Fucking Cops: Volume II

[Strider]

Officers are supposed to deescalate a situation. Not escalate it. That keeps people from getting killed. If you have a means to take someone down nonlethaly, then you have no reason to use a lethal weapon. This is part of why officers use the buddy system. One guy with a knife should not require lethal force to capture.

Yes, you are correct that officers are obligated to try and deescalate a situation. Obviously, this is not always possible and sometimes officers simply and erroneously neglect to even attempt it.

Saying that an officer does not have a reason to use a lethal weapon if a less-than-lethal alternative is available is not realistic. Imagine there is a guy armed with a gun and the confronting officer has a taser available. Will the taser be effective on the person holding the gun? Maybe it will, but it would be a very, very foolish thing to attempt. The situation doesn't change much when applied to someone wielding a knife. If the person charges with the intent of stabbing you, would you want to hit him with your taser and take your chances of it stopping his advance? Of course, I'm not using this video as an example of that because this guy was not even approaching the police when he was shot. Anyway, that particular "shouldn't use lethal force because they have non-lethal options" argument just doesn't hold up. There's a time for non-lethal and a time for lethal, and the mere availability of non-lethal does not necessitate its use.

In college, I had a course taught by a police chief. One night when he was still a patrolman, he encountered a guy outside of a bar with a large knife, swearing and threatening people. Tasers weren't available yet and the patrolman tried to reason with the guy to no avail. Obviously, he had no desire to kill this guy so when the man started approaching him the patrolman tried a defensive maneuver to disarm him. Unfortunately, it didn't work and the guy buried the blade up to its hilt in his gut. Another cop with him tackled the suspect. As for the chief, he had to have emergency surgery but pulled through, albeit with a nasty scar.

Long story short, he should have shot him and was well within his rights to.

[Chad32]

I was talking about a knife. Not a gun. If you see a guy running at you with a knife from an appropriate distance, doesn't it make more sense to grab the taser instead of the gun? Perhaps if he had a gun, and was some distance away, it would be different. A guy with a knife that's 10+ feet away should be no real danger to two police officers with tasers.

Let's say the guy had padded clothing, and the taser didn't work. The cop could still back off while letting his partner come from behind. A knife should not be all that dangerous to two guys who are well built and combat trained.

You shouldn't try to tussle with a guy holding a knife from the front. Distract him and let your budy come in from the back, or use a chair as a shield. He shouldn't have shot the drunk, and he shouldn't have approached too closely from the front either without something in hand.

[Manowar]

The angle of the video changes so we don't get to see the details, We know the kid was hit 16 times but with the angle changed that cop might get away with this even though he shot 16 times. Lawyer might argue "it's what you don't see in the video that caused his client to be afraid for his life".

Manowar

[Minimalist]

The pig-loving assholes are already coming out of the woodwork.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/cnn-anal...pt-moving/

CNN analyst: Chicago cop not ‘in the wrong’ to shoot 16 times because Laquan kept ‘moving’

Yeah - every time a bullet hit him he moved a little.  Scumbag.

[Minimalist]

Idiot judge.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/sc-felon...aving-gun/

A convicted South Carolina felon was granted immunity in the shooting death of his brother-in-law by a local judge by citing the “stand your ground” law despite the fact that he was was prohibited from having a gun due to his criminal history, reports News 5 Alive.

[Minimalist]

Idiot cop.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/massachu...-his-home/

Massachusetts cop who faked shoot-out launching massive manhunt found dead in his home

[Wyrd of Gawd]

The pig-loving assholes are already coming out of the woodwork.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/cnn-anal...pt-moving/

CNN analyst: Chicago cop not ‘in the wrong’ to shoot 16 times because Laquan kept ‘moving’

Yeah - every time a bullet hit him he moved a little.  Scumbag.

That cop was a real bastard.  He had over a dozen previous complaints against him.  The slave patrol kept covering for his criminal acts.  He looks like his IQ is 30.  

All cops should have to undergo annual psych exams.  It might get rid of some of the thugs and save the taxpayers $hundreds of millions in payouts for their thuggery.

[Minimalist]

Cops who can't keep their fucking mouths shut.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/fck-the-...aced-rant/

‘F*CK THE KORAN. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT’: NJ cop under investigation for profanity-laced rant

and

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2015/0...st_co.html

Newark investigating cop's role in Facebook post comparing mayor to gorilla

[Chad32]

They'll cover for you if you kill someone in the street, but don't be rude. that's over the line.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

This white guy barges into a Planned Parenthood clinic and shoots up the place. He even shoots a bunch of cops, but doesn't kill any of them. None of the cops "feared for their lives" enough to fill the guy with lead.