U.S. soldier shot by German police after Oktoberfest party

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

U.S. soldier shot by German police after Oktoberfest party

The unnamed soldier based at U.S. Army Garrison Grafenwoehr was hit on the head at an Oktoberfest celebration in Munich. He was taken to the hospital where he woke up in a reportedly drunken rage and tore a fire extinguisher off the wall.

A 28-year-old U.S. soldier was shot by German police officers at a Munich hospital after threatening staff, patients with a fire extinguisher during a drunken rampage, reports say.

The soldier allegedly gave an 89-year-old patient a fat lip with the extinguisher after waking up in the Clinic of Grosshadern emergency room with a head wound he suffered at an Oktoberfest party on Thursday night.

He had torn a big, red fire extinguisher off the wall during the attack and waved it around, threatening hit nurses, doctors and patients, Abendzeitung, a German newspaper, reported.

Four Bavarian police officers were called to help hospital staff restrain the soldier, who has been based at U.S. Army Garrison Grafenwoehr since 2013,according to NBC News.

The officers shouted German and English commands to put down the extinguisher, but he refused.

Just before he bludgeoned the cops, one of the officers pointed his firearm at the soldier’s leg and opened fire.

The first shot did not bring the soldier down so he was shot a second time by the officer.The soldier’s new bout of injuries are not considered life-threatening, but now he faces a possible assault charge in Germany.

The soldier, who has not been identified, recently served a tour in Afghanistan,according to Süddeutsche Zeitung, another German newspaper.

It’s rare for German police to use their firearms, but the use of force is being investigated by the Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/u-s-soldier-shot-german-police-oktoberfest-party-article-1.1955089

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Hope the soldier will be brought up on charges for his criminal conduct and his welcome revoked. He should be sent home and face additional charges there. He's lucky this happened in Germany. Had it happened here, chances are he'd be dead.

Edited September 30, 2014 by Mr. Big Dog

[Pooky 3,844]

A drunken rampage?

So, was that after two beers, or three?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

A drunken rampage?

So, was that after two beers, or three?

Are you suggesting that US personnel cannot hold their liquor - or beer in this case?

[Pooky 3,844]

Are you suggesting that US personnel cannot hold their liquor - or beer in this case?

I'm suggesting nothing of the sort.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Hopefully the police will be brought up on charges for using excessive force and endangering the lives of hospital patients and staff by discharging a firearm indoors in close quarters. Tazing would have been more appropriate. Since when is being attacked with a weapon other than a gun an excuse to shoot someone?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Hopefully the police will be brought up on charges for using excessive force and endangering the lives of hospital patients and staff by discharging a firearm indoors in close quarters. Tazing would have been more appropriate. Since when is being attacked with a weapon other than a gun an excuse to shoot someone?

The police will not be brought up on charges. The suspect had already injured one patient and was in the process of doing more harm to others. He had to be stopped. Again, this having happened in Germany, he's still alive. Had this happened in the US, he'd very likely be dead. People have been shot and killed by police for much, much less.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

The police will not be brought up on charges. The suspect had already injured one patient and was in the process of doing more harm to others. He had to be stopped. Again, this having happened in Germany, he's still alive. Had this happened in the US, he'd very likely be dead. People have been shot and killed by police for much, much less.

But TM and the kid in Ferguson didn't. Go figure.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Who swings a fire extinguisher about in a hospital. What an idiot.

[MyLittlePony 340]

Who do they think they are just can do what they feel in another country and not be touched? Wrong kind of thinking hope he serves years in prison.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

But TM and the kid in Ferguson didn't. Go figure.

Unlike these two, the soldier is alive, isn't he? And to my knowledge, the killer of one of the kids was not a cop so not sure how that is even remotely relevant.

[MyLittlePony 340]

Why is the solider not in the news? oh yeah he white lol.

[MacUK 983]

Hopefully the police will be brought up on charges for using excessive force and endangering the lives of hospital patients and staff by discharging a firearm indoors in close quarters. Tazing would have been more appropriate. Since when is being attacked with a weapon other than a gun an excuse to shoot someone?

When the weapon in question could cause fatal injuries to anyone he attacked.

He was challenged, he didn't back down, he was shot. Simples.

The same thing would have happened in the US, except the US police probably wouldn't have attempted to use the perpetrators language as well as the native one to issue the challenge.

Totally justified reaction by the police.

[Boiler 46,252]

Germans have always had gun abuse issues.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Unlike these two, the soldier is alive, isn't he? And to my knowledge, the killer of one of the kids was not a cop so not sure how that is even remotely relevant.

TM attacked GZ and bashed his head into the sidewalk, so by your own words in a prior post above, he had to be stopped.