Wheelchair Suspect

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Double Amputee Shooting: Matthew Jacob Marin, Houston Officer, Kills Man In Wheelchair, Police Say  A group home called police on a resident who was creating a disturbance.  The man in the wheelchair had only one leg and one arm.  He had a shiny object in his had and threatened the officer and refused to obey the officers commands to stop or back away.  The suspect backed an officer into the corner.  His partner shot the suspect.  The object in the suspects hand turned out to be a pen.   A man in a wheelchair can be very dangerous.  Advocates for the disabled try and tell us all the time how capable and useful disabled people can be, until something bad happens.  A man with a shiny object in his hand could have a knife.  A metal or even plastic pen can be dangerous.  Take a
Bic pen and hold it in your hand, it can penetrate an aluminum can.  Imagine that plunged into your stomach. The officers were in close quarters with the suspect.  Perhaps they could have called him outside.  Maybe the officers could have asked the caregiver to ask the suspect to come outside before they entered the building.  Perhaps the officers could have used OC spray, Taser or even batons to keep the suspect at bay.  There are many possibilities, but officers have to do whatever is reasonable to protect themselves, even from suspects who on the surface might at first seem non-threatening; that's what the SGT Says.