The man was unarmed. The police around here know how to subdue someone without using a gun. I've seen it a few times when they deal with the homeless. The officer brought a gun to a fist fight. A taser would have been sufficient. Or a nightstick.
Seems like a workable policy change for new tactics. Big cop with 20 ounce baton, lady cop with gun. It always seems strange to me, when you see cops remove a bear from some town. They bring in the team with the tranquilizer gun, subdue the bear and haul him away. But they shoot the mentally ill guy for not following commands.
I'm all for using tranquilizers, not only is it safer, the videos of people getting all woozy would be hilarious.
How about the bus driver gives the 135 lb guy a kick out the door right onto the ground? That's what I would have done and then I'd have gotten fired and I could sue....yippee
You are correct Sly. But the difference in the expectations is what gets me. The don't expect the bear to follow commands but the expect the mentally impaired to follow commands. Now it seems to me to be irrational to expect rational behavior from an irrational person or a bear. The tranquilizer team always has a backup with the real deal ready.
I doubt they would yell at a bear, watch it run around a corner and then follow it with their gun out in front of them like this woman did. Only to be surprised when it attacks.
Bears don't sue if you use to strong a tranq and they die. A huge difference in the amount of drugs needed between a 100lb woman and a 300lb man on bath salts.
Miami shooting: Man shot by cops was lying down with hands up, lawyer says http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/21/us/miami-officer-involved-shooting/index.html Charles Kinsey said he was lying in the middle of the street with his arms raised high when police shot him in the leg. Kinsey, who works for an assisted living facility in North Miami, had gone outside Monday to assist one of his patients who had just had a behavioral incident when police showed up, his lawyer said. Kinsey said that when police arrived, he tried to explain that he was a behavioral therapist at the nearby facility and that his patient has autism and that he was holding a toy truck, not a firearm. "I'm like, 'Sir, why did you shoot me?'" Kinsey said he asked the officer. "He said to me, 'I don't know.'" Kinsey was shot in his right leg after officers fired two or three shots, according to Napoleon. After the shooting, Kinsey told WSVN he was flipped over and handcuffed. According to Napoleon, Kinsey laid on the ground for 20 minutes before an ambulance arrived on the scene. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/21/us/miami-officer-involved-shooting/index.html
not to mention she points it at him with the driver right behind him. holy fuck she needs to be fired she basically handed him a gun she's lucky her backup wasn't a fucktard but he probably wouldnt have had to kill the guy if she wasnt a fucking moron. this is why hilary shouldnt be president. women cant be trusted with weapons or big red nuke buttons
if i was the male cop id demand she be fired for forcing me to kill in her defense and putting my life on the line with pure stupidity
