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originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: n00bUK
I guess I just don't see how Americans having the right to bear arms has anything at all to do with this incident.
The cops have guns. This guy tried to grab one, or may have actually done so.
Are you going to tell me that where you live, no cops have guns?
At least one officer involved in the incident was wearing a body camera, Smith said.
originally posted by: CallmeRaskolnikov
as for the women picking up the nightstick, what the f*ck? that was crazy. shes lucky not to be dead too.
originally posted by: roth1
Yeah i always wonder why four guy can't hold a guy and handcuff him. Instead the stand around pinch and kick for a while first. If they would subdue the guy instead of beating on him. If would not escalate. Come on four guys really? Only takes two to have control. One to take him down and hold him. The other to cuff. They need better training. And yes i am that skilled to handle a situation. Been there many times. If they can't handle the training they should not be in the job, period. Now this crap out there where they don't have to know the laws they are arresting you for. BS. To much protecting them from criminal prosecution. Not above the law. I think actually they should serve more time if caught. Just for being hypocrites too. Supposed to uphold the law but break it. Knowing better than others what the laws are. GUILTY.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
So I gotta ask, does it matter how the officer lost or dropped his gun?
Like if it was holstered and the man grabbed it out or what have you then I understand.
But if he lost it due to his own negligence, would that not factor into what happened?
I know we will never know cause that would never come out, just curious as to what people think
originally posted by: roth1
It is clear they fight with him and are not attempting to subdue him, just assault. Not saying he was not fighting back. I am saying if the police subdued the guy. It would not be an issue.a reply to: Sparkymedic
originally posted by: BerenstEiner
originally posted by: Anyafaj
originally posted by: BerenstEiner
How long until the riots?
Want to see how cynical I've become? Depends, what color was he? No one riots over a white dead mental homeless guy.
Yes they do. Come to Albuquerque, the land where cops dont care what color you are. They will flat out kill you here.
In fact, when they killed a homeless man last year, one of the cops, said he was going to shoot him in the penis before even arriving on scene. To me thats pre meditated murder.
Come to Albuquerque, I dare you.
We should wait untill the outcome of this LA shooting before we compare the James Boyd case thats going on down here.
But they both have mental illness and both were homeless and both did not remove their tent. Now both are dead.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
So I gotta ask, does it matter how the officer lost or dropped his gun?
Like if it was holstered and the man grabbed it out or what have you then I understand.
But if he lost it due to his own negligence, would that not factor into what happened?
I know we will never know cause that would never come out, just curious as to what people think
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: game over man
Why is a man, deemed mentally ill, homeless?
Is this how california takes care of it's people?
Just throw a mentally ill person out in the street
and put him at the mercy of W/E circumstance.
That is the real crime here.