> I think I’d know the difference between a taser and a pistol.
Would you? Always? How about towards the end of a 12 hour shift, during which you had been shot at and while your wife was in labor?
Not making excuses for the cop. If that was the mistake, it was a damned big one. But I do find it more believable than cold blooded murder.
If the police in the Oakland/Berkeley area were into cold blooded murder, the crime rate up there would be a lot lower, for one thing.
Lol!
How about quick reaction shooting drills? “Basically drills to short circuit active thinking and induce reflexive actions?”
Something akin to when you see the old lady get the felony stop pull over.
A lot of patrolmen training is to take out thinking.
There was a time a bunch of young males fighting was just broken up and everyone sent on their way, one way or another. Now a common young buck fight fest is a full employment feast for the security bureaucracy and other state organs.
What kind of drugs do you take to make up a feel good liberal line like that!!! Ever thought of taking up fiction writing???
The story in the SF Chron said that usually Tasers are stored backwards-facing and carried in a holster on the opposite side of the policeman’s regular carry holster.
Sometimes that doesn’t happen, and they stated that Tasers are in such short supply that officers do not usually carry them, and when they get them they may have a tendency to mistake their gun for thier Taser, as apparently happened in this case.
Ed
There is no excuse for this. The holsters are different, deployment is different, and the devices themselves have a radically different feel.
Words fail me.
Not making excuses for the cop.
Who are you trying to kid? That statement is sillier than saying "you're an idiot, but I mean that in a good way."
“Not making excuses for the cop”
You’re making excuses for the cop. This was cold blooded murder.