Everyone is treating this officer the way John Murtha and Harry Reid treat Marines. Guilty until proved innocent, and then "The Fix Was In".
I suspect the park ranger exercised extremely bad judgment, and witnesses indicated that the guy was shot in the back..But so what, people are legitimately shot in the back all the time. The deceased own brother admitted that he was 'Self medicating' with booze. and he very likely was belligerent. A drunk can shoot you just as dead as a gang banger... heck he might shoot better if he's a recreational shooter when he's sober.
If the guy made motions as if going for a gun, then the ranger, who is not trained for such things, probably reacted poorly, or maybe that lack of training helped in his misinterpretation of the guys actions.
But remember your attitude the next time some citizen shoots a punk, or other ner do well, in the back, and under a less than obvious threat to the shooter's well being. Y'all will then likely be on the side of the shooter. So will I, depending on those circumstances of course. But I don't judge such situations by whether the guy is wearing uniform of some sort or not, nor should anyone.
Going for his gun with his back turned? HUH?
"heck he might shoot better if he's a recreational shooter when he's sober. "
With his head turned around backwards. Guess he was using the reflections off them trees.
Going for his gun with his back turned? HUH?
"heck he might shoot better if he's a recreational shooter when he's sober. "
With his head turned around backwards. Guess he was using the reflections off them trees to aim the gun that he didn't have.
If cops are free to judge us, then we are free to judge them. This guy MURDERED an unarmed man. Being drunk and not paying a $14 fee is NOT supposed to be a death penalty offense.
Cops wonder why they don’t get the support they used to! This is why. They will make excuses for anything! I can guarantee you that I would be looking at more than a year in jail if I had pulled the trigger instead of this badge freak.
Get hold of your senses.
The park ranger was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
What are we missing from your comments?
Was he not found guilty?
This should have been a citation over a $14 camping fee and
at most another for public drunkenness. The park ranger should have called for additional help if was dealing with a ‘drunken belligerent’ individual. Instead, ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ resulted in murder.
If the ranger wasn’t trained for these situations like you believe, again, he should have called for real officers and backed off until he could get the situation under control without killing.
Yes, I am going to judge the situation on whether he was wearing a uniform. The uniform means he’s representing the public’s trust. Anyone wearing the uniform is held to a higher standard of trust than us regular citizens. They have authority they can abuse that we don’t.
Shooting him in the back of the neck shows something is wrong here.
There should be a difference between a citizen and an Officer .An Officer undergoes training before being issued his firearm , and someone on the job should be held to a higher standard.
I don't know how many times that I've read a post saying that the citizen shouldn't do this or they shouldn't do that when in the presence of Police.
We should just do away with all the Police Academies and start Citizen Academies because today the police can act whichever way they feel like and it's the everyday Joe's who are responsible for their actions