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Originally Posted by baddog
The fucking assumptions you make are astounding.
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I'm not assuming anything. That was on the news that he pulled his cruiser over and told them to move.
I certainly wouldn't have had the balls to pull up to two strangers I don't know and talk to them like that if I were alone...unless of course I had a gun and a badge.
I don't know what part of "if he wasn't prepared to back it up" you didn't understand.
That's why I said if he COULDN'T back it up...he should have called for backup. God only knows that the cops always seem to show up in force every time I see them pull somebody over (it apparently takes at least 2 cars and 3 or 4 officers to give a soccer mom a speeding ticket here in Vegas).
Jesus...you and others in this thread are being so over-dramatic and silly.
This cop pulled up and pissed off a couple of young men who also happened to be bullies and had just robbed a place.
The cop's actions led to an altercation and the one guy getting shot 6 times until he was dead.
Maybe, just maybe...if the cop had been better at his job, when they got aggressive he would have called for back up.
There really wasn't any reason for this to happen.
As I said earlier...every night of the week, bouncers in bars handle aggressive big men.
I bounced at a strip club in South Carolina back in 1996.
I never killed anyone.
Most times you can handle people without getting physical. Even really big guys.
This cop had no skill in how to do that. Apparently he acted like a lot of cops do these days: They order you around and expect you to OBEY their every COMMAND.
Hell, half the posts in here are saying that if you don't obey their commands (like a dog) you "deserve" what you get.
I say, that's not the way it's supposed to be.
They are supposed to be civil servants. Protecting people. Not killing people.
Look, this guy Michael Brown was young and full of testosterone. He was looking for trouble, and had just robbed a store and bullied the guy behind the counter. He wasn't even gonna take any shit from a cop.
That's pretty damn aggressive.
Doesn't mean he should be dead. It means he should have gotten locked up and shown the error of his ways.
In the end...the cop on the scene is the one who is supposed to be the "better" man and handle the situation in a way that brings about the best outcome.
That's not what happened. I'm not saying I could do it any better. I'm saying that a well trained officer who deserves to be a cop would have handled it much better.
And this so-called cop who shot this guy 6 times with 2 kill shots to the head...should go to jail and to trial, just like you or I would.