Pennsylvania police pepper-spray protesters after fatal shooting of man

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Police in Pennsylvania used pepper spray against demonstrators who gathered outside a police station Sunday night to protest the fatal shooting earlier that day of a man prosecutors say had run at an officer with a knife.

The Lancaster City Bureau of Police responded earlier in the day to a call from a woman saying"that her brother was reportedly becoming aggressive with his mother and was attempting to break into her house," according to police.shows that the man was holding what appeared to be a knife as he made his way toward the officer.

The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office said Munoz had been"brandishing a knife above his head, in clear view, in a threatening manner." “A police-involved shooting has significant impact on a community, as we are seeing with the large number of individuals gathering in the streets,” DA Heather Adams said Sunday night. “However, I am asking that all reaction be tempered as the investigation is ongoing.”

 

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What is there to protest? Don't police officers have a right to self defense like any other citizen? Should an officer wait until he or someone else is stabbed? Maybe schools should provide a course on how to interact with police officers?

Chemical weapons are supposed to be outlawed. People have the right to gather and protest their grievances. What kind of dystopia have we become?

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Slow news day?

what I'd like to know is- where is the US getting its seemingly endless supply of pepper spray, flash bombs and tear gas wish I owned stock in the companies producing this shit!

Shot to kil

your headline omits that protesters were throwing rocks and breaking windows. but do go on.

The police are supposed to catch criminals not murder them before they can get a trial.

'Gathered'

*after protestors hit police with bricks, broke out windows at the police station. Media is the enemy of the people

So?

Use Rubber bullets!

So is it becoming standard procedure to protest every time a black guy gets arrested? Are we advocating full anarchy now? This is absurd.

'Prosecutors say had run at an officer with a knife'. There is a video out of the guy running at an office with a knife, so it's not like it's hearsay. If you are protesting this justified use of force, then you are on the side of evil.

The video seemed pretty clear. What's the protest about? Just because?

EnemyOfThePeople

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Lancaster police did an OUTSTANDING job!

They never should have been there - but ANY EXCUSE for violence is a GREAT EXCUSE for BlackLivesMatter and AntifaBLMDomesticTerrorists The shooting was justified

1st off, the body cam footage shows the perp running after him with a raised knife Also, they were rioters. They deserved all that pepper spray And more

Way way too many combat veteran ln our police force!!!

oo not ok, public property, PAAttorneyGen and GovernorTomWolf

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Good, These animals should be pepper sprayed. Domestic terrorists

I long for the day I can wake up without worrying if my president will say or do something really stupid or cops don't kill yet another black man

And there is a problem with that? EnemyOfThePeople

Good.

Well, the video said too. Not just the prosecutor.

Excellent! Well done officers!

Waiting for people to realize that an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind...

And?

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