearly kill someone speeding down the bike path. I was ten yards away, and he was a definite threat to our safety.


Lost_grrl, you make a very valid point regarding the danger of high speed chases. However one thing you mention is that a large number of police depts only allow pursuits for felony offenses. I think this would be a felony offense. Once the driver of the truck deliberately drove into the police cruiser it goes from being a stupid teenager taking a joyride to being something akin to assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon.

I don't know what would have happened if they have backed up and let the kid go (in order to pick him up later). Regardless of the whats and whys I'm sorry the kids dead. But he had proven that he was erratic, unwilling to respond to police, willing to assault police and showing absolutely not care or concern for bystanders or pedestrians. When police finally cornered him and forced him to stop he was still ramming his truck into the police cruisers seconds before the police officer opened fire. Maybe he really wouldn't have managed to hurt anyone, but in the situation, the police officer knew that the kid was violent, reckless and deliberately ramming another police car.


I am not saying that the chase isn't the kid's fault. It clearly is. The policy that I have laid out in several comments is a policy in so many departments for a reason—to avoid things like this. Those police departments don't chase even when they have pulled someone over for doing something stupid like running a red light and then the suspect flees. They don't chase when they know the guy has a warrant for a less serious crime. They don't chase if they pull someone over and believe/find he has drugs before he flees. They don't chase because they know that a person running from the police is going to do stupid, dangerous ****. They don't chase because they know lives will be at stake: their own, the suspects and the public. I didn't make up this policy and there is a reason why half of our nation's police departments have adopted it...because it saves lives. Cops aren't known for their restraint so the restraint they show in these situations should tell you something. And I'm not talking about tiny little towns who have one police chase a decade here...major police departments, who have way more experience with chases have learned their lesson.

A tragic end.