James' World 2

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Part 1: Two decades later, a traffic stop on a country road is still teaching police officers about deadly force – and the cost of hesitation.

Those three minutes went on, even after the blood washed away. They joined a woman alone in her bed as she remembered the sound of her husband’s breath. They followed a girl who wondered why Santa Claus wouldn’t bring Daddy home. They kept the sheriff looking over his shoulder, even in the shower, and they told him his deputies needed bigger guns.

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If you want to know why cops shoot people, you can find one of many answers in those three minutes on Whipples Crossing Road. There, on January 12, 1998, Deputy Kyle Dinkheller of the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office made the final traffic stop of his brief career.

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The sun was setting over Middle Georgia as the three minutes began. It was 5:34 p.m. About halfway through the first minute, Dinkheller called for backup. His partner, Deputy Don Matecun, careened along the gray-white ribbon of Interstate 16, pushing his Ford Crown Victoria to the edge of its capabilities, but he was still roughly 15 miles away. The second minute began. Dinkheller called for help again, voice tinged with fear, as if the situation had gotten worse. When he called a third time about 20 seconds later, he spoke so fast that the words ran together: “Radio got a man with a gun!”

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http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/politics/state/kyle-dinkheller-police-video/

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Ian James McCarthy, 39, of Clinton, Missouri, was charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of armed criminal action, both felonies, the Henry County, Missouri Prosecutor’s Office said Monday.

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Gary Michael, 37, who had been with the Clinton, Missouri, Police Department for less than a year, pulled over a vehicle for a suspected registration violation Sunday night, according to Sgt. Bill Lowe of the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

  

As Michael exited his vehicle in downtown Clinton, the alleged shooter also got out of his car and fired once at the officer before fleeing the scene and crashing his vehicle into an embankment about four blocks away, Lowe said.

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Officer Gary Michael, 37

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/07/us/clinton-missouri-police-officer-killed/index.html

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