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Most of the unarmed people did not present themselves as a lethal threat.
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Shooting unarmed individuals is judged individually by the circumstances involved and can be justified.Such situations do happen. A lot. That doesn’t excuse shooting unarmed people.
What different standard are you talking about?It doesn’t justify different standards of the use of deadly force. Because what that says is that an officers life is more important than the lives of citizens.
Fascinating.
The same people who constantly defend the bad cops who shoot unarmed people and act like fascists are mostly the same people who constantly complain the US is turning into a police state so they need to arm themselves with dozens of guns and bazookas.
If EVERYONE held the bad cops accountable we all wouldn't have to worry so much about this country turning into a police state.
You're speaking in broad terms. Give us an example of a bad cop shooting an unarmed harmless man and us defendibg it.
Happens on this site every time 1 of these cases happen. The worst was the time a cop shot an Unarmed man 8 times in the back as he was 25 feet away running away from the cop. The Cons on this site came out of the woodwork to defend the cop.
Pitiful.
Evidence?
Happened a couple of years ago. If it is that important to you then start searching, I'm not going to waste my time searching through THOUSANDS of threads.
But all you have to do is read through THIS thread to see 'evidence' of people who will defend that cops no matter how poorly they act and how brutal their actions are.
Have a nice day.
Happened a couple of years ago. If it is that important to you then start searching, I'm not going to waste my time searching through THOUSANDS of threads.
But all you have to do is read through THIS thread to see 'evidence' of people who will defend that cops no matter how poorly they act and how brutal their actions are.
Have a nice day.
Figures, since I came out against the cop on that one.
This is procedure and I'm ok with it. First off they're responding to stolen vehicle. They are not pulling over 80 year old grandma for not coming to a compleye stop at the stop sign on a Sunday afternoon. Being grand theft auto is a serious offense they treat ut as such. Secondly the guy did not get on the ground when told to. The other option would be to have the officers stay back with their guns drawn and have him get out of the car, lift his shirt, turn around for him, and walk backwards toward the officers.
It was inappropriate. I love how the cops yell... "stop resisting" when using excessive force. Its like their go to..
they cops could have simply asked him to step back into his car.. and if he refused.. they could have had simply asked him to stand there by his car. Called in plate number to find who owned the vehicle. Then asked the fellow his name. all from a distance. the guy wasn;t going anywhere. Why risk injury to yourself or to the fellow.. for no good reason?
that's why these things occur. The police tend to have an attitude (and I know this because I have friends on the force and was a reserve officer myself) that its there job to teach people a lesson. I had an argument with a friend who is a state patrolman of 19 years. And I was discussing what would happen if he suddenly started yelling commands at one of my patients that is hard of hearing and is elderly and can get confused if he is stressed. EVEN knowing this, the patrolman was like "well, what if I don't teach him a lesson and he decides to disobey the NEXT police officer". His attitude was that if he lets something slide.. then it will jeopardize the next police officer.
Even a harmless old man.
The report was stolen vehicle. You're not officer friendly when dealing with such for safety reasons. It will either be them charging him or having him come out at gun point. This was a felony stop and should've been treated as such.
I can't judge your statement because I wasn't there.