Joseph Jeremy Weber; media says PTSD made him rob liquor store
Bobo sends us a link to the San Jose Mercury-News which tells the story of the final moments of Joseph Jeremy Weber’s life when he threatened police officers with a knife. The police had responded to his robbery of a liquor store in Sunnyvale, CA.
The man shot and killed by police after wielding a knife during a liquor-store robbery last week was an Army veteran reportedly dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, authorities said.
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[P]olice say the suspect moved toward Officer Benjamin Kroutil while holding a knife, prompting the 13-year police veteran to open fire, striking and wounding him. Joseph Jeremy Weber later died at the hospital.
AdvertisementThe confrontation was preceded by a 911 call about 11 a.m. reporting a robbery where a man took a pack of cigarettes at knifepoint from a clerk at Grewalz Liquor & Groceries at 1125 Tasman Drive. Kroutil was the first officer on scene, and he confronted the suspect in the alley.
Well, I’m pretty sure that PTS doesn’t make people steal cigarettes, and since it comes from witnessing traumatic events, it’s not likely that someone suffering from it would cause another traumatic event. The photo of Weber seems to be a mugshot, so he has probably been in trouble with the police before. I’m sure there are other things besides PTS at work here.
Not newsworthy – thousands of veterans afflicted with PTS didn’t steal cigarettes or threaten police with a knife last week. I’d like to see the media explain that, though.
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Sounds to me like he was just a regular run-of-the-mill asshole.
Painting the veteran as unstable, untrustworthy, violent, etc., is an agenda which the MSM continues to push despite most of it being utter BS.
Also, my guess is that an FOIA would show this fellow to have been a less-than-stellar service member, assuming he had in fact served.
If someone can come up with the deceased’s full name and SSN (or DOB and POB) plus some approx dates of service, I’ll be glad to fill a FOIA request so we can determine that one way or another.
I’m doing homework right now Hondo. From the police reports. And all the news report
Holy Crapola their is two of them and no report WTF !!!! Bahahahahahaha
Far too many of these miscreants are claiming to be afflicted with PTSD. from the dope who molested a 15 year old relative, to this cigarette thief. There are those who are afflicted, and I know a few, but none of them would support these claims.
It is people like this that the catheter swinging, wannabe lawyer, almost a pilot, from the Pacific Northwest, would try to defend, if it were legal for him to practice law.
PTSD is a legitimate injury/malady, but it is misused far more than it is properly claimed.
Word.
That is a drivers license picture btw
At least they won’t blame this one on steroids.
Dude “caught” the PTSD from his visits to the “pound you in he ass” jail, not from his time in the service.
I must be doing PTS wrong. I’ve only been depressed, anxious, and anti-social.
Flagwaver. I’m right there with you it’s seems I should per the news outlets, I should be robbing stores. Stealing cars, and pulling a Rambo in my neighborhood. LMAO WTF is wrong with people tagging vets this way is beyond me
Apparently there are/were TWO (yes, count ’em, TWO), JJ Webers, same age, same names, same town, same SCHOOLS, same military (to be proved on the one killed by the police).
The one (not killed by police) appears to actually have PTS, and is missing since 24 Nov ’15. For him, and his family, I feel sympathy. I hope that the family’s anguish is resolved one way or the other. May the peace of G-d and Jesus come to you.
For the other (killed by police), I feel NO sympathy.
He probably needs a discharge upgrade.
I’m sure everyone who comments on this site has served with those that would have problems anywhere. Military or not.
A saying I’ve used for years regarding those who came back to my city, who had served in Vietnam. With a lot of them it did not matter, they would have had problems serving at 39th and Main Street. It was predisposed!
Just sayin