Posted on 04/27/2015 2:27:35 PM PDT by Wiz-Nerd
Live stream video at link.
Indeed. It’s the city air that ruins the flavor of long pig I think...
Bump.
Thanks.
Ouch.
Bingo.
Sometimes they're called "African Americans" which they embrace wholeheartedly even though the Establishment gave them that name so that they wouldn't feel that the USA is their country. So that they would feel alienated from their own country. But they seem to like it....
Scanner: Check the white charger watching our officers, may be challenger...
It’s the I-Hate-Cops Fire Sale.
Had a local cop’s grandson for a student. He told me about two guys who came up here from either Toronto or Ottawa to go deer hunting at a relative’s place. They came back all excited after about a half hour, because they had just shot what turned out to be two of the neighbor’s horses.
Are you sure about that? It's a school night.
Scanner: units being dispatched to a Wells Fargo bank location
I totally believe it. Some scary people with guns come from cities. Shiny new clothes, shiny new guns and ZERO idea how to shoot them. But by golly, there’ll be Grizzly fer dinner!
In NY. Where no Grizzly has lived since SUVs ended the last ice age.
that’s like the one where the guy says, “ok lady, it’s your deer. just let me get my saddle off of it”
The police's SOP is to have at least 2 to 1 manpower ratio. Sometimes, when they are establishing a perimeter, 20 to 1 or 30 to 1 is used. Police officers are trained to not make contact, to not enter a potentially dangerous situation without a backup. This works well if the crime level is low - the police is safe, and the lone criminal knows that he can't outrun ten cops.
Riots, however, break that principle. A single officer can be facing ten suspects - or even a hundred. There is no chance to build up the numbers in any one spot because there are too many situations unfolding. The cops can gather in one spot and take control - but then they lose control everywhere else. The cops can spread thin - but then they cannot be in control; they only become targets for stones thrown by rioters. Finally, the cops can retreat - and this is what they are doing in so many locations.
The way of policing that works well enough in peace time cannot be employed in case of widespread riots. The police does not have numbers to fight the rioters hand to hand, baton to baton. They could use force multipliers - but those are not allowed. The rules of peace time require them to chase each individual subject and detain him for a probable violation, and to officially arrest him, and to deliver him to jail. This is not realistic when there are hundreds of other suspects who interfere with you, and who may strike you at the first opportunity.
The crowd is behaving as a military unit, such as it has multiple soldiers who act in coordination to achieve a common goal. A single cop, or two, or three have no chance of stopping even a platoon of soldiers. It requires another group of soldiers to stop the first one. They don't always need to use lethal weapons. However they must see the opposition as a military force, not as civilians. Civilians have a right to walk across a street. However a military commander may select a given street as the current front line, and anyone crossing would be seen as a foe. As result, the opposition will be separated, surrounded, and eventually defeated. The police can't do that; as result, offenders and rioters are moving through the city with ease and perpetrate crime in new locations.
Lead officer saying they might have quelled it for tonight.
That is so funny.
My grandmother used to talk about the city guys who would come up to hunt in upstate NY. They would always get lost, shoot their guns for help, and the farmers would have to go out to rescue them. After the second rescue they’d turn a deaf ear.
Dude ain’t even pulled his pants halfway up yet.
He’s just had his first 40 and is just getting ready to roll.
Those first fires and looting was just the Church Crowd.
Dude can go all night.
The Mayors statement is going to cost the city dearly
Nope that would be the TAXPAYER
Kowalski?
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