Was this shooting justified?

[Black Heart]

Here is a video of a recent shooting.

Watch and comment.

Was this shooting justified?

[thaimeme]

Vacant of any decent ethics/morals.

[Black Heart]

^ Who?

[Davis Knowlton]

^Ignore the comment. It's simply one of his daily dozens of totally incomprehensible, meaningless posts which clutter up threads throughout the forum, adding nothing.

[taxexile]

should have put one in "mr muthufukku" too.

[Black Heart]

Please give an opinion, if you have one, and the reasons to support your position.


Good day, gentlemen (and ladies).

[PeeCoffee]

Supposedly two of the officers had body cameras which may provide what heightened the response to a shooting once provided.

Additionally, some interesting details have been released about the man who was shot (though how unfortunate that might sound as a life was taken).

[jamescollister]

Trouble is police are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't, NY just recently, cops jumped on the big fat black guy and he died.
Cries of police brutality and excessive force, batons don't really subdue nutters or drunks/junkies, video of cops standing around hitting a guy with batons yelling face down, look worse.
Gas and tazers are not always effective, then you have that little thing called health and safety. Don't know the US rules, BobR may, but UK, OZ, you are not allowed to put yourself in a position of danger, break the rules and you may fine yourself without compensation should you sustain a serious injury.

[NZdick1983]

^ Howdy 'Black Heart' bro *ironic/aptly named for this thread

are you kidding me? they already had those black dudes subdued on the ground
with 4-5 huge police officers towering above him, all under control - then shoot
the poor mother f.... from nowhere???

by all means, beat them with your fists, let all that nigger rage out lol, but sweet
jesus, no need to shoot the dude...

*that's my opinion on face value, I don't know the details.. did he pull a gun?
I can't believe they just shot the guy like that.

[taxexile]

Turns out he was a bank robbing con man with a history of violence.

Looks like job done then.

[NZdick1983]

Are you guys sure he didn't manage to grab a gun off one of the officers?
if that's the case, can I change my mind? (like a girly)

that's the only way it would vindicate the use of deadly force.
hey, maybe it was national 'kill a nigga day' or something?

[FlyFree]

Trouble is police are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't

Rubbish. Nobody's forcing them to be cops. If they can't handle the job, well the options are the same as any job.

Sick of cops acting like gods, worldwide, then crying into their fuckin tissues about their tough life.

They serve and protect only themselves, by and large, these days. Is it a mystery as to why they are reviled on such a wide scale?

[jamescollister]

Trouble is police are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't

Rubbish. Nobody's forcing them to be cops. If they can't handle the job, well the options are the same as any job.

Sick of cops acting like gods, worldwide, then crying into their fuckin tissues about their tough life.

They serve and protect only themselves, by and large, these days. Is it a mystery as to why they are reviled on such a wide scale?

Do you have a job, do you follow the rules of your employment, or do you disregard health and safety and do as you think fit.
Police, firemen ambos all do just a job, as do oil workers etc do as told or join the unemployment line.
If you don't like your police, do something about it, stand up and be heard, make a difference, keyboard warriors don't pull much weight.

[Horatio Hornblower]

James you speak of safety, the three cops that were shooting, did they think of the safety of the two cops in the line of fire.

That incident shows the lack of discipline and training.

On average its takes 21 weeks to train a cop, and they let these psycho's out to protect the public.

[NZdick1983]

^Bro, don't you know nothing! they be using saapecial guns bro, their bullets have no affect on whites - they just bounce off! those bullets can only kill niggas!

[FlyFree]

Trouble is police are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't

Rubbish. Nobody's forcing them to be cops. If they can't handle the job, well the options are the same as any job.

Sick of cops acting like gods, worldwide, then crying into their fuckin tissues about their tough life.

They serve and protect only themselves, by and large, these days. Is it a mystery as to why they are reviled on such a wide scale?

Do you have a job, do you follow the rules of your employment, or do you disregard health and safety and do as you think fit.
Police, firemen ambos all do just a job, as do oil workers etc do as told or join the unemployment line.
If you don't like your police, do something about it, stand up and be heard, make a difference, keyboard warriors don't pull much weight.

Keyboard warrior? Because I don't agree with uniformed thugs and make a comment?

Goosestep much?

[boloa]

Trouble is police are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't

I think they do it because they like it

[Black Heart]

NZdick,

please add positive commentary to this thread and not histrionic emotional generalizations.

[NZdick1983]

^ok boss.

[Black Heart]

This guy was violent, resisiting and close to 4-5 guns (in the officers' holster) which is a very dangerous situation.

This guy robbed a bank and pistol whipped a bank employee.

Should he have been out on the streets to begin with?


LA homeless man shot dead by police had stolen Frenchman's identity to follow Hollywood dream - Telegraph

[Horatio Hornblower]

Should you take the time, to watch you own vid posted you will find that the cops shot him in the back.

I really can't see how the guy was going for there holsters, if your being forcibly turned, your arms are being either restrained by the ground or one of the 5 cops.

For three to shoot at the same time, they must of discussed it .

[Horatio Hornblower]

here's a classic case of blatant disregard for life.

[panama hat]

Trouble is police are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't, NY just recently, cops jumped on the big fat black guy and he died.

Utter rubbish . . . they are not damned if they don't shoot to kill.

The fat guy was unarmed, not committing a crime and telling the cops he couldn't breathe until he ran out of breath and died.

Fuckers should be jailed

[NZdick1983]

^Agree with you bro!

Most of the time the police act responsibly using reasonable force - given the situation, etc.. but these types of cases are becoming ever more frequent it seems.

I still love America though (even though I am a Kiwi) most of them are decent people in my experience. *I'm drunk, hope that makes sense - been a hard week.

[Black Heart]

SWAT team serving a pot warrant at someone's door at 6 AM. Shoot him in the face and kill him.