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Vietnam veteran Bobby Canipe was driving back home to North Carolina from the Daytona 500 in Florida when he was pulled over by a deputy in York County, South Carolina for an expired license plate.

Canipe got out of the truck, not acknowledging the deputy, then reached for something in the back of his pickup truck.

Thinking Canipe was pulling a weapon from the truck's bed, the deputy yells out a warning to Canipe. "Hey sir. Sir, sir," says the deputy as Canipe pulls the cane out of the truck's bed, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!"

The deputy then opens fire, shooting six times and striking 70-year-old Canipe once in the stomach.

"Drop the gun!" yells the deputy. Canipe responds, "It's a walking stick."

Realizing his mistake, the distraught deputy rushes to assist the wounded man.

"I am so sorry," the deputy can be heard telling Canipe before other officers and EMTs arrive and he collapses into tears.

As a colleague attempts to calm the emotional deputy down, he sobs and asks, "Why'd he get out of the car?"

Canipe survived the wound, while the deputy, Terrence Knox, remains on administrative leave.


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Rating wrote Wow , I hope that cop gets life.
Thanks for the share.!
Are you kidding me? It was an accident. Yeah he shot an innocent man, but he had a valid reason. Its a cops instinct for him to shoot. What if the man was pulling out a gun? everyone makes mistakes.
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You can understand why he opened fire, but still, that's a **** itchy trigger finger if i ever did see one lel
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Careless police, should of waited but eh maybe its on instinct.
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To everyone who is blaming the cop, it's not his fault. He's trained to react to that situation. If you were a cop and you pulled a man over and he gets out and reaches in the back of his truck and grabs something that looks like a gun, I would shoot too.
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LET wrote
Rating wrote Wow , I hope that cop gets life.
Thanks for the share.!
Are you kidding me? It was an accident. Yeah he shot an innocent man, but he had a valid reason. Its a cops instinct for him to shoot. What if the man was pulling out a gun? everyone makes mistakes.


I don't think he should get life or any time at that... but everyone makes mistakes? This is a pretty big mistake... Fair enough he could of been reaching for a weapon but you should be able to tell whether he is a threat. The cane is so slim too, how can he scream "Drop the gun".. he must of been blind... Unlucky cop and veteran really.
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OBE wrote
LET wrote
Rating wrote Wow , I hope that cop gets life.
Thanks for the share.!
Are you kidding me? It was an accident. Yeah he shot an innocent man, but he had a valid reason. Its a cops instinct for him to shoot. What if the man was pulling out a gun? everyone makes mistakes.


I don't think he should get life or any time at that... but everyone makes mistakes? This is a pretty big mistake... Fair enough he could of been reaching for a weapon but you should be able to tell whether he is a threat. The cane is so slim too, how can he scream "Drop the gun".. he must of been blind... Unlucky cop and veteran really.
Well obviously its a pretty big mistake. But heat in the moment, if he did have a gun and waited that extra second to verify if it was a weapon or not could mean life or death to the cop.
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LET wrote
OBE wrote
LET wrote
Rating wrote Wow , I hope that cop gets life.
Thanks for the share.!
Are you kidding me? It was an accident. Yeah he shot an innocent man, but he had a valid reason. Its a cops instinct for him to shoot. What if the man was pulling out a gun? everyone makes mistakes.


I don't think he should get life or any time at that... but everyone makes mistakes? This is a pretty big mistake... Fair enough he could of been reaching for a weapon but you should be able to tell whether he is a threat. The cane is so slim too, how can he scream "Drop the gun".. he must of been blind... Unlucky cop and veteran really.
Well obviously its a pretty big mistake. But heat in the moment, if he did have a gun and waited that extra second to verify if it was a weapon or not could mean life or death to the cop.


Yup, i see your point dude. At least there was no fatalities from this story, i would hate the feeling of guilt from the cop after.
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Here in the UK a while back a cop taser gunned a blind man because they mistaken his white stick for a samurai sword ... Stupid
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I can see why you put watch the video first at the top now seeing the first reply of the topic.


But this is sad, I feel for the officer because how emotional he got after realizing what he did. The old man seemed to not be in that much pain.
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