I don’t understand modern police training. While it is intended for “officer safety” and while they have to deal with a lot of scum and danger, I feel like much of it has gone WAY over the top.
Why do police always point their loaded firearms at suspects today? I watch a lot of Live PD, and when they are holding suspects at bay to handcuff them, they have their side arms drawn and AIMED AT THE SUSPECTS. I was trained that you never aim a gun at anything you don’t plan to shoot shortly. I was trained to be “off target off trigger” unless I was in the process of shooting. I don’t understand this new training being given to aim a loaded firearm at a suspect being held at bay, sometimes for 10 minutes or more while waiting for back up. They have their fingers off the trigger, but I am sorry, there is no reason they cant have their weapon at low ready at the same time. It takes no time to raise a gun to eye level from low ready. None.
The massive over-reaction to stolen vehicles is comical. They treat every stolen vehicle stop as if there are armed and dangerous perps behind the wheel, then drag an 80 year old grandma out of the car and slap handcuffs on her because some dirtbag stole a car and then swapped license plates with her to avoid detection. You would think cops would have SOME discretion here. I guess that would be “profiling” if they treated that 19 year old gangbanger in the red blood outfit with gang tattoos all over his face differently than the way they treat the 80 year old grandmother.
Don’t even get me started with the drug war and using the slightest pretext to search every car. “I pulled you over for a windshield chip. Do you have any weapons? Can I search your car? Get out of the car while my K-9 goes over your Prius, Father Mark.”
I sympathize with police, but they are way to militarized, aggressive, and zero tolerance today.
It’s gonna be a long hot summer
IMO this was murder pure and simple. The man was wanted under suspicion of forgery, and not FWIW for a violent crime and he was unarmed. It’s been said that the man resisted arrest but there is no video or evidence to prove that he did resist or how much he actually resisted.
But once the suspect was pinned down it would have been easy to cuff him and for the cop to stop putting his knee on the man’s neck.
But the cop as seen in the video seemed to be enjoying keeping his knee on the man’s neck for nearly 7 minutes and long after the man was even able to resist as he was long before 7 minutes passed, unconscious and no longer able to resist.
Second-guessing many police activities can lead to wrong impressions, but we kid ourselves to think they are all halo-wearing angels in the field. I know several police officers who like to brag about things they’ve done to purposely escalate the situation just to get into a physical confrontation. It’s probably a small segment of any force, but it’s appreciable and needs to be addressed...
Did the guy refuse to wear a mask? If so ..then he is lucky to be alive! Especially if he was attempting to buy veggie seeds for his garden.
I’m just getting to this now. Anybody defended the cop’s actions yet?
Prosecute that officer and at a minimum fire everyone present with prejudice, no rehire, pensions denied. They clearly didn’t care if the guy died, and he did.
Video shows yet another cop who is barely taller than his police SUV. #napoleon
This cop was GD incompetent and so were his idiot buddies (who should all be fired) standing around with their thumbs up their asses while this happened.
Incidents like this get lumped in with acts of legitimate self-defense by officers and make things worse for everyone.
Idiots will see this and be more likely to resist if they think they’re gonna get killed anyway.
I HATE COPS
When having a gun just isn’t enough ...