Granted, in today's world being a cop is a tough and dangerous job. But if we can bring down lions and elephants with stunt guns, why in hell can't we detain suspicious humans short of killing them? This is not the first mentally disturbed and unarmed person shot by police.
Irishman's killing spurs uproar abroad
JOSEPH ROSE and KIMBERLY A.C. WILSON
SILVERTON -- Four days after Andrew Hanlon was shot by a
police officer in this tiny Willamette Valley farming
community, his death had emerged Friday as the biggest news
story in his home country of Ireland.
Halfway around the world, charges of police brutality in
small-town America dominated the headlines. And now, with
the surfacing of a mysterious audio recording that offers a
detailed account of the events, the 20-year-old
Irishman's family says his only crime may have been
banging on the wrong door.
Silverton police were responding to a burglary call late
Monday night when Officer Tony Gonzalez confronted Hanlon on
street nearby, yelled a warning and fired. Family members
who viewed Hanlon's body at a Silverton funeral home
said he had several bullet wounds.
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