Neighbor and family disputes are among the most unpredicatble and potentially violent calls a PO can respond to. Whether or not they escalate upon arrival of a PO when they might not have otherwise is a question that can't really be answered.
One of our local deputies died that way within a couple of minutes of arrival when he thought he could talk the guy down alone (without waiting for backup) because he knew the guy.
the defense is now setting up the story that the policeman thought the truck was stolen and yelled for them to stop and shot when he thought the victim “reached for
something” and that the truck lurched back.
I feel bad for the kid as he was trying to fix his truck at 3am so he could drive it to his construction job at 6am!
The Cops Killed With Impunity. Then Came a ‘Perfect Victim.’
The police killing of Hunter Brittain brought Al Sharpton to rural Arkansas. It also has people of color asking why a white teen had to die for people to ask questions.www.thedailybeast.com
Yup, it's pretty tough to get away with straight-up murdering white people.Charged:
Ex-Sheriff's Deputy Charged in Shooting of Hunter Brittain
The teenager was shot to death by former sergeant Michael Davis, who said the teen reached into the back of his vehicle and didn't comply with commands.www.newsweek.com
I mean why don't we just pass a law that says in a shooting the officer has to be right that there was danger or he goes to jail. Not think he was right but actually be right.
Aren’t sheriffs trained worse than police?
I've always been a fan of the idea that everyone gets one shoot. You can still be charged if you're wrong and it's manslaughter or whatever, but even if you're right, one and done. Probably don't need to continue being a cop after killing someone anyhow.I mean why don't we just pass a law that says in a shooting the officer has to be right that there was danger or he goes to jail. Not think he was right but actually be right.
Where I grew up, all they did was run the jail.Aren’t sheriffs trained worse than police?
I won't use absolutes since there are always exceptions, but in general .....Aren’t sheriffs trained worse than police?
Unusual for CNN to cover a white person being shot by police, but evidently Ben Crump and Al Sharpton have taken up the case. They hope championing the case of a white kid shot will increase willingness of people to support police reform.
The incident is strange.
Why Al Sharpton and Ben Crump are taking up the case of a White teen killed by police | CNN
The Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Crump are taking up their first case involving a White person who was killed after being shot during an encounter with a police officer.www.cnn.com
According to the one witness, he and his friend had been trying to fix the transmission on the victim's car, and had just left the repair shop when they got pulled over by an Arkansas sheriff's deputy. The victim-driver gets out of the car carrying a jug of anti-freeze. Evidently the car would still not shift into park, and he didn't want the car to roll backwards and hit the cop car. So he meant to place the anti-freeze container behind the rear wheel to stop the car from rolling. According to the friend who was still sitting in the passenger seat, he all the sudden heard shots fired without hearing any prior conversation. The cop had shot and killed him.
Cop was fired days later for failing to turn on his body camera until after he shot the teen. Police are still investigating. We don't know the officer's side of the story.
Something is obviously strange in this one. I feel like there must be more to the story.
CNN always covers shootings you colossal bigot and monument of superhuman ignorance.
I used to think this was insane 35 yrs ago, when I first heard that bobbies don't carry firearms. Now, I'm thinking it might work. What we have is obviously not working.I’d rather disarm the police. If you don’t have a gun you will be more likely to not put yourself in harms way, get back up when needed, and/or deescalate the situation.
I was in South Korea for work a few years ago, in Busan which is more of an industrial city than tourist city. I asked a coworker in our local office if there was any part of city I should avoid for safety. He gave me an odd look and said "No. Everywhere here is safe. And our police don't carry guns, so you don't have to worry about them shooting you like in the US either."I used to think this was insane 35 yrs ago, when I first heard that bobbies don't carry firearms. Now, I'm thinking it might work. What we have is obviously not working.
Of course our gun culture will preclude this from happening.
I used to think this was insane 35 yrs ago, when I first heard that bobbies don't carry firearms. Now, I'm thinking it might work. What we have is obviously not working.
Of course our gun culture will preclude this from happening.
Interesting.
Not knowing all the info the Jury was presented, I'll assume it was a good call on their part.
Still a tragedy that this country is so heavily armed, that police feel the need to shoot first and ask questions later. But when they can be killed in the blink on an eye, paranoia must abound. Every human becomes a nail, and their trigger finger a hammer. This case, like all the others, is part of our Great American Tragedy. A pox, on all our houses.