Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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RIP - Jonathan Ferrell, 24 yrs old.
Shot 10 times by a cop, and he was unarmed.- "I was in a car accident, can I get some help?"albums
- this is why we need more guns on the street.omg
- Will your opinion change if it's found he crashed because he was drunk or high, which is also why he was running toward the police and withstood a taser hit?locustsloth
- police and withstood a taser hit?locustsloth
- Are you saying it would have been acceptable to kill him if he was drunk or high?Morning_star
- Not acceptable. Maybe understandable, if a cop responding to a breaking and entering call saw someone running toward them who did not stop once tasered.locustsloth
- running toward them who did not stop once tasered.locustsloth
- It's tragic any way you cut it. The issue i'm bringing up is whether there was malevolence in the shooting or just misunderstandinglocustsloth
- misunderstandinglocustsloth
- Misunderstanding? You can't put a plaster over it and say sorry, someone is dead. The tragedy is that this will happen again tonight in some other US city.Morning_star
- in some other US city. America you are fucked.Morning_star
- But i'm not saying "Aw let the cop be, he was confused", i'm saying that the image of the asshole power-drunk cop that we get when we read this is not always the case. It may very well be in this case (he fired 10 shots, not 2 or 3 after all), but it shouldn't be the stereotype we gravitate to, much like "criminal" should not be the stereotype that cops gravitate to for young black menlocustsloth
- when we read this is not always the case. It may very well be in this case (he fired 10 shots, not 2 or 3 after all), but it shouldn't be the stereotype we gravitate to, much like "criminal" should not be the stereotype that cops gravitate to for young black menlocustsloth
- the stereotype we gravitate to, much like "criminal" should not be the stereotype that cops gravitate to for young black menlocustsloth
- Did they breathalize him before they shot him to death? How could they know if he was intoxicated?sarahfailin
- How would that make a difference if he was running toward them? My question is what a police officer, responding to a B&E call (triggered by the victim banging on someone's door, who then called police), who then tasered the victim (to no effect) should have done what else given the information provided them at the time?locustsloth
- to a B&E call (triggered by the victim banging on someone's door, who then called police), who then tasered the victim (to no effect) should have done what else given the information provided them at the time?locustsloth
- no effect) should have done what else given the information provided them at the time?locustsloth
- And again, i'm not saying the cop is innocent. i'm saying that the circumstances could have led ANY person to make the same judgementlocustsloth
- judgementlocustsloth
- If I was a black dud in 'murkah and a cop was coming at me with a gun, I'd run too.BusterBoy
- He was running toward them, Buster.locustsloth