{"id":79548,"date":"2018-05-20T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T19:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79548"},"modified":"2018-05-20T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T19:38:41","slug":"officers-cleared-in-denton-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79548","title":{"rendered":"Officers Cleared in Denton Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shots_fired-e1526844018958.jpg\" alt=\"Denton Tx\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jonn seems to be Winchester on Feel Good Stories today, so I found an update from an incident that occurred in Denton, Texas last March. <\/p>\n<p>Police officers involved were cleared in the killing of Lawrence Shaw. Body-cam footage shows knife-brandishing Shaw advancing on the officers, ignoring their orders, and continuing his attack even after being tased twice. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2018\/02\/19\/suspect-dead-denton-police-shooting\">Dallas Daily News Link<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Denton officer fatally shot a man who police said pulled out a knife and taunted officers before advancing toward them Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Two officers were working on a vehicle crash report about 3:15 p.m. in their patrol car in the 2000 block of Spencer Street when a man approached the rear of their vehicle and began yelling at the officers, said Lt. Lonny Haschel with the Texas Department of Public Safety. <\/p>\n<p>The officers got out to check on the man and saw him pull out a knife. He &#8220;taunted&#8221; the officers and started to walk away, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The officers told the man to stop, but he ignored them and disappeared into a wooded area. When he reappeared from the trees, he was reportedly holding the knife again and being &#8220;very aggressive&#8221; toward the officers, Haschel said. <\/p>\n<p>One officer used a Taser on the man, but he got up off the ground and threatened the officers again, he said. <\/p>\n<p>When the man advanced, one officer fired his weapon, striking the man. The officers performed first aid and called for emergency services, but the man died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The Tarrant County medical examiner&#8217;s office identified the man as 45-year-old Lawrence Shaw.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PCP is a hell of a drug. Caution, video is from the officer\u2019s body-cam and depicts extreme violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/video\/knife-wielding-maniac-shrugs-off-two-tasers-before-being-shot-to-death\/\">Video Link- Caution Violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn seems to be Winchester on Feel Good Stories today, so I found an update from &hellip; <a title=\"Officers Cleared in Denton Shooting\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79548\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officers Cleared in Denton Shooting<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}