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Ask people who are convicted of murder in the first degree, and those convicted of manslaughter. Is that a serious question?
Lmao, I chucked it up to bad training. I didn't say whether it was intentional or unintentional. It's clearly bad police work though.
See, that's the problem. it isn't "clearly" bad police work because we clearly don't have all the information and we're missing the most important part of the information which is the actual shooting. What we're doing now is speculating and we need to be careful in that speculation about which parts of this are really "clear".
Lmao, I chucked it up to bad training. I didn't say whether it was intentional or unintentional. It's clearly bad police work though.
And after we need civilian oversight. And body cameras.
Looks more and more like accident.
Why?
I'm not asking that from the perspective that we don't need those things but I really want to know how those tools would be used.
My take on cameras is that they can be an excellent forensic tool for a lot of these situations but my concern is that the public is going to demand the footage not for forensic purposes but to sate their own voyeuristic desires. The camera can only tell part of the story and people need to understand that.
If you shoot somebody laying on the ground with their hands up, it's clearly bad police work. Keep trying to pull this timid defense Luther, it's funny.
You're trying too hard to defend the cop based on less evidence than Josie has to claim it was an accident. That whole M16 thing? You've made it up not knowing what guns were used.
You're trying too hard to defend the cop based on less evidence than Josie has to claim it was an accident. That whole M16 thing? You've made it up not knowing what guns were used.
If you shoot somebody laying on the ground with their hands up, it's clearly bad police work. Keep trying to pull this timid defense Luther, it's funny.
I draw no conclusions, just offer what MAY have happened.
If that's what happened it's bad police work.
Lmao, what may have happened based on your belief that a specific gun was used even though you have no evidence it was. I've seen desperation, but that's a lot of pirouettes.
Lots of PDs have surplus M-16s (fully automatic).
Wow. In an interview on his hospital bed, the therapist said he asked the cop "why did you shoot me?" to which the officer just shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Like I said earlier, my guess is that the cop just plain lost it. I bet he didn't even consciously pull the trigger.
If the dude was shot in the leg with an M-16, I think he would have felt more than a mosquito bite. And as standard, they aren't walking around with automatic weapons. What cop, as part of his regular beat equipment, is strapping a fully automatic M-16 to their body? None.
It means the cop didn't know why he shot.Which means..........nothing.
The AR15 uses the same round as the M16.
He may have been hit with bullet fragments off the pavement.
Since the recent attacks on police, more automatic weapons have been issued to cops who don't normally have them.
It means the cop didn't know why he shot.
I have zero problem believing a police officer mishandled this situation. I have a cousin with Down Syndrom who was beaten by cops because they felt they knew better than the special ed coach how to deal with his emotional outburst at a sporting event. By the time the cops showed up the coach, with training in the matter, had everything under control. But the cops specialize in escalation and they ignored the coach's advice and instead marched right up to my cousin and grabbed him and started yelling questions at him. With untrained thugs like that my cousin is lucky he only ended up in the hospital.
The evidence is that three shots were fired and a man was hit in the leg. Not likely with anything but an automatic weapon.
And if this were somehow a fully automatic (doubt it), we see why they shouldn't be issued fully automatic weapons.
But I highly doubt some cop on his regular patrol is carrying around fully automatic weapons.
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