Posted on 12/13/2017 2:13:42 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Until the 90% condemn the horrible 10% they will not have earned it.”
You do not solve a problem by introducing a larger and more complex problem.
Can’t argue with that.
I think the shooter’s police career is over, but it is sad that it cost someone else his life.
Don't apologize. Thank you for doing so.
I am not sure about that quote. It has been reported Shaver was pointing his pellet rifle out of the window, pointing toward the highway, but I think the actually testimony of the people in the hotel hot tub who called the police was that they saw a silhouette of someone who appeared to be holding a gun.
They ordered him to move. When he did, they shot him.
I have many family who are cops.
From a young age, I was told that cops only see two groups of people. Cops and threats. That is it.
If you are in the immediate family of a cop, you MAY get a pass. Maybe.
They are not all violent, not all bad, but they are not your friends.
I’ve discussed this with quite a few cops over the years. The most telling was a guy I worked with that was an ex-cop. He told me some interesting stories but the thing that was most important was this: His father was still a sheriff and he didn’t have a lot of good things to say about his father (at least as a cop) or the department he worked for.
On a side note, can you imagine the outcry if this victim was black?
The solution is to remove LEO immunity to civil suit.and require, as a condition of employment, that LEOs must purchase malpractice insurance. If they cost the insurer more than the actuaries deem reasonable, they will be unemployable in law enforcement.
Though this case is similar, it’s in a different category. The guy on the floor was not holding a weapon and being asked to drop a weapon. Both are similar in that there was ample information for a reasonable man to not shoot.
In my opinion, neither shooting was justified.
My point exactly, I am not moving, shoot me in the head and my family will never have to work again.
Nobody forced Brailsford to have an obscene threat engraved on his rifle. That was purely voluntary on his part, and gives evidence regarding his frame of mind. He wanted to use lethal force.
EXCELLENT advice. Cops who can't deeply internalize that concept need to be booted out before they kill some confused citizen.
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