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9. Joseph Jennings

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 07:36 PM

Sep 2014

An 18-year-old suicidal man shot and killed by police officers and sheriff's deputies Saturday evening outside an Ottawa hardware store. Family tried to intervene. Police told them to back off or they would be shot.

The disconnect, once again:

"Why did it take them shooting him 16 times at least for them to bring him down and go and take care of what they needed to take care of?" Jennings' aunt, Brandy Smith said.

Ottawa Police Chief Dennis Butler said officers did what they were trained to do.

"They reacted based upon the training that they've been given from the academy," Butler said. "We were thankful that no officer was injured from protecting themselves from risk of great bodily harm."

http://www.kctv5.com/story/26355241/ottawa-police-involved-in-shooting

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