We’ve been going through a little bit of a drought when it comes to criminals being perforated by police gunfire and filmed for our enjoyment. But after about 2 weeks without an outlaw to watch get his just desserts, we have a new star for our show! Here’s what happened to an old thug, Danny Brogdon, who had just stabbed two women and refused to drop the knife he used to commit the crime.
BODY CAM: Video shows tense exchange before Muskogee Police shoot man
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC SOUNDS AND IMAGES. We stopped the video before the fatal moments.
Well, the soft-hearted snowflakes at KJRH may think you are not worthy of seeing the entire video, but I do. So I found another video of the same incident that shows everything that happened before and after the “fatal moments.”
Muskogee police on Friday released body cam footage showing the tense moments between officers and a stabbing suspect that escalated into officers fatally shooting the man.
At about 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Muskogee police officers responded to reports of two women being stabbed in the 1500 block of North 18th. When they arrived, they evacuated victims in an attempt to de-escalate the situation while Danny Brogdon reportedly was armed with a knife.
Let’s put that “suspect” business to rest, shall we? Two women were stabbed and here’s this belligerent guy holding a knife at the scene. And “reportedly armed with a knife?” Sure as hell looks like a knife to me. We all saw it. Or maybe he was just a prep cook who got lost on his way to chop mushrooms for a catering event. Nah. Or, as our own Armadillo posted so eloquently on our last episode,
Too bad for the Red Cross that they didn’t have an employee holding a 55 gallon drum under this guy at the time of the shooting. It would have saved a fortune in gas instead of a blood mobile drive. Although, I don’t think if they gave him a cookie after it would have helped him cope with his loss of blood.
Dash cameras and body cameras captured officers arriving to the home until after Brogdon was fatally shot. In all, the confrontation with police lasted more than 18 minutes, with one officer asking 122 times for Brogdon to drop his knife. (You can view the final 2 minutes above)
And if Brogdon was black, there would be protests and people wailing, “Why didn’t they ask 123 times?!?! This was murder!” But since they did end up killing him, and deservedly so, now they’ll decry this incident by moaning, “They wouldn’t have been this patient with a black man!” LEOs just can’t win, and liberals just don’t live in reality.
Officers tried various methods of nonlethal force on Brogdon inside and outside the house, but they didn’t appear to have much effect on him, according to the video.
Toward the end of the incident, body cam footage shows Brogdon standing in the front yard of the home as officers shouted commands. Officers continued to tell Brogdon to stop walking toward them, which he was doing slowly. They deployed flashbang toward the yard, but it did not deter him from inching forward either, the video shows.
Muskogee Police say Brogdon was suicidal and they believe he was provoking them to commit “suicide by cop.”
I know we’ve all heard of “suicide by cop.” Sometimes I hear people say, “Oh, how sad! What a poor guy!” But if suicide by itself is often a selfish act, what does that make this? Wanting to die but so unwilling to take one’s own life that you potentially ruin the lives of eight strangers (that figure is taken from the list of officers now on paid administrative leave below) by forcing them to kill you? That’s the ultimate in selfishness and I have no pity for him.
At one point, with officers pleading with him to stop and “don’t do this,” Brogdon told officers, “I am ready to die.”
Just a few seconds later, he stepped off the curb while holding a knife and seemingly lunged in the direction of officers, who were backed up against vehicles in the street with nowhere else to go.
Multiple shots rang out at once, and Brogdon fell to the street, the video shows.
Eight officers are on paid administrative leave while the investigation continues, which is protocol for most departments when officers are involved in a shooting. Officers on leave are: Sgt. Ron Yates, Sgt. Jeremy Jenkins, Officer Jody Standridge, Officer Danny Dupont, Officer Michelle Ogden, Officer Shawn Brown, Officer Josh Garza and Officer Donald Cox.
The stabbing victims still are hospitalized but are stable, police spokesperson Lincoln Anderson said.
Brogdon got what he wanted. Death. And deservedly so. No one can legitimately argue this shooting was not justified. While I shall shed not one tear over his demise, my sympathy goes out to the victims. Those being the eight officers now on leave and the two women who were stabbed.
