[thefactor]

This is why I can't wait to retire from policing. Out of the millions of daily interactions between cops and citizens that are positive and come off without a hitch, this interaction is the one people will remember and by which they will judge all officers.

This cop will likely face charges, as he should. But the Eric Garner case didn't lead to charges, so who knows?

[dfwgator]

This is why I can't wait to retire from policing

Make no mistake, that is the Left's goal. To deter good people from wanting to become policemen.

[Lurker]

“Any organization is as bad as the worst psycho they tolerate in their ranks.”

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[wardaddy]

It would sure lead to charges for me as a citizen

And that’s what pisses folks off

I recall an hapless patrolman here in Brentwood 15 years ago who’d caught his cute little wifey at home with her ankles behind her neck and his superior officer pouring the coal to his cherished little darling wife while he was working

A nightmare of graphics for any happily married man

He goes ape and starts shooting up the neighborhood and taking pot shots in the wide open at his fellow cops

It’s all on tv him in his yard shooting g at anything that moves despondent and in shock at Wifey’s insensitivity

SWAT comes and finally someone talks him down

Now if I’d done that they would have killed me sure as shitake

And that’s what bugs me about cops sometimes

No offense

Today’s militarized cops shoot too fast it seems and I just don’t like all the webbing and spec ops look and roids and inked cops with desert storm boots

Especially in posh suburbia where I live

That’s just my two cents

I defend cops when they deserve it and liked troopers and deputies as a boy

A different era

And I got on well with Manhattan cops in my years there....beefy Irish and fair ...unless you got froggy