Posted on 12/09/2014 9:59:00 AM PST by DoodleDawg
A Florida sheriff called for calm after a 28-year-old unarmed black man in a stolen car was shot and critically wounded early on Monday by a white officer, after witness reports that the man had his hands up and amid racially charged protests nationwide about police violence.
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He put his hands up....twice...
That would give the cop haters ammo for a few of the tedious anti-police jokes
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I was being ‘nice’ with that ‘headline’...we know it would have been a whole lot worse than that.
When I got out of the Navy in the ‘60s one of my stops was Virginia State Police... I didn’t even get to the ‘recruiting’ phase, I was a ‘skinny’ 24 yo 6’ 150 pounds, (Up from the 5’9” 130 eight short years earlier) and the Trooper at the local barracks told me not to even waste my time and money on stamp etc...
Told me I was way to thin and even if I were to rush out and try to put more weight on, it had to be proportionate.
Today I could find MANY,MANY forms of discrimination to ‘sue’ him with <: <:
Once the Police became negotiators, crossing guards, security guards etc AND standards - Moral and Physical - were lowered to accommodate every race, gender and creed things started going downhill.
I remember during Columbine and VA Tech with the cops all standing outside the building ‘waiting’ for something.
Right wrong or indifferent, those of us that were around during the 50s and 60s know that COPS would have stormed the building and tried to get the kids out safely.
BUT protocol etc forced them to stand their ground...And yes, I realize that there were probably more than a few of the Cops that thought the idea stunk of NOT taking the lead.
A small handful of people who may or may not care or even think about it know that Robin Hood’s middle name was
THE.
ye, right, him and his band of Merry Men.
Today they would be HQ’d in San Francisco
Can we market some attachable arms/hands so that they can actually do this (walk around with their hands up all day)?
lol
I don't think it is racially motivated. You had that black cop shoot that white kid who answered the door with a Wii controller in his hand. That black cop shot that unarmed white guy in Salt Lake City not too long ago. I think it is a screening and training issue. There are a percentage of cops out there, a small percentage but a troubling one nevertheless, who flat out should not be cops. The cop who shot the 12 year old in Cleveland was bounced from a suburban force for incompetence. The cop who shot the kid with the Wii had been fired from another force for pretty much the same reason. It's the trigger happy ones that cast a shadow on the rest. And I don't see blindly supporting them just because they're police or because the person they shot had a record.
Hence my initial comment.
Next time you see some domestic black savages, yell:
PUT YOUR HANDS UP!
As a cop told me one day, “People don’t usually get shot on their way home from church.”
Saint Hoodie...?
“What the hell does “unarmed” have to do with anything?!”
That is a big thing that people need to be educated on - even here on FR. Of course it varies from state to state, but where I live (Washington State) you can use deadly force to stop a felony against you or anyone else, anywhere that you are legaly allowed to be. Felonies include robbery, burglary, car theft, and vandalism if it is serious enough. It also includes shooting someone as they are fleeing the crime (such as in this case, fleeing in a stolen vehicle).
Deadly force is not limited to someone that is posing a threat of serious physical harm.
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Well up here in the Northeast we cannot have the priests all standing around the Chief. Many of them are under suspicion for one thing or another.
Oh no! Not the grand jury. They never get anything right!
//sarcasm
Newspapers must have the words “unarmed black man” assigned to a keyboard hot key.
Really? You think “the law” was expected to just hold back all the time back a century ago?
Difference likely was there was much more “judgement” that someone protecting their property (not just “life-threatening moments”) was perfectly in the right.
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