Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gun Fight
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Wisconsin Rapids police officer shoots teen wielding knife
The Wood County Sheriff’s Department has released video of a Wisconsin Rapids police officer’s shooting of a 16-year-old boy who was carrying a knife.
At 2:59 a.m. Aug. 15, a Wisconsin Rapids officer responded to the report of three people attacking a vehicle and one person threatening a man with a knife.
Wisconsin Rapids Officer Rod Krakow, a 22-year veteran of the department, encounter ed a 16-year-old boy on Gaynor Avenue.
In the video taken from Krakow’s squad car, Krakow can be heard repeatedly telling the teenager to drop the knife and get to the ground. He tells another officer to “tase him†just before the teenager lunges with the knife at the officer.
Wood County Sheriff’s Department Investigator-Sgt. Scott Machotka said the teenager was about 18 feet from the officer when he lunged forward. He was 12 feet away from Krakow when the first shot was fired and fell to the ground about four feet from Krakow.
The teenager remained in fair condition today at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield.
September 13th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
How fucking stupid do you gotta be to run at a cop who’s pointing a gun at you with a knife?..
Dumb muthafucka…. lucky that cop didn’t put one in your head, he would of got away with it too.
September 13th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
american cops are pussys… he shot him 2 times and still has hes gun pointed at him.. as if he could stand up again… you must be fucking kidding me
September 14th, 2010 at 5:52 am
he can be lucky that he is white, a black person would get 51 headshots ….
September 17th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Dammmm I Would Of Shot ThAT n***a Right In The FUCKIN Face Run At Me With A Knife Aahahhaha n***a Got Some Balls
September 17th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Dammmm I Would Of Shot ThAT n***a Right In The FUCKIN Face Run At Me With A Knife Aahahhaha n***a Got Some Balls
September 25th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
I was there…..I got video of it too and for the n***a who said good thing it was a white dude the mother fucka is an asian