LA Cop Shooting
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- benfal990
Police kills ~400 people every year in the USA.
Saw this info in the news this morning.
- lowimpakt0
RIP to the man.
- lowimpakt0
I'm not surprised or shocked by this.
- formed0
"The average salary for a Police Officer is $47,829 per year."
Not sure where this idea that they get paid nothing is coming from. The chief in my small college town (20k people) made $250k, ex gf made close to $100k.
Most make little, but that's their choice, so hardly an excuse. I agree, many, especially in LA, probably join for the power rush. That's fine, I sure don't want to do it, but that doesn't excuse excessive violence and this pat a bro on the back and look the other way mentality.
There's just no excuse for immature and selfish behavior (as exemplified by the NY disrespect and comments for the department).If you can't control a single man with 5-6 officers, you are incompetent and inept. You should not have a job anyway. Firing several times should put you in jail. The only excuse I could see if the guy was actually shooting, but having a gun (or not), is NOT a reason to kill someone.
Glad I don't live in LA anymore!
- IRNlun60
In all likelihood he probably suffered from mental health issues, or an addiction which is why he was homeless in the first place. Clearly making rational decisions would be a challenge for someone in that mental state. How 5-6 officers couldn't prevent the situation from escalating shows that they handled him exactly as they were trained, but I'm sure there will be a huge effort to punish the individual cops. All the while some new rookie cop is being training to take down a person exactly as they've done.
- 5 cops with a guy with only 4 limbs, I don't know if fist punching is good training to try to subdue a person.yurimon
- Even if he rationalized the decision it wouldn't mean that the outcome would be acceptable.cannonball1978
- ORAZAL0
You can't handle the truth!
Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives- I think their crime was they were getting to bell air for their status. thats a big mansion they tried to build there.yurimon
- HAYZ1LLLA0
Outrageous!
In 2013, The entire British police force fired their weapons THREE times. No one died. Unarmed men with 6 police on top do not need need to be killed FFS.- IF YOU FIGHT WITH COPS, YOU DESERVE TO DIE, Amirite?? anyone, please validate meeee, pleezGeorgesII
- its true, american police are insane. at no point in that vid did he ever show a sign he needed to be shot...cruddlebub
- let alone 5 fucking times! cuntscruddlebub
- comon cruddle, he dared a cop, for the love of GOD, HE DARED A COP, he deserved to die BECAUSE he dared a cop, dared, copGeorgesII
- Shows how fuckn disconnected from human empathy some "rational" muricans are. the justifications, can't believe I read someone said, he attacked the cops so he deserved to die, wtf man, sickeningGeorgesII
- someone said, he attacked the cops so he deserved to die, wtf man, truly sickeningGeorgesII
- < Clearly in line with their gun culture. If you step on my lawn, it's mah raght to shoot you.ORAZAL
- < totally Georges - like the whole point is missed by some people - the idea of being shot in the UK forfadein11
- assaulting a police officer would be ludicrous. there would be 100s of deaths every wknd at bar closing time. American has or is seriously losing its way,fadein11
- seriously losing its grip on reality. value of human life is low on the list of priorities nowfadein11
- So true.monospaced
- cruddlebub0
uh oh...
- GeorgesII0
This is why we need Fun!
- pango0
well.... it is the LA cop....
- freedom0
NRA: Good guys with guns needed to fight bad guys with guns.
- freedom0
Are these the same police that pull you over for going through a stop sign or are those a different level?
- futuremongolian0
The police profession is a bit of a quagmire.
It's kind of funny when people like yurimon condemn the profession ... basically saying Police need to be better than the rest of humanity, work a very difficult job, and make little money doing it.
The job is what the government makes it. It should, ideally, incorporate elements of medical and social work, and pay much better. But it doesn't. So you get the only people who are willing to take on such a job for the quality of pay and training, and this is what you end up with.
- "Little" money is relevant. Chief at UCONN made $250k to protect a college (and no town)formed
- ex gf was making $100k, tooformed
- Uconn isn't LA.futuremongolian
- inteliboy0
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- formed0
There really needs to be some real training on how to deescalate a situation. Throwing violence is only going to make matters worse, overall, and shooting is just ridiculous. Unless there is an imminent danger to people, lethal force is inexcusable.
If a police offer can only kill to "solve" a situation, how is that any good for anyone? Certainly doesn't make anyone respect or trust the police. I'd be surprised if these acts don't continue to make more of a divide and cause more violence.
- I think it would be possible with people who have capacity to think and feel like humans.yurimon
- I think most of it is training. Budget cuts and lack of education/training is behind most of theseformed
- maybe. if you compare cops now to older gen. seems like shedding of brain cells in comparison.yurimon
- seems like the cops of today would only find jobs as bouncers at strip clubs if that.yurimon
- maybe work in a pizza shop,yurimon
- maybe, but that's society's fault and still an issue of education and trainingformed
- I think these guys become cops so that they CAN kill.monospaced
- yurimon0
What could be a potentially respected and relevant profession has been infested and transformed into the anus of America. somehow these positions of responsibility have been relegated to the lowest trash on this earth. I'm sure they could have handled it with more grace in their approach, especially dealing with individuals already down on their luck. Lets find more dumb fucks to give our tax $ money, to who they themselves deserve to be beaten for the assholes that they are..
- yurimon0
What could be a potentially respected and relevant profession has been infested and transformed into the anus of America. somehow these positions of responsibility have been relegated to the lowest trash on this earth. I'm sure they could have handled it with more grace in their approach, especially dealing with individuals already down on their luck. Lets find more dumb fucks to give our tax $ money, to who they themselves deserve to be beaten for the assholes that they are..
- yurimon0
What could be a potentially respected and relevant profession has been infested and transformed into the anus of America. somehow these positions of responsibility have been relegated to the lowest trash on this earth. I'm sure they could have handled it with more grace in their approach, especially dealing with individuals already down on their luck. Lets find more dumb fucks to give our tax $ money, to who they themselves deserve to be beaten for the assholes that they are..