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To: QBFimi

Thanks for the post.

Many of these accusations against the police were repeatedly posted and discussed on FR as being facts, not allegations.

I particularly like the one about the cops supposedly responding differently because the gun was on safe.

This is in utter violation of gun safety principles, in which one is required to assume every gun is loaded and off safe. Now, in a confrontation, cops are supposed to assume a gun in on safe unless they can determine otherwise?


8 posted on 06/10/2011 8:39:46 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan; QBFimi
Actually, a lot of the bad info came from early reports and info given by the cops themselves.

4-5 seconds worth of a siren squawk that sounds EXACTLY like my car alarm instead of the half hour they initially claimed? Pounding on the door for 30 seconds when at best it's 8? Claiming they returned fire only after being fired upon?

Many of the accusations against the police are still very much valid. Including insufficient evidence for the warrant itself...

18 posted on 06/10/2011 10:12:38 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: Sherman Logan

>Many of these accusations against the police were repeatedly posted and discussed on FR as being facts, not allegations.

Some of them were more “matter of interpretation” the siren they had on for 8 sec or so according to what I saw on the helmet cam; there are CAR ALARMS that go off longer than that.
The time from “announce’ to bust in the door is frighteningly short and indicative that they would have shot if they had seen any ‘sharp movement’... you know, like the startling event of having your door busted-down.

>I particularly like the one about the cops supposedly responding differently because the gun was on safe.

I never saw someone here saying that the cops should have acted differently because it was on safe; I *DID* see a lot of people saying that the weapon being on safe affirmatively disproves the police’s claim (at least in some of the stories) that he fired first.


37 posted on 06/10/2011 8:07:21 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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