Hillary Announces 2016 Presidential Candidacy. Shame on you for not having seen it yet. No problem though, I forgive you. I’m here give you the link so that you can see it, just click on the link below… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snokI747RNA
Asiana pilots aren’t checked for drugs/alcohol in America(by the FAA) and I doubt they’re in Japan and MOST certainly NEVER have been/or caught drinking prior to a S. Korea/Korean airline flight. If ever a S. Korean pilot has been caught with alcohol on HIS breath then it was a TSA agent who did so.
Yet,
“In July 2013, Asiana Airlines flight 214 from Incheon crashed on landing at San Francisco airport(on a beautiful sunny day) after its tail clipped a sea wall.”
ChickenHead
9 years ago
LIMERICK
Asiana is probably wrong
as their landing skills are not so strong.
But just to be fair
Tbone’s underwear
has skidmarks equally long.
A few years ago, my wife and I were flying out of LAX. I waited at the end of security line as she went to the restroom. After about 20 minutes, she didn’t return. Generally, if we are separated, we meet back at the place where we last saw each other… so I waited.
Maybe she was takin’ a poo?
After some time, I thought maybe she got confused and went through security. I checked my passport… and found that she had taken MY ticket and I was left with hers… meaning I couldn’t go through security… and neither could she… presumably.
All of a sudden, this door marked “Secure Area – No Entry – Blah Blah” swung open and my wife walked out like she worked there… past a bunch of TSA flunkies with their thumbs in their azzes who never gave her a second look.
Anyway, she had gone to the wrong line (or something) and didn’t see me… so thought I had gone through to wait on the other side.
She had been to the guy who looked at her passport and my ticket to make sure the names matched. Hint: Our names don’t even come close. Then she was selected for the Full Body Scanner. After waiting on the other side, she realized that I might be waiting where I was, looked around, saw a door that seemed to open to the outside, and just walked through it. It was so completely ignored, that she could have just opened it for me and I could have walked in and bypassed “security”.
We went back through security and had our passports and tickets checked. Then, again, she got called for special treatment… the Bomb Swab. Of course, I was making Roger Rabbit sounds, “Noooo, the Swab… not the Swaaab.” This was ignored by TSA. Sometimes they laugh at my jokes. Sometimes they don’t.
There were two airport cops sitting on a nearby table and talking about some TV show. While my wife got the Swab, I sat on the end of the table next to them. They never even noticed me.
The reason they didn’t notice me is because they were looking at the full-body scanner screen which was in clear view about 10 feet away. There was a butch-haired tampon home-rolling bull dyke monitoring the screen…
…and everybody that was chosen for the full-body scanner was just like my wife… tall, thin, around 30, well-dressed, fixed-up. I have no proof… but I believe this was not by accident.
I gotta say, though, the dyko biker biitch had great tastes.
So… while my wife got the Swab, I got to look at some awesome grayscale real-time pr0n… checking out the babe in the booth and her kinda naked picture on the screen.
I’m not sure the video was very fappible in the privacy of home… but with the girl there, arms outstretched… yeah… maybe.
While we waited at immigration, I suggested to my wife we go back through that door and try again. No deal.
TSA seems to be Welfare with some minimal “work” requirements.
johnnyboy
9 years ago
CH,
Don’t remember if you mentioned this before but when the Scott shooting is played frame by frame it appears that taser wires can be seen clipped into the officer’s chest area, with possibly the other end (no longer attached to the taser) being dragged by Scott as he runs away.
I saw the slow-mo and freeze frames at the conservative treehouse, but I haven’t seen anything in the media questioning this.
Whatever happens, I believe you are right. They will not be able to get this officer for murder as nothing here shows premeditation. If what appears to be happening in the video when it is slowed down is actually happening, I think there is a chance all charges will be dropped.
The officer may have been tased by Scott. Even if not, if the taser clips were in the vest the officer may have thought Scott still had the taser and could use it even while running away. If the officer were incapacitated, Scott could have turned back around, taken his weapon, killed him and then gone on his way. I think officials already know this by enhancing and examining the video over and over.
I believe this could be the case as some of the news sites seem to have slowly backed away from the investigation elements of the case and are now focusing on the “people angle.” They don’t want to be caught with their pants down like with Ferguson and Trayvon. If this was such a slam dunk case, why else would they be backing off all of a sudden?
ChickenHead
9 years ago
johnnyboy,
A couple other things…
– The passenger, who we can write a full page on, has been taken in by the BGI handlers as they formulate their layered story. He has only communicated with the press via slick prepared statements… in words noticeably much bigger than he is normally comfortable with. The media has been big on speculation concerning the cop and the situation… but does NOT want to dig too deeply into the backgrounds of anybody else.
– The car was just bought from a neighbor… or not just bought from a neighbor… depending on if you believe Walter Scott’s story at 0:34 of the dashcam video or Walter Scott’s story at 1:08 of the dashcam video… or it was bought the week before, if you believe the surviving relatives. You might note, any news of this “neighbor”, or the situation with the car, has been glaringly absent. Nobody in the media seems to want to get to the bottom of that story… nor report why they can’t.
– I asked my friend to run the plates run on this 1990 gray Mercedes-Benz, South Carolina 131-8GG… but he laughed at me, said something profane about me AND my mother, and informed me anybody who dared run that plate would be in jail within the hour. I should add that, except in rare cases like this, your information is practically open to the public regardless of promises or intentions in both the public and private sectors.
You you don’t realize it… but you don’t have enough tinfoil.
– In an semi-related incident, cop cars in Tuscon were following a guy who had stolen a car, driven to a Wallmart, stolen a rifle and ammo, and then walked down the street waving the rifle around. On the dashcam of a following cop car, he put the rifle to his own head and then later fired a shot into the air. Suddenly, another cop car came into frame and PLOWED into the guy, sending him into the air, and then blasting through a brick wall.
Interestingly, the media is semi-praising this as good police work. I can understand the action… but I can’t understand the reaction.
The cop car got thousands of dollars in damage. There may be thousands more to repair the wall and yards of the civilians. The scumbag will require public-funded medical care. The scumbag will get medical disability after a decade or less of prison. The scumbag may get a settlement of some sort.
This is a several hundred thousand dollar (or more) problem that should have been a one dollar problem… less with good shot placement.
Our militarized police all have a black rifle of some sort in the trunk that is EXACTLY the tool for this job… stopping dangerous criminals at a range that reduces danger for the cop… yet they only feel comfortable sloppily running dangerous criminals down with their cars.
If the cops had shot the guy, the media would have been screaming brutality… or maybe not. The suspect is Hispanic… and the media just doesn’t love them unless they are non-American Hispanics.
If the guy had been black, he would have been another gentle giant and aspiring rapper just starting to turn his life around… firing harmless warning shots and only threatening himself.
Oh well.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
LIMERICK
EGGHEAD is a Racist
Witnessed by Rednex on Roxdrox
But just to be fair
EGGHEAD’s PANTIES are RED
at her Damaged Bunghole by her Boyfriends Dix.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
LIMERICK
There once was a “man” named T-bone
who behind Walmart’s dumpster got to be known.
Without a real job
he could only shine knob
and hobos would line up to be blown.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
VA ENDS Thanx to the Koch Bros. and its Concerned Veterans for America(CVA). This is where my Independent label/status lines me to the right of center. I’m against big gov’t when it comes to the VA. Let the VA get it’s money from the Koch Bros. and other privatization and flip the retirement $$$ to Wall Street. The USA gov’t should NOT waste its time and effort on investing VA’s $$$, let those lazy B*ST*RDS do something by themselves for once in their life or do the in thing and off themselves Here, Here!!
ChickenHead
9 years ago
LIMERICK
When this Tbone thing writes a feature
it looks composed by a creature.
His Korean employment
must have provided anal enjoyment
as it couldn’t have been “English teacher”.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“Without a real job”
Talk about jobs, as a crook contractor and co-worker of criminal servicethemselfmembers including non-Americans in the USA Warhawks/Wardogs military…
You’re a leech of the USA Communist Federal Gov’t Largest Jobs Program ~ USA Military Industrial Complex/Military Industrial Congressional Complex.
That looks like the taser on the ground near Scott’s right foot in the photo, and the wire with the two prongs (two little black things) next to the cop’s foot. Looks like Scott took it and then dropped it in flight at the very beginning. Obviously the taser was used (because prongs and wire). It doesn’t look attached in the photo but the prongs are facing the officer, not Scott.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Liz,
While the armchair speculations of the anti-cop/pro-criminal/pro-black crowd has gotten a lot of media attention, the speculation of the other side has been ignored.
It appears the Taser was fired twice. The evidence for this is that the dashcam video shows the spare green cartridge in the butt of the Taser but a photo after the event, with the Taser in the cop’s holster and not “planted” on the suspect, shows the spare cartridge missing.
(It also appears he went back, picked up the Taser and threw it on the ground near the body… though, at that camera angle, it is unclear how far he threw it from the body. Later he appears to pick up the Taser and put it back in its holster. At that camera angle, it is clear he threw the Taser quite far from the body but in a place he could keep an eye on it.)
It can be reasoned the Taser was fired the first time but was ineffective for whatever reason. It was reloaded which gave time for the criminal to turn and attack the cop. They “tussled” (a word that certainly minimizes the extent of their conflict) over the Taser and it was fired, with at least one dart going into the cop’s vest.
It is unclear who controlled the Taser at that point. In the very beginning of the video, it appears the Taser is flying behind the cop on his right side… and since his right hand is reaching for his gun, it indicates the criminal controlled the Taser and threw it while the cop had already decided he needed to use his gun.
A good case can be made that the cop did not see the Taser fly behind him and still thought the criminal controlled it… and, as it can still be used as a contact weapon, it still poses a serious threat to incapacitate… allowing a guy who just “tussled” over a Taser to “tussle” over a pistol with an even bigger advantage.
To further explain what is seen in the video, it appears the wire is tangled around the criminal’s feet and the cartridge is out of the Taser. As he runs away, the wire appears to become taunt between the cop’s chest and the criminal’s foot. He also appears to be dragging the cartridge behind him from his foot as he is farther away.
But this could be all wishful thinking based on artifacts in a poor video.
Interestingly, the video released to the public appears to be at a lower resolution than almost all phones record at… possibly to obscure details such as what was happening with the Taser?
Keep in mind, cops are not trained to “wing” the criminal. They shoot until there is no more threat. After 7 shots, the guy was still running… and still a potential threat… with no knowledge of his injury, intention, or armament. After the last shot, he fell… and the cop stopped shooting. If anybody doesn’t like that, blame the System, not the cop.
Right now, the most important thing missing from this whole event is the cop’s written report. If it claims the Taser was found next to the body or anything else directly contradicted by the video, there is a serious problem. If it has no differences from the video except interpretation based on preconceived notions, there is no real issue.
Keep in mind, there was no knowledge of this video for several days… so the report could say anything it wanted if the cop was dishonest… or it could say the truth as backed up by the video.
It is not correct for a cop to be the judge, jury, and executioner… but if someone is so desperate they will fight a cop and then try to use their weapons against them, they likely pose a very immediate danger to society… as they have demonstrated behavior that is a real threat to anyone even more vulnerable they come across in their bid to escape.
With further tussling being unproductive, and non-lethal force being expended, the options are greatly reduced. It is foolish to get into further close combat and wind up tussling over a pistol. It is foolish to let a desperate criminal encounter civilians or even move into an area with civilians present.
If the cop’s action “saved just one life” of a civilian… such as some poor mother loading laundry into her car around the corner at the laundromat… it was worth it.
…but then “just one life” only seems to apply when it is an issue of control over average honest citizens… not when it is protection of average honest citizens.
If only the public, media, and politicians showed this much concern over random checkpoints, no-knock warrants for minor crimes, Free Speech Zones, the zealous enforcement of unnecessary laws, etc., the country would be a better place.
I keep suspecting the government and media somewhat conspire to focus attention on these non-issues to keep attention away from real issues while driving a wedge between every category of the population, from race to income… simply to keep society from uniting against growing injustice, creeping oppression, and the further redistribution of middle class wealth to the 1% and the chronically dependent.
setnaffa
9 years ago
The bottom line is to avoid resisting and memorize a few lines like, “Yes, Officer” and “No, Officer”.
I have never heard of anyone getting shot or beaten by an American police officer while using common sense.
And yes, I include Selma in that. Purposefully inciting known racists who carry badges and guns is not common sense. It may have been needed (though I seriously doubt it); but it was calculated to create an overreaction and some marchers were deemed expendable by the organizers.
These phone videos don’t show everything. And I don’t know they weren’t edited or summarized before they were sent to the media. Sure there are bad cops. But following a few simple rules can save your tuchas.
Hillary Announces 2016 Presidential Candidacy. Shame on you for not having seen it yet. No problem though, I forgive you. I’m here give you the link so that you can see it, just click on the link below…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snokI747RNA
Unarmed man after being tased receives 37 punches, 17 kicks, 4 baton strikes, 13 strikes/kicks to head, at least 1 kick to testicles and 1 knee to testicles, by 11 total deputies while hands behind back and laying down on stomach…
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Man-on-Stolen-Horse-Stunned-by-Sheriffs-Deputies-in-IE-299250951.html
Tbone, just another career criminal thug living off welfare and endangering everyone around him.
Oh, wait… the full story is coming out.
My mistake. He was a father of four and an aspiring cowboy who was just starting to turn his life around.
#WhiteLivesMatter
Just when I take off my tinfoil hat…
http://nypost.com/2015/04/12/saudi-role-in-911-being-whitewashed-by-fbi/
Another Asiana plane has bad landing.
Asiana pilots aren’t checked for drugs/alcohol in America(by the FAA) and I doubt they’re in Japan and MOST certainly NEVER have been/or caught drinking prior to a S. Korea/Korean airline flight. If ever a S. Korean pilot has been caught with alcohol on HIS breath then it was a TSA agent who did so.
Yet,
“In July 2013, Asiana Airlines flight 214 from Incheon crashed on landing at San Francisco airport(on a beautiful sunny day) after its tail clipped a sea wall.”
LIMERICK
Asiana is probably wrong
as their landing skills are not so strong.
But just to be fair
Tbone’s underwear
has skidmarks equally long.
Your paranoia is justified.
JoeC,
I think I told this story here before…
A few years ago, my wife and I were flying out of LAX. I waited at the end of security line as she went to the restroom. After about 20 minutes, she didn’t return. Generally, if we are separated, we meet back at the place where we last saw each other… so I waited.
Maybe she was takin’ a poo?
After some time, I thought maybe she got confused and went through security. I checked my passport… and found that she had taken MY ticket and I was left with hers… meaning I couldn’t go through security… and neither could she… presumably.
All of a sudden, this door marked “Secure Area – No Entry – Blah Blah” swung open and my wife walked out like she worked there… past a bunch of TSA flunkies with their thumbs in their azzes who never gave her a second look.
Anyway, she had gone to the wrong line (or something) and didn’t see me… so thought I had gone through to wait on the other side.
She had been to the guy who looked at her passport and my ticket to make sure the names matched. Hint: Our names don’t even come close. Then she was selected for the Full Body Scanner. After waiting on the other side, she realized that I might be waiting where I was, looked around, saw a door that seemed to open to the outside, and just walked through it. It was so completely ignored, that she could have just opened it for me and I could have walked in and bypassed “security”.
We went back through security and had our passports and tickets checked. Then, again, she got called for special treatment… the Bomb Swab. Of course, I was making Roger Rabbit sounds, “Noooo, the Swab… not the Swaaab.” This was ignored by TSA. Sometimes they laugh at my jokes. Sometimes they don’t.
There were two airport cops sitting on a nearby table and talking about some TV show. While my wife got the Swab, I sat on the end of the table next to them. They never even noticed me.
The reason they didn’t notice me is because they were looking at the full-body scanner screen which was in clear view about 10 feet away. There was a butch-haired tampon home-rolling bull dyke monitoring the screen…
…and everybody that was chosen for the full-body scanner was just like my wife… tall, thin, around 30, well-dressed, fixed-up. I have no proof… but I believe this was not by accident.
I gotta say, though, the dyko biker biitch had great tastes.
So… while my wife got the Swab, I got to look at some awesome grayscale real-time pr0n… checking out the babe in the booth and her kinda naked picture on the screen.
I’m not sure the video was very fappible in the privacy of home… but with the girl there, arms outstretched… yeah… maybe.
While we waited at immigration, I suggested to my wife we go back through that door and try again. No deal.
TSA seems to be Welfare with some minimal “work” requirements.
CH,
Don’t remember if you mentioned this before but when the Scott shooting is played frame by frame it appears that taser wires can be seen clipped into the officer’s chest area, with possibly the other end (no longer attached to the taser) being dragged by Scott as he runs away.
I saw the slow-mo and freeze frames at the conservative treehouse, but I haven’t seen anything in the media questioning this.
Whatever happens, I believe you are right. They will not be able to get this officer for murder as nothing here shows premeditation. If what appears to be happening in the video when it is slowed down is actually happening, I think there is a chance all charges will be dropped.
The officer may have been tased by Scott. Even if not, if the taser clips were in the vest the officer may have thought Scott still had the taser and could use it even while running away. If the officer were incapacitated, Scott could have turned back around, taken his weapon, killed him and then gone on his way. I think officials already know this by enhancing and examining the video over and over.
I believe this could be the case as some of the news sites seem to have slowly backed away from the investigation elements of the case and are now focusing on the “people angle.” They don’t want to be caught with their pants down like with Ferguson and Trayvon. If this was such a slam dunk case, why else would they be backing off all of a sudden?
johnnyboy,
A couple other things…
– The passenger, who we can write a full page on, has been taken in by the BGI handlers as they formulate their layered story. He has only communicated with the press via slick prepared statements… in words noticeably much bigger than he is normally comfortable with. The media has been big on speculation concerning the cop and the situation… but does NOT want to dig too deeply into the backgrounds of anybody else.
– The car was just bought from a neighbor… or not just bought from a neighbor… depending on if you believe Walter Scott’s story at 0:34 of the dashcam video or Walter Scott’s story at 1:08 of the dashcam video… or it was bought the week before, if you believe the surviving relatives. You might note, any news of this “neighbor”, or the situation with the car, has been glaringly absent. Nobody in the media seems to want to get to the bottom of that story… nor report why they can’t.
– I asked my friend to run the plates run on this 1990 gray Mercedes-Benz, South Carolina 131-8GG… but he laughed at me, said something profane about me AND my mother, and informed me anybody who dared run that plate would be in jail within the hour. I should add that, except in rare cases like this, your information is practically open to the public regardless of promises or intentions in both the public and private sectors.
You you don’t realize it… but you don’t have enough tinfoil.
– In an semi-related incident, cop cars in Tuscon were following a guy who had stolen a car, driven to a Wallmart, stolen a rifle and ammo, and then walked down the street waving the rifle around. On the dashcam of a following cop car, he put the rifle to his own head and then later fired a shot into the air. Suddenly, another cop car came into frame and PLOWED into the guy, sending him into the air, and then blasting through a brick wall.
Interestingly, the media is semi-praising this as good police work. I can understand the action… but I can’t understand the reaction.
The cop car got thousands of dollars in damage. There may be thousands more to repair the wall and yards of the civilians. The scumbag will require public-funded medical care. The scumbag will get medical disability after a decade or less of prison. The scumbag may get a settlement of some sort.
This is a several hundred thousand dollar (or more) problem that should have been a one dollar problem… less with good shot placement.
Our militarized police all have a black rifle of some sort in the trunk that is EXACTLY the tool for this job… stopping dangerous criminals at a range that reduces danger for the cop… yet they only feel comfortable sloppily running dangerous criminals down with their cars.
If the cops had shot the guy, the media would have been screaming brutality… or maybe not. The suspect is Hispanic… and the media just doesn’t love them unless they are non-American Hispanics.
If the guy had been black, he would have been another gentle giant and aspiring rapper just starting to turn his life around… firing harmless warning shots and only threatening himself.
Oh well.
LIMERICK
EGGHEAD is a Racist
Witnessed by Rednex on Roxdrox
But just to be fair
EGGHEAD’s PANTIES are RED
at her Damaged Bunghole by her Boyfriends Dix.
LIMERICK
There once was a “man” named T-bone
who behind Walmart’s dumpster got to be known.
Without a real job
he could only shine knob
and hobos would line up to be blown.
VA ENDS Thanx to the Koch Bros. and its Concerned Veterans for America(CVA). This is where my Independent label/status lines me to the right of center. I’m against big gov’t when it comes to the VA. Let the VA get it’s money from the Koch Bros. and other privatization and flip the retirement $$$ to Wall Street. The USA gov’t should NOT waste its time and effort on investing VA’s $$$, let those lazy B*ST*RDS do something by themselves for once in their life or do the in thing and off themselves Here, Here!!
LIMERICK
When this Tbone thing writes a feature
it looks composed by a creature.
His Korean employment
must have provided anal enjoyment
as it couldn’t have been “English teacher”.
“Without a real job”
Talk about jobs, as a crook contractor and co-worker of criminal servicethemselfmembers including non-Americans in the USA Warhawks/Wardogs military…
You’re a leech of the USA Communist Federal Gov’t Largest Jobs Program ~ USA Military Industrial Complex/Military Industrial Congressional Complex.
Blackwater Contractors sentenced to long prison terms for killing 14 unarmed Iraqis in 2007
http://www.theage.com.au/world/blackwater-guards-sentenced-to-long-prison-terms-for-killing-14-unarmed-iraqis-in-2007-20150414-1ml6tu.html
LIMERICK
Tbone causes much tension
so I guess now I should mention
it is a relevant factor
that I’m not a contractor
but at least I have reading comprehension.
In 1986, “forced” by a university class to read Ayn Rand, my classmates and I were convinced she was a nut.
Why are the Democrats acting as though Atlas Shrugged is a blueprint? It turns out Rand was a bit presient…
So sad. There is no magic valley in Colorado. There is no John Galt.
But there is another way… 😉
I’m looking at a freeze-frame photo of the officer holding the gun and Walter Scott at the first point of flight here:
http://nypost.com/2015/04/14/i-miss-him-every-day-walter-scotts-passenger-breaks-silence/
That looks like the taser on the ground near Scott’s right foot in the photo, and the wire with the two prongs (two little black things) next to the cop’s foot. Looks like Scott took it and then dropped it in flight at the very beginning. Obviously the taser was used (because prongs and wire). It doesn’t look attached in the photo but the prongs are facing the officer, not Scott.
Liz,
While the armchair speculations of the anti-cop/pro-criminal/pro-black crowd has gotten a lot of media attention, the speculation of the other side has been ignored.
It appears the Taser was fired twice. The evidence for this is that the dashcam video shows the spare green cartridge in the butt of the Taser but a photo after the event, with the Taser in the cop’s holster and not “planted” on the suspect, shows the spare cartridge missing.
(It also appears he went back, picked up the Taser and threw it on the ground near the body… though, at that camera angle, it is unclear how far he threw it from the body. Later he appears to pick up the Taser and put it back in its holster. At that camera angle, it is clear he threw the Taser quite far from the body but in a place he could keep an eye on it.)
It can be reasoned the Taser was fired the first time but was ineffective for whatever reason. It was reloaded which gave time for the criminal to turn and attack the cop. They “tussled” (a word that certainly minimizes the extent of their conflict) over the Taser and it was fired, with at least one dart going into the cop’s vest.
It is unclear who controlled the Taser at that point. In the very beginning of the video, it appears the Taser is flying behind the cop on his right side… and since his right hand is reaching for his gun, it indicates the criminal controlled the Taser and threw it while the cop had already decided he needed to use his gun.
A good case can be made that the cop did not see the Taser fly behind him and still thought the criminal controlled it… and, as it can still be used as a contact weapon, it still poses a serious threat to incapacitate… allowing a guy who just “tussled” over a Taser to “tussle” over a pistol with an even bigger advantage.
To further explain what is seen in the video, it appears the wire is tangled around the criminal’s feet and the cartridge is out of the Taser. As he runs away, the wire appears to become taunt between the cop’s chest and the criminal’s foot. He also appears to be dragging the cartridge behind him from his foot as he is farther away.
But this could be all wishful thinking based on artifacts in a poor video.
Interestingly, the video released to the public appears to be at a lower resolution than almost all phones record at… possibly to obscure details such as what was happening with the Taser?
Keep in mind, cops are not trained to “wing” the criminal. They shoot until there is no more threat. After 7 shots, the guy was still running… and still a potential threat… with no knowledge of his injury, intention, or armament. After the last shot, he fell… and the cop stopped shooting. If anybody doesn’t like that, blame the System, not the cop.
Right now, the most important thing missing from this whole event is the cop’s written report. If it claims the Taser was found next to the body or anything else directly contradicted by the video, there is a serious problem. If it has no differences from the video except interpretation based on preconceived notions, there is no real issue.
Keep in mind, there was no knowledge of this video for several days… so the report could say anything it wanted if the cop was dishonest… or it could say the truth as backed up by the video.
It is not correct for a cop to be the judge, jury, and executioner… but if someone is so desperate they will fight a cop and then try to use their weapons against them, they likely pose a very immediate danger to society… as they have demonstrated behavior that is a real threat to anyone even more vulnerable they come across in their bid to escape.
With further tussling being unproductive, and non-lethal force being expended, the options are greatly reduced. It is foolish to get into further close combat and wind up tussling over a pistol. It is foolish to let a desperate criminal encounter civilians or even move into an area with civilians present.
If the cop’s action “saved just one life” of a civilian… such as some poor mother loading laundry into her car around the corner at the laundromat… it was worth it.
…but then “just one life” only seems to apply when it is an issue of control over average honest citizens… not when it is protection of average honest citizens.
If only the public, media, and politicians showed this much concern over random checkpoints, no-knock warrants for minor crimes, Free Speech Zones, the zealous enforcement of unnecessary laws, etc., the country would be a better place.
I keep suspecting the government and media somewhat conspire to focus attention on these non-issues to keep attention away from real issues while driving a wedge between every category of the population, from race to income… simply to keep society from uniting against growing injustice, creeping oppression, and the further redistribution of middle class wealth to the 1% and the chronically dependent.
The bottom line is to avoid resisting and memorize a few lines like, “Yes, Officer” and “No, Officer”.
I have never heard of anyone getting shot or beaten by an American police officer while using common sense.
And yes, I include Selma in that. Purposefully inciting known racists who carry badges and guns is not common sense. It may have been needed (though I seriously doubt it); but it was calculated to create an overreaction and some marchers were deemed expendable by the organizers.
These phone videos don’t show everything. And I don’t know they weren’t edited or summarized before they were sent to the media. Sure there are bad cops. But following a few simple rules can save your tuchas.
1. Chris Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8
2. Law Professor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Don’t make yourself a target.