The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

[garbon]

Appropriate for what? Telling people that if you run from the cops and you use your family as human shields, they may get hurt?

People in England need to be told this by using examples from Oklahoma?

When he gets like that, it is best to leave him to his own devices.

[grumbler]

Appropriate for what? Telling people that if you run from the cops and you use your family as human shields, they may get hurt?

People in England need to be told this by using examples from Oklahoma?

When he gets like that, it is best to leave him to his own devices.

Yep.  If we ignore him, he'll soon turn Blackmon into a terrorist.

I'm with Valmy.  The more publicity these incidents get, the more shame people will feel for having police departments like this, and the sooner they get rid of some of those cops and all of that mentality.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The Guardian does have a US version and an Australian version as well as the British one, so lots of news from those places is on their website.

The behaviour of many US cops is quite terrifying from the British point of view. No doubt there are complex reasons for this but, just so you know, if you holiday in the UK then you can treat cops as fellow human beings rather than an as an armed occupying force.

[Valmy]

I know in France I was shocked at how the French treated their police. Regularly calling them names and screaming at them. Man you really have to have a desire for a bad day to try that shit here.

[garbon]

Man you really have to have a desire for a bad day to try that shit here.

Man you have to be willing to gamble with your life to try that in the US.

[grumbler]

The Guardian does have a US version and an Australian version as well as the British one, so lots of news from those places is on their website.

I wasn't aware of that.  Thanks for pointing it out.

[HVC]

Ok, so maybe America does have a problem with institutionalized police violence. Cop fired for not killing unarmed man.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/09/12/west-virginia-cop-fired-for-not-killing-a-man-with-an-unloaded-gun/?utm_term=.573f3cc858e4

*edit* well he was armed, but with a unloaded gun.

[CountDeMoney]

So he de-escalates the guy, knowing he wants Suicide-By-Cop, and two officers show up and shoot him dead anyway.  And he gets fired for "failure to neutralize a threat."
That's just super.

[Barrister]

Ok, so maybe America does have a problem with institutionalized police violence. Cop fired for not killing unarmed man.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/09/12/west-virginia-cop-fired-for-not-killing-a-man-with-an-unloaded-gun/?utm_term=.573f3cc858e4

*edit* well he was armed, but with a unloaded gun.

That's just messed up.

[viper37]

Jesus Christ.  They brought in four other cops and kicked in a door over a traffic violation.  What, did they think the this was some violent cell of the Black Panthers?

Never run from the cops. They will lose their damn minds.

yes, somehow, that happens to all of them.  Some power trip, I guess.  Police academies should maybe revise their teachings a bit on some aspects like there.

[CountDeMoney]

Never run from the cops. They will lose their damn minds.

yes, somehow, that happens to all of them.  Some power trip, I guess.  Police academies should maybe revise their teachings a bit on some aspects like there.

It's adrenaline.  And anger. 

[Zanza]

[11B4V]

Germans what pussies.

[CountDeMoney]

Those people never do anything in moderation.

[11B4V]