It seems like everyday there is a cop that kills a person that wasn’t armed and shouldn’t of been killed. Most people give a cop the benefit of the doubt for some reason.
OT- If you really want to kill someone why not become a police officer?
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I assume you are talking about the knife wielding person who was dead set (no pun intended) on getting a cop to shoot Them and even wrote a suicide note beforehand?
Please lock idiotic thread in 3....2...1
It's football season but stupid post like this should never be posted. Yes some police are bad but it doesn't outweigh not having them.
I am thinking better to move to Chicago and you can kill at will babies, small children, pregnant women along with a few actual bad punk gang members
They all count the same as to handle notches so happy shooting when in Chicago
Please get a clue about life. The WORSE day for any police officer is to have to draw his weapon in self defense and fire.
Couldn't agree more. You should see the guys who couldn't pass background tests and joined the military. Their work overseas was special.
Win win win- keeps jails from getting filled up, eliminates stupid people and keeps us free.
You left out what the "unarmed" person was doing. You have no idea if the cop knows if the assailant is armed or not.
I'm getting fukking tired of people!even riding cops asses. Put on a uniform and get into a situation where you feel you life is on the line and then get back to me on how you feel about your decision making.
We should be honoring any person willing to give their life to protect you.
It sickens me to listen to all these spoiled little brats thinking they know better.
Cops and military personnel should be honored. Nothing more.
Seriously???
Better to be a double aught spy- they give you a license to kill....
Dude, Even I have stopped with the OT posts (and that's saying something). It's football time bro!
Sorry. Won't put on a police uniform because I wasn't in remedial high school classes.
We all acknowledge that these people are losers until they start doing the hard and worthy work of controlling black people. Then the kid who wore #61 on your high school football team only because there was a no-cut rule, and who piddled through high school making Cs in easy classes becomes a hero because...reasons.
No thanks.
He's right you know... I'm all for giving the cops the full benefit of the doubt. Their job is hard. Hours and hours of methodical work mostly dealing with dumbasses of one flavor or another that AT ANY MOMENT might turn into a life or death situation.
I HATE ****KERS like this GT guy. If you wanna kill yourself you need help, I get that. We can do more as a society to help folks like this, I get that too. BUT when you decide to kill yourself, you have NO BUSINESS making someone else that you don't even know do the dirty work for you. That's just wrong. The cop that shot this guy has to live with that for the rest of his life, b/c this guy was too cowardly to get help or at least do the job himself.
Not to mention that a knife is a deadly weapon and if the person that is using it gets in close, they are far more likely to win a fight than the cop who's primary weapon is now just a hand held club.
Dude...I don't even have the words to trash this post as much as it needs to be trashed...
A pocket knife is not per se a deadly weapon. Even in Texas. According to the Court of Criminal Appeals here. And according to common sense.
A pocket knife can be used in such a manner that it becomes a deadly weapon. Holding it at your side is not that manner.
I mean, it's not really necessary. Your "you're an idiot! Cops is great!" take won't exactly be novel.
No. Clueless is the look on a police officer's face when he gets ripped to shreds on cross examination. The best part of the criminal justice system is watching them fidget under oath when skewered by someone smart.
Of course, they'll lie their asses off and jurors will believe them anyway. So it doesn't matter.
Dude.. the man wrote a suicide note and took his knife out to threaten a cop and a get killed... I hate that he did, but his WHOLE intention was to make the cop kill him.
So has it been said why the cop didn't use a teaser instead of shooting him?
I'm making sure I'm understanding what you are saying. Police,FBI,Secret service, etc.... is uneducated?
If you believe this shit then your parents had to be huge POS's. It is scary to think more and more idiots believe shit like this every day.
Ok. What does that have to do with your claim that a pocket knife is necessarily a deadly weapon?
FWIW, I don't really give a shit about litigating the GT kid's suicide/death. It's one of the less egregious police shootings over the last 3-4 years.
But let's not pretend the cop there was in some grave danger.
Only in America do cops demand respect because their job is dangerous, then kill people at the first sign of any potential danger.
It goes like this--if you kill people at the first sign of danger, then your job is not dangerous. Your job is only dangerous if you accept some danger in an attempt to save lives. Shooting before you could ever potentially be harmed removes the danger. You may deserve respect for some other reason (maybe because you are in authority, and in fascist Amerikkka we love those in authority). But you don't deserve respect because the job is dangerous.
It'd be like a fireman choosing not to go into a building whenever it was burning. That's what cops do when they shoot before the danger is evident. It's also what's wrong with this "whatever it takes, please come home" mindset that permeates policing. Can you imagine if the wives of firefighters had campaigns that said, "Whatever it takes, bring yourself home," as if to suggest the most important thing for a firefighter is avoiding danger?
I want cops to behave like heroes. Many of them do. Some guy came rattling on my door at 3AM, drunk, belligerent. We called the police. The guy was Hispanic. The cop came up in the dark and didn't have his gun drawn despite the highly tense situation. He ended up finding out the drunk guy banging on our door had been assaulted at some point. Gave the guy a ride home eventually.
That situation could end a million times worse with a belligerent drunk not following instructions. But that cop as willing to accept some danger. So it didn't.
Police chief said those cops (all cops in whatever department it was) don't carry tasers.
They probably should.
For how smart you constantly reassure yourself you are, you sure doesn't have a whole lot of common sense. I hope you don't let blind rage consume your day job as an "attorney". It must suck having such a shvtty outlook on life.
Seems like the opposite of snowflake. It’s a legit issue in our country. Too many trigger happy cops. Cops are here to supply a service to it’s citizens, not be jury and executioner.
