Posted on 03/14/2014 10:13:08 PM PDT by Altariel
Thank you from this 29 year veteran city cop. I’m horrified by these videos. No question: those cops are whack. A more dangerous 3% than in the past.
I’ve seen the videos: they gots no brains! Shooting people, multiple rounds....from safe cover. Wallets and sticks are ‘guns’ in their pie-eyes. Flaw in training? Fewer washouts from training academies? What the hell is up with that??
Crappy vision or just crappy pants?
The cop felt threatened. It didn’t matter whether the threat was real or not. Is it our imagination that these types of incidents are happening with greater frequency?
No.
Cops priorities are themselves and not the public.
It's the explanation that got Michael Dunn off in Jacksonville. It'll probably get this officer off as well.
Ego challenged, testosterone deficient scumbags with tin badges. WHEN are we going to be MUCH better at selecting who is to become a cop and then training them to KNOW that they SERVE and ANSWER to citizens? This bastard need to be charged with attempted, premeditated MURDER and HUNG!
Officer Hancock has been awarded his paid vacation. He will get his earned certificate of merit or even of heroism after a suitable interval of a couple of weeks. No charges against him are possible. He was obviously acting according to his training i.e. if you can imagine some possibility where the situation might suggest harm to your body or sensibilities, shoot the person in front of you.
Another example proving a truism I learned here:
There are few situations so bad they can’t be made worse by the addition of a cop.
Sad it has come to this.
Well what did you expect, there was no dog and something had to be shot.
Well, the important thing is that the valiant Officer Phillip Hancock made it home safely that night and received a paid vacation (known to government employees as paid administrative leave) as his reward.
The fact that the 20 year old Airman has had his life ruined is a small price to pay to insure that the good policeman didn’t FEEL threatened by shadows.
/SARC
There is a huge gap between not giving a presumption of trustworthiness, and using deadly force. The police and the legal system are not trustworthy, IMO, but use of deadly force is only justified when one reasonably believes he is facing serious injury or death.
The number of times cops use deadly force without justification (and this is a case of that, based on what I've read) is vanishingly small compared with the number of police/serf interactions.
Who cares about some punk airman?
The only thing that matters is Police Officer Safety!
Shoot first, ask questions later!
/sarc
The best thing you can do right now is avoid the cops at all cost. I agree that as things spiral downward and they will the cops are going to get more and more jumpy and aggressive.
JBT ping.
A very large gap, that is true. However, the trend could very well bring the situation to extremes.
The Chief made reference to “packets and a hand rolled cigarette” and inferred that it was spice that was found in the car. They shouldn’t have shot him but it won’t help the kid’s case if he was doing something illegal.
Police are authorized to use deadly force first, but our soldiers are not!
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