Posted on 11/23/2023 11:48:01 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
If all he had was a taser, why not just shoot him in the leg to take him down ??
I just had a similar conversation with a state trooper buddy. He told me that they’re scared to do their jobs because they are second guessed and found guilty.
Citizen review boards made by untrained individuals. “He didn’t have his regulation hat on, therefore he’s guilty.”
Are you serious? I guess you forgot the /s tag.
I think you are probably correct.
But, we will have to wait and see.
This was his big acting scene, the chance to play a shooting victim on BodyCam:
“Oh, the pain! The Pain! My world is getting so much darker. I fear my time is short, my flame is flickering out. I regret I have but one death for my community. It is fini!!
.,....or shoot the tazer out of his hand....like in the movies!?
There is no reason to keep shooting him. If we did that, we would be charged with a crime.
To set this controversy down as finished, here is what Joe Biden said on a shooting case:
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Law enforcement groups blasted Vice President Joe Biden for again suggesting training police to shoot suspects “in the leg” is a viable way to avoid fatalities, decrying the proposal as dangerous and ignorant.
During an ABC News town hall Thursday, Biden gave the shooting advice while talking about broader police reforms, which have been on the public conscience since the killing of George Floyd sparked nationwide racial unrest.
“There’s a lot of things we’ve learned and it takes time, but we can do this,” Biden said. “You can ban chokeholds ... you have to teach people how to de-escalate circumstances. ... Instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do is shoot to kill, you shoot them in the leg.”
October 18, 2020 on Fox website and several other places.
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Detectives’ Endowment Association
@NYCPDDEA
“Former VP Joe Biden’s suggestion that cops should “shoot someone in the leg” if they’re coming at them is insulting and demonstrates his incompetence & inability to understand the grave dangers cops face as they protect the public and themselves from violent, heartless criminals.”
The suspect was armed with a taser which was used or attempted to be used by by the suspect on the cop.
In the video, you can see after the suspect was shot an object falls away from the suspect to his right.
Use a weapon on a cop, things will get ugly. It was a legitimate shoot.
The cop likely had no idea what the suspect was pointing at him. Based on video evidence, it appears the suspect dropped the object, likely a taser, only after being shot.
Is that you, President Biden? If not, that’s the company of analyst you’re with. If the cop had tried to shoot other than center mass, and missed, then what could happen to the cop would be just the way it goes? If he’d hit an artery, would the grieving family be less sad? If, down, he’d pulled a handgun out of his waistband or off his ankle and blew the cop away, what then? Nope. Use a weapon in a cop, and youre done
The guy was flat on the ground already, so I think the main issue is that the cop could have just disengaged by standing up and backing off: which he wound up doing anyway as he shot him.
So the legal question is whether the cop has justifiable fear for his life. Maybe at the first or second shot, but not afterwards.
A taser/pepper spray etc can debilitate or impair a person at least temporarily, at which point the suspect can seize the cops gun. Can't let that happen.
In before “learn to code.”
Btw, reaching for the cops gun is not the issue due to the fact when the shooting happened the suspect was on the ground and the cop was standing when it appears he shot the suspect 3 times. Not including the round that missed and hit the freeway.
In other words, at the time of the actual shooting, the suspect had no way of reaching the cops gun even if he tired. The suspect was shot because he either pointed a taser at the cop or tried to reach for taser.
Also notable as an enrolled resident or whatever of a drug addiction treatment center there was no possible way for him to possess a Taser (or anything else) lawfully.
Where did he get that?
It is axiomatic (somehow) that only the worst examples are publicized and emphasized ad nauseam in the press. Always. The “conversation” that ensues always and ever only skews one way. I’m no bootlicker, but these are overall specific techniques to undermine good public order and all those things that are villified by the usual suspects.
Tailor made to sew radicalism, discontent, anarchy, mob rule.
Was he wearing his yellow mental patient caution vest?
You are wrong, he absolutely did act; HE “ACTED” VERY STUPIDLY ON THE FREEWAY!
Aspiring actor?
He just won a Darwin
...
And gets a take that all is even.
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