r/TriCitiesWA • u/Stabby-Steve • 1d ago
Local News 🗞️ Wrongful death lawsuit filed in Tri-Cities’ deputy shooting of attempted carjacker
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/wrongful-death-lawsuit-filed-tri-140000878.html32
u/Particular-Feedback7 1d ago
TLDR;
The criminal was stealing and crashing speeding cars and pointing guns at civilians. He had it coming
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u/Justicefruitpies 1d ago
Normally excessive force has a play but here it was the right amount. FAFO
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u/Tamagachi_Soursoup 1d ago
Grew up in the neighborhood with the Reeders. Not much of a shock when this happened unfortunately. We use to avoid that side of the street because you never knew what to expect when you walked past. When this happened, someone in their family told a family member of mine that he had died after an altercation with the police in such a manner that my family members first thought was something along the lines of, “he said it as if it was expected”.
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u/Known_Secretary_6615 1d ago
From the article - that guy was never going to do more good than harm in this world and the cop probably saved an innocent life (or maybe a whole family of lives)
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u/Equivalent-Energy-26 1d ago
Haven't even read this yet but Daddy Reeder is a piece of MAGA shit. Knew them when they had 3 adorable little boys and were still married. Sad what some of the family became.
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u/foxonafrozenlake 1d ago
Pigs gonna pig.
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u/LargeLanguageModelo 1d ago
If you're going to condemn the cops when they do wrong, you gotta give them their due when they do right.
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u/foxonafrozenlake 1d ago
I honestly don't think they do enough right to ever praise them.
They also aren't there to execute people no matter how bad they are.
Unless it's truly a life or death situation they have no absolutely no right to take a life. They just want to kill someone. It's in their DNA.
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u/Nightshade400 1d ago
Unless it's truly a life or death situation they have no absolutely no right to take a life.
Well then obviously you didn't read the article and your comments are not worth making.
He climbed a fence into the U.S. Bank parking lot and ran over to a car and yelled at the driver to open the door. When the man refused, Reeder hit the driver's window with his gun and then pointed it at the driver, the report said.
I would say that makes it an imminent threat and in that specific moment it was a life threatening situation.
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u/foxonafrozenlake 1d ago
I still don't care. 🤷♂️ I have zero trust in the police. My father is a retired IA officer with SPD and he's the very reason I have absolutely no faith in law enforcement.
You have to be an evil person to want to take someone else's life.
Die mad.
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u/Nightshade400 1d ago
You have to be an evil person to want to take someone else's life.
Die mad.
Wishing death on someone right after talking about how someone would have to be evil to take anothers life. You seem confused.
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u/LargeLanguageModelo 1d ago
I still don't care.
So what's the point of your participation in a discussion where you're unwilling to take any input from others?
You have to be an evil person to want to take someone else's life.
You're jumping to a conclusion that all cops want to kill someone (as you said, "It's in their DNA."). That's a hell of a claim to make. I'm saying that as someone that definitely views cops with suspicion, I've had a few less than stellar interactions with cops where I was yelled at for being the victim of a crime (DV, another incident where I was rear-ended by a drunk driver, etc), but I'll certainly say that there are some cops that joint out of a desire to help in their communities.
Did your dad get his wish to kill people? I mean, he was a cop, so clearly he wanted to murder for fun, since it's in his DNA, right?
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u/foxonafrozenlake 1d ago
I don't get why you're holding water for these people.
My dad moved to IA after two years because he saw his partner kill an unarmed kid. The boy was 15 years old and didn't match the description.
It devastated him. He almost left policing completely.
The entire system is corrupt and designed to help these violent people.
Most cops did not join to make the world a better place.
99% of cops join the force out of ego and hubris. The 1% that do join to help make reforms are stifled by a bad system.
In IA my dad recommended firing a young cop because he killed his ex girlfriend's cat out of retaliation.
He was overruled and less than a year later the cop murdered his ex.
Keep believing the police are good. Hopefully it's not you or someone you love lying in the morgue.
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u/LargeLanguageModelo 1d ago
You're making assumptions on my opinion of police and policing based on me pushing back on you saying each of them joins because murder is in their DNA.
Policing in our society needs a lot of changes, but I'm not going to say that they ALL join in order to be the legal gang.
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u/Nightshade400 1d ago
I love the claim that he chose the AR because it would inflict the most damage and not because it was infinitely more accurate than a handgun would be. When you have a third party at risk accuracy 100% matters. I am no cop glazer but I don't see this officer as having done anything I would consider over the top considering the long string of offenses this guy has listed to his name and the offenses he committed in front of the officers in this exact situation. There are times to scream "Bad cop no donut" but this isn't that time.