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Biden calls for retraining cops: ‘Why should you always shoot with deadly force?’
New York Post ^ | January 16, 2023 | Victor Nava

Posted on 01/16/2023 6:28:35 PM PST by Labyrinthos

President Biden on Monday called for police officers to be retrained so they’re taught not to use deadly force in every situation that requires them to fire their weapon.

The 80-year-old president’s comments came during the National Action Network’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Breakfast in Washington, DC, as Biden blasted Senate Republicans for blocking a police reform bill in 2021 that would’ve restricted the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers.

“We have to retrain cops,” Biden said. “Why should you always shoot with deadly force? The fact is if you need to use your weapon, you don’t have to do that.”

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Biden made a similar suggestion about the use of deadly force by police on the presidential campaign trail in 2020, at the height of the George Floyd riots, arguing that police officers should be trained to shoot threatening individuals “in the leg instead of the heart.”

“Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person coming at them with a knife or something, shoot them in the leg instead of in the heart,” Biden told African American community leaders in June of 2020 at Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antipolice; banglist; biden; blitheringidiot; moroninchief; police; potatobrain; royrogers; training; villageidiot
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To: Labyrinthos
They didn't shoot George Floyd, did they?

41 posted on 01/16/2023 7:04:03 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Brandon is a one of the dumbest, if not the dumbest, President in this country’s history.

However, members of his base are even dumber.


42 posted on 01/16/2023 7:05:00 PM PST by bimboeruption (Trump = The best President since Washington. )
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To: Labyrinthos

Is there anything this guy can’t be wrong about? The current list is already quite comprehensive.

CC


43 posted on 01/16/2023 7:06:44 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Glad he’s a RAT...
They’re gonna have to do something with this moron though.....it’s a clown show.


44 posted on 01/16/2023 7:06:50 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Labyrinthos

Breathtaking imbecilic blather.

Lock this guy in Memory Care and take away the key to Corvette.


45 posted on 01/16/2023 7:10:10 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Labyrinthos

More stoopidness/dumbassery here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4123799/posts

😂👍


46 posted on 01/16/2023 7:11:19 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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But, he gave an award to the Guy that shot an unarmed woman in the head at the Capitol!



47 posted on 01/16/2023 7:15:23 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: dragnet2

The popo could do involuntary gender reassignment for The Meritless Garland.


48 posted on 01/16/2023 7:16:12 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: gundog

She has a significant “body count”.


49 posted on 01/16/2023 7:17:00 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Labyrinthos

What a dumbass.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I WHOLLY AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENT, BUT THE TERM “DUMBASS” IS COMPLETELY INADEQUATE. WHAT IS? NOTHING I’VE EVER HEARD!

IF ONE IS NOT MORALLY AND LEGALLY CERTAIN (AND I’M NOT SURE THAT THE LATTER REALLY APPLIES TO ALL CIRCUMSTANCES) THAT SHOOTING TO KILL IS PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED, THEN THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION TO SHOOT AT ALL!!! WHAT’S HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT???

OUR PO(S)TUS )*( IS INDESCRIBABLY BRAIN DEAD!

(I’M NOT SHOUTING...EYES PROBLEM)


50 posted on 01/16/2023 7:17:59 PM PST by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: Labyrinthos

Joe Stupid thinks a 9mm is a scalpel and cops are surgeons .


51 posted on 01/16/2023 7:21:30 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Labyrinthos

Because you can die with deadly force?


52 posted on 01/16/2023 7:24:00 PM PST by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: Labyrinthos

I was aiming at his right arm but he ducked to the right and the bullet hit him in the chest near the heart. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The bullet missed the arm and went through the heart......


53 posted on 01/16/2023 7:24:12 PM PST by Calamari
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To: Labyrinthos

“Why should you always shoot with deadly force?”
Gee, maybe some one is trying to kill you ?


54 posted on 01/16/2023 7:26:24 PM PST by The Sentient Sheep
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To: Labyrinthos

Multiple examples of imbecility in one paragraph.


55 posted on 01/16/2023 7:30:05 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Labyrinthos

What a dumbass indeed. If deadly force is required, you shoot for center of mass.

Shooting the gun out of the bad guy’s hand or shooting them to wound doesn’t happen in real life under stress.


56 posted on 01/16/2023 7:33:57 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Labyrinthos

What an absolute moron.


57 posted on 01/16/2023 7:34:49 PM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Labyrinthos

No one has ever been killed with a knife. /sarc


58 posted on 01/16/2023 7:35:24 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Total dumbass....demented fool


59 posted on 01/16/2023 7:36:56 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: Labyrinthos
“Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person coming at them with a knife or something, shoot them in the leg instead of in the heart,” Biden told African American community leaders...

Ok, Roy Rogers.

60 posted on 01/16/2023 7:39:18 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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