Suicide by cop? Denver cop shoots man who attacked squad car with hammer (VIDEO)

• I am the sister of the man who was shot... could you please tell me more about any eyewitness accounts you may know of.. and to set the record straight, he was hit twice in the back out of the 5 shots that the officer fired... and he is paralyzed... I don't think I should say much more than that... but Messia if you or anyone else reading this has any links or anything you can send me it would be greatly appreciated.

• The guy who wanted to die. He doesnt give a shit about the emotionial effect of other people because of his actions, He should have just blown his head off and not fucked with anyone else

• who was selfish???

• selfish fuck

• A bit off topic....why in the hell did news station send this reporter out in bad weather?  Makes no sense to me.  The story had nothing to do with the weather. 

• It is a semantic point -- some suicidal people induce the police to kill them, but the phrase "suicide by cop" is, strictly speaking, inaccurate, in that they do not kill themselves.  Because Michael used the phrase ""literal example of the phenomenon", I felt justified in objecting.  The use of the phrase generally makes me uneasy, in that it firmly roots responsibility for killings not with those doing the killing, but with those who putatively were suicidal.  I accept that the phenomenon occurs, and that police often are acting justifiably in self-defense when it does, but the catchphrase should be retired. 

• It's too bad that you weren't there to talk to the raging man with the hammer out of his lethal fit he was throwing. I'll bet you could have talked him down and gave him a nice big hug as he was swinging a hammer at your skull. Maybe if you weren't spoon fed your whole life and had to actually make some real decisions, you might be a bit more objective. Actually….I doubt it.

• Wow. Really….Smarty pAnts meSia! I did not know you could murder someone without them dying! Really Gude commment… or is it good. I'm sure you know either way

• Robert, you're amazingly dense if you really believe that people don't commit suicide by provoking police to shoot them. I hate cops and even I can accept this very real aspect of the society we live in that not every one of them wants to kill everyone without a badge.

• As I mentioned in the post, neither the name of the officer nor the man who was shot have been named at this point. Thanks, as always, for weighing in.

• The officer is probably so broken up about this it'll take a full day to carve a notch in his gun butt.

• Michael, the fact that the phrase is in common use does not excuse your using it -- there can be no "literal example of the phenomenon", because it is an oxymoronic metaphor; if the police shoot someone to death, no one has committed suicide.  In this instance, the suspect has not died, so neither "suicide" nor "homicide" are appropriate descriptors.  Please interview the eyewitnesses to which Messia refers; if it is true that the officer shot the man four times while he was on the ground it would be more appropriate to describe this as a murderous police assault than anything else.  Does this officer have a name?

• What the hell is wrong with people?

• All I see is another murder committed by a member of DPD, which will go completely unpunished. Shot him four times on the ground and then frisked him according to eyewitness. Wow. 

• So, the cop had access to a tazer and pepper spray, but decided to use lethal force?  What a pussy!  He obviously was scared to death as evidenced by firing 5 shots.  Where did the bullets that didn't hit the man end up?  Anyone else shot?

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