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(6,820 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)And I would add this instructor's maxim....
"You will not rise to the occasion, you will default to your level of training."
Which suggests that an officer who panics and acts on impulse is doing what he or she is trained to do.
niyad
(113,293 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Roc2020
(1,615 posts)life is upside down right now.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)apprehend a fleeing subject especially when they know his identity. Way to many cops with guns that have way to little training.
sop
(10,170 posts)the option to physically detain, handcuff and arrest people for very minor offenses should also be prohibited. Unless one has been living under a rock, it's obvious white cops typically treat blacks much more roughly, threatening to arrest or even kill them for the slightest offense if they don't immediately comply.
Approaching a car with guns or tasers drawn, screaming out menacing and conflicting instruction, always laced with profanities, should not be allowed. The option to physically detain and arrest people for minor offenses should be taken off the table. It just provides cops with an excuse to brutalize certain people.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)the hanging air freshener BS reason to stop a car. All looking for something else especially if you are a young African American driver.
ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)cops must get out of the mind set that they should always use the maximum amount of force available to them on every suspect (or at least the black ones ), on every occasion, no matter how small an offense is involved, whether the person is armed or not, and regardless of the circumstances surrounding the incident.
I'm sick and tired of cops who seem to operate on the assumption that black or brown skin automatically means "this person is extremely dangerous and should be treated as a direct threat to my personal safety, if not my life, using any amount of force I feel like using." That mindset is at the core of many (if not most) of these incidents where poc end up being murdered by cops for ridiculously trivial reasons.
Vdizzle
(383 posts)Swat can still have them, but common officers go back to like London Bobbys. Tasers and batons. Just try it out for a few months. See if it makes a difference in the common traffic stops. See if the citizens feel more comfortable. Just try it and see. If it doesnt work and a bunch of cops get injured or die, then go back. But if the unnecessary killings end, then great. We can be civil. People are inherently civil.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Stuart G
(38,421 posts)....Also, every cop, everywhere, must see this and think about it...
FakeNoose
(32,637 posts)... needs to be relieved of their duties immediately.
Retraining is a must, also re-evaluation as to whether this person should even be on the police force. This is above and beyond any legal actions that need to be taken against the LEO for his/her error in judgement.
Every lame excuse must be disallowed, and every error must be dealt with harshly but fairly. No mistakes with weapons should ever be permitted, especially when citizens are involved.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)and not like a force for maintaining and strengthening the peace.
bucolic_frolic
(43,149 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Why I always thought he was a former MP, he held it at his side, like they did in the old days.
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)traffic stop can turn deadly in seconds, EVEN if you're largely complying.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)It's terrible, either way.
Permanut
(5,602 posts)calimary
(81,238 posts)Glad shes there to make it and show it.
I LOVE protest posters. They can really boil an issue down to its essence. I guess the limits of a piece of cardboard can really focus the mind. Sure makes it succinct.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,599 posts)crickets
(25,969 posts)mia
(8,360 posts)Yet, why has it always been this way? Has there ever been a time when people didn't thrive off of the oppression of others?
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)NO DOUBT.