[Talisker]

But I'm the kind of person who thinks that if you're facing a bunch of cops with their guns drawn and you ignore their commands to drop your weapon, you've really forfeited whatever considerations you might have been accorded as a human being ... and nobody has any reason to complain about how the situation was handled.

We "forefeit" NOTHING. We are not SLAVES, you cowering piece...

We are FREE HUMAN BEINGS and the police have to follow the LAW, DUE PROCESS, and respect our CIVIL RIGHTS and the CONSTITUTION. We have EVERY reason to police the police, and complain, over the loss of these rights.

Your "might makes right" attitude is - literally - sickening. You want to see where it leads? Look at Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and Communist China.

If the police are intent on murder, do THEY forfeit their rights? SHOULD a free people stand up to murdering police, or should we go quietly into death?

DAMN your groveling, jackboot-licking cowardice!

[HiTech RedNeck]

couldn’t have said it better pal. kudos!

[suthener]

“If the police are intent on murder, do THEY forfeit their rights? SHOULD a free people stand up to murdering police, or should we go quietly into death?”

You’re absolutely right. A police officer should be man enough to take at least one bullet or knife wound to the chest before firing.