Personally I'd be very much intimidated by someone who had just fallen from the second floor and was still willing and capable of locomotion.
Too bad the kid died. Drugs,alcohol,or a mental condition. I’ll wait for the toxicology results before I say anymore.
Please don’t make me click on the link. Just tell me if the kid had one of those typical nonsensical Swede/Amish names my spidey senses tell me he had.
Proof again that no matter how bad the situation is, involving the police makes it worse.
There are some kinds of people, who should never become intoxicated or high without sober friends staying with them. Nor should this kind of person leaving the safe confines of their home while drunk. Not everyone can handle a strong drink or some experimental substance. Doesn’t matter if everybody else just loved those pot brownies. results can differ dramatically from brain to brain, from psyche to psyche.
What does Long Beach and Baltimore have in common? Police Chief Tony Batts.
Police used to be trained to physically take a man down easily without shooting him. This fellow is never alleged to have had a weapon. This cop just didn’t want to have to go through the hasle of restraining the man. It is more efficient to just shoot the guy in that situation. I have watched a smallish cop put a large muscular man who was making threats on the ground and get him cuffed without help and without a taser or stick. Around here that is how it happens. On the beach in Spring Break time these confrontations happen pretty often with drunk and threatening revelers, some of whom are recent veterans and pretty physically fit.
White lives matter too.
So sick of cops shooting unarmed people to death. If you cannot figure out how to deal with drunks and rowdies without killing them, you shouldn’t be a cop.
Yeah but he was white. White lives don’t matter. He be jess another cracka.
He no look like 0’s son. Da rev no gonna march in da street. Dem white boys no gonna break windows.
Picture this: I am approached by a screaming lunatic, who is covered in blood. He has been fighting his friends and EMS and threatens to kill me. After I punch and Taser him he still won’t stop and he is screaming “I’m going to kill you”. What would I as a private citizen with a legally carried handgun do?
I could say to the EMS people who asked for help to go to hell and just walk away. I could stay and try to help them control the man, and get myself killed. I could stay and try to help, and defend myself when I felt I was is danger of death or grievous bodily harm and shoot him.
The cop does not have option one, he has been committed to the scene and cannot just leave. So after trying to calm the kid down, with no success, he tries a Taser and a club. When these don’t work and said kid is advancing on the cop saying “I’m going to kill you” the cop only has options two and three, stand and get himself killed or defend himself.
There’s not a person on FR of reasonable intelligence who would fault a private citizen for using deadly force in this circumstance. Why should it be different for the cop, who is, after all, a citizen of the US? Is he not endowed with the right to life even if he is wearing a uniform?
The US is supposed to be a nation of laws. Respect for our laws is taking a hit, and with it respect for those who enforce those laws. This starts with those who are here illegally and openly. Then there are the criminal gangs whose drug profits are more important than the country’s well being. Now we add in the leftist hatred of the freedoms we have historically had. We can also count the anarchists and malcontents who just hate everything and want to see it burn. It is almost enough to make me cry when I hear a bunch of people who lay claim to being CONSERVATIVE just jump in with all these others based on a couple of words written by someone who may have had an agenda, was in a hurry, or just too lazy to care what effect his words would have.
We are losing this country, rapidly, and it seems lip service is the only help coming from most on the right. Use your brains, do your homework, and READ THE ARTICLE before you drive another nail. Wake the hell up, people.
Looks like the cop had no other choice.
Personally I'd be very much intimidated by someone who had just fallen from the second floor and was still willing and capable of locomotion.