I always said BLM was kabuki theater deflecting criticism of the Justice system onto “white racist people”. It has nothing to do with Police itself but everything to do with renegociating a black vs white “deer” race bagging limit for a hunting season having nothing to do with actual crime but everything to do with ethnic controls and cleansings
Proof is they want to ban self defense, both BLM and Blue Lives Matter, when Police Union previously trashed by NFL protests joined the 49ers to attack gun rights. Same with Al Sharpton and De Blasio who say nothing about outrageous NYPD pensions that they could pick at for shooting blacks reparations instead of tax payers.
Why is this only now coming to light?
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At least the cops got to go home safe that night. That’s what counts, right? Now waiting for the boot lickers...
“Police deserve our support and respect,...”
No, like everyone else they have to earn it. Until the 90% condemn the horrible 10% they will not have earned it.
I have reached the point where think “death by cop” a greater risk than death by criminal or terrorist. I have become terrified about being pulled over for having a tail light out. I heard audio from horrific event and cold sober, even I was confused as to what the cop was telling Shaver to do. It was like telling him to contort into some advanced yoga position. This is our pre-game warm up for the Police State.
If I could weigh in here... I am approaching (hopefully) the end of a 26 year run in police profession. I started in 1992. I learned the job from dudes who had been in police for 30 years. They were well known community members... before they became police officer. My training officer gave me great advice... which I pass on to those newbies I train... one piece of advice that has stuck with me since then... “Don’t create a problem that isn’t there to begin with...”. Advice that has served me well over the years. That being said... police work has morphed into I don’t know what. It used to be us versus the bad guys... and that was it... now society demands that the police handle everything... and I do mean everything. Mental health... which are increasing at an astronomical rate... animal calls... and oh by the way... you might have to fight ISIS should they show up in your town... with the push for college education for all... people that do have degrees don’t want to do all that with little pay when they can make more doing something else. Hence the pool of applicants shrinks...and we get young guys from a new generation that have different values and are more comfortable with a more intrusive aggressive police presence. As well they come in from out of the area and nobody knows them...I have seen some unstable guys and girls get into this job... but my DEPT is small enough that they stand out and get seeded out eventually. As far as this shooting goes... I usually try to defer to he police officer as he/ she is the one immersed in the situation.. by this video almost made me vomit. Sooo many more adoptions that he and the other TWO officers had. I saw my daughter and her boyfriend in this scenario .. quite easily could have been them or my other two daughters. For this officer to double down and say he would do the exact same thing in the same situation is effin ridiculous... and speaks volumes to his mental capacity to effin learn from things... I pray he NEVER works for the public again... Long post sorry for rant...
To add... the officer gave shorty commands... talked to the people like they were garbage...told the guy he was gonna die if he made a mistake...because that helps someone think clearly.... the tried to pull up his pants... he should have been prone and still... particularly because he was drinking. Still wanna vomit... sorry
My experience with police (mostly in both Chicago, suburbs and downstate but also anecdotally here in GA) is that they almost always escalate the situation and are itching to turn a minor event into a major event. It may be the training, or lack of training. But it seems that there is a process of adverse selection in who wants to become police. It is similar to the adverse selection in who wants to become the health inspector, or the IRS agent.
I'm sure not all police fit the generalization. But it seems to be a significant percentage.
When I was in combat in Vietnam, I used three to five shots on a man only when I wanted to make sure that he died right there. If he showed signs of surrendering though, I'd hold up and not fire and just disarm him.
Are police at the point where they have to treat us worse than we treated the VC?
Lesson here is when ordered down by LEO, go prone, arms out.
Do not move.
“Simon says games” will get you killed.
The police are WRONGFULLY given broad latitude in the use of deadly force. I absolutely disagree with the word rightfully. Police represent the government and should be held to a higher standard than individual citizens. If an ordinary citizen had done this a murder conviction would have taken the jury about 5 minutes. I also suspect (though can't prove) jury intimidation by the scumbag's "fellow officers."
This is the money quote:
“Shaver could have been any one of our twenty-something children or siblings.”
It is absolutely true. That kid was scared to death. He didn’t know which way was up. And the cop was being a bully, plain and simple. I’ve never seen such a stark example.
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.
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.
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.