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November 4, 2015

Colorado Shooting: 911 Caller Was Told About Open Carry Law 
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Meanwhile, scrutiny is growing over the response by Colorado Springs
police to a man who ended up fatally shooting three people on Saturday.
That morning, Naomi Bettis called 911 to report seeing her neighbor with
a rifle. But the dispatcher reportedly told Bettis about Colorado's open
carry law, which allows guns to be carried in public. A police official
told Mother Jones the call was not given "the highest priority." When
Bettis called back, her neighbor, Noah Harpham, had opened fire. He
killed three people before police killed him. Critics have drawn
comparisons between the police response to Harpham, who is white, and
the police killings of African Americans Tamir Rice and John Crawford in
Ohio, which is also an open carry state. Crawford was shot for handling
an unloaded BB gun in a Wal-Mart, where it was on sale; Tamir Rice, who
was 12 years old, was playing with a toy gun in a park.

 

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