Officer: 'I wanted to be absolutely sure before I used deadly force'

WLWT ^ | 1:41 PM EDT Apr 18, 2015 | Jackie Congedo

[ansel12]

If you want to stop participating on this thread, go ahead, but quit telling me to stop.

[ansel12]

You are a little nuts aren’t you.

[Eagles6]

Participate all you want just quit posting to me.

[dragnet2]

Yes I did read your last post. Again, I have no idea what the suspect was thinking or planning other than what the officer was told previous to the incident, and during the incident as well as the video.

If, would of, could of, might have, didn't happen here.

[Eagles6]

When one loses an arguement they resort to insults. Very unpleasant.

[ansel12]

No, when someone sees a nut on a thread telling people to get off the thread, then he calls them a nut.

You are pretty nutty as you keep telling people to stop participating in the thread.

[ansel12]

This cop should be fired for not shooting. Sets a terrible unreal standard. Big mistake.

A decorated Marine Corps Infantry combat veteran.

He should become the man to emulate and he should be teaching cops how to avoid this blood bath they are creating on our streets.

[dragnet2]

BTW, I think the issues this presents are the escalating trends in law enforcement shootings.

The trend of too many cops pulling the trigger way too quickly during events where a weapon was never displayed or where the suspect was not even in possession of a gun at the time of shooting.

This is a real problem for law enforcement. It’s part of the widespread mistrust in government/law enforcement I was referring to.

Believe me, it’s real.

[right way right]

I think the perp lived by just .5 seconds.
The cop recognized the bluff and called it.

[donna]

Would you do what he did?

Would you ask your son or daughter to do what he did?

[ansel12]

Of course, I have always done things in that way, I have never killed a man while taking his knife or gun from him, they all survived it.

This cop wasn’t even doing what I have done.

[dragnet2]

Would you do what he did? Would you ask your son or daughter to do what he did?

Decide not to shoot a person to death who never displayed a weapon, who was telling me to shoot him?

Outside of military combat, I likely would do the same exact thing this officer did.

The officer made a choice here, and turns out he was correct. The suspect never pulled a weapon or had a weapon on him.

[donna]

Would you ask your son or daughter to do what he did?

[donna]

>> crickets <<

[Eagles6]

I have not told anyone to quit participating in the thread. I have asked you and a few others to quit posting to ME as we will not agree and future discussions are fruitless.

You have resorted to insulting me which I find disrespectful to FR.

I'll ask you again, please quit posting to ME.

[Eagles6]

Our discussion is over. Please quit posting to me.

[ansel12]

LOL, When are you going to quit pestering me, I go away for a while, and when I get back, there is another post from you that I have to respond to.

Just how nuts are you?

[ansel12]

You read post 151 and still ask me that stupid question?

Of course, I wouldn’t want them to be incompetent and casual killers and killing people when they don’t need to.

I worked to get my son into the Army and he served with the 10th Mountain division, that means that I wanted him to serve his fellow man and in the most dangerous work of all if needed, I wanted him to be a warrior.

This cop is a good role model, he appears to be brave and true, something that we don’at always see form the union people in law enforcement.

[donna]

Here’ the thing: If the cop had shot and killed the man, you would no longer support the cop's decision.

That's why a cop must follow his training, not his intuition or respond to media/political pressure.

[ansel12]

You seem clueless, a cop does need to rely on his intuition and instincts.

Creating union automatons and making set rules to protect female cops and all the other nonsense, is what created this massive national problem with police and policing.