Thread: TV's "Cops" Crewman Killed in Police Shootout

POLICE officers who opened fire while disrupting a robbery at a fast-food restaurant in the US city of Omaha killed a crew member with the reality TV show Cops as well as the suspect.

In a tragic twist, it’s also been revealed the suspect was armed with a pellet gun police thought was a real handgun, authorities said.
The suspect was armed with a pellet gun and fired on police, who thought it was a real handgun and returned fire, police chief Todd Schmaderer said.
He added witnesses and officers thought the robbery suspect’s Airsoft handgun looked and sounded real, but discovered later that it fires only plastic pellets.
The public information officer with the Omaha Police Department has tweeted pictures from the incident.



The suspect, whom police identified as 32-year-old Cortez Washington, was struck by the officers’ gunfire, but fled outside of the restaurant before collapsing. Officers continued firing on the suspect as he exited the restaurant, and that was when the Cops crew member, 38-year-old Bryce Dion, was also struck, said Schamaderer.
Dion was wearing a bulletproof vest, but a single bullet that hit his arm “slipped into a gap in the vest” and went into his chest, Schmaderer said.
“My concern with my officers is that they are taking this very hard,” Schmaderer said. “Bryce was their friend.” Schmaderer said video captured by the cameraman who was with Dion shows the chaotic situation in the restaurant.



Police released still shots from the video showing a hooded and masked person pointing what looks like a gun at police. Schmaderer said police would not release the full video, but that it will be part of the grand jury investigation into the shooting.
Schmaderer said the incident began when one of the officers, on his way to another reported robbery, called to request backup for the robbery at the Wendy’s. The Cops crew members were with two officers who responded to that request.
When police entered the restaurant and confronted the suspect, Dion, who was the sound operator, got separated from the cameraman, Schmaderer said.
Cops is a reality TV show that depicts law enforcement officers in action. According to its website, the show has been filmed in at least 140 US cities and three foreign countries.
Executives with Langley Productions said this was the first time one of their crew members has been fatally shot while filming. The show started on Fox in 1989 and is now shown on the Spike network.

Cops shooting: Cameraman Bryce Dion and suspect Cortez Washington killed in cruel twist

Those Police are Bad Boys

a single bullet that hit his arm “slipped into a gap in the vest” and went into his chest,

I'm not sure I've ever heard that phrase used in conjunction with a bullet.

What happened after that, it "sidled up to his heart"?

The reality of reality TV.

Swept under the rug.

Cowboys.

The real kicker is the cop in charge of this bunch of idiots said they acted in a thoroughly professional manner.

Honestly, you simply couldn't make it up. The robber was armed with a plastic pellet toy gun and these dumbo fuckheads couldn't tell the difference.

Doubtless Jim will be along in a moment chuntering on about pressure, stress and andrenaline pumping reflexes.

I honestly do believe Russians are, lb for lb, brighter than the average septic.

Come back Mid

Originally Posted by thegent

The real kicker is the cop in charge of this bunch of idiots said they acted in a thoroughly professional manner.

Honestly, you simply couldn't make it up. The robber was armed with a plastic pellet toy gun and these dumbo fuckheads couldn't tell the difference.

Doubtless Jim will be along in a moment chuntering on about pressure, stress and andrenaline pumping reflexes.

I honestly do believe Russians are, lb for lb, brighter than the average septic.

He was robbing a store, you fucking moron. He pointed a gun and fired it at police, you fucking idiot. Witnesses said it looked and sounded like a real gun, you fool.

What would you have the cops do, retard, just stand there?

You have totally lost the plot. You are an idiot.

Cops ain't got nothing on Steven Seagal: Lawman.

Reality TV at it's best.
Real men. Pretending to be cops.

Classic Americana.

TG. you sound like a person who has lived a very boring life, never had an adrenalin high, most exciting thing was a movie.

Too late now, or you, can go to Pattaya, tell everyone you are special forces, can kill with a key ring.
I'll listen as long as you buy the booze. Jim

Originally Posted by thegent

The real kicker is the cop in charge of this bunch of idiots said they acted in a thoroughly professional manner.

Honestly, you simply couldn't make it up. The robber was armed with a plastic pellet toy gun and these dumbo fuckheads couldn't tell the difference.

Doubtless Jim will be along in a moment chuntering on about pressure, stress and andrenaline pumping reflexes.

I honestly do believe Russians are, lb for lb, brighter than the average septic.

Airsoft replicas are not all "plastic toy guns"
At the $70.00 mark and above they are exact replicas, made of metal and have a slide that works when you fire it with an explosive sound.
Doesn't sound anything like a real gun, but certainly looks real.

Don;t bring a toy gun to a real gunfight is the lesson.

Originally Posted by thegent

The robber was armed with a plastic pellet toy gun and these dumbo fuckheads couldn't tell the difference.

How close would you look at a gun pointing at you when a robbery is happening if you were a cop?

Ahhhh....
The old "Art imitating life or Life imitating art" chestnut.

Well it is called "Reality TV" after all.

Guess it's starting to get a bit too realistic for some.

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

Ahhhh....
The old "Art imitating life or Life imitating art" chestnut.

Well it is called "Reality TV" after all.

Guess it's starting to get a bit too realistic for some.

Nothing matters, really, except for the PR and big profits.

The only thing real about it.

Originally Posted by Necron99

At the $70.00 mark and above they are exact replicas, made of metal and have a slide that works when you fire it with an explosive sound.

Yep, full metal replicas are *very* realistic.

Of course, with real guns being so easy to obtain over there, it does seem unusual that an armed robber would not choose to have the real thing.

Bollocks to reality fake TV.
Bunch of tossers filming other tossers watched by tossers.

Now if they show all the footage of this film extra being shot, then I may watch it.
It would have been a lot more exciting if the Robber shot the film extra.
Spoilt the scene having a replica in the hands of a robber.
Damn.

Originally Posted by Necron99

Don;t bring a toy gun to a real gunfight is the lesson

yup!

"Just like a WOP to bring a knife to a gunfight"

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Originally Posted by thegent

The real kicker is the cop in charge of this bunch of idiots said they acted in a thoroughly professional manner.

Honestly, you simply couldn't make it up. The robber was armed with a plastic pellet toy gun and these dumbo fuckheads couldn't tell the difference.

Doubtless Jim will be along in a moment chuntering on about pressure, stress and andrenaline pumping reflexes.

I honestly do believe Russians are, lb for lb, brighter than the average septic.

He was robbing a store, you fucking moron. He pointed a gun and fired it at police, you fucking idiot. Witnesses said it looked and sounded like a real gun, you fool.

What would you have the cops do, retard, just stand there?

You have totally lost the plot. You are an idiot.

Aw c'mon Davis, you fuckin' full well know if that guy had been holding a fucking banana or his pecker in his hand they'd still have shot him to death.

I can understand your loyalty ' n'all to these guys, you being a septic too, but you're just letting yourself down.

" hey, watch out ! That banana could be loaded ! "

Har, har.

Originally Posted by jamescollister

TG. you sound like a person who has lived a very boring life, never had an adrenalin high, most exciting thing was a movie.

Too late now, or you, can go to Pattaya, tell everyone you are special forces, can kill with a key ring.
I'll listen as long as you buy the booze. Jim

Was it your lack of imagination that held you back Jim?

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Originally Posted by thegent

The real kicker is the cop in charge of this bunch of idiots said they acted in a thoroughly professional manner.

Honestly, you simply couldn't make it up. The robber was armed with a plastic pellet toy gun and these dumbo fuckheads couldn't tell the difference.

Doubtless Jim will be along in a moment chuntering on about pressure, stress and andrenaline pumping reflexes.

I honestly do believe Russians are, lb for lb, brighter than the average septic.

He was robbing a store, you fucking moron. He pointed a gun and fired it at police, you fucking idiot. Witnesses said it looked and sounded like a real gun, you fool.

What would you have the cops do, retard, just stand there?

You have totally lost the plot. You are an idiot.

Do try to speak your mind a bit more clearly Davis.....it's not like you to understate things like this....

30 rounds fired by the police sounds like a bit of "overkill" and certainly points toward indiscriminate firing.

Of course it was indiscriminate. They're septic cops, after all, and are only discriminate when it comes to niggers.

Do you have to demonstrate some sort of congenital deficiency to become a cop in the US?

Should make good footage.