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[HUELEN10]

Suspect is currently not responding. Saw this on my watch via CNN, trying to find a link, but it is in the banner right now.

Edit: found a link.

A Transportation Security Administration agent was attacked by a person with a machete at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans on Friday night, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said.

A law enforcement officer shot the suspect three times. The suspect was taken to a hospital, where authorities said he was unresponsive.

The TSA agent suffered a cut to the arm, Normand said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/20/us/new-orleans-airport-incident/index.html

 

[HUELEN10]

Found a second link with pics and more details.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/shots-fired-inside-armstrong-intl-airport/31934632

 

[Astral/H3X]

Now see, this is the correct time to use your service weapon.

 

[BronsonLee]

Now see, this is the correct time to use your service weapon.

I get the feeling this thread will have multiple people on both sides of this argument very soon.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

wow

 

[ScottSullivan]

So the only time you're allowed to use a service weapon is AFTER you've already been slashed?

 

[metalslimer]

I get the feeling this thread will have multiple people on both sides of this argument very soon.

Why do you say that?

So the only time you're allowed to use a service weapon is AFTER you've already been slashed?

And who said this?

 

[Lothar]

I get the feeling this thread will have multiple people on both sides of this argument very soon.

They're hitting their F5 buttons until the race gets reported.

 

[BronsonLee]

Why do you say that?

Because history indicates that's exactly what's going to happen. Some will argue he should have used a taser/alternative weapon, others will argue he was correct in using it, et cetera. The circle will be unbroken! It's basically how every single officer-related shooting thread goes. I don't think this will be any different, even with me calling it out so early.

They're hitting their F5 buttons until the race gets reported.

Shit.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

I get the feeling this thread will have multiple people on both sides of this argument very soon.

It was a machete though

And not Danny Trejo

 

[Stinkles]

Tragic. Dumb.

Crazy thing is that TSA agents aren't armed or law enforcement. They're basically poorly trained doormen. An expensive and ineffective window dressing in the name of safety.

 

[BronsonLee]

It was a machete though

And not Danny Trejo

Could you imagine someone trying to use Danny Trejo as a weapon!?

 

[HUELEN10]

Here is a tweet pic, apparently of one of the victims.

https://twitter.com/fstockman/status/579090197440126977/photo/1

 

[Astral/H3X]

Okay if someone is swinging a machete around in a public area, its a machete. You are being violent. That's that.

 

[The Faceless Master]

I get the feeling this thread will have multiple people on both sides of this argument very soon.

i think we need to wait for more information. always multiple sides. could have been the dull edge of the machete...

 

[Astral/H3X]

i think we need to wait for more information. always multiple sides. could have been the dull edge of the machete...

Given the dead body of a victim, I'm gonna say it wasn't.

I know you're being sarcastic though.

 

[HUELEN10]

i think we need to wait for more information. always multiple sides. could have been the dull edge of the machete...

The TSA agent suffered a cut to the arm, Normand said.

Would a dull edge cut a man?

 

[Stinkles]

Would a dull edge cut a man?

Um...

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

They're hitting their F5 buttons until the race gets reported.

Or they could just look at the link

What a basic individual

 

[Enzom21]

Given the dead body of a victim, I'm gonna say it wasn't.

I know you're being sarcastic though.

Dead body? Where are you getting this information?

 

[BronsonLee]

i think we need to wait for more information. always multiple sides. could have been the dull edge of the machete...

Oh shit we Kenshin now

 

[HUELEN10]

Um...

I asked an actual question, I actually don't know shit about machetes.

 

[rude]

The agents should have at least shot the at the hands to disarm this guy before trying to kill him :/

 

[The Faceless Master]

Would a dull edge cut a man?

you mean cut a woman?

 

[Laieon]

Maybe the machete was possessed by a demon who took control of the guy when he bought the machete earlier today at Home Depot. There's really no way of knowing.



I'm more than okay with the TSA (or cops, or anyone for that matter) shooting crazy guys with machetes.

The agents should have at least shot the at the hands to disarm this guy before trying to kill him :/

Life isn't a QTE segment.

 

[Lord Morairty007]

The agents should have at least shot the at the hands to disarm this guy before trying to kill him :/

That is rather hard to do. Cops aim for the chest.

 

[Stinkles]

I asked an actual question, I actually don't know shit about machetes.

He was making fun of dumb arguments from "cops shoot another mentally ill person" threads.

 

[kaiju]

Here is a tweet pic, apparently of one of the victims.

https://twitter.com/fstockman/status/579090197440126977/photo/1

That's not a victim, it's the attacker.

 

[Volimar]

Guys, stahhhhp.

Considering he looks like he's cuffed and is facedown, I would say that's the suspect.

Also, the article says the victim was cut in the arm. They'd probably mention a dead victim.

 

[BronsonLee]

The agents should have at least shot the at the hands to disarm this guy before trying to kill him :/

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

At least look at the links provided

This is embarrassing

 

[Ivan 3414]

They're hitting their F5 buttons until the race gets reported.

Do most people even use F5 to refresh

I'm pretty sure most people just use the browser button

 

[TheJLC]

Were the TSA agents being assholes or something?

(Wasp spray? A ... machete?! ... I don't understand. $100 bucks says the suspect was mentally ill ._.)

Lol que? TSA being a holes still wouldn't justify someone attacking them with a machete. Especially when TSA is unarmed.

 

[potam]

Do most people even use F5 to refresh

I'm pretty sure most people just use the browser button

pro user = f5

shit tier = buttons

 

[Anjelus_]

The agents should have at least shot the at the hands to disarm this guy before trying to kill him :/

If it weren't for your face thing, I would pass this off as a joke. Because you have to be joking. Right?

 

[kaiju]

Twitter:

63 YOA black man named Richard White approached the Terminal B checkpoint and attacked TSA agents with wasp spray and a machete. He was shot 3 times by a police officer and is unresponsive at the hospital. Airport is back open, but terminal B is still closed.

 

[Laieon]

pro user = f5

shit tier = buttons

f5 is a button.

 

[Patrol]

Scary. Busy area too with a lot of civilians around. Pretty lucky that there wasn't more injuries and/or perhaps deaths. Attacking officers with wasp spray and a machete... christ.

 

[Stinkles]

f5 is a button.

Aw snapplecakes.

 

[TheJLC]

If it weren't for your face thing, I would pass this off as a joke. Because you have to be joking. Right?

They could have shot one bullet and shot the machete off his hand!

 

[ScottSullivan]

Maybe the TSA officers should have tried CQC on the suspect, rather then firearms. It's really their faults /s/

 

[Htown]

dude had a machete and was attacking people at airport security

no problem with the officer shooting in this situation

not sure why there would be

 

[Ran rp]

what is going on in this thread

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

dude had a machete and was attacking people at airport security

no problem with the officer shooting in this situation

not sure why there would be

But you do know perfectly well why some posters are expecting one

 

[ProfessorMoran]

Justified shooting, hopefully there will be no controversy.

 

[The Faceless Master]

But you do know perfectly well why some posters are expecting one

#NotAllSides

 

[Lonewolf_92]

Quick thinking by that agent, grabbing a piece of luggage to use as a shield to protect himself from the machete. I have no problem with them shooting a guy chasing another guy down with a machete. That spread on the hits though, once in the left thigh, once in the left chest, and once in the left face, lucky he didn't hit any innocent travelers.

 

[Jarrod38]

Don't know how true its but read the suspect just came off a plane

 

[Diablos]

Seems like some psycho was angry at the world and committed suicide by cop. smh.

 

[Lonewolf_92]

Oh, I don't mean to say it was justified, I'm trying to figure out if the guy was provoked (just snapped), or if there was a reason behind it.

A machete and wasp spray seems deliberate, not stuff you just happen to have lying around... but why the TSA? Why an airport?

Crazy? Maybe trying to get onto a plane? From the CNN report it sounds like the guy went straight for the TSA pre-line, sprayed the first TSA agent he encountered, went through that check point and sprayed the second agent, drew the machete on the third and cut her, then went after the second again, who used a piece of luggage as a shield and drew him away. Could have been way worse had the guy had better weapons or a gun.