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NC man fatally shot after throwing Molotov cocktail toward cops, setting police cruisers on fire

May 8, 2022 | | Print Article

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Raleigh, North Carolina police officers on Saturday fatally fired upon a male suspect who’d allegedly been throwing Molotov cocktails at police cruisers and officers alike.

The incident reportedly began around 1:20 pm in the parking lot of the Raleigh Police Department’s southeast district office when an officer spotted a man setting police cruisers on fire using Molotov cocktails, according to local station WNCN.

“The officer then summoned other officers who arrived in the parking lot. Police told the man to stop throwing the incendiary weapons. However, the man continued to throw Molotov cocktails in the parking lot and two Raleigh police cruisers were engulfed in flames,” the station reported.

The suspect then reportedly threw a Molotov cocktail toward the officers, prompting all four to open fire.

“After the man was shot, officers moved him away from a burning car and tried to help the person. The wounded man was taken to a nearby hospital, but died,” according to WNCN.

All four officers have been placed on administrative leave, investigations have been launched by both the Raleigh PD and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, and Raleigh Police Chief Estella D. Patterson has confirmed that she’s petitioned a local judge to have the body cameras worn by all four officers publicly released.

Below is reportedly footage of the shooting that was recorded by a nearby bystander:

All the steps being taken in response to the shooting — administrative leave, investigations, etc. — has some wondering why.

“Why do they have to do all this justification for shooting a psycho who is trying to kill them with fire ? I dont get it,” a comment posted to WNCN’s YouTube page reads.

(Source: YouTube)

The answer likely is liberals.

Left-wing activists on social media have already begun complaining about the shooting, arguing that the “unarmed” suspect shouldn’t have been “executed.”

Look:

While the complainers are far and few between, leftists have demonstrated that it only takes a handful of disgruntled people to trigger devastating, widespread riots.

Though on the other hand, while Raleigh is a Democrat city, it’s more of a blue-dog Democrat city in the style of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. Suffice it to say, it’s not a hotbed of far-left extremism like Portland, Oregon, or Seattle, Washington.

Had the shooting occurred in a city like Portland, Antifa extremists would have likely came out in droves late Saturday to riot and destroy property.

Over in Portland, even some local “journalists” and “reporters” are eager members of the left-wing mob:

This is not the case in Raleigh.

Raleigh police officers last killed a suspect in January. The killing of suspect Daniel Turcios did trigger some protests, but they were small and muted.

“There were passionate pleas on the streets of downtown Raleigh on Thursday night, as the family of Daniel Turcios joined with supporters to condemn Raleigh Police for what they say was police brutality,” local station WTVD reported in February.

“Turcios was shot and killed by RPD officers last month after crashing his car on the Raleigh Beltline. On Thursday night, demonstrators marched and rallied in Moore Square. By the dozens, they stepped out of the square and took their message to the streets with signs and loud bullhorn-blasting chants for justice.”

In cities controlled by the far-left, police shooting-related protests tend to be loud and destructive:

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17 thoughts on “NC man fatally shot after throwing Molotov cocktail toward cops, setting police cruisers on fire”

  1. Seems to me this is a good shoot by all four officers. Throwing Molotov cocktails is a deadly assault with intent to kill.

  2. Cue it up for “protests” and then big lawsuits because another criminal has been eliminated by the police.

  4. Disagree totally with your WV comparison to Raleigh. Raleigh-(and certainly nearby Durham-Chapel Hill) is totally infested with “Seattle type” Leftists.

    1. Let’s see, you have Puke—er, Duke, and UNC in that area. Seems there is another one, but I can’t recall. Those institutions of higher indoctrination are magnets for marxist maggots.

  6. Vivek. If you insist on using colloquial expressions in your writing please try to get them right.

    Few and far between…not far and few between.

  9. Guess he learned a valuable lesson. Raleigh is not Seattle or Portland. They take crime and punishment seriously. Well done officers. He will not be a repeat offender.

  10. Reading some of the comments on this fiasco just sickens me. Why didn’t the cops solve a crime? Why didn’t they have firefighters use their hoses on the guy who tried to murder cops by burning them to death in their cars? How about this leftist sycophants. Stop trying to murder cops. They have a right just like any person to defend themselves.

    2. Didn’t see the fire department, even so, turning high pressure hose on a person would most likely kill them anyway.

    4. There were no Fire Department assets on hand the moment the officers discovered the gentleman burning he police cars. They had to stop him with the weapons/abilities which they had on their persons.

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