[...] A Bakersfield man is dead after a confrontation with deputies outside a Bakersfield convenience store. More from: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com… [...]

.wow, the cop got hit with a six pack and it had to be in a plastic bag, as anyone knows if you swung any weight like say beer, the beer whether bottles or not would either break the handles or it would rip through the bottom of the bag. The cop got a thud and could have used pepper spray or his baton or his taser.. We are becoming more and more like a police state.. Even old ladies are getting pumled..

Pigs on power trips they felt their lives were at risk with beer cans so they had to shoot the man in front of his kids cowards

Cops may have over reacted, but if you assault a cop you are asking to get shot. Lets remember though, we only know what little part of the story this article had.

David Lee Turner was a negro. Do you think charges of police brutality & racism are looming. Will jesse Jackson, and/orAl Sharpton rear their ugly heads to led marches and demonstrations calling for a federal investigation.

there is way more to this story that needs to come out, maybe the guy tripped & he fumbled the beer & hit the cop by mistake, but what ever he should not be dead & is clear they are not the ones who were trying to buy beer for youngsters

Thats BS and a Sin and the cop should be punished with Prison time. The man hit him with a bag of beer and in return the man was shot twice to death. Thats WRONG. COPS SHOULD NOT BE ARMED WITH THESE KINDS OF WEAPONS. Only God’s law reigns, these people sinned one way more than the other and there is a person dead and a lost Police man headed to jail. Why continue to be a policeman?? your going to hell, thats not my decesion but it was written

California desperately needs citizen review boards to investigate these cases. The police or DA cannot be relied upon to reach objective conclusions.

it is just not right, why would he try to hit a cop with a bag of beer, knowing that they have guns & would kill him. something stinks & the feds need to get in this & see what really happened here

According to the peace officer, the suspect was cooperative and then all of sudden without warning or provocation he struck the officer. What kind of person does that? The situation sounds like the BART transit shooting all over again.

Until all the facts come in or the video tape ! Then we can see the whole pictiure !! I do not know the whole story ! If the man was in the wrong and it’s proven then his sons will know not to be an idiot like “PopS”!! He was dead wrong !! Viva Bakersfield !!

any man who hits a cop with a weapon of any sorts knows he could be shot, this man had no respect for the cop, hes dead, color has nothing to do with it, they hopefully will use a little of this firepower on the gangs of thugs who attack people for no other reason their shin color!

You all are idiots…..let me hit you in the back of the head with a six pack of beer. If it had knocked the officer out, the fool could have gone for his gun and the who knows what would have happened… if you are dumb enough to assault an officer then too bad if you get shot and die of lead posion. Officers have rights too.

well it’s foolish to assault a cop especially when they’re holding guns…..this dude deserved to die if he swung first. you play with fire you get burned.

Big John, there bad apples in eveey line of work. But I think you have your statistics backwards. The vast majority try to do the right thing. If you saw an inmate get what he deseeved, you must have been an inmate to, so your story dosent hold much water. Nice try story though.

That poor six pack, hope they all made it to a ‘fridge

Something is real wrong when the story reads a “group of juveniles,” and “adults” and the incompetent a$$wipe moron cops stop a man with his two sons. But, since they wear their pen!ses on their side they are always right.

This isn’t a race issue, this is a police brutality issue. The facts that we know are that he assaulted an officer, and the officer shot him. Turner’s daughter was just on the news and said there is a video of the incident from the convience store and that they’re relying heavily on that to know what really happened. That officer needs to be thoroughly investigated, because the police have non-lethal weapons for a reason, and his first reaction was deadly force in front of a bunch of kids…makes me wonder what the psychological screening process is for the people that are handed weapons and sworn to protect us….

We have to remember in all the politics of both situations – they are just people doing a job…. they want to go home to their families too – just like our soldiers….
Nobody is going to be perfect and things happens – very sad for all involved….

I really wish someone like 60 Minutes or Dateline would do a story on the officer misconduct in Kern County. I live here, and let me tell you, it is one horrible place. Every week a law enforcement officer of some kind is getting busted for Selling drugs, inmate beatings, sex with inmates, caught with prostitutes, selling illegal firemarms, domestic violence, child pornography, DUI, wrecking county vehicles while intoxicated, under the influence of Meth, and many, many officer related shootings. Conveniently they are ALL ruled justified. Any place else I might say that maybe Mr. Turner was in the wrong. But what I know and what I have experienced in this county makes me think it was unprovoked. The history here definately speaks for itself. JMO