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Old 10-09-2014, 10:28 AM
 
Location: Stasis
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By what right and why would someone working for a private security company stop kids walking on a sidewalk in residential neighborhood?


"Police said the uniformed officer involved was working a secondary job for a private security company when he encountered four pedestrians in the 4100 block of Shaw Boulevard and stopped to talk with them at about 7:30 p.m.
The four fled and the officer chased one, Assistant Chief Alfred Adkins said.
The man the officer was chasing jumped from some bushes and struggled with the officer, Adkins said. The man then pulled a gun and fired at the officer, Adkins said. The officer returned fire and fatally shot the man.
The officer was not injured and a gun was recovered from the scene, police said."

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...0d7d26f7e.html

 
Old 10-09-2014, 10:31 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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Originally Posted by shiftymh View Post
The cop was wearing his uniform.
It states he was not in uniform. He could be in A LOT of trouble if he was wearing his uniform and badge off-duty.

He also shot to kill-public servants are taught to shoot to wound.

Perhaps he should quit being a public servant and do away with all the restrictions that come with it and dedicate himself completely to being a midnight vigilante.

I doubt he identified himself if he had to do a u-turn in his private car to chase them.
 
Old 10-09-2014, 10:36 AM
 
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Originally Posted by 2e1m5a View Post
It states he was not in uniform. He could be in A LOT of trouble if he was wearing his uniform and badge off-duty.

He also shot to kill-public servants are taught to shoot to wound.

Perhaps he should quit being a public servant and do away with all the restrictions that come with it and dedicate himself completely to being a midnight vigilante.

I doubt he identified himself if he had to do a u-turn in his private car to chase them.

That still doesn't excuse the suspect of shooting at a cop. A person running away from a threatening stranger is natural. A person carrying a gun and then using it to shoot at a someone without as far as we know trying to talk to the stranger and figure out what's going on is NOT normal. The guy could've just not run and see what was going on and even if he did run he could've stopped, pulled out his gun and then see what the stranger chasing him wanted. The point is there's any number of ways the suspect could've handled things that would've likely had a better outcome yet he chose to run and worse yet, chose to pull out his gun and shoot and too bad for him this time it happened to be a cop who shot back.

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Old 10-09-2014, 10:59 AM
 
Location: Pacific NW
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Originally Posted by 2e1m5a View Post
It states he was not in uniform. He could be in A LOT of trouble if he was wearing his uniform and badge off-duty.

He also shot to kill-public servants are taught to shoot to wound.

Perhaps he should quit being a public servant and do away with all the restrictions that come with it and dedicate himself completely to being a midnight vigilante.

I doubt he identified himself if he had to do a u-turn in his private car to chase them.
Where do you get this idiocy? Police are NOT "taught to shoot to wound". Police are trained to shoot to stop the threat by shooting at the largest target - the center of mass aka the body and are trained to shoot until the threat is neutralized. They don't shoot to kill or shoot to wound they shoot to stop someone and if they die, they die but that isn't the goal.
 
Old 10-09-2014, 11:02 AM
 
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Originally Posted by 2e1m5a View Post
It states he was not in uniform. He could be in A LOT of trouble if he was wearing his uniform and badge off-duty.

He also shot to kill-public servants are taught to shoot to wound.

Perhaps he should quit being a public servant and do away with all the restrictions that come with it and dedicate himself completely to being a midnight vigilante.

I doubt he identified himself if he had to do a u-turn in his private car to chase them.
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The officer, who was wearing a Metropolitan Police Department uniform, drove through the streets after them, then left his car and chased the group on foot.
Fatal shooting of 18-year-old by off-duty police officer ignites protests in St. Louis - The Washington Post
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Old 10-09-2014, 11:13 AM
 
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I think the bottom line here is that there were riots over what happened.

Kid out on bail over a felony wheapons charge.

Carrying a piece twice which almost certainly means he's a gang member.

So there you have a guy that is part of the culture that kills most young black men and when he gets shot by the cops the community riots. Makes sense? Um, not really.
 
Old 10-09-2014, 11:19 AM
 
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Cops are NEVER trained to shoot to wound-only. That is a lie, nobody teaches that, to anybody, or ever did so.
 
Old 10-09-2014, 11:21 AM
 
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Cops are NEVER trained to shoot to wound-only. That is a lie, nobody teaches that, to anybody, or ever did so.
I was taught center mass.
 
Old 10-09-2014, 11:25 AM
 
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The Brown mob is still trying to keep it alive. Look at them protesting at a ball game and holding a U.S. flag upside down which didn't go over too well when the sports fans chanted USA in which the Brown crew replied in between each USA with a FU.

People have forgot (and don't appreciate) where the food on their table came from.

 
Old 10-09-2014, 11:30 AM
 
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The Brown mob is still trying to keep it alive. Look at them protesting at a ball game and holding a U.S. flag upside down which didn't go over too well when the sports fans chanted USA in which the Brown crew replied in between each USA with a FU.

People have forgot (and don't appreciate) where the food on their table came from.

They are free to leave the US if they hate it so much.
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