[Born to Conserve]

Please tell me you’re not a working jackboot.

If you were tangled in taser gear, and you didn’t have control of the launcher, you would shoot, or you would be a fool at least, and dead at worst.

Oh, and by the way, you were just in a foot chase, a wrestling match, and who knows what else, with a guy who has a warrant on him, and has run, and is obviously desperate.

Since you refer to police officers as “jackboots”, can I refer to the perp as a violent criminal thug? Seems fair.

[trebb]

If you were tangled in taser gear, and you didn’t have control of the launcher, you would shoot, or you would be a fool at least, and dead at worst. Oh, and by the way, you were just in a foot chase, a wrestling match, and who knows what else, with a guy who has a warrant on him, and has run, and is obviously desperate. Since you refer to police officers as “jackboots”, can I refer to the perp as a violent criminal thug? Seems fair.

How tangled was the cop in the video? How far away was the victim? Which direction was the victim moving in?

Anyone who would shoot because the situation had gotten awkward, but was no longer a threat does not belong in a job which requires a gun.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

with a guy who has a warrant on him

The cop knew from his computer that at most he was late paying child support and that any warrant was just a civil contempt of court one, not a criminal warrant.

Eight in the back is now what you get in the US of A for being late on paying a bill to the State.