HPD Changing Stories wrote on March 19, 2008 12:18 PM: Henderson Police Press Conference:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/videos/2008/feb/21/127/

Contradicting Stories:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/videos/2008/feb/25/133/

Conflicting Evidence?:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/videos/2008/mar/12/154/

Robert wrote on March 11, 2008 04:18 PM: 1. We need to take away the guns from the cops. They can't be trusted to use them appropriately.

2. We need to prosecute Morrison to the full extent of the law.

3. People are not going to sit back and let cops gun people down. Especially women, especially mothers in front of their children!!

4. I don't think its a matter of liberal or conservative thinking. Its a matter of whether or not a cop has the mental makeup to be a cop.

5. I understand being a cop is a scary job. There are bad guys out there somewhere. I don't think that is the issue here.

6. If the cops only way of dealing with a wacko woman with a knife is to shoot her I think they need to find another line of work.

7. The citizens need to beware and take this seriously. the citizens need to make sure this cop is brought to justice.

8.I can't remember who said this but it is so true "When the police become the militia, the community becomes the enemy"

This Cant Fade Away wrote on March 09, 2008 09:54 PM: Keep asking Questions!!! Demand the truth!!!

Google autopsy of this woman.


article by Dana Gentry states:

Jim Jimmerson, the attorney for the family of Deshira Selimaj, the woman killed by a Henderson Police officer, says the autopsy results show that Selimaj was on the ground when she was shot. Jimmerson says he hasn't received a written copy of the autopsy report, but has been briefed o the trajectory of the bullet. He also says Henderson Police have interviewed a credible witness who was just feet from the scene.

Jimmerson will appear on Face to Face on tuesday.

Worried and Scared wrote on February 22, 2008 10:52 AM: 1. Big tough cops, plenty on scene, could not use physical tactics to take down a woman with a knife?

2. Big tough cops shoot and kill her in front of her children and husband. Was this the last and only resort? Cowards. Cowards. Cowards.

3. Now husband to top it off gets thrown in jail for obstruction and children placed with strangers. What a joke.

4. Now they attempt to smear the dead woman and husband to help justify their oh so plain story. Sorry, you can't smear them enough to justify shooting her. They certainly don't play fair.

5. Plenty of witnesses questioning why this woman was shot. Anonymously. Of course. They don't want to be targeted by the HPD. Understandable.

6. Police Chief gives plain as day story and says cop is a hero.

7. God help us.

Suela Caushi wrote on February 22, 2008 09:23 AM:
This is a terrible tragedy. I can never believe that a mother of three, a little woman, unarmed, could be so dangerous to several big policemen, which had no other choice but to shoot her to death, and on front of her kids and family. I have seen officers bringing down big guys, and yet this little woman represented an unstoppable risk that killing her was the only solution? This is so Wrong and Horrible ...
I strongly believe that what happened was a horrible policeman’s mistake- and the version of the story of woman grabbing knifes and threatening to kill herself on front of her kids for a $600 ticket is just a BULLSHEET- it’s a try to cover up a fatal police mistake (shooting a mother of three). I think that the local police and the police of Nevada should stop persecuting the husband, and instead should publicly APOLOGIZE to the family and take actions to secure that this family overcomes the pain that the police have caused.
I feel so sorry for the kids - poor babies, they saw their mother getting shot ...this is horrible.
BELOW IS THE DONATION FUND TO HELP THE FAMILY. I GRATEFULLY ASK EVERYONE TO DONATE (FUND BELOW). I am sending my donation now and hope that stories like that are not repeated.

Zyber Selimaj Donation Fund
P.O Box 90533
Las Vegas NV 89009-0533

Thank you.

Z-Man wrote on February 19, 2008 10:19 PM: Whitey has apparently failed to understand my prior comments.

I have closely followed police shootings in the Las Vegas area for almost 20 years. It is that personal obervation and study which founds my observations. This is seen not only from a rational observation of the shooting, the subsequent investigation and the inquest testimony, but also from the fact that no jury has EVER held an officer-involved shooting to be wrongful in a civil context. This does not mean that people cannot make mistakes, only that, the vast majority of shootings are justified. Thus, we should wait before venting our vitriol against the police until the evidence is truly in.

As to the witnesses, I am simply stating persons actually involved in an event--or aware the event is imminent--are more prepared to see what really happens than one who simply happens upon it unexpectedly. This is a psychological fact. Further, officers are trained to handle high stress events and to be as perceptive as possible. Again, not every one is, but the majority of officers are better able to document events during times of stress than the average person.

Further, as far as witnesses go, I think your gross mischaracterization of polarizing the witnesses into the police and everyone else goes too far without substantiation. I understand the majority of lay witnesses concur with the officers' viewpoint.

To attribute an intent to kill this woman to teach her a lesson is scurrilous.

The video is not of the event. Had you looked at it, you would have known.

I have not defended their actions, only noted caution before judgment should be utilized.

Finally, the officer wasn't 20. You have to be 21 to become an officer. Facts are always so important to understand truth.

J wrote on February 19, 2008 11:57 AM: I hope they sue the pants off the city for what they did.

whitey wrote on February 18, 2008 10:33 AM: "Joe C wrote on February 16, 2008 11:32 AM:
but the shooting is a direct result in the actions of Mr. and Mrs. Selma irrational behavior. "

It seems to me the only irrational behavior was a 20 year old man shooting a mother. That is a fact. Witnesses claim she wasn't welding a knife while the cops claim she was. Would it look bad for the cops if she wasn't welding a knife? Are cops human? Do humans lie? Do humans lie when they can BENEFIT from the lie? How would the witnesses that claim she was weaponless benefit?

"Until then thanks for all the irrational blame police second-guessing."

Why is it irrational? I have seen plenty of video of police brutality. Could police EVER do any thing wrong in your view?

whitey wrote on February 18, 2008 10:17 AM: "While the death of another at the hands of the police is a regrettable event, it is almost always predicated by bad actions on the part of the person shot."

Care to cite your sources for that claim?

"They see what their personal paradigm permits them to see."

So what you're saying is, is that the police witnesses saw a situation where this lady needed to be killed because they were in fear of their lives(or this female would not submit and she needed to be taught a lesson...)? While bystanders who were not in fear of their lives saw an unarmed women shot down. Tell me Z-man, which set of witnesses in this case are under more stress? The ones fearing for their lives or the ones not fearing for their lives?

"Finally, the video clip is completely inapposite."

Are you serious? Any video recording of the incident isn't relevant? Any one home McFly?

"To seek to defame such appreciable excellence with inuendo and snidery is depressingly immature."

To seek to defend such vulgar actions is sociopathic.

Tod wrote on February 17, 2008 06:16 AM: Don't worry, if there was any wrong doing by the Henderson police in the case of Deshira Selimaj's death, the Henderson taxpayers will get the bill.

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