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Man attacks police with frying pan and hot grease
09/11/2016 7:40 AM by John M
Two officers encountered Andre Mangram, who was welding a frying pan, and were injured trying to arrest him. One officer was hospitalized, while another was treated and released.
An RPD source adds that the officers were injured by being hit with the pan and hot grease, and makes the obvious but important point that this man did not get shot.
Where and why did the encounter him? Police kitchen checkpoint?
Police had been called to the residence for reported domestic assault
I am always unsure of how to best dispose of hot grease but somehow this just doesn’t seem like a great way to do that. In all seriousness, I hope the officers are ok!
Anyone who has ever been frying something and gotten that little burn of hot grease knows how painful it is. This article is not very clear about what happened. I would like to know how the police officers are.
As for pointing out that the man was not shot, I think he was lucky. A hot grease attack is justification for self defense with the use of deadly force!
@Jean McDaniel – there has been much discussion in national media recently of the disparate treatment of white vs. black criminals. Google “bath salts cannibals racial disparity,” provided you aren’t eating or planning on eating anytime soon…
Anyway, I can’t help but think that in a lot of the more extreme incidents (I.e. The one I just suggested you google) what’s concerning is not use of force, but that that the police don’t just shoot the white perpetrators as well. Granted, I am referring to blatant, violent situations like murder-cannibalism or (potentially, depending on circumstances) throwing hot oil on a police officer (which could be debilitating or fatal for the officer). I am not referring to possible police brutality situations (Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Etc.). I think those are categorically different.
Regardless, I agree that it does seem odd to see the incident chalked up as a success because the perp wasn’t hurt, without seeing anything else mentioned about the injured Officer.
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I did as you suggested and I think the cannabile had it coming way before he ate somebody elses face. He has an X wife who left him because of violence toward her. He has a history of violence towards his own mother.
I do not denie that in some instances police have resorted to shooting where other means should have been used first. I am not and have never been in the position that the police face on a daily basis, however I know myself well enough to know that if I felt threatened, I would not hesitate to shoot!
I would not have a job ( and I doubt that anyone would be stupid enough to hire me ) that required me to go into a violent situation, make split second decisions possibly based on limited information and then be examined and judged by everyone who was not there. Hind sight is always 20 20 vision and the more time that passes, the better the vision.
I still want to know how the police officers are who had to deal with this call.