Posted on 04/18/2015 5:37:57 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
ELSMERE, Ky. —Officer Jesse Kidder has only been on the New Richmond police force for a year, but he did two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and he's a Purple Heart recipient.
Still, he said he's never been confronted the way he was on Thursday.
"Law enforcement officers all across the nation have to deal with split-second decisions that mean life or death. I wanted to be absolutely sure before I used deadly force," said Kidder.
It's easier said than done, and that has never been clearer than through the lens of Kidder's body camera, when the homicide suspect he was following on Thursday got out of his car and charged.
"He jumped out and he sprinted towards me. I had my firearm already drawn on me, and I told him to put his hands up in the air and he was screaming as he was yelling, 'Shoot me, shoot me'," Kidder said.
Dispatchers had told Kidder the suspect may threaten suicide by cop and that he could have a gun under his seat, but Kidder relied on his own split-second observations to know what to do.
"So he's got his arms at his side while he's running at me and that's the first thing I noticed," Kidder said as he watched the video. "He put his hand in his pocket there, so my eyes are watching that hand right now and nothing else."
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If you want to stop participating on this thread, go ahead, but quit telling me to stop.
You are a little nuts aren’t you.
Participate all you want just quit posting to me.
If, would of, could of, might have, didn't happen here.
When one loses an arguement they resort to insults. Very unpleasant.
No, when someone sees a nut on a thread telling people to get off the thread, then he calls them a nut.
You are pretty nutty as you keep telling people to stop participating in the thread.
A decorated Marine Corps Infantry combat veteran.
He should become the man to emulate and he should be teaching cops how to avoid this blood bath they are creating on our streets.
BTW, I think the issues this presents are the escalating trends in law enforcement shootings.
The trend of too many cops pulling the trigger way too quickly during events where a weapon was never displayed or where the suspect was not even in possession of a gun at the time of shooting.
This is a real problem for law enforcement. It’s part of the widespread mistrust in government/law enforcement I was referring to.
Believe me, it’s real.
I think the perp lived by just .5 seconds.
The cop recognized the bluff and called it.
Would you do what he did?
Would you ask your son or daughter to do what he did?
Of course, I have always done things in that way, I have never killed a man while taking his knife or gun from him, they all survived it.
This cop wasn’t even doing what I have done.
Decide not to shoot a person to death who never displayed a weapon, who was telling me to shoot him?
Outside of military combat, I likely would do the same exact thing this officer did.
The officer made a choice here, and turns out he was correct. The suspect never pulled a weapon or had a weapon on him.
Would you ask your son or daughter to do what he did?
>> crickets <<
You have resorted to insulting me which I find disrespectful to FR.
I'll ask you again, please quit posting to ME.
Our discussion is over. Please quit posting to me.
LOL, When are you going to quit pestering me, I go away for a while, and when I get back, there is another post from you that I have to respond to.
Just how nuts are you?
You read post 151 and still ask me that stupid question?
Of course, I wouldn’t want them to be incompetent and casual killers and killing people when they don’t need to.
I worked to get my son into the Army and he served with the 10th Mountain division, that means that I wanted him to serve his fellow man and in the most dangerous work of all if needed, I wanted him to be a warrior.
This cop is a good role model, he appears to be brave and true, something that we don’at always see form the union people in law enforcement.
That's why a cop must follow his training, not his intuition or respond to media/political pressure.
You seem clueless, a cop does need to rely on his intuition and instincts.
Creating union automatons and making set rules to protect female cops and all the other nonsense, is what created this massive national problem with police and policing.
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