Posted on 12/20/2010 1:56:55 PM PST by driftdiver
Make it your business to review your police department's policies regarding deadly force. Then if you don't like it, get it changed. It alway's puzzles me why people get worked up because a cop or cops shot someone five times or thirty times? If five cops draw guns and shoot, it had better be thirty shots fired. That's their policy in most cases, fomed in public and closed sessions. You can work to get it changed.
Oh I hate it here (as my tag implies), though I’m not a conservative, I’m a right wing libertarian who has no faith in the State. You on the other hand appear to like living in a police state (either that or you’re a cop). So have fun in Amerika comrade!
Appreciate your reply.
good point
Clever. I am impressed with your attempt at.. . what. . .humor. . .sarcasm. . .whatever.
Nice a nice day, Mr LA.
The officer had his gun out of his holster from the get-go. Looks like a real cowboy. This is a bad shooting. Just a guy wood carving as he walked down the street. The officer had no call for service because soemoen was brandishing a knife or doing something that threatened others.
I'm usually going to be on the side of the cop but not this time.
It seems the only time articles are called into question is when its about a cop screwing up.
The cop killed a man. Witnesses at the scene are heard saying “he didn’t do anything”
This was a murder.
Imagine the carnage this cop could deliver if he showed up at you son’s summer camp? While we were taught never to walk with an open blade when we were five years old, the death penalty was usually ruled out.
I don’t think the law in those cases calls for the death penalty either.
It’s an aberration, but this guy is still dead though, isn’t he? Not professional and restrained enough, if you ask me.
The guy was walking down the street, not bothering anyone, not attempting to intimidate anyone, just carving on a piece of wood. Freaking thugs. Disobedience of a police officer is now punishable by death.
This stupid Rambo would probably go into a restaurant kitchen and start shooting the chefs for not dropping their knives quickly enough.
Wait for it...............
A statue carved of wood.
The guy was apparently somewhat deaf! And supposedly was well known by the local police. He was holding a three inch knife.
If he was so bored he had to use his bang-bang on something, why didn’t he pick a beagle or retriever?
Lot fewer questions that way, but it satisfies that old “I gotta kill something today” feeling.
They need to stop hiring these ex-military “Rambo wanna be’s” and hire a bunch of newly immigrated drunken Irishmen, hey that reminds me, I’m qualified, if you wanna count 1733 as newly immigrated.
“When a cop discharges his gun, he’s to empty it and kill. “
Really? I always thought they were trained to shoot until the threat was gone (i.e., suspect down and unresponsive). I does seem though that you could be right, here in Long Beach last week the cops gunned down some drunk guy sitting on his porch (behind a fairly tall fence) pretending a water spray gun was a real gun. At least the wood carver got a warning, this poor guy didn’t even get that but they did fill him and the neighborhood full of holes, could very well have emptied their guns into him.
I think the fellow was shot in the back. His problem was he did not hear the cop. He was deaf. The cop just figured that not responding to his order was a case of gall punishable by death right then.
If the guy was married and his disgruntled wife called the cops because her husband left the house brandishing a knife, SWAT teams would have coordinated fire from rooftops.
He wasn’t being sarcastic. The cop was just fulfilling a Union quota.
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