“No, I think he’s a rookie who didn’t know how to handle the traffic stop properly.”
Your thinker must be broken.
The officer in this case has 14 years on the force.
Not exactly what one would call a ROOKIE, is it?
I completely forgot that. Sure enough, it’s in line #2 of the article. D’oh! 99% of the discussion has been the content of the video clip. That’s an explanation, not an excuse.
You know, something interesting occurred to me overnight. Massey’s supporters seem to be arguing that if he’d just been warned he was going to be tasered, he’d have calmed down right away and everything would have been spiffy. What seems a little bizarre about that assumption is that the guy is now saying he thought the taser was a gun. So... apparently they’re arguing that a guy who refused to calm down when held at gunpoint would have calmed down if he knew it was only a taser. H.o.k.a.y.y.y.