Good Guy engages criminal, is shot by arriving cops.

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Good Guy engages criminal, is shot by arriving cops.

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When Mike Becker received the frantic call on Tuesday that a gunman was threatening his family at the nearby Dollar General, he said he immediately took off with a handgun.

The Independence man ran to the store shortly before 6 p.m. and saw the gunman pounding on the glass door. Inside, his wife, 4-year-old adopted daughter and about 30 others huddled together, terrified, toward the back of the store. His wife hid the girl behind bags of dog food.

Becker said he put his body between those inside and the gunman.

“The only thing in my mind was my baby and wife,” he said. “There was no way the gunman was getting in that store.”
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When police arrived minutes later, witnesses said, Becker dropped his handgun, raised his hands — and then an officer with a rifle shot him in the hip.
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Becker is 31, heavyset and was wearing a black jacket. The gunman was described by Thomas as in his 50s, slender and wearing a green jacket.

“How do you confuse green with black?” Thomas said.

Becker said that rumors spread through the community, where he has lived all his life, that he had tried to rob the Dollar General.

Police “have been extremely tight lipped about it,” Becker said. “...That’s what upsets me about how the Independence Police Department handled this situation. They could have cleared me pretty quickly — that I’m not a suspect at least.”

Thomas added, “I understand as police you have to put your life on the line ... but to take it into your own judgment to shoot an innocent man when he didn’t fit the description?

“It makes me angry.”

After Becker was shot, Thomas said police handcuffed him and did not immediately allow Amber to go to him.
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Re: Good Guy engages criminal, is shot by arriving cops.

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If he sues the union and supporters will say:
  • Being a cop is a hard job.
  • They were "scared".
  • It's the "ghetto lottery".
  • He wanted to be a cop but couldn't.
  • A cop stole his girlfriend.
  • The next time he wants to be shot, call a hippie!
Life comes at you fast. Be prepared to shoot it in the head when it does.
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