Posted on 02/09/2016 4:10:41 PM PST by Menehune56
AUSTIN (AP) - Austin police say an unarmed nude teenager was fatally shot by an officer in an altercation partly captured by patrol car video. Police on Tuesday identified the person who died as 17-year-old David Joseph. (snip) Joseph was black, as is the officer.
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You say people who resist arrest can be shot dead by police. But that’s unacceptable in a free country. If your son was having a psychotic breakdown, running naked in the street and defying police orders, you really believe shooting him dead would be an acceptable solution?
Once upon a time, back in the eithties, even, unarmed miscreants could be taken down without shooting them. Police are weaker now, or trained differently, or something. Hereabouts the sheriff is the paramount law enforcer. The various police chiefs cross him at their peril. Hereabouts we don’t have police who are so quick to use their guns. The Sheriff An illustration is the matter of shooting dogs. A couple of years ago police shot two dogs about a month a part. Two police officers left their jobs here and went somewhere else. No more dogs have been shot by police. Police are trained to handle even big threatening dogs and they do. They do not shoot drugged crazy teenagers who flail at them with lengths of pipe. They hogtie them and put them in the back of the car. These are not superhuman cops. They are trained. Psychos are weeded out before they get hired.The sheriff gets a glance at all the new hires and some do not stay hired long enough to get on the street.
News media doesn’t care about THIS black life....
I read that “bath salts” causes people to get nude and also can cause to them to become cannibals violently trying to eat people that are alive. Maybe he was on “bath salts”.
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