WATCH: Bossier City Police Officer Kills Woman Charging With Scissors

By Tactical Life

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A woman hurled racial epithets and ignored multiple warnings from a Bossier City Police officer in Louisiana recently. Then while brandishing scissors, the woman advanced on the officer, who double tapped the suspect with two fatal shots.

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Recently released officer body cam footage shows the entire incident. It all began when an officer responded to a call of a disorderly person inside a LaQuinta Inn, according to shreveporttimes.com. That’s where officer Patrick Edmond, Jr., encountered 45-year-old Shannon Rupert, behaving extremely erratic.

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“The deceased appeared highly animated and erratic in the time period preceding the officer’s arrival and she refused to leave the non-public area of the business and armed herself,” said Bossier-Webster Parishes District Attorney J. Schuyler Marvin, in a letter published by shreveporttimes.com.

Footage shows the woman continue to rant, refusing to get off the phone. She threateningly waves scissors toward the officer, and shouts racial insults. “You’re gonna have to shoot me,” she says repeatedly.

“Those actions continued after the officer arrived, and the deceased continued to …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life