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To: -YYZ-
Cops don’t have carte blanche to shoot someone who is making them nervous.

I think you are wrong. They apparently do, if a few days worth of reading FR is any indication.

96 posted on 09/25/2014 12:30:06 PM PDT by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: zeugma

“I think you are wrong. They apparently do, if a few days worth of reading FR is any indication.”

Are you referring to the number of storied like this that one sees, or the number of FR readers who will defend the cops every time?

I’m not a cop hater, but it’s clear that the people who we pay to catch criminals, and who are given a lot of extra rights that “normal” people don’t have, in order to do the job, need to be kept under tight control. Many police shootings are justified, and not every police shooting involves one or more cops reflexively emptying their guns with little control and no regard for what’s behind their intended target. But where there is wrong-doing, it must be identified and addressed - with firings, suspensions, policy changes, better training, etc, as appropriate.


141 posted on 09/25/2014 1:09:35 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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