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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(122,378 posts) Tue Apr 29, 2025, 05:30 PM Tuesday

After killing unarmed man, Texas deputy told colleague: 'I just smoked a dude'

HENDERSON, Texas — Timothy Michael Randall was on the phone with his mother when a police car pulled up behind his Nissan Altima with its lights flashing. It was just after 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 14, 2022, and Randall was heading to his cousin’s house after a night out.

“He had called to let me know that he was going to be home a few minutes later,” Randall’s mother, Wendy Tippitt, recalled. “So I wouldn’t worry.”

Randall, 29, pulled over and hung up with his mom. Sgt. Shane Iversen of the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office walked up to the Altima and told Randall that he had run a stop sign, police dash camera footage shows. Randall denied doing so, and Iversen ordered him out of the car.

What began as a routine traffic stop, on a country road two hours east of Dallas, quickly spun out of control.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/killing-unarmed-man-texas-deputy-090040883.html

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After killing unarmed man, Texas deputy told colleague: 'I just smoked a dude' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday OP

"What began as a routine traffic stop, on a country road two hours east of Dallas, quickly spun out of control." WhiskeyGrinder Tuesday #1

They talk just like gangsters. BlueTsunami2018 Tuesday #2

As horrible as this is, it does not surprise me..it's east Texas and Henderson is not only rural, Deuxcents Tuesday #3

WhiskeyGrinder

(24,768 posts)

1. "What began as a routine traffic stop, on a country road two hours east of Dallas, quickly spun out of control."

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 29, 2025, 05:35 PM

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This is what's known as the exonerative tense, voice or construction. The stop didn't spin out of control. The cop escalated and overreacted at every opportunity. FTP.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,331 posts)

2. They talk just like gangsters.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 29, 2025, 05:42 PM

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“Smoked” a dude.

I would imagine they found no reason to indict this gangster cop because the victim had drugs on him and a prior record.

This is a travesty.

And nothing will come of it.

Deuxcents

(21,992 posts)

3. As horrible as this is, it does not surprise me..it's east Texas and Henderson is not only rural,

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 29, 2025, 05:45 PM

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It’s not at all a big town and not economically attractive. My sister just moved from there last year and I’ve been there a few times..frightening place and I’m glad she’s not there anymore.

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