They shoot the unarmed with impunity as well.
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They shoot the unarmed with impunity as well.
I haven't said anything about it being a hate crime but it seems bewildering to me. I mean the shop owner called them to his store because some bloke was threatening customers with a gun, and that someone was not the person they ended up shooting, so they appear quite happy to have left someone clearly threatening people with a gun run loose whilst apprehending this other random bloke.
I wouldn't make the leap to suggest their actions were racially motivated, but it does appear incompetence on an enormous scale.
As above, I haven't brought race into this, it just seems baffling for an organisation who are there to protect people to come across so badly. I mean for all we know the shop he was outside could sell guns and he'd just bought one legally. Are we supposed to think that this is a situation the police shouldn't be trained to diffuse? It may confuse the heck out of us but this is their country, it's what's normal. Why aren't they better at handling it?
"To Serve & Protect"
How is it incompetent? It doesn't matter if it's the wrong guy - the guy was told to go to ground in the first incident and didn't. He had several chances to avoid being shot, didn't take any of them.
I cannot for the life of me see what the police have done wrong in any scenario other than be in a country where guns are prevalent and having an obvious need to preserve their own life at the first sign of risk as a result.
You're supposed to tell them where it is, and they're supposed to ask.
Or, a loved one.
It's difficult for most of us to understand, but you can see how many police officers (&dogs!) are shot and killed here;
https://www.odmp.org/
Example from the other week;
https://www.odmp.org/officer/22881-deputy-sheriff-david-francis-michel-jr
This fella was 50, served for 9 years.
The suspect/murderer, was black. 19.
If the cop had shot him/killed him in that struggle, he'd be facing widespread media backlash...
American police would benefit from permanent body cameras.
Better trained officers will go a long way to fixing this problem.
What would that better training be? Let the suspect get the gun and point it at you before responding?
Maybe.
Though, I'd imagine the only thing you can "train" would be suppressing instinct and instilling hesitancy.
If someone fears their life is at risk, they'll react. Human nature.
This simply isn't the case, good training goes a long way
Knowing the difference between reaching for his wallet and reaching for a gun. Maybe waiting to see a gun before shooting? Maybe knowing how to use words to diffuse a situation before you turn the citizen into a victim because his arm twitched or moved too far left. Let's not forget that in every one of these circumstances, the cops are in power. They're only using that power to protect themselves, not the citizen.
Well for a start there's some other bloke running around with a gun that they have already been told is a menace, but they choose to ignore this person and focus on a random bloke selling music who they end up shooting to death. That's pretty darn incompetent if you ask me.
And what difference is that mate?
Also, what words diffuse a situation in the 2 seconds it takes to pull a gun out and pull the trigger?
Again, sorry, but idealistic nonsense. One common denominator in this, and it's not that they were black - it's that they were carrying guns.
If a cop making a traffic stop fears his life is at risk, he needs a new job.
Again, secondary situation. What did they do that was incompetent once they'd decided this guy was a suspect and asked him to get to ground?
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