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Atlanta police Officer Garrett Rolfe fired, another reassigned after Rayshard Brooks death
Fox News ^ | June 13 2020 | Dom Calicchio

Posted on 06/13/2020 11:39:09 PM PDT by knighthawk

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To: mad_as_he$$
"If you disable the officer with the taser then you can get his lethal weapon. That is taught in every taser class I have been to - which is at least 10.

Yep. Academy training 101. Trust me, I know

41 posted on 06/14/2020 10:53:49 AM PDT by BP1001
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
"Link?"

Put your cursor on the image. An icon in the form of "a little pointing hand" will show up. Right click on the image, it will take you directly to the YouTube video. (seriously? when did you finally discover the internet. last week?)

Using HTML, it's possible to link an image link to a video link. It's a double link. Pretty cool huh? I like to give people a little visual shot of the video via an image with the video link itself imbedded.

42 posted on 06/14/2020 10:53:49 AM PDT by BP1001
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To: ripnbang

What you are saying without saying it is that you want to Police to protect you. No matter what they are put through. Half to 3/4 of them spend life in prison because of trumped up charges doesn’t matter to you. I would not and do not wish any person to have to go through what they are put through now. When push comes to shove, I can and will defend and protect myself. They know or should know or will learn that it is not what they do but who they do it to. Or it is perceived that they were supposed to have done to a member of the wrong group.


43 posted on 06/14/2020 11:01:25 AM PDT by sport
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To: BP1001
Put your cursor on the image. An icon in the form of "a little pointing hand" will show up. Right click on the image, it will take you directly to the YouTube video. (seriously? when did you finally discover the internet. last week?)

Um, when denigrating someone for their computer use, it is much better when you give them good instructions.

Right-click will give them a menu of selections. Perhaps you meant LEFT click the mouse. When did you finally discover computers, last week? ;o)

44 posted on 06/14/2020 11:03:54 AM PDT by Lazamataz (China is the single source of evil in the entire world.)
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To: mass55th
Did they call a BLM social justice social worker?
45 posted on 06/14/2020 11:04:00 AM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: cbvanb
Here are some simple rules I live by:
Rule No.1 if you want to live long: NEVER EVER PISS OFF a guy with a gun.

Rule No. 2: NEVER EVER get into a fight with a police officer and steal his taser.

Rule No. 3: NEVER EVER run away, then turn and shoot said taser at police officer who still has a gun.

IF you are stupid enough to get into a fight with a police officer, steal his taser, run away and then turn around aim said taser at him and then shoot said taser, you will most likely you end up dead.

Still alive and planning on staying that way.

46 posted on 06/14/2020 11:07:05 AM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: BP1001

A completely unsubstantiated comment to bolster your initial comment”

Bullshit. You haven’t been paying attention. Cops pull guns so easily today that they’ve rightfully been getting into trouble for it. Arrested even.

A gun is meant to apply deadly force against a threat to life NOT a nebulous long winded what if maybe might situation. Dumbing down the physical standards has brought us here. Too many cops react in fear rather than responsibility. YOU pull (brandish) a gun in a non deadly situation and see how long you have your gun or your freedom.

If you were a cop out there with a fellow cop and this guy with a taser with maybe one load left in it rates an automatic shooting then I feel sorry for you and your community.


47 posted on 06/14/2020 11:14:55 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: sport

Not exactly sure what you were trying to say there, but no. I wholeheartedly support our right to defends ourselves and family as law enforcement cannot be everywhere at once, but I do not support vigilantism as it is always at the eye of the beholder.....a free and civil society does not want a no police situation.


48 posted on 06/14/2020 1:44:57 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: BP1001

TY!


49 posted on 06/14/2020 2:04:19 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: TalBlack
"If you were a cop out there with a fellow cop and this guy with a taser with maybe one load left in it rates an automatic shooting then I feel sorry for you and your community."

You're ignorant. Me and at least two or three others on here have explained to you that a taser in the hand of a suspect can turn into a lethal weapon in the hand of that suspect if the suspect disables the officer. The police officer has a lethal weapon on him that could be taken away from him and used against him. Quit acting like you're not hearing what we're saying so that you can keep spouting your anti-cop propaganda that has nothing to do with the truth.

Look at the video again. When the cop is chasing the perp, the cop has a TASER in his hand, NOT a GUN, all the way up until the point that the PERP fires a taser at the COP, the cop then instantly drops his taser gun and unholsters his firearm and shoots the perp justifiably. The cop wanted to use NON-LETHAL force on the perp to subdue him all the way up until the perp attacked the cop with the taser gun. That doesn't look a belligerent cop who's "to quick to draw his gun" to me lol.

You're eyes don't see *on purpose*

You're ears don't hear *on purpose*

50 posted on 06/15/2020 10:00:33 AM PDT by BP1001
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When did you finally discover computers, last week?

I discovered computers and the internet a week and a 1/2 ago. Leave me alone

51 posted on 06/15/2020 10:05:24 AM PDT by BP1001
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To: BP1001

. Me and at least two or three others on here have explained to you that a taser in the hand of a suspect can turn into a lethal weapon

Who the hell do you think you are? Two plus two equals 9 because you say so?

It didn’t take the first time so I’ll try again: A taser doesn’t represent a lethal threat. “Might maybe possibly” is self serving SPECULATION. There were TWO cops present. Are they blind are they stupid did the guy use magic to razzle dazzle them into not knowing what was in his hand?

Just because you speculate a million self-serving what if scenarios, they don’t mean a damn thing. They’re fantasy.

FACT The soon to be dead guy did not at any time in any way present deadly force to the cops.


52 posted on 06/15/2020 3:45:03 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: TalBlack
"It didn’t take the first time so I’ll try again: A taser doesn’t represent a lethal threat. “Might maybe possibly” is self serving SPECULATION"

You're stupid. The "Might maybe possibility" of a suspect disabling a cop with a taser and taking his gun and killing the officer with his own gun is the same "Might maybe possibility" of a suspect with an actual gun in his hand pointing it directly at a cop and shooting that cop dead. He Might maybe possibly shoot the cop dead, or he might maybe possibly not, but that suspect is most certainly is a deadly threat to the officer.

The officer has a right to defend himself against any THREAT of deadly force with his own use of deadly force. It's was Rayshard's choice to go spend eternity in hell instead of spending 24 hours in the drunk tank. Don't blame the cop for the terrible choice that Rayshard decided to make.

53 posted on 06/15/2020 6:35:21 PM PDT by BP1001
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