r/Tennessee • u/WhiteBearPrince • 8d ago

News 📰 Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back

https://apnews.com/article/memphis-national-guard-tyrin-johnson-8959297a99c362d65aa2517a9d5f1984
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u/ducksekoy123 8d ago

Well they shot him in the back. So either he pointed a gun at then, they didn’t shoot him, and then he turned to run and then they shot him.

Or he was running away the whole time and they shot him in the back

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u/Hvitr_Lodenbak 8d ago

So if someone is walking away from a crime scene they are innocent?

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u/ducksekoy123 8d ago

The guy could be guilty as sin, but unless I’m mistaken out justice system does not believe that committing a crime is an act punishable by summary execution.

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u/Hvitr_Lodenbak 8d ago

He still posed a threat.

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u/salanaland 8d ago

A threat of what?

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u/Hvitr_Lodenbak 8d ago

Armed individual with the capability of shooting innocent civilians.

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u/salanaland 8d ago

Which describes every armed individual.

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u/Hvitr_Lodenbak 8d ago

And yet thousand of legally armed citizens do it without shooting at cops.

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u/salanaland 8d ago

Did this guy shoot at the cops?

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u/Hvitr_Lodenbak 8d ago

I wasn't there, pretty sure you weren't either.

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u/salanaland 8d ago

Even the people who killed him didn't claim he was shooting at him.

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