Posted on 03/16/2014 8:07:52 AM PDT by Rusty0604
“If the airman had been smoking spice, then, ironically, it may have saved his life.”
Your theory may be valid.
This could be the case but it also could have been planted
evidence. No doubt this will be used to discredit anything
Davidson has to say. On the other hand, it could be that
when the ambulance showed up before Davidson had a
chance to die at the scene, the throw down gun was picked
up and replaced with the drugs.
I agree.
I also wonder how much informal "training" is being done at home using "Grand Theft Auto" or "Call of Duty".
Instant reaction under stress is usually trained reaction and "muscle memory".
Or shopping at Cosco...
This may have been sarcasm, but it's true.
Why do you think more and more warrants are being served by swat teams?
I'm sure you watched Boston go into paralysis over a teenaged "terrorist" on the run.
These guys are trained to look after their own and to stay safe. There are LEO's and there are civilians.
There was a time that when they were paid to risk their lives for the safety of the citizen.
Now the only targets they use for training are "citizens" and "perps", both of them "civilians".
Things that cops may mistake for a weapon...
This is the third Police shooting I have read about. The one in NC were an elder man pull his walking stick out from the back of the truck.
Another where the police was serving a warrant in GA, kill a kid at the front door with a game controller in his hand.
Now this one, three different states. I think they need to look at police training, are they scaring the officers in the training were they think every person they pull over is going to pull a gun.
How many of those Officer serve in a War Zone? It appears they have been train like they are serving in a war zone.
The last tea party protest I attended, the park police were arm for war.... After talking to them, I found out they were brief that extremist protestors were on the way from intel reports. The intel source: Free Republic Postings...
The Police are trained to be scared of the public...
Well they are called “safety officers”. It’s their own safety that they are concerned with, and I think being unionized has a lot to do with it. Imagine if the unions could get our military unionized? They succeeded with the TSA.
No. The fact that you can't read makes it all false.
Shoot first, litigate later.
There are many, many more than three police shootings. And that’s just humans, count the dogs and it’s many more.
Moral of the story: Make it an obsession to stay the hell away from the police. That way you get to celebrate more birthdays.
Ping.
Only 20. What a tragic thing.
Laz: I was looking at my State Constitution and the Federal for that matter.
The County Sheriff is the only Constitutional Officer in my State with Law Enforcement powers across Town lines.
In the Towns and Cities local Cops are a delegation from the people and created by them to preserve order. WE can and have abolished police departments when they get out of hand. Even the State Cops exist at the whim of the General Court.
Or doing nothing is an excuse for an officer to shoot you.
If you are in contact with an officer that wants a promotion or wants some paid time off without using his/her vacation or sick time, well to say the least, it is not going to be your day. Your day is about to go from bad to worse.
Acitve Duty ping.
Blame 9/11. After Bush II's expansion of "protection" (US Department of Homeland Security, TSA, the Patriot Act, weakening of FISA courts, etc.), the emotional response tilted the country in the direction of "protection trumps civil liberties". Law Enforcement began to take a blind eye as bullies began filling the ranks. These thugs wanted, and either through deliberate encouragement or passive negligence by superiors, took steroids so they could be bigger, stronger than "the enemy".
Unfortunately, the law of unintended consequences wins every time. We the innocent became "The Enemy": nuns and the disabled at airports, old men reaching for their canes, barking dogs, you name it.
Al Qaeda is laughing their butts off. They won.
Amen! And more and more people are learning this the hard way each day.
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