Posted on 02/12/2015 3:53:43 PM PST by wgmalabama
Madison police officer Eric Parker today turned himself in to face assault charges, following the severe injuries to an Indian citizen who was walking down the street outside his son's new home.
Chief Larry Muncey told a small press conference in Madison that he also recommended that Parker be fired for his use of force against a man who committed no crime, did not speak English and could not understand the commands.
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I’m headed that way on Sunday. I’ll be proud to be in his jurisdiction, if only for a week.
That was bad and totally needless.
next the cops when and shot his dog.
That didn’t take long but they did the right thing.
I’ve put a lot of men on the ground, and that cop had absolutely no cares about breaking that man and putting him in the hospital, a serious attack that had no cause.
In the distant past cops did not feel they had the right to force total submission on every person they met, instantly, as a part of talking to you.
The talking and interaction with people is almost entirely gone, now it is physical violence or shooting almost instantly, you barely get the word, what??? out of your mouth before you are being treated as though you are feloniously resisting arrest.
So the violent cop is right and the cops who fired him and arrested him for being out of control, are the cops in the wrong?
OOPs I misread your post.
Sorry, about that.
I can not imagine myself calling 911
just because I saw someone walking down the sidewalk.
One of the things that I learned during 25 years of soldiering as an infantryman and leader is that soldiers will do what you train them to do, and, properly led, they will do it extremely well. Train hard and right in peacetime and you know exactly what to do when the bullets begin to fly even if your buddies face has just turned to goo.
My sense is that law enforcement training has gone around the bend. LEO’s are doing what they have been trained to do and I think that training has changed for the worse in the past 15-20 years. They have lost sight of their purpose and have become something that the public has every right to fear.
The guy is old and brown and looks Muslim.
It gones with militarization. Except our military has riles of engagemen.
OK, so you are saying that is all it would take for you to call 911?
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“I just saw an old brown muslim-looking guy walking down the sidewalk.
Please help me!”
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God Help Us.
That is what it seems like to me, they are like regimented Borg, filled with simple instructions, don’t think, don’t analyze, don’t try to assess each individual and each individual situation, instead, assert total physical domination of every interaction and remove ALL personal risk.
That is why we can’t call them to diffuse situations and handle the drunk relative with the knife, or who is breaking up the furniture anymore, they won’t show up to diffuse the situation or talk someone down and help us out, instead their sole purpose is to show up and end it, which frequently means driving up, yelling a couple of commands, and then snuffing the problem person.
I can not imagine myself calling 911
Ever. I learned my lesson.
Whoosh..........
This is good news.
...must be a story there...
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I live in a cul-de-sac in the back of a pretty nice neighborhood
in the suburbs about 30 miles north-east of Atlanta.
I have been here for over 15 years, and we are pretty diverse back here.
We have blacks, whites, Koreans, Bosnians, Guatemalans, and Mexicans,
and we even have some folks from some place called New Jersey.
On any given day, I see people that I do not know go past my house...
walking, jogging, walking their dog, or whatever.
I guess some people think I should be calling 911 every time?
(sheesh)
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