Posted on 12/05/2018 8:09:00 AM PST by Sopater
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 don’t 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/
Don’t forget the opps I threw a grenade into a baby crib.
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