The important parts of the story are, the cop felt threatened, and he got to go home that night, with pay.
Killumded 101
When a cop or cops start yelling “stop resisting,” as happened here, he is setting up his defense for the tasering or shooting he is about to do.
Word to the wise. Even if you are ten feet from the cop, when he starts yelling “stop resisting!” he might be about to shoot you. He is yelling “stop resisting” for the sake of the ear-witnesses, not the person he’s going to shoot.
The real reasons explained:
Universities have their own police. Often they hire unarmed rent a cops. They are often worthless, just as worthless as the emergency phones/alarms that campuses have put out after a surge in rapes of female students. Likewise colleges/Universities are now going over to these digital emergency notification systems which are about as useful as the flow charts that many post in their classrooms telling faculty what to do in case of an emergency.
In America we use a “process” or some “system” to show action after a failure. Not that it would have prevented the event from happening in the first place, but at least it “shows action.”
What you will not see at US college campuses is armed faculty or selected students. Why? Because in all reality this is a liability issue. If a gunman comes on campus and kills 17 students the school isn’t liable, but if one college professor has an accidental discharge or loses a gun which the school sanctioned, that would put the school at risk. This isn’t an issue about safety, it’s an issue over who pays.
He was tried, convicted, and executed on the spot for the heinous high crime of
contempt of cop.
I’d say this little tin god cop is DHS material.
Not the guy you want next to you in a foxhole.
Sounds to me like the kid was drunk and belligerent. Boo-hoo.
He must have thought he was someone’s dog....../sarc
This statement is not aimed at all policemen (because there ARE many good service personnel), however the POLICE are out of control in America today!
What? Officers didn't interview witnesses?
don’t you just love the fact that scarcasm is a capital crime deserving of death...since the guy had stopped in the parking lot, he was no longer speeding but that is also a capital crime deserving of death...scarcasm and disgust at the actions of the cop
Include me in the FReeper consensus here: Sure, IF the student was truly walloping the cop with the baton, then it’d be a justifiable shooting,
BUT that seems very unlikely. Is it LIKELY that straight-A student at a religious college, even if DUI, would mouth off to a cop, grab the cop’s baton and beat the cop with it?
Or does it seem MORE likely that the cop, who knew that his dash cam was not in place, is fibbing now that the kid is dead?
Unfortunately, Daily Mail covers more of these stories than any US Paper. While it has a lot of sensational stories, it has a LOT of stories you won’t see elsewhere and covers all the stories you see everywhere else (not the political ones as much). I look at it every day. (Not 10 times a day like I check FR!)
>> “ But - naturally - one has to go to the British press to get details like this.” <<
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That’s because San Antonio is located within a nation that lacks a free press.
The cop went home to his family that evening, safe and sound.
Don’t know what all the bitching is about.
Nothing else matters.
“Carter is on administrative leave during the investigation...”
Why the hell is this asshole ‘campus’ cop who ‘murdered’ this student off campus, not in jail with no bail awaiting trial for murder in the first degree, with death penalty as the only alternative?
And the University who hired him must be at some point ready to settle for millions in a wrongful death suit.
As for lame stream reporting, they are worse than lame...they are evil.
The article doesn’t mention if the student looked like a dog.
Oh great, another moslem homo.