SC officer shoots man reaching for cane

Washington Post ^ | 26 Feb 2014 | Associated Press

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Saying “unacceptable” means nothing. It is very acceptable, and even necessary, as far as policemen not being killed in the line of duty. It doesn’t matter if only 1 in 1000 people they meet wants to kill them. He wants to kill them. So being protected from him is more important than being apprehensive around the other 999.

So, the old man pulled a shotgun, not a cane, and shot the policeman dead. Is that acceptable, either?

[DariusBane]

That is absurd.

I am a free man, and those cops are just citizens like me. They wear guns. They should be careful where they point them and give me the same information about what they are doing.

[shotgun]

I’ve done this every time I was ever stopped which was quite often when I was in my early 20’s. Of course I learned that from my brother who was a cop and my best friend who was a cop too. Pretty simple to speak clearly of your intentions to comply with their directives.

Still even those two were old school cops, I don’t trust any of the new breed at all...EVER!

[CodeToad]

Always an ‘imminent threat’. I see cops as an imminent threat, so can I just shoot them on sight before they shoot me?

[Iscool]

All that’s required is that a cop imagines that a citizen ‘may’ pose a threat and the cop has the right to kill the person...

[DManA]

Saying “unacceptable” means nothing.

Course it means something. If it’s acceptable then people shrug their solders, like you, and say hey, a stack of dead civilians is the price we pay to live in a country where people pay their car tax on time, never go 1 mph over the arbitrary speed limit, walk around the car making sure every light bulb works before they sit behind the wheel.

If it’s unacceptable then a cop that shoots an innocent civilian, not hurting anyone, just wanting to be left alone, AT LEAST gets fired.

[arthurus]

It would be justified but would never be “found justified.”