No, I looked at actual timestamps.
Body cam footage from this link; https://www.nbc4i.com/video/columbus...-girl/6552182/
Officer exits car at 1:40 (just before it hits 1:41), and shots are fired right as it hits 1:52.
Linear time, man.
No, I looked at actual timestamps.
Body cam footage from this link; https://www.nbc4i.com/video/columbus...-girl/6552182/
Officer exits car at 1:40 (just before it hits 1:41), and shots are fired right as it hits 1:52.
Linear time, man.
The situations in which the use of force is permitted in the UK comes down to the safety of nearby innocent people potentially getting hurt.
https://theconversation.com/heres-wh...al-force-76666Used in this way, the phrase confuses reactive action with pre-determined policy. As police guidance indicates, the primary purpose of opening fire is:
To prevent an immediate threat to life by shooting to stop the subject from carrying out their intended or threatened course of action. In most circumstances this is achieved by aiming to strike the central body mass (i.e. the torso)
Cops in the UK would have shot knife wielding 16 year old
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Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
I'm not really sure what the problem is with this shooting. It seems to me like the officer shot the girl mid-lunge; clear threat to life. If it was a civilian intervening, there wouldn't be any complaint. If the girl in the pink sweater had been armed and fired in this situation, we probably wouldn't even know about it.
The only problem I think I have with this situation is that he fired four times.
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No that really doesn't sound honest. Intimidation? Really? I'm beginning to think the image being painted of cops by the anti-crowd is something out of Mad Max. The act of committing the crime itself isn't met by police force as much as direct refusal to obey commands as a potentially dangerous person.
There are horrible cops. Chauvin, the chick cop who broke into the wrong apartment unit, those are indefensible except to the most asinine of bootlickers.
This isn't one of those cases, there was life in danger.
In the US, because it's highly likely that they'll be dealing with situations where suspects or others involve may be armed with guns. That's why they're not standard issue in many other countries, though are tools that police still have access to and can be used in situations that call for it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...debate/613258/
Like, pretty often it seems that arming US police is a mistake because they're panicky, unpredictable, and likely to shoot someone unarmed, or who has a legal weapon that they are not holding/reaching for/using to threaten anyone else. Simply having it.
Seriously, my experiences with cops as a child were overwhelming positive, including the one time a cop could have totally busted me for smoking weed when I was a teenager. Why? Because I was a white kid growing up in a smaller upper class city, where our police force was functionally 2 cops out in patrol cars doing the rounds and a few at the department sitting around. Nothing ever happened, you rarely ever saw the cops, and while there were break ins and some straight up robberies in some of the neighborhooods immediately around the freeway (where I lived!) you never saw any kind of hostile/militant police presense.
I mean hell, thinking back it's kinda silly at times. Especially as I'd see the cops in the last city I lived in (much bigger, but very much an upper class city with a fancy shopping district and everything) with fucking AR-15's in the center console of their vehicles, with magazines in. There were maybe 3 shootings in all the years I lived there, a few at downtown bars known to be awful and one where the cops shot a Black kid who was known to have mental problems (and one the settled on civil charges on). WHY THE FUCK DO THEY NEED TO SHOW THAT KIND OF EXPLICIT THREAT OF FORCE? They don't. It's pure intimidation, they're not needing to grab their rifles at the drop of a pin and those can absolutely be safely and securely stored in the trunks of their vehicles.
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The creation of police forces in the US from the early slave-catcher days, throughout their use as a tool to reinforce slavery, taken from beyond the slave days to their use to brutally squash the labor movement etc. etc. etc. etc.
The history of policing in the US is kinda fucking awful as fuck on every level, and it's the foundation for our modern police forces and why there remain extensive institutional problems.
So you're fine with cops playing judge, jury, and executioner and completely ignoring the justice system altogether. Great, good to know that you don't believe in the concept of justice under the US legal system.
Mind if I ask if there is any particular reason that you're choosing to die on the hill of "lethal force was the only legally justifiable action to take"?