What exactly is "idiotic" about attempting to enforce the law? Is it "idiotic" to pursue a fleeing suspect? Is it idiotic when upon encountering the following events:
A fleeing suspect who directly runs at a shotgun equipped officer and ignores commands to stop; hearing shots fired out of sight; seeing your fellow officer not upright upon clearing the levee which obstructed the view of the shots and shooter(s); and finally observing the fleeing suspect reach back towards you with a weapon apparently in his hand? All of these things occurring in seconds.Is it idiotic to then shoot at the suspect? To believe that that action is idiotic is to accuse Ramos of leaving his lunch to pursue someone in a vehicle chase, decide to cross a smelly and offensive ditch full of "sewer" water; scamper across the ditch and over a levee to take a long shot at a fleeing suspect and hope that no one noticed when he knows that many people were immediately behind him up to the ditch. IOW they could hear his shot. He heard the other shots while in the ditch. It is idiotic to believe that scenario rather than the more believable one which Ramos testified to. He thought he saw the suspect reach back in a threatening gesture after hearing unseen shots. Davila was the idiot. He got shot in the butt. But unfortunately he convinced several other idiots to convict Ramos and Compean.
‘What exactly is “idiotic” about attempting to enforce the law?’
The part about firing fifteen shots at a fleeing suspect’s back, who wasn’t armed, and at that moment did not threat death or serious physical harm to anyone...just for starters.
These guys aren’t hero’s. So many desperately want to believe otherwise, its almost become a religious belief.
Everybody that has an opinion on this is locked into place. I don’t have a problem with that.
Some do. Like yourself I suppose. No problem here.