Posted on 09/05/2009 7:35:34 AM PDT by bamahead
Remind me never to wear a cap in a red car!!!!!
a very small town...did these numbnuts not know who was in their sights?
geez...
they are gonna pay on this one...the county taxpayers that is
every cop now thinks he’s a snake eater just cause he has some cool gear
If somebody want to arrest me, they better be in uniform and coming out of an official police car. If some random thug draws a weapon on me, I will defend myself as best I can.
D*mn, I’m getting old.
There was a time in the eighties or early nineties when some of the police catalogs I was getting were selling T-shirts like "Don't run, you'll only die tired -sniper", now I liked my 1980s "Airborne, Death from Above" T-shirts but I sure did not like seeing civilians working in law enforcement taking that kind of mentality.
Another innocent murdered by the drug warriors.
All I’m going to say Travis is a few examples needs to be made.
bttt
So you think a this pastor was really a drug dealer huh, despite him not having any drugs on him? Good thinking. /<sarcasm
Plain clothes cops jumping out of a Cadillac Escalade, the vehicle of choice for thugs everywhere, indeed the cops probably seized it from a drug dealer. They had their guns drawn even though the pastor had committed no crime. He had just used the ATM and I am sure he thought he was being robbed. Have you seen the video? These cops belong in prison. Certainly they are going to hell for killing an innocent pastor.
I would rather face the regular sort of gangbangers than the cops.
With the regular kind of gangbangers, there are usually manageable consequences after the event.
The cops can rough you up, kill your dog, feel up your womenfolk, tear your house up, confiscate your property and live to do it another day to somebody else.
Curious that you would characterize this as an accident.
Excellent idea.
The answer to all of these questions is “because it’s a lot more fun to kick some ass”.
I don’t know the hearts of these men, so given the facts they have presented in the article, I interpret them as “humanly” as possible. By that interpretation, the police truly felt they were in danger, and fired in self-defense.
If their police force had a “no shooting at cars” rule, they would be guilty of breaking that rule. If they didn’t, and instead had a rule that they were allowed to shoot at a fleeing car if they thought they were in danger, we certainly could interpret what we see on the tape as allowing them to think they were in danger.
I don’t believe the police officer who wasn’t run over was shooting at the guy simply because he felt like killing an innocent bystander.
So, if we assume they didn’t mean to kill an innocent, that would classify the shooting as an “accident”, the same way that a police officer shooting a child with a toy gun that looks real could be considered an “accident”.
Difference is, in this case, he'd be right.
I came to this thread late, but I have to say that your summerization of the situation is excellent.
This logic is frequently fatal when dealing with the largest, best equipped, best financed, best paid street gang in America.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.