Some cops are trained to go below the waist.
Posted on 01/16/2023 6:28:35 PM PST by Labyrinthos
President Biden on Monday called for police officers to be retrained so they’re taught not to use deadly force in every situation that requires them to fire their weapon.
The 80-year-old president’s comments came during the National Action Network’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Breakfast in Washington, DC, as Biden blasted Senate Republicans for blocking a police reform bill in 2021 that would’ve restricted the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers.
“We have to retrain cops,” Biden said. “Why should you always shoot with deadly force? The fact is if you need to use your weapon, you don’t have to do that.”
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Biden made a similar suggestion about the use of deadly force by police on the presidential campaign trail in 2020, at the height of the George Floyd riots, arguing that police officers should be trained to shoot threatening individuals “in the leg instead of the heart.”
“Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person coming at them with a knife or something, shoot them in the leg instead of in the heart,” Biden told African American community leaders in June of 2020 at Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Some cops are trained to go below the waist.
Shot all democrats in their reproductive organs
We are saddled with a moron, yes, but can work around that.
Who the hell is this douchebag calling for cops to be retrained?
Nixon had a policy of benign neglect. Now they’re just allowed to get away with crime. White paramedics were charged with murder when a black man they tried to SAVE died of an OD in their ambulance. Save yourself, just separate.
You know, he’s like a tv series going into reruns.
He already talked about banning magazines and that idiotic strategy of police trying to aim for the shin muscles on suspects’ legs so fewer will get mean and unfair wounds in deadly gun battles. Looks so easy in the movies. And Marshall Dillon could shoot the pistol out of the bad guy’s hand. Biden must have been thrilled.
Will the gang members and vicious killers listen to Biden and go easy on their hostages and the cowering store employees?
LOL!
“Simple rules that even an idiot can understand.”
Isn’t a cop supposed to shoot only if his or innocent people’s lives are threatened?
Rainbow Unicorn Rounds with a fairy dust charge.
I’m still stuck on her too. She makes up with enthusiasm what she lacks otherwise.
I am reminded of a line in the great cop show, SouthLAnd, after the rookie cop shoots (and kills) a perp who was drawing on him. He says to his jaded Training Officer, “I’m sorry, but I happen to think taking a life is a big deal...”
To which his TO smirks, “What did you *think* it was for, show and tell?”
We are surrounded by so much naive stupid.
In Wilmington DE, the “aspiring rappers” shoot each other in the legs often because they don’t get charged with attempted murder.
Does he want them to shoot their weapon out of their hand, you know like they did in the movies when he was a kid?!?
What were they back then? A nickle? And they were probably silent movies too!! LOL!!
The s anybody still listening to this corrupt moron?
Plese identify officer and case. Thanks.
Meanwhile, I can’t find the one where the officer told reporters from her hospital bed after being shot, “I hesitated to fire at him. I was afraid I would become the next headline.” She perp shot her instead.
I was taught a far simpler lesson,”Don’t point a gun at someone unless you are prepared to KILL them.
As for how many times to fire, fire until the threat is terminated.
My rifle coach was Green Beret and kinda serious about some things.
To Maim and Serve.
Cities are already facing a shortage of police officers due to the potential of getting in legal trouble thanks to overzealous prosecutors for just doing their job.
Add to that the zero bail policies the very same perps they bust are immediately back on the streets to commit more crimes. That has to be discouraging when the criminals you arrest today are right back to breaking the law the tomorrow.
Like what’s the point, when there’s no real punishment for breaking the law and the only people who do face actual legal consequences now are law abiding citizens defending their business or home.
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