I didn't know we were only talking about very recent examples as "a steady stream" seems to indicate more. Regardless, let's talk about the ones you highlited. I'm not sure why you said that these people were unarmed when half of them were and one was believed to be armed possibly. I don't have an issue with people questioning the police and their actions, I think that shows a healthy society at work. But jumping to conclusions and making blanket statements is not helpful.
Unfortunately, there will always be police shootings as long as there are guns and people willing to use them for nefarious purposes. You can't seriously be comparing the US to the UK, Australia, Europe or even Canada when it comes to policing? It's an entirely different world down there, waaaay too many guns and way too many rights for gun owners.
Being armed in the U.S. is legal, that isn't an excuse for the cops to shoot anyone.
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1000000000 x This... Could not possibly agree more...
i used to listen to him on coasttocoastam for some laughs... but now believe people like him are incredibly dangerous and are leading the weak minded down the garden path...
conspiracy nuts like him just feed the paranoia of some folks down in the states...
Being armed in the U.S. is legal, that isn't an excuse for the cops to shoot anyone.
It is if you give them reason to. Dealing with armed individuals also raises an officer's risk assessment. If pet Tigers were legal I'm sure you wouldn't be running up to pet one on the street.
That's six people just in the past month that have been unarmed, subdued, or straight up running from police.
Well you said the above paragraph. Not trying to be picky but it seems to me you said they were unarmed.
We don't need to get into a punctuation lesson here, but "unarmed, subdued, or running" means "unarmed OR subdued OR running" not "unarmed plus subdued or running."
You'll notice each of the armed men were subdued (physically or in manner) or running. The list of six is made up of people who fit one of three categories.
We don't need to get into a punctuation lesson here, but "unarmed, subdued, or running" means "unarmed OR subdued OR running" not "unarmed plus subdued or running."
You'll notice each of the armed men were subdued (physically or in manner) or running. The list of six is made up of people who fit one of three categories.
Sterling most certainly was not subdued, which appears to have played a large part in him being shot.
Being armed in the U.S. is legal, that isn't an excuse for the cops to shoot anyone.
No, but police in the U.S. have a far, far more dangerous job that police in Canada, the UK, or Australia. As I posted in the other thread, around 150 police a year are killed on duty in the U.S., about 50 of them shot dead. The number of police in the UK who die on duty from all causes is 3-4 a year.
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Being armed in the U.S. is legal, that isn't an excuse for the cops to shoot anyone.
Not an excuse but cops in most of the US are freaked out going to work these days, before one only had to worry about the "bad" areas but now danger is everywhere and they are even targeted.
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Seems like a rather interesting fellow actually. Quite diverse in his experiences anyhow.
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Clearly he was a bit unhinged but it was rather hard to see this level of violence coming from this guy.
Ok, first off, many of those shootings were justified and the officers cleared of wrong doing. Have there been murders? You're damn right there has and the best example I can think of is that POS who shot that guy running away from him then tried to plant a taser on his body. I don't think inflammatory rhetoric like "steady stream of murders of Americans by police" are helpful at all. All they do is sow more discontent and further polarize people.
The problem is that some were not justified (or at least appeared to be unjustified based on video evidence and witnesses) and the officers were still cleared of wrongdoing. That's the part that's making these nut jobs feel like the whole system is against them and that they're doing the right thing to take matters into their own hands.
Don lemon handled that sheriff pretty well. I understand that he is fed up but he conducted himself very poorly in that interview. Good for Lemon to hang in there and try to salvage the interview.
