Cop in America doing a bad job, again

If true then this is a gross misuse of power by the Sheriff. If what the reporter claimed in her story is true he needs to be in jail.

 
Yeah but think of how many traffic stops there must have been. The ratio isn't bad at all. :wenger:

The National Fraternal Order of Police announced earlier in April that shootings of police officers had spiked 43% so far in 2022. The police union said 101 police officers had been shot in 2022 alone as of April 1.

Better ratio than that one at least.
 
disgusting and scary stat, but not surprising. It seems our countries level of civility and empathy is crumbling across all sectors. Hope You stay safe!

Its certainly not limited to interactions with law enforcement, generally everything seems to be trending downwards across the country unfortunately. Appreciate that though! Hopefully the pendulum swings back up again at some point soon.
 
Another straight up execution…



Having been a police officer myself I wonder what kind of training these officers get, if any? I am not defending them but it's mind-blowing to me that they advanced like they did.

If they suspect him of being armed why do they move towards him in the open, leaving themselves completely exposed? They shouldn't even put themselves in a position where they feel so threatened that they have to shoot.
 
Having been a police officer myself I wonder what kind of training these officers get, if any? I am not defending them but it's mind-blowing to me that they advanced like they did.

If they suspect him of being armed why do they move towards him in the open, leaving themselves completely exposed? They shouldn't even put themselves in a position where they feel so threatened that they have to shoot.
They want to kill. That's why.
 
Another straight up execution…



Nice to hear clear instructions from the get go...from the victims point of view obviously in a bit of a panic when faced with officers with guns and their usual demand of "let me.see your hands" he tried putting his hands up (I'm actually assuming the officers asked to see his hands too) - but as soon as he raised his hands they shot him? Then the same hing 30 seconds later? You can't ask to see someone's hands (asking in a very muffled way too) and then shoot them as soon as they raise their hands.

Wouldn’t a taser worked in this situation?



Another case of someone with the gun using force first instead of their brains - there are probably loads of different ways to have resolved this situation without killing the old woman.

Firstly they were warned by her family be careful with her) - why couldn't the officer ask her family to tell her to let go of the knives? Maybe the old lady couldn't speak english, or that faced with a gun a human looses all sense of calm and is rendered incapable of following simple instructions.

The training these "officers" go through must be absolutely shite, to go into situations with guns held high, no clear instructions etc will obviously create a very tense. and difficult situation, it's literally their job to contain and control those situations.

In most of these videos you see the officers panicking and absolutely shiting themselves in these instances, which means there's only a few ways these situations can go, sadly when it's dark and they throwing out different commands to their suspects/victims they're going to take any confusion as hostility and because they're so amped up and panicked, they shoot.

I was pulled over by police a few years ago (UK) just bought a car and it flagged up with no insurance, it was midnight in November (picked my girlfriend up from work - waitress, not a stripper) and there were 2 police cars and 2 riot vans and I'm a calm individual and never raise my voice (I'm a big dude, and get told I'm intimidating as it is) - anyway, I asked if I could start my car to keep my girlfriend warm, not ten seconds pass where another officer comes flying up to my window banging on my car shouting at me to turn my car off - the first officer literally didn't say a word, can't imagine what would have happened if they were armed.
 
Fecking hell, another senseless preventable death. I can't imagine what needs to happen for this to stop happening, it's crazy.
Put an end to the insane gun laws in the US and then you can have a police force more relaxed. The only other alternative is to spend 100 times as much on training to have every police officer trained to special ops level.
 

We don't know what she was doing before the video started. If she tried to by force stop some sort of arrest then that is normal.

I hate this no real context videos just to paint the Police like they are Hitler.

I've had an acquaintance at best some time ago, that was a very smart 'fish' in Germany until the German Police came and f'ed up both him and his wife. Came crying to me about racism and unfairness. If you break the law then get bent.
 


I'm not the best with written words so forgive me if this sounds crass or comes across bad in any way.

One thing I've noticed and have been sort of made aware of is the very "handsy" approach of officers, mainly in USA but starting to see it in UK, when it comes to black women and girls.

Again forgive me for the language but what I mean is there is a noticeable "sexual" approach to restraining and dealing with these women/girls from the male police officers. Some of it is subtle, as in hands but some of it is very much the whole body rubbing against the female being arrested or being spoken to.

It was raised by the arrest of a young girl a while back. She seemed to be lost and initially it was the officer asking her if she was lost and if he could help. Lead to him basically "mauling" her under the pretext of restraining and "helping". I can't find the video but it was filmed. Since then it seems to be apparent in many other arrests. It was even raised in some quarters with the young girl strip searched in that school recently. Not saying it was true just that it was raised.
 
We don't know what she was doing before the video started. If she tried to by force stop some sort of arrest then that is normal.

I hate this no real context videos just to paint the Police like they are Hitler.

I've had an acquaintance at best some time ago, that was a very smart 'fish' in Germany until the German Police came and f'ed up both him and his wife. Came crying to me about racism and unfairness. If you break the law then get bent.
:lol:
 
Lots of bad videos in the thread (yeah, I know bad is literally in the title), so let’s have some good news: