RE: You defended the lady cop who shot the guy in his own
Posted on: October 29, 2018 at 15:50:20 CT
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#1...in any of those situations, I wasn't there.
#2...I agree with any findings of the criminal justice system AFTER a complete investigation. The Baltimore situation is a prime example of a prosecutor overstepping bounds and charging officers without enough evidence to obtain a conviction.
#3...From the early video of the officer with the Taser, I just had to ask if the officer got Tased in the initial struggle. His actions did not seem normal and he walked to the body expecting to see his Taser and when he didn't, walked back to where the struggle was. He should have left it there, but I really think he was in shock at that point and picked it up. That is where it really went south because he then dropped it with the body.
#4 Phillando Castille was a stoned idiot. His gf was just as baked. If he'd just cooperated and kept his hands in view an overly nervous officer wouldn't have shot him. Yeah it was a bad shoot but Castille didn't help himself.
#5. The Sacremento shoot was a good shoot. Period. Don't be creeping in a neighborhood in the dark, run when confronted, and then point your hands at the officers when you get cornered. I have taken extremely small and concealable weapons off of people (without shooting them) and it is damned near impossible to determine what someone has in their hands when they are in a shooting stance in the dark.
I NEARLY drew down on a kid who ran from me at Brewer field house on afternoon. I recognized him from when I was riding with a CPD friend one night and he got popped for stealing a car stereo from a city parking lot near 6th and Locust.
At Brewer, which had experienced a lot of property thefts from gym bags and gym lockers, I saw him and knew he wasn't a student. He saw me and ran out the door towards Math/Sci.
When I followed I hit the door running and he was nowhere to be found. I had this sinking feeling and turned around and he was in a shooter's stance and I froze. He said "bang!" and laughed.
He will never know how close he came to getting shot. And the restraint I had to keep from beating the ever-loving crap out of him because that entire scenario could have had a bad ending.
He did go to jail that day. And again when I saw him playing a pickup game in Brewer many months later. Only that time he resisted. Dumb ass.
Edited by Tigrrrr! at 15:54:25 on 10/29/18