Larry Gude
Strung Out
You make it sound like it's more your desire.
Damn right it is. If she can't be damn sure of what she's doing under pressure then she's a danger to herself, her partner and, obviously, this moron she just killed.
You make it sound like it's more your desire.
IMHO I think it will have the same result as the dog and pony show of Baltimore.
What does that have to do with this statement you made;
You said that right? You do realize there was a pretty large male on the scene of the Tulsa shooting who was issuing the same orders right?
I think all cops should quit.
This crap makes me so angry.
Why? We know the Grey thing was way over the top and total horse####. We know there was no video like this. Totally different.
No, the video to me proves the opposite of what you see. The video to me proves this guy reached out to either get into the car or to get something from the car. I believe we have to go with what the officer knew at the time. At the time, the officer knew this guy had been driving this vehicle on a roadway and could have caused serious harm or death to another if he were to get in and drive away. I don't think 12 jurors are going to see it your way.
Why do all you tin foil hat wearing apologists insist on skipping over STEP 1 and just whining about the results?
Step 1 was the officers issuing rightful orders to the suspect to submit. PERIOD! They were lawful orders that this idiot failed to follow whether he was high, stupid, or just plain neglectful! Whether he was black, white, yellow, purple... doesn't matter. Whether the officer was man, woman, black, white... doesn't matter!
According to Larry's thinking.... We should just have the police forgo issuing orders to civilians and move right in for the takedown and apprehension phase. Why bother offering them an opportunity to surrender to authority and explain the circumstances?
I personally don't care if it was right or wrong to shoot this guy. Bottom line was that he was offered a peaceful solution and decided (high or not) to ignore it. He can work that out with his creator now!
TIRED of all this touchy feely BS.... DAMN!!!
I'm not asking for cops to get shot first. She shot too soon. A second? 2? Don't know. As is, no weapon was found so, he was never a threat to them and wasn't going to be as far what she thought he was doing. She ####ed up, at least she did if was want a society where people don't get killed for what this guy did.
You don't care if it was right or wrong to shoot the guy? You're a ####ing idiot. You goddamn well better learn to care whether it is right or wrong for our officers, acting in our name, rightly or wrongly killed a person.
How soon is "too soon"? At what point did she know he didn't have a weapon? Do you honestly expect cops to be psychics?
This guy is a long time criminal dirtbag. His death is no great loss, as far as I'm concerned. Being neither here nor there, you're expecting this police officer to give him the benefit of the doubt, even though there was no reason to do so. Why do you feel criminal lives are more important than cops' lives?
That's a real question, btw.
As I said before, she should have waited a bit longer. Maybe a second?
When did you start hating cops so much? When did you start thinking it was okay for them to be shot and killed, but they better not harm a hair on the head of some ####bag with a rap sheet a mile long who is threatening them?
That's a real question. Something happened to make you hate cops. Why not just come clean? Because currently you sound insane. Perhaps if you tell your side of the story, I can understand more where you're coming from.
I don't like bad cops.
So Officer Shelby, by taking precautions to protect her own life, is a bad cop?
The guy had any number of chances to not get shot. He chose to threaten a cop, and now he's dead.
How does that make Shelby a bad cop?
Larry, who do you consider the "good" cops? The dead ones?
The vast majority who do the job every day without ####ing up.
You already said you don't care the guy is dead. Nothing anyone says is going to matter from there. Maybe she just should have shot him a second sooner? A minute? The instant he disobeyed?
That is not the standard. The standard is would a reasonable person believe his actions put another person in fear of their life or the life of others? So looking at the totality of this event, knowing this guy was driving that SUV while likely high on a mind altering drug and driving on a major highway against traffic, I think it will be pretty difficult to convince 12 people that his actions were reasonable and that based on her training her actions were unreasonable.