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You must be a Vermont RINO (or liberal?). Are there such things as conservatives in Vermont? The officer in question was injured in a struggle, and this is what happens when thugs play with fire. And btw, when the perp is a 6'4", 295 lb. NFL lineman looking goon, the "unarmed" aspect of this argument goes down the drain. Check out his treatment of that shop owner earlier in the thread. Good old fashioned Texas justice is a probably a concept beyond your understanding.

Glad the real facts are now beginning to surface, and there is one less thieving sagging thug walking the street. If the local ethnic population supports guys like this, it speaks volumes.

Yes I am conservative. The whole shebang...I live in Mass, I hate Romney, I am pro life, anti Obama, and I generally despise my neighbors. I own a pick up truck (american made) and I drive an off road motorcycle. I own a bunch of guns. I shoot every couple of weeks. I don’t hunt, but I have and I could live off the land quite well. I went to a military college, and a medical issue kept me from going into the Naval Aviation program (It took them two years of waiting around to tell me I could not go.) Several of my close friends are field grade or general grade officers. So, while not a vet, I have a much better understanding than the average “civilian” of the mil life. I am married, two wonderful daughters, a soon to be son in law who also graduated from a mil academy who is a 1St in the Army.

OK...are those credentials good enough?

When are we going to stop taking speculation on the internet as gospel. I have not seen the body. I saw fuzzy pictures of him laying in the street. So, saying you KNOW he was not shot in the back is quite a leap.

I saw the pictures of him in the store. I understand why he was shot. I understand that he roughed up the cop in the cap.

What I said is if he was unarmed and he was not posing an immediate threat to this cop, there is to justification for shooting him. If he was 30 feet away (as the reports say—and that is why I am couching the comment) he could not possibly be posing an immediate threat. Why is that difficult to disagree with?

I have had guns pointed at me. I know what piss-your-pants scared is. I understand why a frightened cop might have felt an immediate threat. I get all that.

IF—and I know this has yet to be proven—he was shot in the back, then all bets are off. I am sure you would agree that shooting anyone, who is unarmed and putting distance between you is a wrong call.

Would I vote to convict the cop right now? Nope. But I am still waiting for facts.

What I do not get is how everyone around here is jumping to the opposite conclusions about this shooting. It IS possible the cop got it wrong. It IS possible the cop was just pissed at the kid for beating on him.

Note—I am not stating this kid is an angel or even innocent. I think it is clear he is a thug. But thugs do this stuff every day without getting shot by the cops.