Quote Originally Posted by scalabrine:
Do what you are told?
You do know cops deal with mentally ill people.
You do know cops deal with severely depressed people (which by the teen's statement here about hating his life may very well be the case).
You do know cops deal with intoxicated individuals.
The first two are no one's fault.
The last is.
Neither of the three deserve to get shot for not perfectly following cops orders. Cops orders likely can't be followed perfectly anyway, especially in the time they give you to follow them, and given a natural fear/flight/fight response of our lim if system overriding our rational brain in highly stressful situations.
What do we all do now? Everyone in a car has to stick their hands out the window at every traffic stop? What if you have an itch! What if you are reaching for your license? What do we do?
We are not 100% lucid individuals. You are right now behind your PC but you do not know the backstory of these people.
The backstory likely involves trauma or crime. If it's crime, we already give the cops a pass for shooting. And after this kid gets pulled over, let's stop treating him like he's part of ISIS.
When you have a teen in a pick-up with several guns pointed at him, and he's not following orders perfectly, he's not lucid.
Charles Manson would have gotten treated better than this.
Many cops believe one thing: follow my orders or get shot. If that's policing today, then just use Cop-bots that can do the same without any judgement.
This kid is dying. If cops think that this kid is threat and the ONLY alternative was to unload two more shots in this kid as he's bleeding out, facing away from them, because his hands (which rest naturally on the waist) reach for his shirt, we are all in big trouble.
Thinking that kid made a rational decision to not follow orders while bleeding out is ludicrous.
And I don't even agree in the slightest with the first SEVERAL SHOTS. Again, where are the tasers? Where is the mace? Where are the rubber bullets? Nope! Lethal force only!
For you to expect perfect compliance is irrational and I can't stress this enough: it doesn't deserve death!
So, we are introducing factors such as the victim possibly being intoxicated, mentally ill, and depressed. We are also introducing the possibility of a person reacting irrationally to given directions during a stress inducing situation.
Essentially, we are introducing VARIABLES into the equation! And we are expecting a perfectly uniform outcome?
Now, think about how many interactions police officers have with the general public on a daily basis.....now factor in how many cops are sociopaths in the first place....add in the factors you outlined for the citizen in question......and do the math!
How can it be stated that the "police" at large are targeting "young, black, unarmed" men? And, after so "many" instances, why does the problem seem to be growing?
The answer: random outcome. A statistics exercise pure and simple.
Think of a random number generator spitting out results all day long....each result represents the outcome of an officer/citizen interaction. Don't you think that we see a disproportionate representation of these interactions by media and government types choosing which results are "valid"?
The result is an illustration in hindsight bias, further enhanced by the sensationalism of witnessing a horrible, isolated incident on video.
The desire to link one event to another is overwhelming to the viewer due to the increased sense of guilt associated with witnessing a horrible incident, and seeing the incident as preventable as part of a pre-selected, seemingly "valid" assertion.
You handicap sporting events all the time....you have to know this stuff....No way your are this simple Scal. You were smart enough to get on the right side of the Lesnar fight. Time to use your brain a bit.![](https://images.covers.com/covers/emoticons/Peace_5.gif)
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