You're probably right, but that is beside the point. He shouldn't have shot that guy. He was on the ground, with a knee in his torso, two officers on him, not swinging, not reaching for anything, just not being still enough for the officer's liking apparently. Okay, fine, his fault. Taze him and cuff him, rough him up a little if you must, do what you have to do to do your job.
But you heard the officer shout swear to God man, if you don't blah blah blah.... right before shooting.
I am a man and you are a man. Go listen to that clip and how that officer said that, then watch how he follows up, burying the pistol into the guy's vital organs and making the conscious decision to end his life seconds later.
If you hear the way he said swear to God, you know, as a man, that there is one and only one context in which a guy says that with that particular tone. It's a testosterone filled man-ego thing. You're trying to control somebody (whether justified or not), they're not complying, and you feel like you have to teach him a lesson about crossing you and put him in his place, because he's not submitting enough and you're trying to assert dominance.
That cop does not think this guy is going to be able to overcome the two cops with guns out who are on top of his body. That cop has control of the situation.. that's not the issue. He wants to see the other dog with his tail between the legs. He doesn't get it, and then he commits murder over it.
If that black guy was fighting two non-cops, and one non-cop was on top with his knee in the guy and point-blanked him in the heart, would that guy get off on self-defense charges based on that video? Hell no.
So we know it's not self-defense. And if you admit it's not self-defense, then the only difference is that it was a cop, and the guy wasn't being perfectly compliant.
So now you're basically saying that the right and just American punishment for not following a cop's order to the T is immediate death. Because again, no court would ever rule those shots in the video as self-defense. Cop gives you an order, you do a crappy job following the order, you are executed on the spot. That's disgusting. That's not what America stands for.
You saw the same ego thing at the McKinney pool incident when the officer literally came in doing GD barrel rolls like James Bond and ended up slamming a 110 lb girl in a bikini onto the ground repeatedly. They were totally justified in breaking up the pool party considering those kids didn't have passes to that pool. The officers were right in rounding up the kids, despite what the liberals say.
But tell me, in what context do you feel the need to use your grown man size to slam a visibly unarmed 110 lb girl into the ground for your own safety? Uh, none. That's called being a control freak and policing with your ego.
I was just watching COPS 2 days ago (great show, lots of great cops on there), and they asked the LEOs what got them into the line of work. You got a lot of standard answers, lot of women talking about helping the community, older guys talking about trying to keep the peace, and then you'd occasionally get answers like one of the young guys who just said something like "I love the feeling of an encounter - when someone turns to challenge me, I get that thrill - who doesn't like being in a fight at a bar?"
Well, okay, that's an understandable sentiment, and it's good to have bravery in threatening situations. But talking like you love excuses to throw down completely undermines this idea that all cops are these calm, logical purveyors of justice who could never conceive of abusing their power. Even if you feel that way (which I do at times), saying it on TV shows that you lack a certain level of maturity which could easily translate into a big ego crisis at the wrong time in the heat of the moment. Being in the mood to pick fights over your man ego is a conflict of interest when you're wearing the badge.
So I will spare you the bull that cops are going around killing people for being black (they're not) if you spare me the bull of denying that there's a small percentage of cops who get in these situations for selfish, egotistical reasons.
Many BLM people are just mindless... they know their opinion before the facts come out "ooga booga cop bad, black guy innocent", doesn't matter what actually occurred. In their minds, it can't possibly be justified that a white cop would ever shoot a black person.
But people like you are doing the exact same thing. You know your opinion before the facts come out, and it's not apt to change even if it turns out that the victim was merely being annoying and the cop was acting like an obvious johnson-waving broey numbskull. Let me amend that. Murderer if he was in any other profession.
I completely agree that officers are not hunting down black people at random. The stats show that their killings are proportional along lines of racial crime.
And officers in general are not hunting down anyone, for that matter. Most officers are decent people, just doing their jobs.
But there is a certain subset of them who join the force because they like the feeling of power or once they gain the badge, it starts to get to their head and make them want to seek out confrontation.
So if I see an officer "bro out" and see his young man/testosterone side kick in and he kills my family member without excellent justification, then I will beat the life juice out of him just the same way that I will end a random stranger who tries to murder a loved one. I'll deal with the legal consequences.
This GD insanity of "never question the police even up to what would be considered murder in any other context" needs to go.
It's a mindless position held by some conservatives, and the irony is that it is the least conservative attitude one can have.
What the hell happened to not trusting too much power in the hands of the government? The way some conservatives talk, a cop should be able to thrust himself deep into your wife and laugh as you watch, and you'd better just sit there and know your place because, dammit, he's a law enforcement officer and respect the badge and blah blah blah.
Stop it. I don't trust anybody with that degree of power because all humans are flawed. Law enforcement officers are incredibly important, but they are also mortal and make mistakes, and while there are many brilliant LEOs, there are also numbskulls who joined for the wrong reasons. Guys who you'd never want dating your daughter.
Don't be a lemming. Don't trust anybody else with 100% power over you, worst of all an extension of the government. Always fight to make sure there are checks and balances, because people are flawed. Period.
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