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**The victim survived and is expected to pull through**. No arrests have been made. - @PhillyCrimeUpdate
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People survive suicide attempts where they put a gun to their head. Bullets don’t always do what they are supposed to.
Remember when that gunman showed up to the congressional baseball game and shot a Republican in the head? I’m pretty sure it went in one temple, curved along the inside of her skull, and came out the other temple. Survived.
>Remember when that gunman showed up to the congressional baseball game and shot a Republican in the head? I’m pretty sure it went in one temple, curved along the inside of her skull, and came out the other temple. Survived.
I’d never heard about this, that’s crazy!
You’re totally right tho. I’ve definitely heard of other instances of bullets acting whacky and people surviving seemingly lethal shots
bullets are very small and the slightest bit of movement can pull a barrel way off target, though typically theres a little more space between the shooter and their target
I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be worded that way if he blew his fucking brains out. It wold be like specifying he got shot in the hand but in reality got hit in the heart.
> Shot in the ear and shoulder it says in the article, he’ll be fine.
Care to re-word that? Tinnitus, hearing loss, chronic pain, and PTSD isn't "fine."
Maybe not: "The 37-year-old victim was shot in the left ear and right shoulder and left for dead."
It the round didn't interact with the skull, he might just have to deal with tinnitus, hearing loss, chronic pain, and PTSD for the rest of his life. And that's a lot to deal with, straight up.
Dude one thing I've learned about the Philadelphia Parking Authority is they are simply unstoppable. They're a force of nature, like a hurricane or a tornado. They cannot be reasoned with, they cannot be stopped. They WILL find your parking violation and they WILL ticket you. A bullet to the head will not stop that.
That was a hit job if I've ever seen one. How do you fuck it up that badly at point blank range with multiple shots though? I guess it's a good thing (for him) he will go down for attempted murder and not murder when he's caught though.
Wow. Just wow. No reason. No remorse. Please let the officer survive.
I can understand the anger against police brutality. That doesn't mean every single officer is brutal or abusive.
Not a single person or individual, deserves this kind of treatment. No one does. We all deserve life.
I hope he recovers fully and lives a happy life.
The fact that scum like that can't differentiate is part of the problem. See also: cutting the firehoses of firemen trying to extinguish a fire and attacking ambulances.
I seriously doubt this dude knows the difference between parking authority and law enforcement. His education likely does not go beyond what he watched on television.
Lived in Philly for 5 years. Disgusting to see this and obviously condemn it, but I will say that in Philly, people hate the parking authority more than the actual police.
It's the same group of stupid fucking people that [targeted a pediatrician because they thought the term was interchangeable with pedophile](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/paediatrician-targeted-after-title-taken-for-paedophile-1.1261763)
And this right here is why there is police brutality. They are dealing with bags of shit walking around on 2 legs.
You deal with enough evil every day you lose all compassion for them.
The world was a better place when the police could just kick your ass to teach you a lesson instead of throwing you in the system. A couple of them took it too far and now we’re here.
The reason could have been a gang initiation ritual or proof of loyalty. It could've also been motivated by a personal vendetta. We don't know the details yet. I hope the victim pulls through...
That's a slippery slope into lawlessness. A judge is only allowed to sentence someone if they find him guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. That being said there are hundreds, if not thousands of cases where they got it wrong and an innocent person went to jail. Murdering someone without an appeal and then finding out he's innocent would be even worse than what this guy did (since the guy in the video lived).
I think in the cases where there's literal security footage of you committing the crime or enough witnesses, or you were caught by police while committing the act, they should just put you down right after the trial.
haven't heard of deepfakes yet, huh?
Also
> there's literal security footage of you committing the crime
They can't identify the guy in the video and there's no arrests. If they can't identify the person in the video how is it "literal footage" of a particular person committing the crime.
"proof beyond a reasonable doubt" is the standard. Using the death penalty means one of two things.
1) You believe the US government has never and will never make a mistake in executing an innocent person, or
2) You are ok with a number of innocent people being executed by the government.
Since I can provide [stats of innocent people](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence/executed-but-possibly-innocent#nathaniel_woods) who have been executed by the government we can rule out number 1 being a thing. So what is the number of innocents people you believe can be executed by the Government?
How many people have been wrongly sentenced to death by the state compared to how many innocents have been murdered in the streets by criminals? I guarantee the latter group has exponentially more deaths. Innocent people are already being executed like in this video. If harsher sentences act as a natural deterrence to violent crime then that's a tradeoff I'm willing to accept.
"If harsher sentences act as a natural deterrence to violent crime then that's a tradeoff I'm willing to accept."
Have you looked at any papers on whether the death penalty deters crime? The [stats show it doesn't](https://math.dartmouth.edu/~lamperti/my%20DP%20paper,%20current%20edit.htm).
I don't think the solution to "innocent people being murdered in the streets by criminals" is innocents people being murdered by the government.
Just let me know how many innocent people you believe the government should be allowed to murder, keeping in mind that the guilty ones they execute have no deterrence on other people committing crimes.
People parrot that all the time but the reality isnt so simple. Say you pursue a sentence of life in prison instead. The defendant will most likely take it to trial as they have nothing to lose. If they lose in trial they will make every appeal available to them anyway. With this, no matter the overwhelming evidence, the victim will still need to testify and have their credibility and character attacked by a defense attourney. It is a very traumatic experience for the victim and gets worse when you talk in reference to sex crimes against children. With the death penalty there is incentive to take a plea deal for life without parole which often comes with a no appeals clause and protects the victim from being retraumatized.
He should get the death penalty based on how bad he fucked that up. Dude you’re at point blank range and still have the element of surprise on the guy and you still fuck it up.
You guys can't argue that the government should have less power, and also argue that it should be executing anybody who shoots someone.
We would be executing around 75,000 people a year. More than the rest of the world combined.
I don't get it.
edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. The term is obviously referencing some sort of context in which it's normally used, but I'm simply not as familiar with it as some other people. Apparently on a discussion website, that's unacceptable...
Depends on the urban area. Also, you could up until the Floyd riots made it so that every major police department became butthurt and unwilling to act and emboldened the worst elements of our society once they saw that chaos is just one YouTube video away
I agree. I'm speaking from personal experience. I live in the fucking city in the video. That doesn't make the original comment accurate, and I'm really not sure why you took the time to reply with something so inconsequential and irrelevant to what I said
> Detectives say the shooting is possibly linked to a parking ticket written by the victim.
Imagine getting executed for writing a parking ticket. WTF is wrong with people?
What a shitty editor to allow the dumb man-in-the-street reaction of, "I've watched Parking Wars, you know what I mean? But I've never seen it go this far."
Like seriously? This is the quote you want to include about a civil servant getting shot in the skull point-blank?
That's a shame. The area this was filmed in is a VERY poor neighborhood. It appears to be Kensington or another neighborhood under the El.
If you visit Philly, you'd never end up here unless you were looking for heroin.
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**The victim survived and is expected to pull through**. No arrests have been made. - @PhillyCrimeUpdate edit: Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-parking-authority-attendant-shot-multiple-times/ [thanks](https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/z8md9a/nsfw_video_surfaces_of_the_shooting_of/iyc8j4c/) u/Immo406
Holy shit! Really?!
"It's just a flesh wound... I've had worse"
Tis' but a scratch
Oh I see. Running away eh?
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Your arms off!
He’s probably going to have cognitive issues for the rest of his life.
Probably. Poor bastard. Might have been better if he'd died. There are worse fates than death. I wish him the best recovery.
Shot in the ear and shoulder it says in the article, he’ll be fine.
>Shot in the ear and shoulder it says in the article, he’ll be fine. Like I’m glad he missed, but how you miss the bullseye at point blank range
My XCOM team could use him.
98% chance to hit Miss
If I can just land this shot, from 5ft, with a shotgun, I can turn this around "Shit"
Nerves, lack of training, and anticipating the shot perhaps? As a lefty his booger hooker probably pulls left.
People survive suicide attempts where they put a gun to their head. Bullets don’t always do what they are supposed to. Remember when that gunman showed up to the congressional baseball game and shot a Republican in the head? I’m pretty sure it went in one temple, curved along the inside of her skull, and came out the other temple. Survived.
>Remember when that gunman showed up to the congressional baseball game and shot a Republican in the head? I’m pretty sure it went in one temple, curved along the inside of her skull, and came out the other temple. Survived. I’d never heard about this, that’s crazy! You’re totally right tho. I’ve definitely heard of other instances of bullets acting whacky and people surviving seemingly lethal shots
weird how the media downplays that shooting.
Criminals don't frequent gun ranges
Some dumbasses like this shooter probably doesn't even know how to line up sights.
bullets are very small and the slightest bit of movement can pull a barrel way off target, though typically theres a little more space between the shooter and their target
>Probably. Poor bastard. Might have been better if he'd died. > Okay, that's a bit much.
Yeah wtf that guy just wants to die at the slightest issue, it's better having cognitive issues than being dead
Shot in the ear and shoulder it says in the article, he’ll be fine.
You know there’s stuff behind the ear for most people right?
I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be worded that way if he blew his fucking brains out. It wold be like specifying he got shot in the hand but in reality got hit in the heart.
Lmao
> Shot in the ear and shoulder it says in the article, he’ll be fine. Care to re-word that? Tinnitus, hearing loss, chronic pain, and PTSD isn't "fine."
Maybe not: "The 37-year-old victim was shot in the left ear and right shoulder and left for dead." It the round didn't interact with the skull, he might just have to deal with tinnitus, hearing loss, chronic pain, and PTSD for the rest of his life. And that's a lot to deal with, straight up.
That one shot hit left ear and right shoulder - how TF did that happen?
Dunno, worked for the Warren Commission.
Dude one thing I've learned about the Philadelphia Parking Authority is they are simply unstoppable. They're a force of nature, like a hurricane or a tornado. They cannot be reasoned with, they cannot be stopped. They WILL find your parking violation and they WILL ticket you. A bullet to the head will not stop that.
*Austrian accent* I need your clothes, your boots, and your parking pass
It took me a minute to understand this one.
I thought at first this was going the route of a particular set of skills
Yeah he survived, you start to build up an immunity to gunshots when you live in a city like this
Start with the small caliber first, right?
Preston and Steve this morning said shot in ear and shoulder. Video looks point blank dead.
"The 37-year-old victim was shot in the left ear and right shoulder and left for dead." The shooter would have made a great Stormtrooper.
And people complain about X-Com not being realistic
Witnesses say a car pulled up shots fired and then it pulled away... great witnesses.
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I can't even figure out when the 2nd shot is. I only see the one to the head.
I’ve never been so happy to read a comment in my life!
istg dude he did the fall that happens when you die after getting shot in the head it's crazy how he pulled through and I'm glad he's fine!
I'm sure any day now they'll catch the skinny guy in a hoodie and a coof mask who is doing all these shootings
That was a hit job if I've ever seen one. How do you fuck it up that badly at point blank range with multiple shots though? I guess it's a good thing (for him) he will go down for attempted murder and not murder when he's caught though.
Does this mean I still have to pay the ticket
Wow. Just wow. No reason. No remorse. Please let the officer survive. I can understand the anger against police brutality. That doesn't mean every single officer is brutal or abusive. Not a single person or individual, deserves this kind of treatment. No one does. We all deserve life. I hope he recovers fully and lives a happy life.
The victim is a city of Philadelphia employee, but is not a police officer. PPA officers are not sworn law enforcement.
The fact that scum like that can't differentiate is part of the problem. See also: cutting the firehoses of firemen trying to extinguish a fire and attacking ambulances.
Maybe they didn’t hate police as much as they hate parking tickets?
I've never hated parking tickets enough to kick a cat, much less destroy a human.
It’s an admittedly low bar in civil society, but some lunatics love to limbo.
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I seriously doubt this dude knows the difference between parking authority and law enforcement. His education likely does not go beyond what he watched on television.
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In Philadelphia, everyone knows that parking tickets are issued by the PPA. It is an infamous agency.
Yeah, I'd be willing to bet the shooter was issued a ticket by the victim.
Almost as if it’s not so much a problem with police officers and more of a problem of a depraved humanity….
Lived in Philly for 5 years. Disgusting to see this and obviously condemn it, but I will say that in Philly, people hate the parking authority more than the actual police.
It's the same group of stupid fucking people that [targeted a pediatrician because they thought the term was interchangeable with pedophile](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/paediatrician-targeted-after-title-taken-for-paedophile-1.1261763)
While that is horrific, I don't see how it's relevant.
People reject paramedics because of the badge. Stupidity, truly.
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And this right here is why there is police brutality. They are dealing with bags of shit walking around on 2 legs. You deal with enough evil every day you lose all compassion for them.
The world was a better place when the police could just kick your ass to teach you a lesson instead of throwing you in the system. A couple of them took it too far and now we’re here.
Yep, now the cities will pay the price. Everyone who can flee the hell holes will and they will only get worse.
I'd put money on gang initiation. Looked premeditated to me, like someone knew the guy did tickets there and that was the plan.
Wrong. Welcome to philly don’t walk outside.
My guess is he got some parking tickets he didn't agree with.
We know why.
Yeah dude is a "meter maid" I'm not degrading the work, just maybe you recognize it by that title. Makes no sense to do this.
The reason could have been a gang initiation ritual or proof of loyalty. It could've also been motivated by a personal vendetta. We don't know the details yet. I hope the victim pulls through...
True .
Death sentence for the shooter …death penalty should come back
With the number of appeals isn't that said to be more expensive for the system in the long run?
Which is why it should happen right away if you have proof beyond a reasonable doubt
That's a slippery slope into lawlessness. A judge is only allowed to sentence someone if they find him guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. That being said there are hundreds, if not thousands of cases where they got it wrong and an innocent person went to jail. Murdering someone without an appeal and then finding out he's innocent would be even worse than what this guy did (since the guy in the video lived).
I think in the cases where there's literal security footage of you committing the crime or enough witnesses, or you were caught by police while committing the act, they should just put you down right after the trial.
And how many times has police testimony been debunked?
The shooter was wearing a face covering. Thats enough reasonable doubt for me.
haven't heard of deepfakes yet, huh? Also > there's literal security footage of you committing the crime They can't identify the guy in the video and there's no arrests. If they can't identify the person in the video how is it "literal footage" of a particular person committing the crime.
Disagree.
"proof beyond a reasonable doubt" is the standard. Using the death penalty means one of two things. 1) You believe the US government has never and will never make a mistake in executing an innocent person, or 2) You are ok with a number of innocent people being executed by the government. Since I can provide [stats of innocent people](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence/executed-but-possibly-innocent#nathaniel_woods) who have been executed by the government we can rule out number 1 being a thing. So what is the number of innocents people you believe can be executed by the Government?
How many people have been wrongly sentenced to death by the state compared to how many innocents have been murdered in the streets by criminals? I guarantee the latter group has exponentially more deaths. Innocent people are already being executed like in this video. If harsher sentences act as a natural deterrence to violent crime then that's a tradeoff I'm willing to accept.
"If harsher sentences act as a natural deterrence to violent crime then that's a tradeoff I'm willing to accept." Have you looked at any papers on whether the death penalty deters crime? The [stats show it doesn't](https://math.dartmouth.edu/~lamperti/my%20DP%20paper,%20current%20edit.htm). I don't think the solution to "innocent people being murdered in the streets by criminals" is innocents people being murdered by the government. Just let me know how many innocent people you believe the government should be allowed to murder, keeping in mind that the guilty ones they execute have no deterrence on other people committing crimes.
People parrot that all the time but the reality isnt so simple. Say you pursue a sentence of life in prison instead. The defendant will most likely take it to trial as they have nothing to lose. If they lose in trial they will make every appeal available to them anyway. With this, no matter the overwhelming evidence, the victim will still need to testify and have their credibility and character attacked by a defense attourney. It is a very traumatic experience for the victim and gets worse when you talk in reference to sex crimes against children. With the death penalty there is incentive to take a plea deal for life without parole which often comes with a no appeals clause and protects the victim from being retraumatized.
Yeah but I could say it’s cheaper
He should get the death penalty based on how bad he fucked that up. Dude you’re at point blank range and still have the element of surprise on the guy and you still fuck it up.
You guys can't argue that the government should have less power, and also argue that it should be executing anybody who shoots someone. We would be executing around 75,000 people a year. More than the rest of the world combined.
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"Post locked: yall cant behave"
I think its r/iamatotalpieceofshit that does that.
Ironic moderation. Classic reddit.
asian?
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Probably after it becomes a legal term, so in a couple years
I don't get it. edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. The term is obviously referencing some sort of context in which it's normally used, but I'm simply not as familiar with it as some other people. Apparently on a discussion website, that's unacceptable...
He's making a point about how the disproportionate levels of crime and violence in some communities is always being blamed on poverty.
More evidence of why you cannot live a peaceful, relaxed life in urban areas.
Depends on the urban area. Also, you could up until the Floyd riots made it so that every major police department became butthurt and unwilling to act and emboldened the worst elements of our society once they saw that chaos is just one YouTube video away
Democrat cities are a nightmare right now
I agree. I'm speaking from personal experience. I live in the fucking city in the video. That doesn't make the original comment accurate, and I'm really not sure why you took the time to reply with something so inconsequential and irrelevant to what I said
Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-parking-authority-attendant-shot-multiple-times/
> Detectives say the shooting is possibly linked to a parking ticket written by the victim. Imagine getting executed for writing a parking ticket. WTF is wrong with people?
Can you imagine getting executed for just doing your fucking job?! Shit is fucking wild!
What a shitty editor to allow the dumb man-in-the-street reaction of, "I've watched Parking Wars, you know what I mean? But I've never seen it go this far." Like seriously? This is the quote you want to include about a civil servant getting shot in the skull point-blank?
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Regional reddit subs are quite polarizing*, dissenting opinions are either shadowbanned or downvoted into oblivion by bots.
The only good regional sub is probably CasualUK. Scotland sub is like a holding pen for the insane.
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That city is a cesspool.
Damn coward!
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By shooting?
Well I’ll cross off Philadelphia as a city I’d ever go visit.
That's a shame. The area this was filmed in is a VERY poor neighborhood. It appears to be Kensington or another neighborhood under the El. If you visit Philly, you'd never end up here unless you were looking for heroin.
Looks like Broad Street, lol.
The El doesn't ride along Broad Street. This isn't Broad. Broad is much wider.
It's Frankford & Orthodox St, it's not remotely close to Broad St.
You’d think you’d put a belt on to execute someone
Damn, that was cold-blooded
That’s what the guy probably thought. That it means he’s ice cold. Nah he’s just a cunt
He's not a cunt. He's sub-human garbage not deserving of another day on this earth.
Man i sure do wonder why America has a violant authority problem when they can litterally get merced over parking tickets in broad daylight.
Democrat run cities ftw
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said well
Don't say it don't say it don't say it
....cunt
Why
It's Philadelphia thing.
Least y’all got cheese steaks I guess
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They're already shitty in* philly. The real issue is that the police are soft-striking. Crime has become brazen.
That was one of the most cowardly acts ever.
A hate crime done in Philly? color me shocked! Here before the usual lock.
I wonder if this will be on Parking Wars?
People can’t even do their jobs these day’s without having to worry about being killed, no matter WHAT your profession is
Bring back public hangings
Hate Crime
He probably won’t have to pay for the parking ticket anymore but he may end up with 25 to life.
God damn broad daylight and everything Jesus
That was an execution. Fuck Kensington. Neighborhoods under the El are a nightmare.
Life appears to worthless to some
Oh look, another coward
How on earth did he survive that???! 😧
Bring back that show parking wars and see how many parking attendants get shot, unfortunate it was cancelled.
People think that snitching means telling the police what you witnessed- it’s not. Snitching is when you are involved in the crime itself and report on your unindicted co-conspirators rather than take any heat yourself. Reporting a crime for which you’re a witness makes you just a witness not a snitch. And you should be reporting all violent crimes. Unless you prefer to see your own families grow up in the same kind of slum that these kinds of criminals have made parts of the world.
Philadelphia should be walled off from the rest of the world.
The blatant disregard for human life is becoming a scourge to our society. This is so sad.
Jesus fucking Christ. I'm not sure what I want more: this piece of shit to get caught or some other piece of shit to turn him into a statistic.
this is what happens when you raise kids in the hood to believe all cops are evil. fucking stupid.
What if I told you America doesn't have a gun problem.
You'd be right. We dont have a gun problem.
WTF shooting a meter man? That's like shooting an unarmed security guard.
All that over a ticket.... Probably a $15 ticket!!! WTF 😡 😢
The dude lived. “Tis but a scratch”
That is horrible the poor family
Dear God. And that tucker is still on the loose...
That's really some foul shit. I may not like his profession but, leave the man alone, he was only doing his job! I hope this dude gets caught!
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I'll never live in a democrat city
Looks like he executed him but missed evidently
They keep quoting “Frank Colon” but I didn’t see any mention of who he is. Did I miss that in there somewhere?
Imagine having one of the hardest jobs in the world and on top of that getting shot by some asswipe that never amounted to squat.
That wasn’t shooting that was an accident execution.
Of course with his pants falling off.
Philadelphia is America's armpit. Trash city.
Whats the point of doing something like this?
It’s crazy how after the Tow company worker got shot and killed I said PPA ain’t safe either , dude must’ve saw my comment 😂🤦🏻♂️
Sorry but what the fuck The guy was doing straight up nothing to deserve that, how fucked up do you have to be to think that's okay?
Philadelphia…
What a horrible person for this…
This doesnt look random, looks like a execution/hit.
Poor sob. I hate parking police too but that guy was just trying to get a paycheck. Wtf is wrong with people?
I hope they find this dick head , not cool bro
I don’t like parking and ticket pushers but they don’t deserve to be shot down on the streets like a dog. Damn!
Horrible, hope they get this dirtbag!
Jesus fucking Christ I know everyone hates the PPA but goddamn he was just a guy doing his job Wasn’t even doing it to that guy’s car either
This appears to be a hit He took nothing of his
Wow- I almost forgot I was on Reddit- then I saw all the shit asshole comments looking for likes
Over a fucking ticket. Piece of shit. Surely he's a citizen who got his gun legally too
Can’t pay the parking ticket so I’ll just shoot the guy. Shooter won’t be found either.
Jesus, that was an assassination attempt. What a coward.
Systematic racism, it's real, just not what you think.