Posted on 12/05/2018 8:09:00 AM PST by Sopater
Many justifications are being offered for the tragic police shooting on Thanksgiving night that killed 21-year Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala., just south of Birmingham. They all seem beside the point.
Bradford, known as E.J., was among the shoppers who crowded the mall on Thursday when, police say, gunshots wounded an 18-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. Bradford apparently was armed. Police showed up on the scene and shot him, and announced that in doing so, they had ended the threat. They later acknowledged that Bradford had not been the shooter. But they claimed that he had "brandished" his gun at the scene, leading to a "heightened sense of threat" in an already dangerous situation.
Certainly, if a man holds a gun at the scene of a shooting, police are more likely to zero in on him than on others. Officers arrive in the midst of extremely tense, life-threatening and fast-moving situations and must think quickly.
Yet guns are ubiquitous in this nation, whether we like it or not. Many people carry them legally, and for just this kind of situation to be the "good guy with a gun" who stops the armed bad guy. No less than the president of the United States has called for more armed citizens, so that in the midst of an altercation, many guns might be wielded by good guys and bad guys alike. Officers should expect it. They should be trained for it.
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Well, police training does inform the officer that vehicles are deadly weapons. Thus a driver in a vehicle is automatically armed with a deadly weapon and if in a situation is not obeying the officer's commands properly the driver might be driving away might run someone down, or even maneuvering the vehicle to strike the officer. Ergo justification. After all, it's perception at the moment which is used to justify a police shooting, and if the training instills a bias for a particular perception, well there you go...
Of course if there were not so many illegal things a person might be presumed to be doing and thus be subject to the officer's attention, the bias might never come into play. The solution California has unequivocally chosen is essentially the police are always right and the citizen is always in the wrong. Thus elevating convenience over justice, and also any encounter with the police into a potentially life threatening event *even if you did no wrong* because if the officer feels threatened, they may decide it's kill or be killed...
After the fact your past life will be inspected for any prejudice which would justify the officer's perception. So for example my tagline could be considered prejudice, despite any other interpretation...
Notice the armed citizen had his shirt tucked in and was wearing his pants as designed, not gangsta style.
"You went to bed and and woke up stupid?"
Or sitting on the back porch of a home in Long Beach in an enclosed yard playing with a garden hose
Heard on the local Charlotte snewz that the cop that shot the Father/Grandfather in Colorado will not face criminal charges.
And Pending Charges for The white Female Dallas cop that Murdered The Black Man in HIS OWN APARTMENT.
And the mudslime somali That Murdered Justine Diamond in Minneapolis last year.
And ???
Listen. The Joe citizen that shot this guy 3 times in the back happened to work in law enforcement. He was not more entitled to be armed than the dead guy. If you think the cops are good guy you are wrong. They are below average Americans with poor training, a badge and way too much authority.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OflGwyWcft8
Cops are dangerous. They make 98 percent of situations more dangerous and are more likely to kill an innocent person than get killed themselves.
I dont like or trust them. I would rather call the Marines than the cops.
https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/8-l-officers-wont-punished-firing-103-times-two-unarmed-women/
Dont forget the opps I threw a grenade into a baby crib.
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