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Old 04-11-2016, 11:24 AM
 
Location: The South
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Another person who failed the "Yes Sir, No Sir, How high do you want me to jump sir" test.
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Old 04-11-2016, 11:41 AM
 
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Another person who failed the "Yes Sir, No Sir, How high do you want me to jump sir" test.
I can only hope that's a Tequila post.
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Old 04-11-2016, 12:17 PM
 
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So he is preserving the criminals life so that he can be convicted and we, as taxpayers, can support him in prison with free food, shelter, and medical care? And this is a good thing?
Yeah, cuz its one of those crappy constitution things.
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Old 04-11-2016, 12:23 PM
 
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So he is preserving the criminals life so that he can be convicted and we, as taxpayers, can support him in prison with free food, shelter, and medical care? And this is a good thing?
.... or the taxpayers are liable for a lawsuit for "excessive force" that gets settled to avoid riots.
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Old 04-11-2016, 12:46 PM
 
Location: alexandria, VA
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Yeah, cuz its one of those crappy constitution things.
The cop would have been completely justified had he double tapped the guy.
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Old 04-11-2016, 01:24 PM
 
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The problem is that isn't what was being addressed.

The OP made a BS claim and a BS title.

Then some people called him on the BS, and then YOU came along and added some more BS to the story.

I am sure there are already countless threads on the issue you are referring to.
There is a lot of B.S. added to them.
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Old 04-11-2016, 01:27 PM
 
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I see it as being similar to when a person gets attacked by a shark and you hear people calling for sharks to be killed and beaches netted when it the events are statistically tiny and not much would really change.
Police officers equal sharks? Police officers are just killing based upon instinct? They don't have the ability to think and reason?

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I'm not too worried about it due to it being extremely rare and that you're not going to change much in regards to these "rogue" cops that turn up from time to time. As long as humans are used for policing, you're going to have these events regardless.
The Jeffrey Dahmers are rare. Dealing with one will not stop the next but we still deal with it.
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Old 04-11-2016, 01:29 PM
 
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These are not mutually exclusive propositions.


I personally would not have fired once and stopped to observed the effect, but having determined that firing was necessary in the first place, I'd have fired twice (missing the first round is more common in gunfights than hitting with the first round).


And there are often as many as 15 rounds between firing twice and "emptying the gun."
Not only emptied the gun but reloaded.

Cop emptied pistol, reloaded in Laquan McDonald shooting - NY Daily News
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Old 04-11-2016, 01:31 PM
 
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So he is preserving the criminals life so that he can be convicted and we, as taxpayers, can support him in prison with free food, shelter, and medical care? And this is a good thing?
We do not hire the police officer to be judge, jury and executioner. That is not how our system works. I'm generalizing here but the arguments that courts should only rule on the merits of the Constitution and beliefs such as yours seem to overlap many times.

The system should work for some but not others it would seem.
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Old 04-11-2016, 01:31 PM
 
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Could you point to some post in this thread where someone defended this?
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