Cops are great

[Hollyw00d]

I swear its like cops think their life is an Oliver stone movie

[Hollyw00d]

[Adam]

Maybe but if you're white...

[Glen]

Maybe but if you're white...

 

White privilege, baby.  I love it.  Sucks for everybody else but it's good to be me.

[gotbeer]

No charges for LAPD officers who shot newspaper delivery women during Dorner manhunt

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

I'm fine with that.  These little Mexican ladies got like $4,000,000.  I wish the crazy cops had shot at me.

 

You're probably a bigger target than the little newspaper delivery women.  If it had been you one of the 100+ shots may have found it's mark and your family would be spending the money.  

[OCAngelsNotLAA]

I am a fan of police.  I have friends and family in the service and understand the difficulties of their job but there also needs to accountability.  If you fire a lethal weapon at an innocent person you need to lose your job if not face jail time, and lose your right to have a gun.  I feel like we keep making excuses for the officers to excuse their actions when we are talking about attempted murder!  If any of us emptied our guns on a paper delivery truck with 2 women in it we would go to jail for a long time. There are a lot of cadets out there looking for a city to offer them a job.  If we could start holding police accountable for their actions and showing them that they can be replaced easily then we would have a lot of cops think twice about using deadly force  in situations that clearly don't require it.  Taking a life shouldn't be easy.  Lets follow the rules we learned in Top Gun "Do not fire until fired upon".

[Hollyw00d]

Sounds nice but that will never happen. The beast is too big

[the dude abides]

No charges for LAPD officers who shot newspaper delivery women during Dorner manhunt

 

Of course they won't be charged.

 

Typical.

[gotbeer]

Teenager stabbed twice in Huntington Beach by 3 suspects, including cop from Illinois

[LBHalos17]

I am a fan of police.  I have friends and family in the service and understand the difficulties of their job but there also needs to accountability.  If you fire a lethal weapon at an innocent person you need to lose your job if not face jail time, and lose your right to have a gun.  I feel like we keep making excuses for the officers to excuse their actions when we are talking about attempted murder!  If any of us emptied our guns on a paper delivery truck with 2 women in it we would go to jail for a long time. There are a lot of cadets out there looking for a city to offer them a job.  If we could start holding police accountable for their actions and showing them that they can be replaced easily then we would have a lot of cops think twice about using deadly force  in situations that clearly don't require it.  Taking a life shouldn't be easy.  Lets follow the rules we learned in Top Gun "Do not fire until fired upon".

I agree with everything you said here, except the last sentence.  Mention it to your friends and family in LE, and they will give you a multitude of reasonable, legal reasons why we are not held to this standard.

 

I'll give you one great example of a real incident...  A suspect led Police on a pursuit after carjacking a vehicle at gunpoint.  During the pursuit, he fired at pursuing units.  At the termination point (When he was finally driving on metal), the suspect got out of the car, with guns in hand and waistband, and tried to run into a fast food restaurant.  He was shot by several Officers, and was hit in his back a few times.  This shooting falls-under the duty to act as an Officer, to protect the public from and imminent threat and a substantial risk.

[LBHalos17]

Of course they won't be charged.

 

Typical.

The DA wouldn't bring charges based on the totality of this specific situation.

But, I do agree that they should no longer be working as Officers.

[mtangelsfan]

The DA wouldn't bring charges based on the totality of this specific situation.

But, I do agree that they should no longer be working as Officers.

 

They should have faced reckless endangerment charges.  Would not have mattered if they were actually the suspect, to fire hundreds of rounds in a public place while nobody is firing back is criminal.  Police or no police.

[HeavenlyHalos]

I agree with everything you said here, except the last sentence.  Mention it to your friends and family in LE, and they will give you a multitude of reasonable, legal reasons why we are not held to this standard.

 

I'll give you one great example of a real incident...  A suspect led Police on a pursuit after carjacking a vehicle at gunpoint.  During the pursuit, he fired at pursuing units.  At the termination point (When he was finally driving on metal), the suspect got out of the car, with guns in hand and waistband, and tried to run into a fast food restaurant.  He was shot by several Officers, and was hit in his back a few times.  This shooting falls-under the duty to act as an Officer, to protect the public from and imminent threat and a substantial risk.

 

Huh? In your example he had already fired upon the pursuing units. The post you are responding to said if the cops are fired upon its justified.

[Adam]

http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/14/dc-police-raided-hundreds-of-homes

[gotbeer]

White officer gets probation in black driver's shooting

[gotbeer]

Woman arrested for staying silent during traffic stop sues

 

[Blarg]

What a story twist, a woman stays silent.

[Jason]

4 hours ago, Blarg said:

What a story twist, a woman stays silent.

Even their silence is done just to irritate us men

[gotbeer]

Officer accuses Houston girl who used $2 bill in school lunch line of forgery

 

Can't make things like this up.

[Amazing Larry]

Wow

[nate]

http://i.imgur.com/KcHkCcN.webm

[gotbeer]

LOL.  But in the officers defense.  When someone is getting arrested.  Probably not the best thing to rush in there. 

[halobob]

Yeah, I have no problem with that take down.

[AngelsLongBall]

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