Posted on 03/22/2018 8:27:10 PM PDT by BBell
We will have to wait to see what results come of this fatal incident.
>>I work in healthcare, and have seen (and felt it myself) that laying bare hands on a sweaty and/or smelly person in certain circumstances made you want to go wash your hands. It was just kind of unusual to see in a street cop, and oddly funny in that setting.<<
From the time I was in grade school to this day I have been repulsed by the mere thought of having to get up close and personal with dirty and/or diseased people. Thank the Lord everyone doesn’t feel the same way or we would all have one hell of time locating a doctor or any other healthcare professionals. God bless them all!
Well, to be honest, since the late Eighties/early Nineties, gloves are the norm.
And if you start getting the heeebie jeebies just from touching people...gotta address THAT!
Yes, but also completely irrelevant. In both cases the victim was unarmed, there was zero threat to the police officer's life and safety, and yet they killed the person. If you're saying that fleeing was grounds to shoot him then why did the officers wait? Why not shoot him once he started running? If suspected criminal activity is grounds to shoot him then why didn't they kill him on sight? The fact is, in both cases, the police killed someone unnecessarily. If you and I had done it we'd be in jail awaiting trial. Why should police be different?
This is the typical narrative that liberal Marxists consistently use - so they can play the divisive race card and then divide our cultures and country. Their goal is to make themselves into special victims and then blame others for all other divide.
No, it is not irrelevant, and you say there was no threat to the officers' lives, but in Sacramento there is no proof of that.
The officers did not want to kill him. But they caught him after a chase. This is a very dangerous thing.
Have you never caught a wild animal by cornering it? They fight like demons. Even a rat is dangerous, where I have a 100 to 1 size advantage.
Same principle here. The cornered criminal is much, much more likely to attack his captor than an unarmed woman approaching a police car. He had been trying to elude them for quite a while and they have no way of knowing he was unarmed, but they did know that he was dangerous. Just because he had run and capture was imminent. The only way to assure his own safety was to immediately surrender.
I agree that big cities are the pits and den of evil that creates bad cultural attitudes.
That said, cops need to be treated the same as any civilian who accidentally and recklessly shoots an unarmed person. At the very least if found guilty they need charged and sentenced with some sort of manslaughter charge requiring time to be served just as would be required from civilians. Under no circumstances should they get to walk away as it only creates bad attitude in all involved. Muting the mike must be forbidden and always retained as evidence. They concealed evidence.
The victim was unarmed. What was he going to do? Beat the police to death with his cell phone?
The officers did not want to kill him. But they caught him after a chase. This is a very dangerous thing.
I'm not saying the police officers set out to kill the victim, in either case. But kill them they did.
Same principle here. The cornered criminal is much, much more likely to attack his captor than an unarmed woman approaching a police car.
But the cornered criminal was also unarmed. The cornered criminal didn't attack anyone. He had no weapon. Why did they have to shoot him? And if your answer is that they didn't know he was unarmed well then the cop in Minneapolis didn't know Ms. Diamond was unarmed either. Shooting an unarmed person who is not posing a threat to the officer is not justified, regardless of the circumstances.
The only way to assure his own safety was to immediately surrender.
Considering the incompetence of the police officers in question then you may be correct. That doesn't make it right.
But he made it to gramma’s house. Safety zone! /s
Great story!
I was up at 4am Sat. night changing my baby’s diapers. I went to the loo, looked the window, and there was a homeless bum burning something in his hand, right in front of my house. A doobie? Crack pipe?
I sat there, watching.
Anyway, he loitered near my truck. It was dark and I could not see his face, but could see his head looking around up and down the street. I opened the window and said, in a low, low voice “Move on, boy”, and he did!
I’m glad he did. The next step was getting out the air rifle and popping him.
We have a lot of crime here. Police not interested.
Heh, I like that “Move on, boy!”
A little preventative encouragement can go a long way. I have always felt (on a personal as well as a national level) that looking weak or vulnerable almost guarantees problems.
Looking strong rarely does.
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