This kid just as the 400lb man disobeyed a direct order by the Police to be still stay where they were.
Absolutely correct on all points. It is good to see more and more people stand up to the racial bullying that we see out of the Jester Jackson types.
Makes me wonder how that kid in California that was supposedly grabbing an officers crotch kept from getting shot in the head. Maybe the police shouldn't connect their guns to their balls. That way the gun won't go off when they get kicked there during a struggle. To me, there is a difference between the kid and the 400lb man on the tape. Even though both were resisting and both ended up dead, the way the officers handled it was different. In Cincinnati, the officers used force to attempt to get the subject to comply. That force may have ended up being deadly force (do we have the official cause of death?), but it was only deadly force in the aggregate. They used their training and used the nightsticks in an attempt to get the subject to comply. Perhaps they overdid it. I don't know. But as long as they didn't continue striking the subject once he started complying (if ever), then it is, at worst, a gray area. But despite being in a fight with a coked up, 400lb man who was actively attacking them, the officers involved in the fight did not draw their guns. The Houston police, however, were faced with a 14 year-old kid at maybe half the weight who was reportedly attempting to walk away (rather than actively attacking the officer from the start) when the officer attempted to physically restrain the kid, a struggle reportedly ensued and the officer went to his gun and, according to at least one witness, put it to the head of the kid during the struggle in an attempt to make him comply. So the Houston officer was ready and willing to use deadly force (you don't pull the gun unless you're ready to shoot) and made the conscious decision that deadly force might be necessary to get this kid to comply even though he had no reason to fear for his life or serious injury. The officer claims the gun went off accidentally, and that may very well be true. But pulling the gun in the first place may well have been an unnecessary action that escalated the situation beyond what it should have been. And, let's not forget, while the 400lb man was acting erratically in a public place, the kid was in an apartment playing a video game, apparently minding his own business. Once again, I am not condeming the cop in the Houston case. I just think there are enough questions about the officer's actions to believe it should be investigated, and I would prefer an outside investigator looking into it rather than the department themselves or the closely-linked district attorney's office. At the very least, there may just need to be some training and procedure things changed. The officer may have done nothing wrong within the current law and policy. But maybe looking at the case leads to a safer policy for the future.
Well said mrpaige, but it's probably gonna fall on deaf ears since apparently, you are a racial bully...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47475-2003Dec8_3.html One bit of good news out of Iraq. I thought what this one recruit said was morbidly funny and true for the situation. . . . For a police force that has faced numerous assaults in Iraq over the past few months, however, these are not easy concepts to grasp. Saad, for instance, said he learned on the streets over the past few months that it's kill or be killed. "Believe me, when I catch a criminal in the street, I don't put him in jail. I kill him. Who knows if five or seven years from now he will come back? So I kill him to finish the job," he said. . . .
