Virginia police are investigating why two officers in Fairfax County shot and killed a shoplifting suspect they were chasing after. The two officers pursued the suspect into a wooded area near a mall, but it is not known if the suspect was armed. WRC’s Darcy Spencer reports.
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If people would STOP STEALING , work for a living and be decent law abiding citizens we would never hear stories like this.
we don’t believe your B.S.. your cops got tired of running and shot him where no one can see/prove anything.
lol won’t be stealing anymore
They shot him because he was getting away. Remember and consider that this is not a murder suspect, or a kidnapping case, it’s shoplifting. Petty theft. Let him run off into the woods, and move along. You chased him – you tried. Good enough. But now, I tend to think there may be serious legal trouble coming for whoever shot this petty thief. I admit I’m jumping to some conclusions, but first impressions make me think they – or at least one of them – shot him because he was getting away. Probably in the back.
We’ll see, I suppose. Stay tuned.
Who cares? If he really was a lifelong criminal then he was just a drain on society anyway.
“Something happened”.
Alleged shoplifter.
Can it get any crazier?? Cops are out of control all over this Country.
I’m sure they’ll find a weapon as soon as some cop drops one. 🗽
A conscience search until we plant a weapon…
So he was shot for shoplifting …but DONT KNOW IF HAD WEAPONS REALLY …….SETTING THE NARRATIVE …..TO JUSTIFY MURDERING SOMEONE
Cops should not be judge jury and executioner!!!! For shoplifting?! Give me a break!!!!
Just one guess what the suspect race is. Here we go once again.
Every police officer I’ve ever run into was always arrogant and on a power trip. You give a person a gun and the means to control another; they will abuse it.
get f..k ed, clown shoes. Next time your life is in danger, call a social worker. Definitely do NOT dial 911.
I mean the dude robbed someone and fled
Why is it that for the past 4 centuries hunting down and killing Black people in the Americas will not stop despite laws and protests and officers being criminally charged for their deaths?
The guy bout didn’t have anything he bout was running to keep them from killing him
Fun fact alleged criminals shoplifters and real criminals are all known as citizens
Good job officers.
The cops needed some target practice
Officers stay shooting at unarmed suspects. 💯 Certain they shot him in the back. They got exhausted from running and shooting him was easier
Welp……don’t steal. Other than that…I’m going back to bed.
One of them went in to panic mode the other followed and opened fire , unless they’re being honest……
So yet again the police have murdered a person who was innocent until proven guilty OF A MISDEMEANOR. Now they’re desperately combing the woods with a metal detector in hope of finding a weapon to justify murdering the guy in Cold Blood. How big of them. I’m immediately putting Virginia on my list of places to never go for fear of being murdered by police for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
Judge Dread times are real.. SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE ABOUT THESE TAX FUNDED CRIMINAL GANGS!!!! SHOPLIFTING IS NOW A CAPITOL CRIME!
In Saudi Arabia the thief would have had his fingers cut off. He wouldn’t be murdered!
Maybe don’t commit crimes if you don’t wanna get your funky azz lit up?
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This type of policing is needed in San Francisco.
Not poor guy. Stop breaking the law
Most conservatives believe this is an appropriate use of force.
@The Fresh Prince of No hair: Wrong! I’m a conservative and I believe police should obey the constitution. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Trigger-happy cops don’t have the right to execute alleged shoplifters!
When I grew up (I’m 60 now), most people (including police) were conservative and law-abiding. Thanks to woke despotism, I can’t recognize the state (Virginia) and country (USA) where I grew up! The USA is on the way to becoming Nazi Germany where those who don’t agree with the current regime become non-persons or worse! 😡
Very interesting how the race soldiers can’t seem to stop killing people with guns or without.
Good
Just because the guy has a violent criminal history does not mean shoot him scared police do scary things that’s why they shoot people and get away with it
Shop lifting is illegal. Even if it was not proven they did it.
KUDO’S POLICE
Got em!!
There wasn’t no reason to shoot that man and now t they making excuses and wasting time with the truth, so that they can have a story and narrative to tell, just so that the officer look justified in killing an unarmed man
shooting??? for ship lifting??? i need answers as i live in this county
I’m going to assume and guess shoplifter was black and cops white? And no charges will be filed against officers will be made.
Was there when this was happening. This was outta control. Sad sad circumstances…
The fine officers have a right to protect themselves. I hope the store got their merchandise back, and I hope the merchandise did not have any bullet holes in it.
😂😂😂😂😂
I love how the media tries to make criminals innocent everyday
The report is a man was shot and killed running from police after allegedly stealing. An ongoing search for a weapon makes compelling danger much less likely. That’s a story.
@Dr Elephant dont shoplift problem solved
@B Did you miss the part in class when they explained that EVERYONE is INNOCENT until proven guilty?
That doesn’t give cops the right to execute people without trials! 😡
It’s as if the police were guilty the criminals might become innocent. Now , what if the cop actually believed he was in danger?
2023 ↔️ 322 = ☠☠☠
Hmmm…shoplift in CA, no charges, you might get an award. Shoplift in VA, get shot. I’m good with that. CA does everything wrong.
Wow that’s a lot of police. Those stores like to buy things for one dollar wholesale and jack the BEJUSUS out of it to $400. Now there’s the real crime.
I don’t think anyone who has posted on this story believes that its O.K. to steal, nor do we believe that shoplifting is a death sentence.
If this young man threatened the officers with a weapon and got shot then that’s on him.
Problem is that Law Enforcement has lost its credibility with a lot of the law abiding public now and we simply don’t trust them to tell us the truth at this point.
Once Law Enforcement loses the support of the law abiding among us they’re finished.
This US against them mentality, which is becoming more prevalent among cops, is going to be turned against them before it’s over.
Love how they are still searching for that weapon that had them so terrified for their lives. It was so scary sergeant. If only we could find it.
If they were trying to be crooked they could have brandished the weapon the fact they are searching for it shows they are trying to be honest, sadly there may not have been one and somebody reacted to something they perceived a common problem with cops I understand
These days there’s No judge, Trial or Bail needed.
The pigs did not want to go into the woods to chase, so they shot. Now they are looking for an imaginary weapon to show justification for killing a man over merchandise. Lock these criminals with badges up.
Great job!
If you get shot in the woods and no one is around will it make a noise….
Still doesn’t give you the right to shoot if he’s runny from you ..he’s not a threat…old white pigs
Criminal should ended with ☠️☠️☠️
*Stealing is a Sin punishable by death saieth the lord. Thank goodness there officers are doing the lords work*
The police must be on Bloomingdale & Macy’s payroll if they had to shoot him dead for shoplifting.
because they had a gun… and their ‘COPS’
Wh*te power police
They were scared of sticks
Judge jury and executioner
When you steal. You know the risk you are taking. Accept responsibility for your actions.
How do you end up killing somebody behind shoplifting but they can bring mass murderers in without harming a hair on their Bodies. #SMh
There they go setting up the narrative setting up the narrative ahead of time
Maybe the other shoplifters will learn from this.
The cops will say they saw what they believed to be a gun. Even though he was probably shot in the back because they were in fear for their life.
Maybe so, but society is a bit better for it…your welcome would be nice
Do stupid thing get stupid prize. He wont doing criminal things anymore
0:56 “Okay, so where’s the fire?”
They got too winded and tired of running, so they just ended him… Dang.
Can’t water to see body cam footage
Getting killed for shoplifting and a record??! JFC
They shot him for stealing food.
Why are these cops shooting black people in the back who’s running from them! How are they endangered when they’re running away! Oh , Slave master said bring them in dead or alive is what’s in the blue uniforms!
I can honestly say he won’t do this again
Yeah they shot him..haha…
There was no gun or he would have told us, there was no stolen item or he would not have called him a shop lifting suspect, if he actually stole anything he would have told us. What he told us is pretty clear, what he told us is obvious to all of us, what he said is NOT Fake News just because we watched NBC, what he told us clear to you and to me; there is much more to this than a “suspected” shoplifter, he told us the name of the store and, he told us one “officer” was in uniform and one was in plain clothes. Plain clothes officers and uniformed officers don’t patrol these stores now do they. He told us about the now dead man’s “alleged” criminal history because he is painting a picture of justification for two cops unloading their guns into this man and he told us there is and was no gun, he told us there was no stolen property. Listen to what he said, watch his face and shifting body language, it tells us a lot. This is Real News, this man was Killed by two “officers” we know that they will investigate themselves and we know it will take a long time. We know a lot, don’t we.
“Something happened “…..yeah, he was getting away
All I saw was the title, I’m gonna make a guess, the person has dark colored skin.
He’s already making justifications at the end of his special forces unit. There were never any weapons or any reason to believe there was a weapon. Here we go again, paid leave while being investigated by the police. Another lawsuit that the tax payers will have to float. Their only answer is more control and more means of lethal force. They hate us and we hate them, police story.
Good way to stop shoplifting!
They basically got tired of chasing & running after him so they said too much paper work & he s getting away so let s make up a story saying our lives were threatened by him, considering he was already running away!
Well from what I’ve seen online about Virginia police all of this will just go away because they will hide any wrong doing they did anyway when they investigate themselves. Sad thing is I used to support the police when the liberals would say defund them now I don’t think we should support these criminals at all. How sad is that?
Don’t worry folks it will always be the cops fault the poor thugs they never do anything wrong
If the police aren’t shooting us, we’re shooting each other. #america
Wonder if the police know that shoplifting is a daily occurence that retail workers mitigate daily throigh observation and reports not 1 store would have triend to physically stop someone frl. Stealing with force as the potential bpowback for the companies involved could be far wprse than the loss of what was stolen
Just think if the perp hadn’t committed a crime and hadn’t run, he’d be at home chilling watching Netflix rn.
Who cares? Don’t be a criminal and you dramatically increase your life expectancy.
NBC great local news coverage. Thanks for leaving national news to legit news sources.
You would think that crooks would figure out that running and /or fighting with the police can be deadly. Oh well, Darwin doing his work again.
🇺🇸 use the real flag that are soldiers have given there life’s for freedom !
“something happened that’s still under investigation that prompted our two Fairfax County police officers to discharge their firearms.”
What a mouthful! Aliens maybe officer? “Discharge” sounds like they didn’t really mean it????
I’m having trouble with your statement Officer. Remember University of Texas clocktower Aug 1st 1966?
Charlie Whitman, we need you!!!
“something happened ” lol
It’s not appropriate that the police brought up his criminal history. There are situations where a criminal history can matter when deciding whether or not to use deadly force, but those are exceptions and by default the criminal history makes no difference. Unless and until a situation occurs where the criminal history can make a difference, it should not be brought up.
Let me guess….it was a brutha?
Scum pigs I am thankful every day for their dwindling recruitment and begging for staff
Probably a black
Fake news media loves their thugs..
Just another example of remote mind control technology being used as a weapon.
I’m giving up shoplifting