Cops in America don’t carry guns because it’s fun. It’s because in many localities, without a gun, the locals will fight arrest.
Brits are more docile.
“Cops in America don’t carry guns because it’s fun. It’s because in many localities, without a gun, the locals will fight arrest.
Brits are more docile.”
Yes.
As a side note, the police department subject of the article, The Park Forest Police is the same department where one of their officers, (since under arrest) shot an old WWII veteran with multiple bean-bags rounds at short range, with resulted in the death of the veteran.
John Kass, the only Conservitive writer at the Chicago Tribune wrote about it:
Kass: Was police killing of 95-year-old necessary?
Common sense tells me that cops don’t need a Taser or a shotgun to subdue a 95-year-old man.
August 02, 2013|John Kass
When John Wrana was a young man, fit and strong and fighting in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps, did he ever think he’d end this way?
Just a few weeks shy of his 96th birthday, in need of a walker to move about, cops coming through the door of his retirement home with a Taser and a shotgun.
The old man, described by a family member as “wobbly” on his feet, had refused medical attention. The paramedics were called. They brought in the Park Forest police.
First they tased him, but that didn’t work. So they fired a shotgun, hitting him in the stomach with a bean-bag round. Wrana was struck with such force that he bled to death internally, according to the Cook County medical examiner.
“The Japanese military couldn’t get him at the age he was touchable, in a uniform in the war. It took 70 years later for the Park Forest police to do the job,” Wrana’s family attorney, Nicholas Grapsas, a former prosecutor, said in an interview with me Thursday.
Cop Charged in Beanbag Shooting Death of 95-Year-Old WWII Vet
John Wrana died after Park Forest police Tasered him and then shot him with beanbag rounds at close range in his senior-living facility.
http://patch.com/illinois/chicagoheights/park-forest-officer-charged-in-death-of-95yearold-wwii-vet
Oh dear, you’ve never actually been here have you?.