Maybe Charging The Cop With A Baseball Bat While Drunk Was A Bad Idea

By Bob Owens

Ever wondered what it sounds like when a cop-hating journalist has to choke down her bile in order to report the fact that an officer was justified in using deadly force to protect himself and others?

It would sound a lot like this anger-laced report from Sara Flores of the Beaumont Enterprise.

After he was punched in the face inside a Beaumont bar, bouncers took Chaz York out the front door while the man who slugged him was walked out the back.

York was drunk and angry.

He was loud.

In a matter of minutes, the 23-year-old from Vidor was dead.

Chase Welch, an off-duty Beaumont police officer who had been inside the bar, fired eight shots from his Glock 27 .40 caliber pistol at York in less than two seconds.

York, who was standing 15 feet from Welch in the Shops at Dowlen parking lot, was struck five times. He had bullet wounds to both his left and right arms, right thigh, chest and back. The shots to his chest and back were fatal, piercing both lungs, according to Dr. Tommy J. Brown’s final autopsy report filed on Dec. 2.

Last Wednesday, a Jefferson County grand jury declined to indict Welch in the Oct. 14 shooting, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms