Acevedo's Comments on Shaefer Shooting

[AJ the TP Guru]

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/officials-did-gun-control-rhetoric-play-role-in-of/nXhSh/?icmp=statesman_internallink_textlink_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo questions whether "gun control rhetoric" led to 68 yr. old man retaining his firearm after having been asked to put it down. The man was subsequently killed by the Austin cop responding to his call about him having killed a pit bull. This story was hashed out here last month, but Acevedo's last comment below is new.

“What was his mindset in terms of what he felt the officer was trying to do, in terms of his fears of the government taking his guns?” Acevedo said to the American-Statesman last month. “It’s time for people to be a little more responsible and stop trying to exploit the emotion of weapons policies, and that means don’t be telling people that the government’s going to take away our guns when they know it’s not.”

[Daniel75]

It might have been....I think it was more stubbornness than anything.

[Traildust]

Pretty sure STUPIDITY played the biggest role here. Point your gun at a LEO, expect to get shot.

[Saltgrass Mikerr]

[QUOTE=Traildust;6976108]Pretty sure STUPIDITY played the biggest role here. Point your gun at a LEO, expect to get shot. [/QUOTE

Yes siree..X2

[Black Ice]

Pretty sure STUPIDITY played the biggest role here. Point your gun at a LEO, expect to get shot.

X3

[BowCrazy]

Pretty sure STUPIDITY played the biggest role here. Point your gun at a LEO, expect to get shot.

And how long has been true?

Is there anyone who doesn't know this????

Apparently so, you just can't do much with stupid people that have a lack of common sense!!!!

[Draco]

Acevedo is always looking for another reason to get on TV. This is just another reason for him.

[blacksunshine]

Acevedo is always looking for another reason to get on TV. This is just another reason for him.

^^^^

call a spade a spade....he's an attention whore...lol

[longhorn_cop]

Attention slut is true.
Never lets a crisis go to waste.
He was on Austin talk radio that same morning of the shooting.

[Thumper]

Acevedo is always looking for another reason to get on TV. This is just another reason for him.

He's one of Obama's gun control supporters and testified before Biden's gun control task force. His mind set with chl holders is to shoot first and ask questions latter. Has anyone other than the APD views the dash-cam video?

[txfireguy2003]

Well, I had a nice response written up, but it started rambling (I'm famous for that) into politics so I deleted it. Bad decisions were made, in a bad situation, and a worse situation resulted. I'll leave it at that.

[blacksunshine]

story I recall was that there were four cops involved and all four unloaded with their m4's...no dash cam I don't think because it was all in the back yard

[Thumper]

Front yard, two officers and one was a sergeant. Shot twice by the patrolman, sergeant didn't fire, police were waiting for dash-cam analyzes before final report.

"Robby Alden, an attorney representing Schaefer’s family, said a police officer recently interviewed Schaefer’s son, also named John, and asked him to speculate on what might have been going through his father’s mind that day.

Schaefer’s son said he couldn’t guess what his dad was thinking or doing, according to Alden, who voiced frustrations that the department has declined his requests for information related to the shooting, such as any audio or video that might have been captured.

“We’ve got a family whose law-abiding father was shot dead, and it’s hard to put closure on any of this stuff when they won’t give us information,” he said. “If they want to ask us some questions about what Mr. Schaefer may or may not have been thinking … it would be more appropriate if we had the chance to listen to what happened.” Last month, the Texas attorney general ruled that the city could withhold the information.

The city also has declined the American-Statesman’s requests for records relating to the shooting, saying the investigation is ongoing. On Friday, Acevedo said the investigation could be completed in the next 30 to 60 days, but that until a grand jury weighs in, the department’s findings won’t be released."