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Originally Posted by zulutango
"the only suspicious thing that he did prior to hindsight was that he ran from police (the having a gun part may not be illegal at all for obvious reasons)"
In his case he was prohibited from having guns because of his attempted murder charge, assaults etc. That IS illegal. He had a lifetime firearms ban and he still had guns with him.
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again that's due to hindsight they didn't even know who he was, how would they know about the firearms ban
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"They didn't even know that an assault rifle was in his lap until after they moved in on the body). Not true.
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its true the article you posted says that (they couldn't have known it was in his lap until they were upon him)
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originally posted by Zulutango
He said a lone Mountie with six years experience was involved in the shooting, which occurred about 11 p.m. and after Purdie took off from other officers who saw the guns in his car.
I think Police can tell the difference between a hand gun and a long gun. There has been speculation that it may have been a AR-15 copy in 22 cal, a very distinctive looking weapon.
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Originally Posted by fliptuner
The responding officer noticed the suspect, an unidentified lone male, had a gun and called for backup before the suspect fled the scene.
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"the occupant of the fleeing vehicle became engaged in a lethal confrontation with our uniformed member with what is believed to be an assault rifle,"
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(id link the actual article but Kim Bolan likes updating and changing her articles with new info so all we have is the cut&paste from flip)
^^ that statement was later retracted because they aren't sure if the suspect had fired at all but even at the time they made that statement they were not certain it was an assault rifle
it was late, it was dark, the officer was certain he saw a firearm of that i do not doubt
but again they were not certain what those weapons were, he had 2, one turned out to be a dummy and the other a rifle but which did the officer initially see? i don't know, even if he had seen both weapons it MAY NOT have been illegal for him to be carrying/transporting them (as far as the officer knew)
So at the time of the incident the only thing the officers knew for certain that Adam Purdie did that was illegal was running from the police
Again I don't blame the officer for acting how he did, after all this guy did have a weapon and he was running from the police and you only have a short time to act AND the suspect MAY have fired at the police, we don't have any confirmation yet, so no I don't care about the events that led to the shooting all that much. (i can totally understand why they did)
But nevertheless the facts as we know them have to be made clear (more precisely the facts that were known at the time of the incident), and I only wish that an attempt at saving the suspects life had been made sooner especially because the only thing that he MAY have done wrong was run from police.
Of course with Hindsight we know he did many more things wrong than would have been known at that time but regardless I would still have hoped for an attempt to save him be made; again perhaps im too idealistic, but i do not believe so.