Red Mosquito

The point is, shoot to kill.

cutuphalfdead wrote:Tasers aren't 100%


Isn't that the point?

He means in terms of keeping the police officer safe.

This Kajieme Powell thing is sad as fuck but unfortunately I don't see how it could've gone differently considering his actions.

theplatypus wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Tasers aren't 100%


Isn't that the point?

He means in terms of keeping the police officer safe.

This Kajieme Powell thing is sad as fuck but unfortunately I don't see how it could've gone differently considering his actions.

i cant see how an armed person being told by two police officers to put the knife down and get on the ground yet still walks towards them can end any other way.

theplatypus wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Tasers aren't 100%


Isn't that the point?

He means in terms of keeping the police officer safe.

This Kajieme Powell thing is sad as fuck but unfortunately I don't see how it could've gone differently considering his actions.

I don't agree with that.

Tasers and pepper spray are both pretty damn effective. Those officers never appeared to entertain the idea of anything other than killing him if he didn't cooperate.

Kaius wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Tasers aren't 100%


Isn't that the point?

He means in terms of keeping the police officer safe.

This Kajieme Powell thing is sad as fuck but unfortunately I don't see how it could've gone differently considering his actions.

I don't agree with that.

Tasers and pepper spray are both pretty damn effective. Those officers never appeared to entertain the idea of anything other than killing him if he didn't cooperate.

if they had pulled out tasers then its a different story. but given the recent climate down there i have no problem pulling the guns out. id have to imagine they had to have thought for an instant it would go bad but were praying it wouldnt. but thats just conjecture on my part.

Kaius wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Tasers aren't 100%


Isn't that the point?

He means in terms of keeping the police officer safe.

This Kajieme Powell thing is sad as fuck but unfortunately I don't see how it could've gone differently considering his actions.

I don't agree with that.

Tasers and pepper spray are both pretty damn effective. Those officers never appeared to entertain the idea of anything other than killing him if he didn't cooperate.

Maybe you're right. I don't know the protocol.

Here's an interesting comment on the subject.

theplatypus wrote:

Kaius wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Tasers aren't 100%


Isn't that the point?

He means in terms of keeping the police officer safe.

This Kajieme Powell thing is sad as fuck but unfortunately I don't see how it could've gone differently considering his actions.

I don't agree with that.

Tasers and pepper spray are both pretty damn effective. Those officers never appeared to entertain the idea of anything other than killing him if he didn't cooperate.

Maybe you're right. I don't know the protocol.

Here's an interesting comment on the subject.

That's a pretty good read. CNN had an officer on earlier today and they basically said the same thing while watching the video, knives are lethal at that range and in this case the guy was saying "kill me" and "shoot me" and then got to higher ground and moved towards the police in-spite of their commands (the look of frustration on the anchor's face was both amusing and tragic).

Peeps wrote:i cant see how an armed person being told by two police officers to put the knife down and get on the ground yet still walks towards them can end any other way.

I immediately believe that.

This Kajieme Powell thing is sad as fuck but unfortunately I don't see how it could've gone differently considering his actions.

Yeah, this doesn't exactly seem like police gone wild, here. The response just isn't that far away from understandable.

philpritchard wrote:

Fuck You Jobu wrote:
The thing that I don't understand about this is if it's true, why are we only finding out about it 10 days after it happened? If the cop had a fractured face, that would be known immediately. So why wouldn't they report that right away, since it's pretty credible and justifiable that a cop with a broken face had to shoot a much bigger guy attacking him?

Yeah, that doesn't make any sense at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_effect

Hazarding a guess, I would say that they don't want the witnesses' memories to be corrupted until they have collected as much evidence as they can.

One of the most tragic things about the Brown case, should he turn out to be the aggressor, is that people will associate future occurrences of police violence with all the hype and hysteria of this one. The media is creating a "cry wolf" situation here that will shade future discussions of the legitimate issues beyond Michael Brown that drove the community to protest.

What ever happened to shooting someone's kneecap off? Everyone's all unloading on peoples faces.

Self wrote:What ever happened to shooting someone's kneecap off? Everyone's all unloading on peoples faces.

Tobias, you blowhard!

McParadigm wrote:

Self wrote:What ever happened to shooting someone's kneecap off? Everyone's all unloading on peoples faces.

Tobias, you blowhard!

At first, my head cocked sideways like a confused dog. Then I fucking laughed.

I'll show myself out.

Self wrote:What ever happened to shooting someone's kneecap off? Everyone's all unloading on peoples faces.

that was one fucking time and my eye still fucking burns

unfortunately, the current page of this thread is blocked at my office for adult material, so i'll have to point out broken iris's avuncular concern regarding black violence now, and wait until i get home to see what people think of it.

Well.... I guess we can get this thread back on track now.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/watch ... -don-lemon

From Radley Balko:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the- ... m-poverty/

Are cops supposed to protect and respect your rights? Hmmm...

simple schoolboy wrote:From Radley Balko:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the- ... m-poverty/

I get the feeling that those who feel the featured victims of the greater St Louis municipal courts are totally deserving of their plight overlap significantly with those that label Snowden a traitor. Some folks ancestors should have never left the old world.

simple schoolboy wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:From Radley Balko:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the- ... m-poverty/

I get the feeling that those who feel the featured victims of the greater St Louis municipal courts are totally deserving of their plight overlap significantly with those that label Snowden a traitor. Some folks ancestors should have never left the old world.

If you think so friend-o.