Posted on 07/13/2016 7:23:15 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The seminar was called “The Bulletproof Warrior,” and the instructors urged the law enforcement officers in the hotel conference room to make the decision to shoot if they ever feel their lives are threatened.
Videos of bloody shootouts between police and civilians emphasized a key point: Hesitation can kill you.
In the audience at the May 2014 seminar was a young St. Anthony police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, city records show. He’s now known around the world as the officer who killed Philando Castile minutes after making a traffic stop in Falcon Heights last week.
Amid intensifying demands for changes in police training in the wake of the shooting deaths of Castile and others, such “survival” courses for officers are flourishing nationally. But some in law enforcement are distancing themselves from the approach.
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Pretty pathetic.
Where the hell is his concealed carry permit that we have heard so much about? Ya think?
He yelled “ I HAVE a gun” and went for it!! I would never convict that Hispanic officer!!
Slandering Lt.Col. Dave Grossman.
Despicable.
Let it, if it must. In general, the less secretive for a public position like this, the better. Let it sell itself or fail to do so, on its own merits or lack thereof.
It's right here, actually:
Why are you even bringing it up, if it is supposedly moot?
looks like he had one issued.
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/753043910860169220/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
whether he had it on him is a different story
We have sent officers to his classes and they come back in awe of is lectures and insight.
Contrary to the narrative of the SJW, they don’t inquire as to the bag limit on black men.
The media will run it’s narrative and move on to another before the facts come out.
He had a gun permit.
Where is it?
Which wouldn’t excuse his acting like an ass with a gun, of course (any more than it should excuse an officer doing likewise).
The Castile situation is very murky. A hypothesis that seems to me as likely as any, is that Philandro went head over heels for a mock-gansta lifestyle for the sake of his new girlfriend, who so worshiped him that she wanted him to have a funeral in a cathedral as a “king.”
The trouble came when play was treated as reality. It is one of those freak situations that, at least, I could not see an easy way to help from the officer end. The moral lesson would be that you affect evil for even dabbling reasons, it can come back to bite you. Which applies to a lot of situations, hence the newspaper’s nosing into the nature of the training — of course everybody understands the principle.
Anyhow, even the relatively righteous King Solomon could tell you about women temptation trouble.
And this shouldn’t be the cause for rioting in the streets, no. But for public transparency, yes.
Based on his record I wonder how, but if it were me my hands would have remained on the steering wheel, fingers showing out of pure common sense and respect for the officer.
Why are you digging in your heels quibbling?
That makes you look as small as your soul has gotten and it’s not the first time you’ve displayed that.
Where is it Red?
The family produced it and that’s all you need to know. I won’t do your homework.
This has been going on for decades. Richard Pryor did a routine back in the early 70s where he was pulled over by a cop and said slowly “I am reaching for my wallet. I don’t want to be no m f statistic.”
If Yanez truly thought the guy was reaching for a gun AFTER he told him to put his hands on the dash then it’s perfectly understandable why he fired.
My beef is the perp was allowed to lay there and bleed out.
Irrelevant.
He reached for the gun.
What do people think we should train cops in....basketweaving?
Evidently...
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