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My question to the 'fear for life' comments is this. When you sign up to be an officer, you're essentially signing up to be on the "front lines" and danger is your middle name. Part of the job is to risk your own life, to put yourself in harms way in order to make sure the person you are apprehending doesn't get injured or killed unnecessarily. Spraying bullets because you have "Fear" isn't acceptable, you signed up for "Fear" when you took the job.
How can you ask someone to not fear for ones life? Being in harms way is part of the job, that doesn't mean cops should be super human and not experience emotion.
You have a very simplistic and naieve view in my opinion.
I didn't need to see a cold blooded murder to question the "I feared for my life" lies. Almost as laughable as the " used the car as a weapon" bull**** they spout off.
I didn't need to see a cold blooded murder to question the "I feared for my life" lies. Almost as laughable as the " used the car as a weapon" bull**** they spout off.
Because you were there and know how people feel.
If only you could spend a day in the life of a cop.
Can we agree that if there wasn't that video, that cop would have gotten off without so much as a talking-to?
But the video aside, that cop's story was damn near identical to every cop's story about shooting unarmed people. It's almost like there's a protocol for explaining these shootings in a way that protects the cop and rallies like-minded citizens to their defense...
So seeing how this cop's story imploded once the video was released, and seeing how similar his story was to other cops' stories about shooting unarmed people, does that make you question any of the past stories you've heard cops spin in similar scenarios?
No, I can't agree to that at all.
The evidence would have hung him no matter what.
I didn't need to see a cold blooded murder to question the "I feared for my life" lies. Almost as laughable as the " used the car as a weapon" bull**** they spout off.
A car can't hurt or kill a man?
Go stand in the middle of a lane on the highway and report back to me.
Too bad so many blacks see EVERYTHING by skin color and can't work up any outrage against their own criminal element. Cops should just let black criminals run wild in the streets UNLESS they victimize whites. Let them victimize their own. They all hate the cops more than the criminals in their midst anyway.
Can we agree that if there wasn't that video, that cop would have gotten off without so much as a talking-to?
But the video aside, that cop's story was damn near identical to every cop's story about shooting unarmed people. It's almost like there's a protocol for explaining these shootings in a way that protects the cop and rallies like-minded citizens to their defense...
So seeing how this cop's story imploded once the video was released, and seeing how similar his story was to other cops' stories about shooting unarmed people, does that make you question any of the past stories you've heard cops spin in similar scenarios?
That is a good question.....but another question is do many police officers have a greater fear of black males for some reason, that leads them to feel they need to use deadly force when there is a confrontation. There have been studies done that concludes that such is so. I do not think cops are thinking...."I am going to kill this N'ggr". Rather, I think they subliminally see blacks as strong and athletic and prone to violence.....and hence when they get into confrontation feel that need a gun to control them.
No, I can't agree to that at all.
The evidence would have hung him no matter what.
^this right here.
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