ROBERT CAMERON REDUS : DEAD DRUNK

"Our family does not believe the officer's report," bawled Mr. and Mrs. Redus.

The report is about their son (who went by his middle name Cameron), who was drunk. He was pulled over after speeding and driving his car over a curb. When he kept refusing to listen to reason, and in fact began to attack a police officer, he was shot.

The parents: "For him to confront a police officer would be completely out of his character."

Duh. Yeah. Sorry for your loss, but he was DRUNK. He was OUT OF CONTROL. He was VIOLENT.

The big headline in all the papers was Redus shouting "YOU GONNA SHOOT ME?" As if the officer had no cause.

The real headline should've been out-of-control college student (and what fucking school IS the "University of the Incarnate Word) gets shot after trying to kill an officer.

My question to Mr. and Mrs. Redus is: "Did you ever see your son drunk?" Drunks can get angry, reckless, obnoxious and violent. That's part of the reason why so many people loathe drunks, hate drunk drivers, and wish marijuana was legalized and alcohol banned.

Get this:

The parents issued a statement declaring, "Even if Cameron was driving erratically, he presented no threat to the campus police or anyone else once he parked his truck."

Yeah. "Once he parked his truck." Meaning, Mr. and Mrs. Asswipe, you might've had some other excuse if your precious drunken fuck-up had flattened a mother and child crossing the street, an old woman who thought she was safe on the sidewalk, or slammed into another truck causing a pile-up injuring dozens of people..."

The report was that this college jerk was speeding, had veered onto a curb...and it's just pure luck that he managed to park his TRUCK before anyone got hurt.

And then what did he do? He picked a fight with the officers who were going to give him a ticket for drunk driving.

PS, the "witness" who turned this story into a flaming "police brutality" case, got it wrong.

A moron named Mohammad insisted the late great Cameron shouted "You gonna shoot me?" just seconds before he died. The only trouble here...Mohammad only "heard" that phrase, and conveniently didn't hear anything the police said (which was all caught on a body microphone one of them wore) and didn't SEE the event. He didn't SEE this drunken jackass grab an officer's baton and start beating on him with it. He didn't SEE this drunken moron then go back for seconds, and try to attack the officer again.

Meaning, if a drunken shit-brain is beating you up and shouting "You gonna shoot me," well, maybe, just maybe, the officer IS going to take out his gun and do just that.

Only according to the evidence on the body-microphone, the officer didn't shoot at that point. The officer warned this drunken shit-brain dozens and dozens of times, and it was only when Cameron Redus started a SECOND attack that the officer opened fire.

You'll notice from the above, that this article came after a press conference, and AFTER all the newspapers had a field day writing up the "tragic" story of an unarmed man incredulously shouting "You gonna shoot me?" (Or was he in a drunken taunt while getting ready to beat an officer to death?)

Well, part of our "amusement" in reading the news, is to find articles that make us feel good...and hating cops always makes us feel good. They are NEVER justified in doing anything. They always over-react. A few weeks ago, there was an article on some insane shooter who was killed by police, and some Lord of the Boot Sale twit, sipping his sherry, left a comment like: "I don't understand why the police didn't simply wound the person in the leg and capture him alive." Oh, my my my yes, it's just so easy, especially under fire, to aim at a moving target who is firing dozens of rounds from a semi-automatic weapon, and hit his leg, or maybe his hand, JUST ENOUGH for him to drop his weapon and surrender...

The truth, in the story of an unarmed youth shot by a cop, is that this kid WAS armed. First, he had an assault vehicle, a truck, which could've killed a lot of people. This kid was then armed when he grabbed the officer's baton and started attack. AND, this kid was armed when he came forward yet again with his arms flailing and his fists clenched. YOU want to be in front of a drunk trying to beat your eyes out of their sockets? Great, you stand there and say, "Oh, I'm safe, he's unarmed," as he punches you into a fucking coma.

Apparently the toxicology reports haven't come in, on exactly HOW drunk this kid was. Slightly over the limit? Slightly under? WAY over? Some people can have one drink and it's enough for them to go completely bonkers. The audio microphone doesn't lie. This kid was out of his mind and if he hadn't attacked the officer, then disregarded dozens of warnings, and then started attacking again, he'd still be alive. Most likely to get drunk and stupid again, and you know, he could just as easily have gotten stupid with another drunk, who would've just shot him in the face with no warning at all, and maybe searched his pockets, found the address of Mr. and Mrs. Redus, and gone over and shot them, too.

One of the prime amusements around the world is alcohol. It's right up there with driving a car.

And now a message from your favorite beer company, and your favorite purveyor of fine spirits: "Drink responsibly!"