Georgia police kill gunman after high-speed chase

[Ian David]

Georgia police kill gunman after high-speed chase
Dramatic confrontation caught on video

Tuesday, November 22, 2005; Posted: 11:17 a.m. EST (16:17 GMT

WOODBINE, Georgia (AP) -- A sheriff's deputy shot and killed a rifle-wielding motorist who led him on a high-speed chase, then pulled over and approached the officer with his gun drawn.

Authorities on Monday released a videotape of the November 15 confrontation along Interstate 95. A sheriff's department spokesman said Tuesday they released the tape to set the record straight and show the deputy had no choice but to shoot the man, Charles Lee Lamb Jr.

The deputy had been conducting a routine traffic stop when a motorist pulled over and said he saw a man in a red pickup truck pointing a rifle at other drivers, said Lt. William Terrell, of the Camden County Sheriff's Department. (Watch dramatic final seconds before police shoot armed man -- :40)

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Lamb then pulled over again, and the videotape from the dashboard camera shows him walking erratically toward the deputy's car with the rifle pointing straight ahead. Lamb moves off camera, and a shot is heard. Terrell said Lamb refused again to drop the weapon, and the deputy shot and killed him.

More:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/22/motorist.shooting.ap/



Wanna bet one of those bumper-stickers has a big "W" on it?

[MadHound]

1. Sounds like a reasonable action on the cop's part

Frankly, if somebody is heading towards me with a gun, I'm shooting too.

[DS1]

2. Good, now finish the job and toss the corpse in an unmarked hole

[Ian David]

5. Wonder if he was on a Veterans Administration waiting list for PTSD help?

It's only going to be a matter of time before we see an epidemic of people who needed help but didn't get it until it was too late.

[mermaid]

8. It's Not Just Veterans

needing help!!

A lot of ordinary everyday citizens are under a hell of a lot of stress in this shit economy, don't forget!

[Ian David]

9. This is true. But now we've moved into mass-production mode on PTSD

[MrBenchley]

7. Huh?

[MrBenchley]

3. The NRA in Action....

[Silverhair]

4. Are you sure the cop is a member of the NRA?

I will instantly grant that many LEO are NRA, but I haven't heard anything about this officer.

[MrBenchley]

6. It's the dink who was aiming at motorists who embodies the gun lobby...

Batshit crazy and a public menace...

Lest we forget, the NRA's chief lobbyist had to resign in 2004 because his kid was caught by the cops menacing motorists with a popgun....

[Silverhair]

12. Now you are using the same tactics the KKK does.

You are trying to use one incident to smear an entire group. Any very large group will have some bad guys in it. The KKK tries to smear all blacks because of the crimes of a few blacks. You are trying to smear a group based on one individual's crime. Do you have a secret membership in the KKK that you haven't told us about?

[MrBenchley]

15. The KKK are "gun rights" all the way, binky....just like the NRA

They even drop their reflexive racism when they parrot its empty-headed rhetoric....

http://www.kkkk.net/

David Duke leaped up to cheer when Charlton Heston opened his flatulent yap to a bunch of racist right wing loonies...

http://www.vpc.org/nrainfo/statements.html

When Heston told his chinless NRA members to lynch Al Gore, they cheered and hollered "Get a rope!"

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/03/04/11.html

"Do you have a secret membership in the KKK that you haven't told us about?"
No, but then I'm not sitting around pissing and moaning because a bunch of racist shits got the finger from a l;iberal....

http://www.vpc.org/studies/nrafamst.htm

[Silverhair]

18. None of which changes the fact that you used a KKK tactic.

You tried to damn an entire group on the basis of what one person did.

[MrBenchley]

20. It shows what bullshit that charge is....in spades....

Now go cry about how awful it is that I don't have resepct for triggerhappy buffoons who snuggle up to racist groups to somebody who gives a shit.

[billbuckhead]

10. Was the perp an NRA gun nut running from the law? Like these guys?

[Silverhair]

13. Unknown if the dead perp was an NRA member.

Taking an RKBA stance does not require me to defend Cheney & Co.

[MrBenchley]

16. Look out, Tom Delay's got a gun!

By the way, just look at the fear in the eyes of those tyrants as they are confronted by America's gun owners(snicker)...

Actually what IS funny is that neither Cheney or Delay would go near the NRA until they were all run through metal detectors...but then they know first hand what dangerous screwlooses those triggerhappy bozos are.

[izzie]

11. Sounds sort of reasonable to me but I think every thing gets in

to the act.Blood gets heated up and bad things happen.Reason goes to the back burner with every one.

[sendero]

14. How..

... do you "draw" a rifle?

[MrBenchley]

17. Fortunately, there's an instructional video at the link....

Because clearly the most important part of this story is whether readers could emulate the loony who threatened motorists and a cop using their own popguns....

[benEzra]

19. With a pen, or maybe an Etch-a-Sketch if you're good...

that was indeed a wierd choice of words.