re: Grand Jury Doesn't Indict Cops who kill man with down syndrome

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it is because everyone buys unti the bullshite claim that the cop was fearing for his life

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Meh, IDK.

This situation is awful. That being said, I'd hate to be a cop. You go through training that teaches you your most at risk of injury or death while detaining a suspect. I'm sure you see videos of the right and wrong way to do it, where cops are killed or where cops go over the line and are prosecuted. However, when a struggle begins, I would think your first instinct is to protect yourself and deal with the ramifications after the fact.

It is incredibly sad when something like this happens, but I won't pretend to act like It is easy to stay calm in some of these situations. In fact, I think the "problem" is that of the people who are capable of staying perfectly calm and rational when shite starts to fall apart, the subset who choose to be cops is incredibly small. In other words, there is a greater need for cops than there are people suitable to be cops, and I'm not sure how you fix that.