Arkansas Police Kill 107-Year-Old Man in Shootout

[jimmy olsen]

What the hell...weird.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/09/08/pine_bluff_arkansas_swat_team_killes_107_year_old_man_in_shootout.html

Arkansas Police Kill 107-Year-Old Man in Shootout

By Daniel Politi
Posted Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, at 12:51 PM

Police in the Arkansas city of Pine Bluff say a 107-year-old man was killed Saturday afternoon after a standoff with SWAT officers. Lt. David Price, the Pine Bluff Police Department's public information officer, tells the local ABC affiliate that officers arrived at a home Saturday following reports that Monroe Isadore, 107, pointed a weapon at two people. When police arrived they asked the two victims to leave the house, and approached the bedroom where Isadore was apparently located. Isadore then proceeded to fire shots through the door. No officers were hurt but police requested backup.

Following negotiations that "continued for some time," a SWAT team inserted a camera into the room and confirmed Isadore had a gun. The SWAT officers then released gas into the room, which led Isadore to shoot at officers, who then fired back and killed him. Police are continuing the investigation, according to the Pine Bluff Commercial. CNN points out that in 2010 there were around 53,000 people over 100 years old in the United States in 2010, and only eight percent of them were older than 104.

[Syt]

http://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,6262.msg635163.html#msg635163

[Eddie Teach]

You'll have to forgive him for ignoring 123 pages of Crazy Canuck making snide comments while spiess, bravo and various others jizz over different gun models.

[jimmy olsen]

People shouldn't post news in megathreads like that.

[garbon]

People shouldn't post news in megathreads like that.

"News"?

Oh, I get it, you were making a funny.

[merithyn]

People shouldn't post news in megathreads like that.

This didn't need it's own thread; it's not that interesting. We have a gun thread, and this fits.

[lustindarkness]

I'm with Timmy on this one, I ignore most megathreads, including the gun one even if it was interesting at one time.

[garbon]

I'm with Timmy on this one, I ignore most megathreads, including the gun one even if it was interesting at one time.

Okay, then start a discussion about this "news" item.

[Viking]

At long last the Law managed to run down the last member of the Ike Clanton Gang.

[lustindarkness]

I'm with Timmy on this one, I ignore most megathreads, including the gun one even if it was interesting at one time.

Okay, then start a discussion about this "news" item.

I meant I support Tim in starting a thread about a news item, but I don't think I can support him in the question of this (or more than half of his threads) is news.

[merithyn]

I'm with Timmy on this one, I ignore most megathreads, including the gun one even if it was interesting at one time.

Okay, then start a discussion about this "news" item.

I meant I support Tim in starting a thread about a news item, but I don't think I can support him in the question of this (or more than half of his threads) is news.

Which is why this wasn't posted as such originally.

[Fireblade]

Yeah. This was all over the news here. And in all honestly, it wasn't because the police shot a negro. It was because someone managed to live to 107 years in Crime Bluff.

Seriously, Pine Bluff is the scariest place in this whole state. Decades of economic depression coupled with all the white people moving away equals a shit hole of epic proportions. Seriously, I'd rather spend a day in the hood in Little Rock than an hour in motherfucking Pine Bluff.