Mixed feelings about suspected cop killer’s death

Kirk Thompson and Edmund Velasquez will never see the inside of a courtroom, but the street verdict is already in. Ann-Marie took a walk downtown today to find out how some of you feel about this dramatic story.

Citizen #1

“I would have wanted him to come in alive. With me fair is fair, and the policeman shouldn’t have pressured the man like that. at least they could have given the man time to come in, which in we know that it’s wrong, what he do, but at least come and talk and do his time at jail.”

Citizen #2

“When you do somebody wrong, you must expect wrong, you must pay for wrong.”

Ann-Marie Williams

“So you’d like people to just kill each other in society?”

Citizen #2

“No. If a person do another one wrong, they should pay for it anyway, whether it’s the law or the family of the person, or somebody else. That’s life.

Citizen #3

“In my country cops carry guns. The cop was unarmed, he’s supposed to carry guns, that’s why he end up dead. No cop is well dressed and is in uniform unless he have a gun.”

Citizen #1

“That’s the way he was suggest in life and he mi want to go. The fact remains that he killed an innocent man and nobody agree to what he did, because he’s a nice cop. All policeman they have their rights and they have the law. And what we have to understand is that we can’t live without the policeman, we have to live with them.”

Citizen #4

“According to the situation that they found them in, maybe they had to do that. Because if they were giving trouble or anything like that, maybe they had to shot them.”

Ann-Marie Williams

“But the police are saying they didn’t kill him.”

Citizen #4

“How’d they die then?”