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Are the Republicans going to claim that he’d be alive now had he only been packing?
Edit: It appears that he was actually packing. Guess he’s now just another “bad guy with a gun.”
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This prison is like a sieve, and prisoners have been escaping regularly. The first escape happened two weeks after it opened in 1845, another guy escaped in 2007 and stayed out for six months.
Apparently Matt was packing and used a shotgun against police and then was shot and killed.
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Am I the only one who finds it odd that there has been no press spokesman to specifically discuss how the escaped convict was located, or how many times he was shot, or how many officers fired their weapon to apprehend him, or to release any film footage of his death. In fact, we know nothing at all except the story that he did not drop his weapon when confronted.
I have no reason to have sympathy for an escaped killer, but I have a lot of reason to want to know the full story instead of a leaked message that paints the cops as innocent good guys. The convict may well have wanted a death by cop, and done what he needed to do to insure that fate. Still, why the secrecy, and ongoing delay in answering simple questions?