Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey issued the following statement.
On Tuesday, December 21, Rankin County deputies were dispatched to Isobel Dean Street in the Robinhood community for a drug overdose. When deputies arrived on scene they found the suspect in his vehicle, which was stuck in the mud. Deputies gave commands to the suspect to exit the vehicle. Once the suspect exited the vehicle, he displayed two knives, one in each hand. Deputies gave commands to drop the knives as the suspect approached them. The suspect continued to approach the deputies who were then forced to use deadly force to protect themselves. The suspect was pronounced deceased at the scene. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigations was called to the scene and is currently investigating the incident.
47 comments:
South Rankin - same as South Jackistan.
Suicide by LEO??
Okay. He was stealing air from the rest of us but did these officers consider shooting his knee ? I mean, you are gun qualified ? Yes ? No ? You can hit the knee cap at 10 ft ? No ?
Judge, Jury and Executioner.
The deceased brought two knives to a gunfight. Suicide, errtime.
Robinhood is the 'hood in Stankin Rankin.
However, I haven't been there since I was in High School in the 1990s
Brandon would like to redistrict Robinhood and give it to Florence or Richland.
@9:20
You never aim at small targets. Always center mass. It is obviously you have zero weapons training. Why even make such an asinine comment?
Unless this guy was Jim Bowie or Daniel Boone, he MUST be within an arm's reach to present any real danger with a knife.
Ever heard of mace? Or Mr. Sparky the tazer?
The majority of RCSO deputies have too much of that "Just kick their ass and spit chewing tobacco on their shoes" attitude.
Actually @9:58 AM, Robinhood is outside the city limits of Brandon by several miles, so that's why the RCSO responded. It is somewhat of a rough neighborhood, but it ain't nothing like South and West Jackson.
Robinhood is like West Jackistan, but with single-wides.
9:59 : Exact comment and cut down I expected. I know exactly what the training is and why. Doesn't change a muther humping thing my man. IMO , there ain't a damn thing wrong with a leg shot when a person has a knife. A KNIFE. Not a gun......A KNIFE.
10:28 : ?? A meth cook every two mobile homes IS EXACTLY like south and west Jackson. Only difference is the born spawn in Rankin stay hulled up in a back room dying slowly while the born spawn in Jackson go out shooting.
It's been proven many times that an attacker with a knife can close from 20 feet and stab a trained person before they can get their gun out of the holster and fire a shot. Some of the people commenting here should stick to what they know.
9:20. For clarification and updating your education, please review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U
@11:01 AM Urban legend widely believed in the LE community, but not proven at all. This theory was written by one person and it became the truth - because it was on the internet.
@10:55
Nobody has bothered cooking meth since about 2012 when the cheap stuff from the DPRK (delivered via submarine) started flooding the US drugs market.
10:28, correct. It is not in the city limits, but has a Brandon address, thus associated with Brandon. I know what I am talking about, I was raised here and have lived here for 40 years. It's the "white ghetto". The real hood is Shady Lane or Mary Myles Drive. Also, Apple Ridge apartments and "The Pondarosa, or "Rosa" for short.
December 22, 2021 at 10:20 AM
21 feet is the distance to lose by a knife weilder before you can get a gun out of holster and shots on target.
https://youtu.be/2h0-q_IJbxE
Yeah you can tell the idiots on here with no amount of law enforcement or firearms training, especially involving bladed weapons. Yeah just shoot him in the knee, he MUST be within arms distance? Where do you morons come from? Why don’t we get a social worker, a priest, and a couple of cold beers out there while we’re at it. Maybe that’s JPD protocol to shoot the knee, hell they probably won’t even bother to show up for this type of call out.
Two deputies. Why couldn't one use his tazer while the other covered?
10:52 don't try to justify. 9:59 is spot-on!! Run on back to your basement and video games.
i didn't stay at a holiday inn last night, but it seems to me, and i may be wrong about this; but if you get out of the car with 2 knives in your hands, and police officers tell you to drop the knives, it might be a good idea to drop the fucking knives.
if you don't drop the knives, or gun, or whatever the hell else you have in your hands when the police officer tells you to drop said items from your hands, then you deserve everything that happens to you after that.
and why the hell would you get out of the car with knives in your hands in the first place? blue lights shining all around you not enough of a clue as to who is there and that getting out of the car with knives isn't that great of an idea?
sane people don't do this. sober people don't do this. people with control of their mental faculties don't do this.
In spite of all of the comments above: if you don't want to get shot, don't come at a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon, ESPECIALLY after you've been told not to do so!
The way I look at it, the deceased was in ONE HUNDRED PERCENT control of how that altercation went down. Unfortunately, he made the wrong choice.....and in Rankin County, of all places!
the only way to avoid this tragedy is adopt new rules of engagement-you must be killed before you can respond with deadly force
December 22, 2021 at 10:52 AM; was the person standing there, perfectly still, wearing yoga pants, so that his leg wes perfectly visible? or was he wearing loose pants and moving erratically, making it difficult to know exactly where his leg is?
much easier and effective to shoot center mass where your gun is pointing and your'e already looking than it is to point the gun at a moving leg, aim and shoot. but according to you, you already know this. so, you must prefer dead cops instead of dead criminals.
knives kill. not sure if you knew that. somebody doped up on drugs might not even notice a leg shot. doesn't take but one knife stab to the jugular to ruin someone's day.
hopefully you will never have to make the split second decision to shoot someone in the leg to keep them from stabbing you or a loved one.
9:59 here
Aiming anywhere besides center mass in a high stress situation will teach you a tragic lesson in dead innocent bystanders as your jacketed round (LEO are forbidden from having hollow points in 2021) will ricochet off the pavement or travel through multiple walls. Put your rounds into the armed target who has refused to comply with your lawful orders or else you risk killing Uniqua’s fatherless toddler who is watching the drama unfold like the rest of the slack jawed bystanders.
To all you heroes who think you can do the cops job better, they take applications every single day
12:42- hahahhahahaha
December 22, 2021 at 12:42 PM; wasn't it jacob blake that was tased multiple times, surrounded by armed police officers, and was still able to walk all the way around his car and go for a knife, before he was shot. he was an idiot, in a long list of idiots, that have been shot for not complying with simple commands.
These racebaiters won't be happy until cops are dead and can't do their job.
Why didn't the deputies shoot the knives out of his hands? A shotgun would have accomplished it.
@2:36PM
The police department doesn’t take applications every single day.
11:40
You don’t know what the hell you are talking about. You need to get one of your criminal buddies 21 feet away and when he runs at you see if you can draw your sideways gat and try to shoot him. Won’t happen!
@December 22, 2021 at 11:40 AM
It is not an urban legend or a myth.
It is real and called "The Rule of 21" meaning 21 feet.
It is proven that an armed officer can be stabbed by an attacker within a range of 21 feet before said officer can unholster, draw and get on target.
I bet your head hurts from remembering to breathe.
When I had police training in the early 80's, we were trained to shoot out the knees.
Why did we get away from that?
@6:05PM
The only way to end the debate is for you to actually test the theory on a police officer. Si? I believe the officer wins but feel free to prove me wrong.
Most of these cops aren’t smart enough to quickly think and disable. Reaction time is too short so they naturally choose the easier route…shoot to kill.
Hearing reports that initial shots from officer were to each knee (both missed) and to each knife (both missed). This round of targeting was repeated again with the officer’s left hand after stabbing injuries to his right arm and right eye. Eventually, sense prevailed and aggressor was shot center mass and dropped.
10:20 my thoughts exactly, plus a few more. Did he call in his own drug overdose? I didn’t see mention of anyone else at the scene. No way he’s overdosed one minute and an imminent threat to LE the next. Would someone even call in their own drug OD just to get the cops to come and kill him? Nothing here adds up. Deadly force by police in the UK is subject to massive scrutiny that extends way beyond an internal investigation and a DA’s discretion. (Not that there’s any lack of coordinated coverup there in plenty of cases.) Sure, some here get lots of attention, which may be when multiple eyewitnesses recorded it on phones or whatever. On the other hand, oftentimes it seems as if there’s little more than a halfass “investigation” wrapped up with the DA announcing that no charges will be brought.
Hol’ up a sec. That statement is problematic from jump. Do officers typically respond to drug ODs by immediately ordering the overdosed individual to exit the vehicle? This statement goes from drug OD to “the suspect” in the first sentence or two, with zero explanation. It more than begs the question of how man in truck stuck in mud is OD’d became “the suspect” as soon as officers arrived on the scene. Nevermind there would have been any number of less lethal ways to disarm the dude. Do they really think people just buy this bs?
Sounds like many of the detractors need to slow down and make complete stops.
@7:58am
The reporter/spokesman cannot try the case and present all the facts to your satisfaction at the crime scene.
I do know officers in the past have approached such active scenes with one officer holding a shotgun, the other a pistol. The pistol cop moves in close to arrest and handcuff while the shotgun cop covers the whole scene. I doubt the suspect cared what weapon killed him, he was looking for the exit he got.
If I’m a LEO and a suspect approaches with a knife, I’d get an instant chubby at the thought of legally killing this perp. Am I right guys??
11:40, like I said, stick to stuff you know...one other thing to consider is that some of the criminal gangs teach hand to hand combat, disarmament, and other techniques in prison, so allowing them to close to arm's length is extremely dangerous. But putting that aside, anyone stupid enough to get out and challenge LEO's with even one knife and not expect to be shot is just infantile.
@5:44PM
If you tell it then a man only needs hand to hand combat training and a box of Ginsu knives to protect his family from perps with guns after they enter the man’s household.
And don’t let the man know how to throw his knives like darts. Those hollow point bullets are in troubbbbbble.
@9:20 am on Dec. 22. At the police academy you are trained to stop the threat which means kill the threat. You don't shot to injure the threatening person, you shoot to kill. Standard police academy training as it was taught to me.
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