[cuban leaf]

You’d be okay with it if it were someone you love being held down like that until they died?

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I didn’t say I would be ok with it. I said it was approved procedure when dealing with a combative person.

This is why I put the blame on the person doing it, the department chief approving it, the mayor that appointed the chief and the voters that elected the mayor.

If an officer shoots an unarmed perp running from the scene of the crime and it turns out to be your innocent brother, and it is considered approved police procedure to do that, the problem is not the cop. It is the department that approves the procedure. Of course, if you can prove the cop knew the guy was innocent, that’s a different story.

But as the facts come in, this case could really morph into something other than what many of us think it is. It happened with the Zimmerman/Martin case.

[MeganC]

“If an officer shoots an unarmed perp running from the scene of the crime and it turns out to be your innocent brother, and it is considered approved police procedure to do that, the problem is not the cop.”

‘Following orders’ is also not an excuse.

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