Posted on 01/26/2015 9:36:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“one of the guys did a flip, flew 30 feet through the air and took a knife out of a guys hand with his bare foot.”
In my younger days but at 64 it’s 15 foot tops.
“This statement is incoherent.”
Perhaps if you are trying to excuse the use of deadly force by our government representatives.
lol yeah I wasn’t there so that makes it ok that these 3 police officers killed this woman rather than disarming her.
They did it because they were trained to shoot at the slightest risk of personal injury. But hey, when you’re a hammer every problem looks like a nail.
I don't know what happened in that station office in Texas.
But your story is very convincing, the quick damage a knife can do to anyone, cop or not.
So now this girl had a semi-automatic weapon with a ‘massive’ ammo stockpile. lol
Those comparisons are stupid when leftists use them or anyone else does.
Wow. No SA by those polocia at all. Holy cow that guy was tough.
Now see, what ya gotta do is...
Sorry, but the statement is incoherent.
“Cops are too quick on the trigger...” is a clear identification of culpability - alleging an error in judgment that leads to the premature application of deadly force.
“...regardless of whose fault it is” (coupled with the first part of the sentence) says that even if the person shot instigated the incident and is wholly at fault, the cops are still at fault.
I have not expressed an opinion on this specific incident, not having enough information to take on a well-informed stance. Casting aspersions on my motivations does not alter the flaws in your expressed argument, FRiend.
You are trying to explain the obvious to folks who have not been exposed to sudden violence and watch too much TV. I spent a large portion of my 70 years in bad neighborhoods (Countries) and have collected a couple of holes and several dozen stitches from the actions of people I deemed to be incompetent. They weren't!
The only fair fight is the one you walk away from.
“Cops are too quick on the trigger regardless of whose fault it is.”
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Do you have any stats from a reputable source that backs up that statement”
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Listen, it’s very clear from your posts that you are weak, since you have asserted more than once that you will kill even a child (your words) if they wave a knife at you. And that’s understandable, since weak people frequently overreact to threats of force on their person... but most normal people would not kill a child waving a knife if they can help it. And 3 cops should be trained to deal with such threats differently than by killing a weak girl.
All we are saying is if there were three self-assured self- confident men in that room, instead of 3 blue beach balls, as another poster called them, then this 90 pound, mentally ill girl would be alive, not dead.
I had a schizoprenic off his meds try to stab my partner with a ballpoint pen once. we fought for 10 minutes to get the pen out of his hand and the cuffs on him. It felt like a century. oh yeah, the guy was 60+ skinny and about 5’8”. adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
CC
P.S. there were 4 officers and a sergeant there. it still took 10 minutes.
CC
As I said on a similar thread the other day...a few years ago my husband’s grandmother told me that, as we get older, we really have to guard that our hearts don’t become hard. It tends to creep up on you.
Thanks for writing me back, It is upsetting to me to think police who are sworn to protect and serve are so ready to pull the trigger. I’ve have plenty of friends who were cops and I’m sure they would not have shot to kill, and in a group of three they would have been more than capable of disarming the girl.
It never ceases to amaze me how people on FR, that were not there and have no knowledge of how this incident went down, can armchair quarterback a tragic situation like this for both the girl and the officers.
They illustrated what they cAlled the 21 foot rule last season on the tv series justified
"you will kill even a child (your words) if they wave a knife at you."
Quote it to me in my exact words from the post it appears in more than once, otherwise you are a stinking liar, and I don't care what liars are saying.
I’m 6’4”, and no, I do not know how easily they could have knocked her out with that reach differential.
Maybe she was knife happy.
These cops seem trained well enough to me.
Threat eliminated.
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