(January 5, 2018 at 6:15 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote:(January 5, 2018 at 4:51 pm)FFaith Wrote: . It can be very reasonable to shoot and kill if a perp is asked to keep their hands where they can be seen and they reach for something in their pocket.
Shooting to kill without clear evidence of a weapon is reasonable to you?
I hope you never get a badge.
Yes, it can be very reasonable. If they've been given an order and still choose to reach, that's called suicide by cop. They killed themselves. The police can not wait until a few milliseconds before the perp fires the gun at them, or else there would be a lot more dead cops. Like I said before, the cops are a gang who live by the no snitching code, and they are extremely corrupt (not all cops obviously), but I don't have enough disdain for them to want to see them out and out killed because they're not allowed to defend themselves. If someone hates the cops enough to not care whether they live or die, I can understand where that anger comes from, but police are here for the long haul whether we like them or not, and we as a society need them. Things would be a lot more fucked up without any police. I'm not saying that anyone that disagrees with me wants to see cops dead. I just think they aren't thinking clearly, like when people ask why cops can't just shoot people in the legs. That's not how real life works. If the cops tell you not to reach, then don't reach.
