Snipers Shoot Police In Us

[NoMercy]

In the wake of the shooting of two black men, anti-police sentiment is running high.

http://news.sky.com/story/snipers-shoot-11-police-officers-at-protest-10495445

[Bazile]

jim360

totally agree

[retrocop]

FAO Gromit

Race remains the most volatile flash point in any accounting of police shootings. Although black men make up only 6 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 40 percent of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year, The Post’s database shows. In the majority of cases in which police shot and killed a person who had attacked someone with a weapon or brandished a gun, the person who was shot was white. But a hugely disproportionate number — 3 in 5 — of those killed after exhibiting less threatening behavior were black or Hispanic.




Fatal shootings of unarmed civilians sparked much of the national debate over police use of deadly force. The Post found that they account for one shooting in 10.

See The Post’s takeaways
Related story Black and unarmed: A year after Michael Brown’s fatal shooting, unarmed black men are more likely than whites to die by police gunfire

//Regardless of race, in more than a quarter of cases, the fatal encounter involved officers pursuing someone on foot or by car// — making chases one of the most common scenarios in the data. Some police chiefs and training experts say more restrictive rules on when to give chase could prevent unnecessary shootings.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// How can you earn respect from someone you don't know? ///

By being respectful to that person, try it.

[retrocop]

//Islay

//Retro - they may think your taking the *** and lock you up for it!!//

And I wouldn't be able to live another day unless they lock up corpses!

[retrocop]

* would be able*

[bazwillrun]

Oh no Retro, dont pee on the parade, theyll hate you now, it opposes their agenda..

BBC radio 2 about 30mins ago never it let it be said theyre biased..much...primetime show, some black writer given airtime to state that in her opinion these are executions because of obama being in the whitehouse...

way to go BBC

[youngmafbog]

The problem is jim, it works both ways.

How can you expect a Police Officer (often on their own and miles from help) to be calm and not overreact when Police Officers also get shot over a tail light.

[ummmm]

AOG - don't be so rude. I treat everyone with respect!!!

[NoMercy]

There is a huge difference between stating that you're licenced to carry a gun and that you have one in your possession, and actually brandishing one.

This officer should have exercised more control instead of just opening fire.

[jim360]

That just makes the situation even worse, ymb, does it not? If police feel that their only way to enforce the law -- any law --- is to shoot people dead on the spot or risk dying themselves, any meaningful concept of law enforcement has broken.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// Baldric - this was a broken tail light not a war situation. The poor bloke was driving with his girlfriend and a small child. He was unlikely to open fire on the cops! ///

He did in fact carry a weapon, "play with fire, expect to get burnt".

[retrocop]

NoMercy

Question Author

//There is a huge difference between stating that you're licenced to carry a gun and that you have one in your possession//

If you listen to 25 secs in the Castile video the girlfriend says the deceased told the officer he was carrying a firearm and then commenced to reach into his pocket for his (documents). If the officer was NOT told at the time that the deceased was reaching for documents then it would be safe to assume the officer thought the deceased was reaching for a concealed firearm in his pocket seeing as he had just been told he was carrying one.

[ummmm]

And carrying weapons isn't illegal in the US.

[jim360]

Yes, but he was licensed to carry the weapon -- and anyway I thought the right to bear arms was inalienable in the US for some reason.

[anotheoldgit]

/// This thread isn't one of those.
There have been a steady stream of videos of people dying unnecessarily by police bullets. ///

All posted by you Gromit.

[retrocop]

jim360

Yes, but he was licensed to carry the weapon -- and anyway I thought the right to bear arms was inalienable in the US for some reason.

Very true but if you have been stopped by a traffic cop it makes no sense to reach for your pocket uninvited,by the cop, to allegedly reach for documents having just informed the cop he has possession of a concealed weapon! You would be asking for trouble and unfortunately it ended his life.
If someone suddenly took a playful swipe at me without warning I might ,just as likely , retaliate with a swift blow thinking the playful strike was a serious attempt to harm me!

[bazwillrun]

"This officer should have exercised more control instead of just opening fire."

just like you would have no doubt done in a similar situation...

[Baldric]

Retro, it's the Coffee Shop mentality I'm afraid.
"We've never been threatened or suffered violence at any time, but we've talked about it so much we know exactly how to react and deal with it"

[jim360]

Except that -- allegedly -- the policeman had asked for the man to produce his licence and registration, so his hands were moving to retrieve these.

Because we don't have a record of the conversation leading up to Philando Castile's death, it's hard to say how he worded it and what the gap was between informing the officer that he had a gun/ licence to carry and getting shot dead, but all the same the point is that it simply cannot be acceptable that pulling over a car for a minor traffic offence ends this way.

[Islay]

Baldric that's pretty insulting you have no idea of people's backgrounds!!