Posted on 04/13/2021 4:19:30 PM PDT by Starman417
The shooting death of Daunte Wright is a tragedy but it has opened a Pandora's box of issues. A couple of statements up front. Remember #1 in particular.
The Brooklyn Center mayor terminated the city manager for his statement that the police officer was entitled to due process. The mayor was ready to fire the police officer immediately but she resigned. The Mayor seized command of the Police force and then the Police Chief resigned. It's likely he would have fired by the Mayor for calling the riots that occurred after the shooting a riot. When the Chief said the word "riot" the so-called reporters challenged him on it:
Reporters strongly objected to the use of the term, “riot.” In the video tweeted by the Washington Examiner Monday, one reporter exclaims, “There was no riot.” Another shouts “Don’t do that!” Multiple other reporters joined in with those objecting to the word “riot.”From the Merriam Webster dictionary“There was,” Chief Gannon countered. “the officers that were putting themselves in harm’s way were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, they were being pelted with concrete blocks.”
The chief continued, “Yes, we had our helmets on. We had other protection gear. But an officer was injured, hit in the head with a brick … he was transported to the hospital. So, we had to make decisions, we had to disperse the crowd because we can’t allow our officers to be harmed.”
Definition of riot1a: a violent public disorder specifically : a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent b: public violence, tumult, or disorder
There most certainly was rioting. Not everyone is truly upset at the fatal shooting, however. The thing I cannot bring myself to understand is why some people use shootings like this as a license to vandalize and loot.
Utter Lawlessness as Rioters Ravage Liquor Store, Try to Steal Entire ATM Machine
Some even appeared to be gleeful.
https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1381481324310102016
Response from the left was predictable and largely stupid. Joe Biden the Uniter and Healer intimated that the shooting could have been intentional. The Idiot Squad suggested that police be abolished. They flat out asserted that the shooting wasn’t an accident:
“It wasn’t an accident. Policing in our country is inherently & intentionally racist. Daunte Wright was met with aggression & violence,” Tlaib wrote in a tweet.
Tlaib, along with her cohorts, gleefully jumps on tragedies like this to further their Communist anarchic aspirations.
Barack and Michelle Obama said that we have to “re-imagine policing.“
Kamala Harris (who still refuses to be seen at the disaster that is the Biden Border) issued a statement:
https://twitter.com/VP/status/1381798005800583169
Here’s where in my opinion this all goes off the rails.
Harris wants to know why Daunte Wright is dead.
He’s dead because he initiated a terrible sequence of events which led to his accidental shooting. He’s dead because he failed to comply with a lawful police order.
That’s why he’s dead. Here’s the thing- why is all the responsibility for this fatal shooting piled on the police? What about the perp? Where is his or her responsibility?
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Being polite and not arguing with a LEO is good advice no matter who you are.
Obeying the instructions of a LEO is the best way to end an encounter with the officer quickly and with as few bad consequences as possible.
If it is a traffic stop and you are courteous, polite and have a clean record you may get off with a warning.
If you start off with a bad attitude you are only making things worse for yourself.
Those instructions are good advice for dealing with anyone.
The only time you should ever get surely with anyone is if you are coming from a position of equal or superior power and you are not getting what you need from the encounter being agreeable.
This whole thing is about a cop making a mistake mistaking her gun for a taser. If it was a white guy in that car doing the same thing as a black guy, he would be equally dead. And both of them would get a healthy payment from the city for the negligence of the officer, although the black guy would get several million more to pay for peace. Now, narcissistic back race baiters get to riot for several weeks about their fantasy victimhood.
When he attempted to flee he became a Fleeing Felon"
Many Police Dept may shoot at Fleeing Felons
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This is my Taser
This is my Gun
One is for Fistfights
One is for...
First question is why did this officer have her sidearm drawn in the first place? However lets say at this point having her sidearm deployed was justified. (in my opinion this was a mistake).
Second and most importantly when you watch the video at 1/4 speed you can clearly see the officers finger is inside the trigger guard of her firearm well before the fatal shot was fired. If she would have had her finger outside of the trigger guard this shooting may not have occurred. The video shows a lot of bumping around as the guy tries to get back in the car making an accidental discharge very likely, further if her finger was outside the trigger guard she may have had a split second to realize that was not a taser she was about to fire.
Zero impulse control. Z E R O!
If she gets off with just a retirement and a pension she’ll be all good, and thanks for removing this POS off the streets.
However, they’ll try to charge her with something.
There’s a penalty for resisting arrest. But I’m pretty sure it’s not the death penalty.
He’d be dead eventually anyway. Deserve is a strong word, but I do not feel anything over this. He was seen as a danger due to his criminal behavior and he resisted.
Hey, if you’re gonna embrace the thug life, you gotta embrace the whole thing, good and bad. Can’t just embrace the perks. Gotta take the bad consequences too. That’s life.
Don’t want a potential bad thug ending? Don’t live the thug life.
At the same time I dont want cops out there having accidental deadly mistakes with people, under stressful situations they have supposedly been trained well to deal with, better than any of us civillians...
I am not for giving out mulligans for accidental deadly mistakes by cops. Not when theyre confusing equipment and thinking a gun is a taser. Not acceptable either.
Like aspiring rappers who are heading to college. They seem to have a hell of a short life span.
I still think half the journolistas confuse “aspiring” with “expiring”...
true
For example, if she had seen something go on that made her decide to insted use her gun intead of her taser and made a conscious judgment call, and shot him,
If i thought her decision makng logic was correct, I would have backed her choice.
But she herself didnt do that in this case and knew she made a huge mistake, that cannot be corrected. So i cant back that. Not when it kills someone. The fact it probably killed a lifelong hug doesnt make it better or make me glos over the mistake from a bad veteran police officer acting poorly under stress. You cant guarantee the only people that will be killed by bad police officers miscalculations and errors, is a criminal.
Thats not sound policing and not something we need to encourage. Standing by cops when they do their jobs correctly and make reasoned decisions in the moment is different. This is not what happened here.
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