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originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: LABTECH767
When's the last time you've seen a non lethal takedown in any situation?
originally posted by: Pyle
a reply to: LABTECH767
The officers reacted they way they did because he tried to run a check point, has had made statements saying he would use deadly force if needed to stop the government from arresting him and reached for a loaded weapon multiple times and even then they gave him a chance before they fired. Tasers don't work well with heavy winter clothing and pepper spray doesn't keep you from using a weapon.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
originally posted by: Pyle
a reply to: LABTECH767
The officers reacted they way they did because he tried to run a check point, has had made statements saying he would use deadly force if needed to stop the government from arresting him and reached for a loaded weapon multiple times and even then they gave him a chance before they fired. Tasers don't work well with heavy winter clothing and pepper spray doesn't keep you from using a weapon.
Even so though I accept the validity of your statement these officers should not be given a gun if they can not aim, his leg's and shoulder were easily within there extremely close range of fire, I know adrenaline is a factor in a stressful situation but was lethal action really necessary.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: Flatfish
There you lose the point, a police officer or FBI agent are supposed to uphold both the constitution of there country as this is a case which has happened in the US and also the right's of there citizens even if they disagree with them, in this case the hit I believe was ordered from above and these guy's were probably hyped up with the intent of killing him at the first opportunity, does that sound like they were doing there job or acting in a fashion outside of the law (Even if the orders to take this sanction came from there superior's).
Did he reach to draw his weapon in an agessive fashion, was he going to take aim at the officer of was he going to drop the weapon as they probably had ordered him to do so if he was reaching for it?.
The guy behind should have dropped to his knee to steady his aim and the guy in front should have negotiated his surrender if that is they had genuine ground's to arrest him.
Now I do understand that adrenaline play's a role, these two officer's may have familys and were not going to take the risk that one of them may have themselves ended up a casualty but that is actually part of the risk of the job they do and they are presumable already aware of the dangers of what they have signed up for but they still seemed to act far too quickly to pull the trigger and a possible action, I never even noticed him take a possible action against these agent's, all I saw was the guy behind shoot him in the back while he was apparently trying to surrender, indeed his hand's appeared to be no where near to any gun even if he was carrying one, this was an assassination short and simple and those agent's are probably not FBI though they may wear that jacket, I suspect another agency with a much dirtier track, one which should have been disbanded when it was shown and proven to have dealt drug's harming the US own youth and citizen's in a barbarous and traitorous action as well as interfering in the internal politics of the US own alies, they, this other agency are the real bad men, the type of men and organization for which the FBI was originally founded and intended to fight as it was intended to combat organised crime and crime syndicates like this other ROGUE agency even in the government but of course they ended up being the weaker agency and are now slaved to this other ROGUE group but of course this is only from an outsiders perspective.
originally posted by: Pyle
a reply to: LABTECH767
The officers reacted they way they did because he tried to run a check point, has had made statements saying he would use deadly force if needed to stop the government from arresting him and reached for a loaded weapon multiple times and even then they gave him a chance before they fired. Tasers don't work well with heavy winter clothing and pepper spray doesn't keep you from using a weapon.