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MrScorpio

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Sun Sep 25, 2016, 07:47 AM Sep 2016

Cops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them - Supplemental 25/09/16 [View all]

Jesse Williams: “We know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.”

West Allis man points gun at police officer in dispute over lawn



West Allis -
All summer is how long Kim Murphy said she's had to look at her neighbor's overgrown yard.

Fed up, she called the City of West Allis. An ordinance states that grass over six inches tall is a violation and a $300 fine if the city has to come out and cut it. The city sent the homeowner notices about what was going to happen.

"So they came out that Thursday and he yelled at them," she said. "They left and came back the next day."

But the forestry department crew didn't come alone. West Allis police officers showed up too, to protect them from George Toeller.

"He's a loose cannon you just never know what he could've done next," Murphy said.

According to the criminal complaint, Toeller, 73, started arguing with officers about the city cutting his grass, when all of a sudden, he pulled out a loaded gun and pointed it directly at the officer. The officer was able to "push the gun up and away" to get control of it, take it away and arrest the man.


http://www.cbs58.com//story/32512083/west-allis-man-points-gun-at-police-officer-in-dispute-over-lawn
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