Man steals motorbike at gunpoint, then is shot by a police officer [Graphic Video]

[Terraniux]

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I mean, I don't want to watch anything that has another dude getting messed up in any kind of way... Off or on camera.

As for the gta comment, that was clearly a jab at fox news. Did you really think I'd have over 5 thousand posts on a gaming forum if I thought any game would cause any ounce of violence? If they did I'd have a serious jail time to endure.

First part, okay, I can understand that. Second part, no I guess not, but I honestly didn't look at your post count before quoting you. Still, it is a little difficult sometimes to distinguish whether someone really means what they type and whether they're being facetious or sarcastic. These things happens, right?

Would you guys be fine if your state government dealt with convicted armed robbers by shooting them twice in the chest?

Or are you only fine with it when it is in the moment?

If you are only fine with it when it is in the moment - doesn't that mean you believe that the man was still posing danger to someone? Exactly who was he posing danger to when he was shot? He put the gun away, didn't he?

Or maybe you believe he deserved to be shot to stop him from taking the bike.

Or maybe you are making a judgement call and you are assuming that this man was evil and nasty and horrible so ipso facto he deserved the bullets.

It's hard to see based on where the cameraman is standing, but it looks like he's pointing the gun at the officer just before he gets shot. Well, that's how I interpreted it, anyway.

 

[crazyarms33]

And people wonder why FIFA's decision to host the World Cup there is being regarded as a very, very, very stupid decision. If this is common practice, imagine what will happen to the tourists and potentially, to Brazil's opponents. Stupid FIFA. Very stupid.

OT: Nothing to cry about. Once the gun is out and in use in a criminals hands, law enforcement has every right to nail the guy. Good effective police work if you ask me.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Title says it all really


Opinions?

I think after pointing a gun in someones face like that he got exactly what he deserved.

Wow, that's pretty harsh. Death is the deserved punishment for stealing a bike worth about £8k at most? All I can say is I'm glad you aren't in charge and more so that I live in a country without guns or a death penalty.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

Wow, that's pretty harsh. Death is the deserved punishment for stealing a bike worth about £8k at most? All I can say is I'm glad you aren't in charge and more so that I live in a country without guns or a death penalty.

He threatened to kill someone unless they gave them their bike and by the looks of it he was about to try to gun down a police officer too before he was shot. I'd say that being shot in such a circumstances is exactly what he was asking for. I wouldn't wish death upon him, but I can't say I didn't get some satisfaction with the fact that he had to suffer what he was threatening the other two with

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Wow, that's pretty harsh. Death is the deserved punishment for stealing a bike worth about £8k at most? All I can say is I'm glad you aren't in charge and more so that I live in a country without guns or a death penalty.

I really don't think you get it. It's not about the bike or how much it's worth, it wouldn't have mattered whether he stole something worth $8000, $1,000,000 or $5. The point is that he was willing to take someone's life in order to get that bike. If he had put a gun in someone's face in order to steal a candy-bar and then got shot for it people would still see it as being justified, not because of the worth of the candy, but because if someone is willing to take a life over something so trivial, then they deserve whatever they get.

 

[Nokturos]

That cop just came out of nowhere. It's almost as if he spawned the second that bike was stolen. Would someone turn this into a GTA V joke?

 

[Varrdy]

Speaking as someone who once had their motorbike stolen (not at gunpoint though!), I LOVE THIS! I hope the thieving scrote suffered a LOT.

*breathes repeatedly into a paper bag*

I'm good...

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

This is why I'm OK without Grand Theft Auto V on PC. Driving in Brazil is all the GTA I need.

On a more serious note, once you run into guys like the guy in the video 4 different times, with their guns a few centimeters from your head, you kind of stop giving a shit about their "human rights". It's a shame he's not dead.

Let's also mention the fact that if he's a minor, he stays in jail for 3 years at most. When he's released, our laws allow him to have his criminal record erased, so it's as if nothing ever happened, it doesn't matter if the minor in question was dealing drugs or killing someone. Sometimes police officers won't even bother if they now they're dealing with a minor, because they have to let them go anyway.

 

[KiKiweaky]

Title says it all really


Opinions?

I think after pointing a gun in someones face like that he got exactly what he deserved.

Wow, that's pretty harsh. Death is the deserved punishment for stealing a bike worth about £8k at most? All I can say is I'm glad you aren't in charge and more so that I live in a country without guns or a death penalty.

If you could have been arsed to read the comments you would see that some people are claiming the gunman is in a stable condition in hospital.

Death is not the deserved punishment for stealing a bike no, threatening to use deadly force in the theft of a bike and being armed in public is a totally different matter.

I can't believe your reasoning behind the fact that the bike isn't worth much therefore the criminal should be viewed in a different light or get a more lenient sentence, he pointed a gun into a mans face and made him hand over his property for fear that he might lose his life.

I live in Ireland so thankfully I don't ever see this kind of thing, our regular police aren't even armed. I'm glad I'm not in charge either too much work frankly =P

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

100% in favor of what happened.

As far as crying over the loss of human life, think on this: there is enough legitimate suffering in this world to spend every moment of your waking life crying for people who actually deserve your tears. No need to waste any of them on armed thugs threatening the lives of your fellow man.

 

[Atrocious Joystick]

"Stop right there criminal scum!" We know he´s going to lose the bike but is he going to be able to pay the fee or is he going to lose 10 lockpick skill?

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

...Or maybe you are making a judgement call and you are assuming that this man was evil and nasty and horrible so ipso facto he deserved the bullets.

Oh, I'm assuming he's evil and nasty if I watch him pull a gun on an innocent man in broad daylight and try to steal his bike?
Lol, okay whatever.

 

[Hazy]

You point a gun at someone, you best be ready to deal with the consequences.

You do not point a weapon at ANYONE you are not willing to destroy.

 

[BitterLemon]

I'm from Brazil too. So far, it seems that the policeman action were justified because the robber pointed the gun at the officer, he did the right thing in this case. The opinions were divided more by the fact the the media has shown this and it started a celebration that, in my opinion, is very poor taste. Like other said, I don't see nothing to be happy about it, it's just sad... even more considering that Brazil is not exactly the land of opportunity. I was robbed just like this and lost my car some months ago and I still don't see no reason at all for celebration, I don't feel "revenged".

Concerning the police, I don't see how they can be considered powerless here, since they are pretty much the official criminal gang of the State, doing whatever they please. Some months ago, a construction worker disappeared... recently it was found out that the police had suspicions on his involvement with drug traffic, so they took him inside a UPP (Pacifier Police Unit, it's a big vehicle), tortured him, everybody heard the screamings, then they killed him, took out the street lights to cover them and removed the body. That's how the "pacification" works in the favela.

A friend of mine knew a guy who enlisted for ROTA, a special police division. His "batism" was going to a poor neighborhood and beat the crap out of a random passerby, without motive. He was forced to do it, then left the corporatin in disgust. Recently, there were revisions in how the policeman has to report cases of "resistance to surrender" because ROTA was killing whoever they wanted and then forging reports saying that the victims resisted.

I can't agree with a police who works like judge, juri and executioner. The police operates like that since the 60s and this never resolved anything.