Cop in America doing a bad job, again

Skizzo said:
I mean yeah, sure. People could still stop recording and help someone and not call 911 too. Someone got knocked out? Better record them seizing up and post it for those views.

If someone doesn’t feel comfortable calling 911, then I can’t be there to help. But that doesn’t mean someone there couldn’t help instead of just recording something.

Again, this is all more generalized than specifically recording something on an enforcement stop.

edit: I get that my take was probably veering away from the original take in regards to recording police involved incidents. I guess I find it more of a general issue with society today. I’m all for people recording police activity etc.
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Yea no argument with all that at all.
 
Shoot the man dead, and then put cuffs on him, with assistance from a second police man...

Shoot him 9 times, just to be sure - with the final shot clearly intended to be a kill shot, even if the other 8 weren't.

How is this anything other than murder?

I can't see how the general public - particularly those who are not white - don't have massive distrust of the police in that country. Any psychopath with a badge can end your life on a whim.
 
Penna said:
The police officer has been sacked. The victim had evidently stolen a toolbox and was making his "escape". He had a knife, but couldn't walk.

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Cowardly Killers, are these people meant to Protect and Serve? Something has gone very wrong in America.
 
So, the worker was in danger from the knife wielding mobility scooter man?

That execution was undoubtedly a fantasy for the cop.
 
nimic said:
That's murder. What a sociopath, that last shot. Just to make really sure he killed that guy in a mobility scooter who he was shooting from behind.
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Just saw this story on BBC News... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59439798

That's possibly the worst one (police shootings) I've seen. What the feck do they do in 'gun use' training? Do they not teach them any shades of grey about situations?

His attorney said (in the BBC piece).. that the department's overview of the case is "only half the story" and that "many more important details were withheld" from the department's news conference.

"Officers always have alternative actions that can be second guessed," Mr Storie said. "However, just because there are multiple actions, doesn't mean the one he chose was inappropriate."

Really? You don't think shooting someone from point blank range NINE times (the eighth apparently for luck? given the pause... and having been shot eight times already) was inappropriate? I know he's a lawyer and meant to defend his client but that's ridiculous.

Away at the moment but saw an interview with a Republican politician this morning on BBC World. Apart from not taking CV vaccine (because he doesn't think "governments should be allowed to put foreign bodies into our bodies"), he also defended gun shootings because it's constitutional (and not because of any NRA funding he'd had) and AR15s because people need them to defend land and kill animals that might kill their livestock.. how does that translate to knobheads travelling miles to shoot people?

Every week, I think "that's unbelievable" then America tops it the next week. Seems no-one (of clout) has any desire to change it.
 
Penna said:
The police officer has been sacked. The victim had evidently stolen a toolbox and was making his "escape". He had a knife, but couldn't walk.

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Sociopaths.
 
Question for Americans, are you genuinely afraid of being stopped/pulled up by police while in the US? Or is it, as usual, bad press?

I know when I visit Pakistan there are two sets of people I hope to avoid: bandits and police. But at least with both I'm fairly safe in the knowledge I won't die or get maimed even with a gun pointed to my head because it's just about the money. Give them what they want, move on.

As a non white person how do you leave a similar scenario with your life in the US?
 
Whats he even thinking there? Yes the dude has a knife but he isn't a threat to anyone? He didn't even warn him to drop the knife before firing. Mental
 
There’s a bunch of replies saying the body cam somehow shows it was reasonable? Can’t seem to find the footage.
 
Penna said:
The police officer has been sacked. The victim had evidently stolen a toolbox and was making his "escape". He had a knife, but couldn't walk.

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What. The. feck?

That 9th shot... :eek:... "yeah, I'd shot him8 times, at close range, but I noticed him turning his mobility scooter in my direction and felt my life is in danger. Granted he may have just been slumping forward after I'd riddled him with 8 close range shots, but I felt...... DANGER!"

Jesus Christ, if that's not murder America hasn't just jumped the shark, they've double somersaulted that bitch in a flaming toutou.
 
Christ, has the officer tried to claim a reason for shooting. A mobility scooter heading away from you is hardly a threat. If they don't charge him with murder, I don't know what to think.
 
Dargonk said:
Christ, has the officer tried to claim a reason for shooting. A mobility scooter heading away from you is hardly a threat. If they don't charge him with murder, I don't know what to think.
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Using the excuse that the victim was carrying a knife seems ridiculous in the extreme.
 
Penna said:
Using the excuse that the victim was carrying a knife seems ridiculous in the extreme.
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More so when you can legally walk around with assaults rifles in the country. I would think you could easily clear an area away from someone in a buggy if you had to, or stop the buggy easily.
 
Sparky_Hughes said:
Thats a fecking execution, cold blooded murder. No two ways about it. fecking animals.
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Doing a disservice to animals here mate. Animals don’t kill in cold blood like this just for the fun of it. These lot are scum, nothing more. The scum that clogs up your drains and pipelines.
 
I find the cuffing of a slumped clearly dead/dying disabled man by two officers, one of whom is his executioner, to be the most twisted and surreal part of the footage; for the shooter to have the presence of mind to be superfluous with his actions as to make it look like a routine arrest and following of procedure really makes me wonder how much premeditation went into that murder.

There wasn’t a hint of shock or moments in which he collected himself; he just went from nonchalantly unloading eight bullets without warning, to pausing for a calculated ninth before going through the motions of a valid arrest, which it wouldn’t be hard to believe was almost wholly for the benefit of others and to give his actions validity upon review.

His entire body of work as a police officer needs to be investigated. It’s hard to believe someone who can act the way he did from start to finish in that footage is on his first rodeo where excessive force is concerned.
 
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