Which would result in police being less likely to confront criminals.
If I know that approaching that guy over there, could result in me going to prison because some camera at a bad angle, looks like I shot an unarmed person...... Then I'm not going to approach that guy over there.
I'll wait until he kills someone, and then apprehend them when I know some idiot with a cell phone, won't try and get me sent to prison.
If he is armed, he is armed. A camera angle can not disarm him.
Right, and yet I have seen numerous videos where the individual was most certainly armed, but the camera angle didn't show it, and people were freaking out about police brutality.
So what? If he was armed, he was armed.
Regardless, the reality is that when police feel that everyone is not supportive, but rather chanting 'we want dead cops', the police are going pull back if they don't feel they will be backed by the public. That's a fact.
They shouldn't always be backed. Sometimes they are wrong.
If I know that going into a burning house, means you are going to beat me over the head for doing it.... then I am not going into your burning house to save your butt.
So you shouldn't be a fireman then. Be a crossing guard.
Now that doesn't happen with firemen, but it does happen with police routinely. They go out there, and put themselves in harms way to fight the criminals in our society, and for that they get attacked from all sides.
Then I'll sit in the suburb on the opposite side of town, and wait for the call to come in. Then I'll take my time getting to that location, by then all the bodies have hit the floor already, and I'll take some statements, clean up the crime scene, and collect my paycheck. I'm not going to risk confronting a suspicious person, who could try to grab my gun, and then when I shoot him, I get put on trial. Sorry.
Let that suspicious person shoot somebody, then I just go take some statements, and no one try to put me in prison.
There are tens of thousands of police interactions everyday. None of them make the news. On occasion the police do the wrong thing. When that is the case it should not be swept under the rug.
So what? If he was armed, he was armed.
Which does not stop the evil left, from trying to destroy the police officer. I've watch them do it.
They shouldn't always be backed. Sometimes they are wrong.
Innocent until proven guilty is the law of the land. If you abide by that, then so will I.
So you shouldn't be a fireman then. Be a crossing guard.
And no should by that logic. If you are saying to me, that no person should be a fireman if they are not willing to get destroyed for doing their job.... then no one should be a fireman, or police officer.
And honestly if you are trying to suggest that you would be willing to risk your life, for someone who will try and destroy you for saving them... then you are liar. No human being is going to do that.
There are tens of thousands of police interactions everyday. None of them make the news. On occasion the police do the wrong thing. When that is the case it should not be swept under the rug.
Out of the all the supposedly do the wrong thing, few... very few... was the officer actually in the wrong. Garner was an evil criminal, with a history pages long, who refused to obey police officers. They did nothing wrong. He did. Brown was a criminal thug, who robbed a store, attacked a police officer, and tried to steal his gun. The officer did nothing wrong. Brown did.
The list goes on. You can sit there and tell me that you don't support evil, over the good, but if you defend any of those criminals, and believe the officer should be put on trial... then you have done exactly that.