Posted on 01/13/2018 10:03:30 AM PST by nickcarraway
There is no situation in God’s Green Earth, that the presence of a police officer will not make worse.
So the way to deal with a suicidal man is to shoot him?
Sounds kinda counter-productive to me.
Isolated incident... feared for his life.... gotta get home at the end of that shift... one bad apple.... you just don’t understand what it’s like to be a cop....
Did I cover them all?
The suicidal man in question was outside, on the lawn, without a weapon. In the room of the shooting, there were only four children, a terrier, and the officer.
So the way to deal with a suicidal man is to shoot him?
Sounds kinda counter-productive to me.
Sad, but often vengeance is motive for a person to live.
Agreed. Sarcasm is much more effective when laced with a heavy dose of truth. And idiocy is amusing when it accidentally achieves an unintended end.
Fixed it.
Calling the police is a bad idea. Deal with your own problems.
Supposedly under the law a police officer is held to a much higher standard in terms of deadly force vs a civilian. However that has become reversed.
Obviously the dog was suicidal.
No, the officers have been trained when dealing with an emotionally upset person, you don't shoot HIM.
Instead, you shoot his dog and kid.
Hey, got pulled out of the donut shop and drove all the way out there... gotta shoot SOMETHING.
The dog brought it on himself. If he had followed police commands, this wouldn't have happened.
“The Police Department on Monday denied The Eagle’s request for all of the video, saying that providing it would interfere with the shooting investigation,”
Garbage.
“and saying that the video contains personal information about the girl and her family that would invade their privacy”
More garbage. The family wants it realeased to the public =>
“The family wants the video to be public and wants full disclosure, O’Hara said Thursday. “We would like the public to decide whether the police officers involved used good judgment.”
>>So the way to deal with a suicidal man is to shoot him?
In this case, the “suicidal” man was standing outside unarmed when the Government Wealth Confiscator and Executioner was roaming around inside shooting things. What did this roid-raging moron think he was doing?
Cops do not protect citizens. They take statements and write reports after the crime. They draw chalk outlines around your body. Your own gun and your situational awareness is all that protects the citizen and it is a damn shame that your biggest threat during an attack is what the cops will think once you have ended the attack so they can start their statement-taking and report-writing.
It IS a “good shoot”; everyone involved, including the doggie, all went or stayed home....
The only deficiency is the marksmanship of the officer- in close quarters at a dog at foot, and he only injured it with fragments. The injured child should have moved off line and to cover, so that’s on him or her.... Parents ought to train their kids in CQB tactics better and at an earlier age.
Does anyone need me to include a sarc/cynicism tag?
The dog probably barked or something.
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