“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
The next administration has a sh*tpot of house cleaning to do.
“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.”
I wouldn’t say it is because we are more docile, just that our sentences for stuff are such a slap on the wrist compared to America that it is rarely worth bothering to resist arrest. Murdering a police officer carrying out his or her duty is one of the few crimes that is virtually guaranteed to see you die in prison however, so even if you had murdered someone else it would be a stupid move, because even your average murderer only serves about 15 years before being released on parole, but if you killed a cop trying to arrest you for it, you will most likely never see daylight again.
No.
I love how a nation, where almost all people have never been to the UK, in fact where most have never been out of the US, tell us what the UK people/other people are like.