I think from this video the police officer fires his taser and is running with it in his hand as the coils stay attached to it once it is fired.
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I think from this video the police officer fires his taser and is running with it in his hand as the coils stay attached to it once it is fired.
davek
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Discharged it, but missed? He'd have been incapacitated if he was hit. So he (policeman) then discharges his gun having missed with taser.
Edit. Just seen other video.
He grappled with two police officers, stole one of their tasers, and then proceeded to fire the taser at the pursuing officer.
Im sorry, but this isn’t a George Floyd scenario.
Why can't police just charge and tackle someone to stop them? Or shoot them in the legs if so desperate to use the gun?
davek
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Looks to me from that video that the copper who has the taser running after the black man isn't the gunman...the copper following his colleague fires the shot.
Disgruntledgoat
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Now give me a breakdown on how many are harassing african americans, disproportionately stopping them in their cars or on the street, employing excessive force against them or covering up fires their colleagues who do.
It's weird that there are so few bad cops but every african american I know has a list of stories as long as your arm about their dealings with the police and are terrified of them.
davek
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Or just let them run off. He hadn't killed anyone had he?
Disgruntledgoat
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With firearms you're always trained, in any service, to aim for the centre of mass. It provides the most stopping power and is a lot easier to hit than a more slender and fast moving target.
Lelouch
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he was running away and they shot him ffs, It's just as bad.
How many do you think are ‘bad’ ?
Disgruntledgoat
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How are we defining 'bad'?
tsubaki
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TBF there is a lot of confusion caused by everyone elses cops not murdering black people to anything like the same level or with a history of actual involvement in these crimes. In the US - though even there its a majority of cops - you have a lot more cops killing a lot more people.
To make one completely overblown point, in Vallejo (CA), a city of 120000 people, cops have shot 19 people in the past decade.
In London (UK), a city of seven million people, cops from the Met and City Police have shot eight people in the past decade, five of them as they carried out terrorist attacks against other citizens.
In the entire country there have only been 25 police killings, of all causes, in the past decade. The US has had between 3800 (the number of deaths recorded on Wikipedia) and 10000+.
Well unsure on what crime he was meant to have committed but if they had grounds to arrest him they could have pursued like normal humans. Just strange how their first thought with the gun is to shoot it lethally.
Lelouch
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No he was sleeping in a car in a Wendy's and resisted arrest and lost his life while also being drunk apparently.
How on earth is it just as bad.
That’s nonsense, and diminishes the outrageous treatment of Floyd.
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