Quote Originally Posted by MoneySRH:
Scalabrine,
The open carry argument you presented is absolutely ridiculous. The kid was pointing what looked like a real gun at people. What kind of kid would be this stupid? If my son did this… my son would be glad to be dead because I would have whooped his @ss to death for being that damn stupid.
According to the law, a person is justified in using deadly force against another if a reasonable person in the actors situation would have acted in the same fashion. This is why the officer will be found to have acted in a justifiable manner. Any reasonable minded person would have done the same thing placed in the exact circumstance as the officer. The officer chose to use deadly force so he could go home to his family at the end of the day. I would have done the same because I am what the laws defines as a reasonable minded person.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports that a total of 1,501 law-enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past ten years, an average of one death every 58 hours, or 150 per year. Watch the killed in the line of duty faces of death videos. I can post some if you wish. The videos show officers being killed on the job. The screams of the officers haunt all those who watch them. These videos are shown at police academies for educational purposes.
As I said in the other thread, police view Rice's sister as a “supportive spectator.” Police take a Use of Force course in the police academy and are taught that supportive spectators are a serious threat. People cannot just burst onto a crime scene, unless they are EMTs, firefighters, or police officers. The officer is trained to protect the crime scene and to be fearful of supportive spectators.
Kids, huh? The crime rates for juveniles in 2014: Murder: 609 Rape: 1,944 Robbery: 22,938 Assault: 35,736 Total: 61,227…
… Police in the academy are informed of the Westside Middle School massacre as a lesson…
Police are shown this picture: https://timelines.latimes.com/media/event_images/61/eqk6etgy_opt%281%29.jpg
The officers are asked if the children posed a threat based on the photo alone. The officers all shout to the instructor “absolutely not.” The instructor reveals that Mitchell Johnson (13 years old) and Andrew Golden (11 years old) were two white kids that killed a total of five people: four students and a teacher. Ten other people, nine students and one teacher, were injured. Police are shown the gruesome photos of crimes committed by children. This is why you see police act so aggressive towards kids. Police are exposed to the reality that kids and adults are capable of the same actions.
Police take a firearms training course in the academy. Officers are trained to assume that all weapons they encounter are real. Officers are trained that anyone can pose a threat with a gun regardless of age, race, or sex. Officers are given "to shoot or not to shoot" scenarios. Officers must make an instantaneous decision on whether to use deadly force or not. A criminal holding a gun tells the officer, “don’t shoot, it’s a toy,” when the officer relaxes, the person fires at the officer. This simulation is used to teach officers to assume all threats and weapons are real.
No way MLK would stand behind those animals. All those people you feel sorrow for deserved to die.
Pointing it at people.![](https://images.covers.com/covers/emoticons/confused.gif)
See this is where things get bizarre and you as a white male, defer completely to the caller who shi* his pants because he saw a black child with a gun (and the caller of course, was white).
We have the video of him with the gun and the park he is in and it nearly desolate. He certainly IS pointing the gun. But where and at whom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhVewrqGFRw
Yes he is pointing the gun but how do we know it is 'at people', in what appears to be a park without many people at all. ALL we have is a caller saying that is the case. And where are the other people calling 911 saying a kid is pointing a gun at that, ya know the threat that got him killed? The original caller didn't even have the gun pointed at him!
Why wasn't he pointing it at the guy sitting behind him? Did that ever occur to you? I mean, it is on tape is it not?
Or was it just that 'the caller' was 'being scared the shi*' out of because the kid was black and he had a hoodie (like someone in my avatar).
Now when I say this, it ENRAGES the bigots because it suggests the entire premise is based on racial bias WHICH THEY CANNOT AND WILL NOT ACCEPT.
And this is the reality for virtually EVERY black American every day that posters here will NEVER experience or understand.
And this is AFTER a cop shot him in the chest after 2 seconds without warning and then falsified the report on the shooting.
Would you like to speak to the cop falsifying his report? Or do we want to engage about him pointing it at people first?
Because when we are done with the latter, I will address the former and have your head spinning like you were Linda Blair in the Exorcist.
It's your choice.
I'd keep my mouth shut or have sufficient argumentation to talk to someone who can run circles around you.
So be careful who you are addressing and what exactly you are posting about when it comes to an issue of life and death of a 12 year old. This isn't Clippers Spurs kid.
You may look the fool...or the raging bigot...or both.
Never mind, you've accomplished both already.![](https://images.covers.com/covers/emoticons/Peace_5.gif)