Firing rubber bullets into a crowd of people: women and child ???
Are you serious ?
In the last several years the police have slowly getting more and more thug-like ...
I am not saying the shooting was not justified...who knows, but we have seen far too many police actions completely escalated beyond normal
Sadly, I tend to agree. There is a video a number of years back where state police pulled over a family on the interstate in a van. Probably some traffic violation, etc. There were atleast 2 officers involved, and one with a Remington 870 deployed. The whole family is out of the van along the road, and it looks like their little Jack Russel terrior is confused by the whole ordeal and starts barking at the officers. I can’t imagine a police officer getting too overly concerned about a Jack Russell, but the officer with the 870 turns and absolutely blasts the dog to bits with buckshot. My view of law enforcement has been marred to say the least after viewing that.
Perhaps, in some cases. Consider, in this case, there are Anaheim neighborhoods full of (insert racial demographic here) thugs. It's not all Disneyland up there, you know. The reference to "Stomper" (typical gang monicker) should have given you a clue that it was a gang infested neighborhood filled with sympathetic friends and families of gang members. Not unusual here.
And don't believe everything you read or hear in the news.
The procedure used to be bounce the rubber bullets off the pavement into the legs.
Now it appears to be the far more dangerous aimed fire to the torso.