Remember the good old days when police used bull horns to call to people inside houses and cops spoke slowly and clearly into them from a distance? If you heard a bull horn you thought “oh, that is the police,” not “oh, some thief or rapist is trying to get in and I gotta get my gun.”
This is a terrible thing for all concerned. Perhaps cops should have to undergo some sort of training from the civilian perspective for cases like these, so they can see what a civilian sees and hears when an officer filled with adrenaline shows up unexpectedly and fears the worst. Most of the time on the cop shows you cannot even understand what they are yelling and too starled to follow directions... what if a person is deaf or disabled? They should experience a few “visits.”
Police are not public servants. They never have been. Their function is to stop crime by making arrests and killing bad guys if necessary. The motto “to protect and to serve” is actually of military origin. Their duty is to protect each other and serve their superiors, not the public. But they go too far when they start seeing the public as the enemy.
Interesting. My perspective is some people should live in high crime areas and realize not all is what it seems. It’s far different today.
White cop, black victim. This is why this story is even news.