09-26-2016, 07:36 PM
(09-26-2016, 06:26 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: I will continue to believe this about police:
It's a difficult job that could end in death on a given day for many different reasons.
I agree with you.
(09-26-2016, 06:26 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: Social media and body cams/dash cams have brought to light lately instances in which scared/poorly trained/malicious cops have either performed poorly or were criminally negligent.
I have contended for some time now that those cops should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
I agree with you on this too.
(09-26-2016, 06:26 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: But, I also contend that the vast majority (if not all) of these cases involve some sort of criminal either resisting or fleeing cops.
Some are, but I don't see the vast majority of the people who are killed in the cam footage as people in the commission of violent crimes or threatening cops at the time of their deaths. While I can see how it was reasonable for the cops to perceive a life threat in some of the cases, not in others.
(09-26-2016, 06:26 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: Law abiding citizens are not being stopped in their cars or pulled from their homes and senselessly shot.
That's true. But, some are being stopped in their cars or approached by their cars and then shot dead when it's not clear they were doing anything wrong or illegal at all and there were other tactics/options available to the cops.
Philando Castille, Terence Crutcher, Corey Jones, etc... Fortunately, it looks like more of those negligent/lying cops are being charged (two out of the three of the cited cases, so far).