Man open carrying a rifle is killed by police

View · by **fishdude** on Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:40 am

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/06/0 ... yn-center/

Brooklyn Center police kill a man walking down the sidewalk open carrying a rifle. None of the stories I found so far have very many details. More information needs to come out about this.

View · by **bulletproof** on Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:49 am

Neighbors say the officer- using his door as cover- shot the 20-year-old man multiple times from about 30 feet away. Friends and family identified the man killed in the shooting as Dante Wright. Friday morning friends and family of Wright gathered in the spot where he died. Wright's friends don't know why he was carrying a rifle around Thursday night. Neighbors say when an officer told him to drop it, he wouldn't.

View · by **CarryCauseICan** on Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:19 am

A reply on Facebook for KTCN's page, said her daughter saw it go down and this man pointed the rifle at the officer.

View · by **xd ED** on Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:33 am

Sounds like a suicide by cop.

It was interesting to note all the newsies this morning remark with astonishment that "...it had a scope!..." must not have been a ubiquitous
assault rifle/AK-47/ machine gun

View · by **Paul** on Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:35 am

Only snipers use scopes. Hollywood has taught me that.

View · by **Thunder71** on Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:40 am

Maybe they'll lighten up on 'assault' rifles now and change priorities to rifles with 'assault optics'.

I'll sit this one out.

View · by **rtk** on Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:41 pm

Paul wrote:Only snipers use scopes. Hollywood has taught me that.

View · by **GunGoogler** on Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:01 pm

Thunder71 wrote:assault optics'

Ha! How about victim viewers? Maniac Magnifiers? That's it...we must remove all sights--whether optic or not--from guns to ensure the safety of the masses! :angryvillagers:

View · by **tt3** on Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:40 am

Got some dirt about this one, from someone who works nearby the incident. This is all hearsay of the worst kind.
Young man was told to pull up his pants by some neighbors, didn't like that request at all, went into friends apartment to retrieve said rifle and make his displeasure known.
He was just turning his life around.

View · by **GunGoogler** on Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:27 am

tt3 wrote:Got some dirt about this one, from someone who works nearby the incident. This is all hearsay of the worst kind.
Young man was told to pull up his pants by some neighbors, didn't like that request at all, went into friends apartment to retrieve said rifle and make his displeasure known.
He was just turning his life around.

Well, his life got turned around alright. Pity...

View · by **rugersol** on Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:44 am

if he felt that strongly bout it, maybe there's somethin' to this whole pants around yer knees thing ... I'll try er out today n see!

View · by **Tomh** on Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:45 am

Why were his pants down? Oh wait, don't answer that.

View · by **BemidjiDweller** on Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:09 am

So, from the account told above, he was going to either shoot or threaten his neighbors with a rifle because they told him to pull his pants up? Or did I completely misunderstand what was said?

View · by **chunkstyle** on Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:53 am

Who was his instructor?

View · by **GunGoogler** on Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:58 am

chunkstyle wrote:Who was his instructor?

This guy:

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