Let’s have a jolly sing-song!
I used to think maybe you loved me now baby I’m sure
And I just can’t wait till the day when you knock on my door
Now every time I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down
‘Cause I just can’t wait ’til you write me you’re coming around
I’m walking on sunshine
I’m walking on sunshine
And don’t it feel good?
Now that I’ve hopefully appeased the sponsors, I say hopefully because they still might think the title of this article is a little on the offensive side, let’s get to the heart of the matter. By that I mean a thug got shot in the heart. Hey, that reminds me of another song.
Shot through the heart
And you’re to blame
Darlin’, you give love a bad name
OK, that’s quite enough of that. We’re not here to recite sappy song lyrics, we’re here to watch thugs meet their makers. And that’s what we’re going to do in just a moment. Here’s what happened in a nutshell. A thug with outstanding warrants named Matthew Burroughs fled police, then tried to run over a cop and got smoked instead.
Investigators release Niles officer’s body-cam footage of fatal shooting
NILES, Ohio (WKBN) – Investigators released body-camera footage from one of the officers involved in the deadly shooting of a suspect in Niles.
Video from Officer James Reppy shows him get out of the car and fire shots toward Matthew Burroughs, who was in a white car.
Those shots did not hit Burroughs, according to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which investigated the shooting.
According to BCI, three shots fired from the other officer, Chris Mannella, hit Burroughs in the chest. Those shots killed him, the coroner reported.
Both officers said they believed that Burroughs was driving toward Mannella and was planning to hit him.
Another video shows events after the shooting. That video shows the body cameras of Mannella, Adkins, Mobley and Meyers after Burroughs had been shot.
Sadly, we don’t get to see the moment the slugs impact the criminal’s body, but what happens after is unbelievable. You too will believe a dead man can drive! As was said in the film ‘Stand By Me,’ “”Hey, you wanna see a dead body?” Me too. Let’s watch.
Now I like zombie movies as much as the next guy but this was totally unrealistic. Everyone knows that zombies can’t operate sophisticated machinery, yet here this one is driving a car, albeit not very well. Still, that’s a serious plot flaw. But oh well. It was a good flick anyway.
And who was this Burroughs fellow? It’s the same old story. He was an angel, of course! According to his girlfriend, Tara Elkins,“He was a good man,” Elkins said. “He was even beginning to attend church with me.”
Yes, a good man who tried to kill a police officer. Further, take a look at what he did to Elkins and her child last December. This is what his warrants were for:
“The warrants were on charges of assault and aggravated menacing filed by police on Dec. 18 in connection to a Dec. 17 incident in Burroughs’ apartment at which Elkins, frantic and sobbing loudly over the phone, told dispatchers he was displaying a gun while throwing her and her son’s items out of his apartment.
“I thought he would shoot me and my son,” Elkins said in a police police report of the incident.
Elkins, according to the report, described Burroughs grabbing her shirt, which caused her to fall and then he pushed her out of the apartment.”
Yet after he assumed room temperature she said, “He wasn’t like that,” she said. “What happened in December was a moment in time. It was not the man he was.”
“She described him as an illustrator who wanted to produce his own comics and clothing line.”
Yes, he WAS like that. He was a violent thug who abused women and children and tried to kill cops. He wanted to write comics and make clothes? Well, Charlie Manson wanted to be a rock star. It doesn’t mean he was a good person, moron.
According to the police chief, while an internal investigation found that the shooting of Burroughs was justified, he said there was a violation of the department’s policy on body-worn cameras.
The internal report says Officer Mannella, Officer Paul Hogan and Lt. Dan Adkins did not have their body-worn cameras turned on during the incident.
Mannella told officers that he alternates wearing his body armor from an external carrier vest to the traditional under-the-shirt carrier and the camera is not in the same position on each of the uniforms. He said he tried to turn it on when he saw the suspect’s vehicle, but it was not located where he instinctively went to. He said as the incident evolved, he wasn’t able to quickly turn it on.
According to the chief, discipline will be issued in regard to that violation.
Oh well. So he’ll be disciplined. At least he went home alive and unharmed that night.
