The officer ordered the man several times to drop the weapon. When he did not, she shot him once in the head, killing him, Winkey said.

Wow, aiming straight for a head shot. They don't fark around in Spokane.

mmm Hot Justice, Cold Beer..

Bystanders brought children to look at the body? Reminds me of a bunch of Palestinians after an Israeli strike.

/can we please just think of the children?

If only everyone else had a gun she might have had an DOUBLE-MULTI-MEGA-ULTRA-KILL KILL KILLLLL....

I think I will go play old skool UT now.

steal, pull weapon,,,,hope u die,,,,oh you did,,,,way to go...may this be a lesson to all you other asshats who are thinking of doing the same thing

"...something police call a "beer rip"

What I call a beer rip you don't want to be in the same room for.

Sounds like a Darwin to me.

Sad but, cop did her job.

Other neighbors gathered outside Saturday afternoon and evening as police officers processed evidence. Some brought children to look at the body.

hope they brought sticks to poke the body with too.

Moral of the story, only steal beer from your buddies, and don't pull a gun on the cops.

There should be a darwin tag on fark.

that's pretty sad.... and it makes me thirsty. thirsty for blo...beer...

Headline writer is a complete tool. If you put a cop in a position of their life or yours, you lose. Period.

Beer thief gets instant capital punishment

He was not shot for stealing beer. He was shot for refusing to drop his weapon after multiple warnings. What do you expect?

"Just yards away from the crowd, the man lay on the ground with a case of Keystone Ice and a gun beside him."

Boys and girls, if you are going to steal beer, steal good beer.

Cop did her job. Nothing to see here. Move on.

two to the chest or one to the head just to make sure that they're dead.job well done.

I think she waited too long to ventilate him:

He said the man then spun toward bystanders, and the officer shot him from behind.

He pointed the gun at her, and she didn't shoot. It wasn't until he threatened bystanders that she acted. I suppose she thought he was under control while she had his attention. I can't decipher this; it is beyond me.

It looks like she was more concerned about others than herself. There should be more cops like her everywhere.

If I were of legal age, I'd buy that cop a beer. Buy. I said buy. Not steal.

Sounds like the ritzy part of Spokane, what with people pulling pieces on cops after a grab and go and people bringing the youngins by to see that thar dead guy.

Good for the cop. One less Keystone Light drinking idiot walking the streets.

Well, except for the idiots that brought their kids to see the body.

Headline writer is a complete tool. If you put a cop in a position of their life or yours, you lose. Period.

ditto. stupid tag goes to the headline submitter. hero tag goes to the cop.

I bet it was Budweiser.

Life, liberty and the protection of beer.

Yeah if you pull a gun on a cop, I'd say you've got about a 50/50 chance of being shot on the spot. If the cop is feeling confident, they'll yell at you to throw down the gun first.

[i] The officer ordered the man several times to drop the weapon. When he did not, she shot him once in the head, killing him, Winkey said.[/i]

Sounds perfectly fien to me

God, another jerk brandishing a gun to protect his stolen alcohol, or to protest his lot in life.. who knows?.. but the cop even cut him some slack, but NO, in his drug induced stupor he had to take it to the limit.. hope the cop can get over it and get back on the street.

no clue why this warrants a stupid tag...

kudos to the cop. `tard waves a gun at me, all bets are off.

I thought cops were trained to shoot for the center of mass. I wonder if hitting the guy in the head means she's a bad shot.

Thack.
Darwin in action ladies and gentlemen.

Woohoo! Good shot (though I wonder if she was aiming for his chest.)

Can't wait to hear Michael Reagan, Rush, Sean, et. al., blame the beer theft on Wesley Clark and fluouride!

Gun control in America is a joke..

Wow, farkers agreeing on something. This is a beautiful day indeed!!

BTW, cool that she didn't shoot him when he was threatening her life but when he threatened the lives of the people she was sworn to protect she clipped the guys head off!!

But you know that this kids family is going to be sueing someone.

Prediction: On the eleven o'clock news they'll interview a fat, ugly woman with greasy hair, bad teeth and bad tattoos. She'll identify herself as his girlfriend and say what a decent guy he was.

The article reported his age as being "early twenties". If he's under 24, then the anti-gun nuts will be able to use this as another "child killed by gun violence".

Spocompton...closest thing to a city within 100 miles of where I live. Only good thing in that town is Bloomsday.

And I don't think anyone, other than perhaps Emporer Jay, will try to say anything negative about this incident. I think the stupid tag was for the guy who was shot.

Although I might try to get shot before my friends found out I stole a case of Keystone too.

Billy Blue R. Walrath said he had seen the four men earlier, bumming beer money and cigarettes outside the Maid O'Clover store.

Billy Blue R. Walrath? Am I reading that correctly? What the crap kind of name is Billy Blue R. Walrath?

If only beer had a 10 day waiting period.....

For that matter, what kind of crap name is "the Maid O'Clover" store? Is that in the po-faced Irish section of Spokane?

What happened to the Beer!?

Won't somebody please think of the beer!?!!

Now you see the violence inherent in the system!

/pythonism

I live in Spokane and I am glad to see the police not taking any crap from all these young punks. Pull a gun on a cop and get shot. I think a hero tag would have been better.