JoeB131
Diamond Member
Cops need to defend themselves from blood-thirsty vicious criminals every day. However, there are a few bad cops that take advantage. The new body cameras and iPhone videos referee a lot of incidents.
I'm amazed about that one cop who rolled up on a girl fight, one had a knife, and he had to make a split-second decision to shoot or let the knifing happen...no wonder cops are going to GOP areas.
You're welcome to them.
But let's review this statement. American Police shoot 1000 people a year. Compare that to any other G-7 nations, where those numbers are rarely single or low double digits. Now this would be fine, if there was a constant threat to officer lives, and you can even make that argument in a country as gun-happy as this one is.
In 2021, 61 officers were killed by gunfire. This is a terrible number, but hardly justifies shooting 1000 people a year, many of whom don't have guns. By comparison, 323 Officers died of Covid-19. You know, the disease your side insists doesn't actually exist. (Seriously, Mormon Bob insists it's a hoax, which is funny given his whole religion is a hoax.) So you are far more likely to die of Covid than a bullet, but the police unions are fighting vaccination mandates.
They are also fighting body-cam mandates. If Cameras would justify most police shootings, you would think the cops would WELCOME them, not oppose them.
Now, since we are talking about the cop who shot a 15 year old girl who HAD CALLED THEM FOR HELP when other teenagers were beating her up, when that cop shot her, not only were onlookers angry he did it, but even the other cops were looking at him like 'What the fuck did you do?"