That really was a dumb move, but it doesn't excuse the excessive use of force. There were several other options he could have chosen aside from shotting the guy in the back in with his 3 children watching....USING HIS TASER comes to mind, not that I'm crazy about those things. But this kind of shit needs to stop.
Right, turn your back to a cop and then go and open a car door
If I was the cop, I'd have tased his ass.
We’ve already seen how tasers don’t work, especially on these guys on drugs.
If a person takes recreational drugs and ignores an officers orders. . . . that doesn't mean they should be executed on the spot.
What the hell kind of psychopath are you?!
Not good in the analytical dept. I see.....unfortunately on message boards that seems to be the rule rather than the exception.
You fail to grasp what the cops have to contend with. You fail to understand the potential for this guy to go to his car and get a weapon and shoot the cop.
Above all...you nor the others on here like you have all the facts of this case....thus you rush to judgement based on your bias....nuff said.
I guess we should just arm folks in every profession and make them assume everyone is out to kill them, just like the cops, then folks won't die as much as the cops.
Apparently, the police never got the memo about citizens having to be proved guilty, eh? They just assume everyone is out to murder them. . .
So that's it now huh? Police are just to be treated as an occupation army, and every citizen is a potential enemy combatant. . . is this seriously the attitude folks want to take?
The old cliche of you can prove anything with statistics comes to mind.
Stupid people can be easily led astray by statistics.
i.e. the above poster is a good example.....in regarding how dangerous police work is.
What he does not get is the stats in regard to how dangerous police work actually is do not take into account that a huge percentage of the police personell do not actually work the streets....a big percentage of them have clerical jobs where they are not exposed to danger.
Thus it can easily be seen how that skewers the stats on how dangerous police work actually is.
If the stats only included the cops actually working the streets....the danger of being a cop would be much,much higher.
“The unarmed shootings — which are the ones that are the troublesome ones — there are only 9 of them against blacks — 20 against whites in 2019. So that‘ll give you a sense. Meanwhile, there were 9,000 murders of blacks, 7,500 of which were black-on-black,” Giuliani told Fox’s Ed Henry during a recent interview.
Rudy Giuliani offers his perspective to Fox News on rising concerns that the police disproportionately kill black Americans.
www.marketwatch.com