TGIRecovered
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This man was not armed. He was also not doing anything wrong. He was looking for cigarettes in his own property. How police shooting him is them doing their job properly is beyond my understanding.
Yeah, and that's why he got shot, right? Stupid cops with nothing better go do than cruise the neighborhood looking for
a guy doing nothing wrong so they could shoot him. Oh, and they must have some inside info that he had no gun.
No, they were responding to the report of a crime and found the guy we're thee caller said he was. Normal people get out and stand still when the cops tell them to. Being that so many hostile people would take the first opportunity to assault the cop or a bystander or grab a knife or run, they have to handcuff a person then talk to them. That's the only way to straighten out the situation- talk reasonably, identify yourself correctly, tell the cop where the ID is. If its in the house, fine, wait right here and someone can get it for you.
This cop couldn't do that because the fool chose to act like a criminal, refuses to cooperate, and lunged at the cop. Since he did not allow himself to be questioned or searched, cops have to assume that he could have a knife or a gun or the ability to grab a cop by the head and pound him or her to the ground while the neighborhood egged him on. After all, cops are the ones looking for trouble, right?
If there is no understanding of the facts or consideration of personal responsibility for the behavior which led to this man getting himself shot, cops will continue to get a bad rap for doing a good job.
Cops don't shoot to be mean, they shoot to go home in one piece and hopefully alive. They don't tell you to stand a certain way just for fun, they do it because they can't be sure you are not armed or wanting to fight unless they search you, see that you are not in a rage or hopped up on drugs and that you are ready to talk calmly not throw a fit and do something stupid. People who don't make themselves a threat don't get shot. Easy peasy !
MOO