Debate about Gun Control

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-07-2016, 05:05 PM)taramarie Wrote: Another psycho cop with a gun shot an unarmed man. Thoughts from those who support cops blindly?

https://www.facebook.com/officialderrick...nref=story

I don't support cops blindly.

In the US, the training and judicial system seem to work on the meme that if a cop feels threatened he can use lethal force.  The last two incidents, the black victims both did have guns, but according to all I've heard, neither man was attempting to draw let alone threaten or use their guns.  The crime seems to be carrying while black.

At the very least, the cops have to train much better for such situations.  The media is tasting blood in the water.  Every incident is going to go front page national.  I don't know that the People are going to tolerate a continuation of these incidents.

There are other improper crimes involved, especially in the later incident.  Using electronic media to record improper acts by police seems to be criminal.  Using social media at a crime scene seems treated as a crime.  The police are accustomed to presenting the only (supposedly) reliable account to the judge, and get very hostile and improperly so when their actions are recorded and shared.  While taking a life is quite arguably more serious than anything else, I'd like to see even more people pulling cell phones when cops start misbehaving.  I'd like to see false arrest charges brought against the cops who arrested the woman who took the above video.  I don't think that modern police are worse than police have been in the past.  I just think the video security camera and the cell phone have poked big holes in the Blue Wall of Silence.  They just aren't getting away with abuse as easily as they are accustomed.