running away got him tazed. Getting stopped by an inept trigger friendly cop got him shot.

He was nervous. anyone who has done drugs and drove will have a twitchy paranoia to them and esp if stopped. If i read correctly, he had drug objects on him.. thats prob why he ran. The only personal responsibility he should own is running and getting arrested because he couldn't keep his cool.. but we know the results

I really, really don't want to believe that there is any cop, anywhere, that goes to work hoping that they get to shoot someone that day. That's not something that I can wrap my mind around at all.

In this case, I don't know if it's as much stupid as she wasn't mentally capable of handling the situation. That I can understand, and those people shouldn't be cops, but unfortunately you never know until you're in that situation.

Staged

50 officers were killed by firearms in the US in 2014.

It's time to call bullshit on the narrative that the job's dangers justify their itchy trigger fingers.

Just like it's bullshit that all cops are trigger happy assholes because a minority are.

575 people were killed by cops in 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...d_States,_2014

Tell that to the families of those 50 officers. I'm sure it will go over really well.

I'm sure the family of the guy this lady just executed feels all warm and fuzzy inside.

No one wants to die on the job. But statistically speaking, there's a lot of jobs out there where it's more likely to happen than by being a police officer. The idea that a police mans life is so threatened that it justifies their reckless use of guns simply bullshit.

And imbeciles like you eat up the police department talking points about how endangered their lives are. You read an article that describes the victim as a junkie and the shooter as a mommy and wife, and are too stupid to see how you're being manipulated. You take a cavalier attitude that his life wasn't worth much anyway, so who cares if he was sentenced to death without trial for running from a cop. The same attitudes that the police use to justify shooting people even when they don't face legitimate threats.

Cops love to shoot people.

Definitely not the same as shooting, but there is an officer in my area that is hoping to use his tazer on someone. I've been pulled over and harrassed by him twice. Both times he had legit reasoning for pulling me over, but he was super aggressive. Both times I was being very polite (even more so the second time), and he seemed to be trying to escalate the situation. It was very odd.

I mentioned it to my wife in front of her friend. Her friend used to work some desk position at the police station. When I told her the name of the guy, she said, "Oh, yeah. He's trying to use his tazer. He's been looking for a reason to use it since he got hired here."