News Roundup

Over the weekend a Georgia Tech student was shot and killed by a campus police officer in a tragic incident that set off protests on the school’s campus this week.  21-year-old student Scout Schultz was shot by 23-year-old campus police officer Tyler Beck on Saturday night.  Reports suggest that Schultz, who had some history of mental illness, may have orchestrated the shooting, reportedly calling 911 to falsely report an armed suspicious person and then advancing on responding officers while carrying a multi-tool and disregarding their orders to stop.  A few days after the shooting, a campus vigil held in remembrance of Shultz was followed by what has been described as a violent protest where a police car was set on fire and two officers were injured.   Keep reading for more news. Deaf Man Shot.  On Tuesday night, an Oklahoma City police officer responding to a hit-and-run shot and killed a deaf man who the officer encountered on the scene and who was holding a metal pipe.  The Oklahoman reports that Magdiel Sanchez approached two responding officers while holding a two-foot-long pipe and did not respond to the officers’ orders to drop the pipe.  Though witnesses were yelling to the officers that Sanchez was deaf, it is not clear that the officers heard the witnesses.  One officer shot Sanchez while the other officer simultaneously deployed a Taser.  The shootings of both Sanchez and Schultz are stark examples of the challenges that officers face when making difficult decisions about the use of force. [...]