“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Training works...
Posted on 09/10/2019 11:43:34 AM PDT by righttackle44
True-I think some of those guys watch way too much tv
These incidents plus the militarization of pds. They made an end around possee comitatus by supplying pds with military grade equipment. I stopped supported them without question at that time.
This phrase always sets off my BS detector.
A car is baring down on you, but please fill out this questionnaire identifying who is in the car before you react.
I don’t care who it is, running them over when they have guns drawn is certain to result in shots fired. If you have kids in the car, you pretty much have to stop.
They may not shoot you if you stop. They damn well are going to shoot if you don’t, and are headed for them.
I’ve learned not to make judgements from a single story, especially one published in a racialist magazine like Ebony.
Maybe it was "Take Your Kids To Work Day" ...
“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Training works...
“This guy went to rob a store with his 4 kids?”
Well someday they will have to take over the family business, so they have to learn somehow.
“WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO???”
I don’t know, it kind of depends. Did I just commit a felony minutes before?
I don't know. Did you?
I didn't. If the cops want to be respected as cops, they'd better be getting out of marked police cars and be wearing police uniforms.
Consider it a word to the wise.
IF someone not in a uniform, holding a gun, tries to stop me, damned right they are getting run over. Just as anyone coming through the door without announcing themselves and being prepared to show me the warrant deserves to die.
That looks like me responding to a threat to my kids.
It isn't always easy to find a baby-sitter.
how does a citizen driving a truck know that guys NOT IN A UNIFORM but waving guns are cops?
“I don’t care who it is, running them over when they have guns drawn is certain to result in shots fired. If you have kids in the car, you pretty much have to stop.”
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Not me, ESPECIALLY if I have kids in the car. I would risk the chance of us being shot, rather than let him kidnap my kids.
Unmarked cars, and no-knock raids (for anything other than hostage rescue) have done as much damage to people’s respect for honest authority than all the depredations of liberals in the past 50 years.
“Police claim they began shooting because Smith was attempting to run them over with his truck, but many dispute this argument, saying officers simply could have moved out of the way rather than opening fire“
First, it is not a dispute on what happened....
It is a dispute that police should not shoot at a vehicle that is trying to run them over and kill them.
Just as in any other profession law enforcement has its share of bad actors and incompetent people. In their case however the stakes are really high.
This is an absurd overstatement.
“Smith then allegedly put the vehicle into reverse and “accelerated rapidly backwards, striking one of the detectives,” Higginbotham’s statement read. “Both detectives then fired their guns in an effort to protect themselves.”
After having one officer run over, they then shot at the man using a vehicle as a weapon.
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