Posted on 04/24/2018 4:22:37 PM PDT by Ennis85
The calm actions of a police officer who arrested the Toronto van suspect without firing a shot have prompted praise and, in some quarters, astonishment.
Video from the scene shows suspect Alek Minassian pointing an object at the officer and shouting: "Kill me!"
The officer tells the man to "get down" and when the suspect says he has a gun, the officer repeats: "I don't care. Get down."
Videos on social media show Mr Minassian lying down as the officer arrests him.
Many in North America are asking how the suspect did not end up dead in a hail of police gunfire. It contrasts with incidents in the US where police have shot and killed unarmed people.
"Research has shown that Canadian police are reluctant users of deadly force," says Rick Parent, a criminologist at Simon Fraser University in Canada's British Columbia.
"An analysis of police shooting data over many years revealed, that in comparison to their American counterparts, Canadian police officers discharge their firearms far less, per capita than US police. However, like American police officers they take many risks in protecting the public."
One US-based academic told the BBC that the officer would have had a "duty" to kill the suspect, if the object he was pointing was a gun.
Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders told journalists the officer had done a "fantastic job" to understand the "circumstance and environment" and get to a "peaceful resolution".
He said police in the city were "taught to use as little force as possible in any given situation".
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Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association, told the Globe and Mail newspaper that the officer was a "hero" and could have justified opening fire.
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They’re trying to figure out what to put on the greeting card to say how sorry they are they arrested him.
Other than the blood shed it’s somewhat entertaining.
All these eggheads trying to make us perfect by disarming the innocent.
Plus, Canada has full on gun control. The cop wasn’t really afraid for his own life.
The reporter read that somewhere.
He wrote it down and then he read it.
Unnamed US-based academic would be an idiot, if he existed.
The only thing that makes liberals as happy as saving a guilty killer is killing an innocent unborn child.
because peace officers in other countries are trained to believe citizens are normal.
In the US, peace officers are trained to consider citizens to be a hostile enemy that needs to be put down.
Meanwhile today in Dallas, two police officers were shot.
The Canadians have allowed a whole new breed of criminal into their country. It’s time for them to respond or quite a few police officers are going to be laying in the street.
This one was lucky!
I imagine that he was not holding a gun, so it was a lot easier to be calm. However, facts and reporting does get in the way of this articles agenda.
Nor for shutting down the Canadian Automobile Association.
How do you tell an Incel? Do they brand a big L on their forehead?
True that.
The name, Minassian, comes from Armenia and Iran.
Canadian police officer fatalities are likely on the rise or will be soon due to an influx of violent Muslim extremists.
No. I think the point is that the cops in Canukistan don't have itchy trigger fingers that freak out when they get an opportunity to shoot someone/something. Nothing wrong with that.
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