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To: dfwgator
"Douglas Hobson, an attorney for Vincent Smith Sr., said police training should better prepare officers to make split-second judgments to prevent shooting suspects who pose no threat.

"You've got to know there is a gun or something that is going to hurt someone. If these kinds of excuses justify something like that, then we've got a long way to go," he said."

Yep, he donated to Republican causes last year, I can just tell....

6 posted on 07/30/2007 11:13:02 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Abathar
No threat??? the sight of one of these hiphopped feral mongrels is a clear and present danger.
30 posted on 07/30/2007 11:32:01 AM PDT by Weeedley (Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.)
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To: Abathar
"Douglas Hobson, an attorney for Vincent Smith Sr., said police training should better prepare officers to make split-second judgments to prevent shooting suspects who pose no threat.

If the cop spends too little time analyzing the situation, he might shoot somebody who he could have avoided shooting. If he spends too much time, the cop winds up dead. Most cops prefer being the one who gets to go home at the end of the day

119 posted on 07/31/2007 5:50:44 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
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