Posted on 04/13/2021 11:00:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
people make mistakes and especially in the heat of battle....
quitting seemed appropriate....she made a mistake....
Good. Over and above anything else, this was a training and policy failure. Every superior who ever trained and passed her on that training, every superior who checked off on her qualifications, every superior up to and including the mayor that had anything to do with her continued service when she was this abysmally trained needs to resign or be fired.
Gee, I can’t imagine why. “Ooopsie, I grabbed the wrong thing”
How was she not fired immediately?
I don’t think her Union will be much help under any circumstances.
Since we all know the 'black community' is perfect in every way they obviously have the right to expect perfection... accept ZERO mistakes... never give an inch. Condemn all that are less than perfect. /s
Maybe if the black community reduced the number of thugs, rapists, and murderers they produce, the police wouldn't be so wound tight around them. Maybe some of the fault lies with the black community, fatherless homes, no snitch rules, glorification of criminals etc etc etc....
Unfortunately this would never have happened if the perp with the warrant for arrest had not tried to make a run for it. Yes, she f’d up and will probably get manslaughter. Still deserves due process.
I went to Home Depot and spent three mimes trying to find my car. I was just on the verge of reporting it stolen when I realized that I was at Home Depot and had parked on the other end of the lot. Fifteen minutes earlier I had been at Lowes and their layouts are so similar that I got utterly confused, thinking I was still at Lowe’s!
I’m just saying it takes some modicum of self accountability to offer a resignation in the face of having made such a mistake. Further accountability, if any, is yet to be determined.
And what about when they’re dealing with an angry Karen riding an adrenaline surge or someone off their head with grief? Tasers are a valuable tool for when you don’t want to shoot someone dead.
Tell that to the insurance companies who pay out hundreds of millions in settlements.
If she's vested then even firing shouldn't impact the pension.
Yeah and she damn near wasted her colleagues in the process!
Or make the taser a different shape entirely... something like a flashlight type canister that can be easily and accurately pointed.
“Look at the video.
The cop in question was incompetent. If she didn’t know her taser from a glock, I am not sure what else she would mess up It lead to a dead kid.
We have people on this board saying that should always treat cops like you will be killed by them if you don’t bow down. If a soldier did this in a war zone, they are brought up in charges. Maybe we need to think about how the police are trained.”
Irrelevant....the “kid” (already charged with felony weapon possession) was NOT complying. Had he been, he’d be alive today. That’s the whole story - not the cop.
I don't know, but I imagine she is personally devastated.
Not saying she doesn’t deserve due process in the courts. But she needs to not be an officer with reflexes and judgement this bad, and she needs to be charged like any civilian and sent to trial accordingly.
We KNOW she was trying to tase him because she only fired once.
I am thinking that this is more of a “brain-fart” thing than misidentification. I don’t know the psychological term, but when you’re thinking of doing two different things, start one and complete the other. Like pouring orange juice into your coffee.
You can have all the training possible and I am not sure that the automatic reflex actions cannot cross over like this.
It is ironic as hell that the “systemic racism” of America is one guy shoving a fatal dose of drugs up his butt and an accident.
At least find us a Klan hood, guys...
So, let’s say your grandmother doesn’t comply with police commands. Does that mean it’s okay if police shoot her?
Don't know, ... Anyone?
“And yet, society is probably better off for her mistake.”
True.
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