re: 3 BRPD officers on leave following Koy Moore incident

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I'm all for letting the situation play out, but to sit here and think or believe that every officer follows proper protocol would be foolish. Again, body cam footage should either justify the actions of the officers or not. It's very simple.

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You say this so casually as if it’s always perfectly clear. There is extreme subtlety in dealing with the public at some of the most emotionally charged moments in their life. There are always as many perspectives as their are observers and they always differ in various ways.

The fact of the matter is that there are often situations where there is no “violation of protocol” and yet, officers could have handled the situation better. There are also situations where an innocent person’s actions, although not illegal and even understandable, increase the likelihood of some tragic outcome.

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While you may think this is blown way out of proportion, that is the exact deal that happened to George Floyd. A situation that was blown way out of proportion turned deadly.

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The Floyd case is a prime example. It now appears that Floyd killed himself by taking an excessive amount of Fentanyl, and no actions by the police could have saved him. Nevertheless, at a minimum, the videos appear to show a callous disregard for his well-being when he was in obvious distress. It’s also possible that they “followed protocol”, if reports are true that the “knee to the neck” restraint was actually how they were trained to deal with people experiencing drug induced excited delirium.

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You say this so casually as if it’s always perfectly clear.

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Nothing is as perfectly clear when you draw your weapon on a subject. What may be perfectly clear to one officer may not be as perfectly clear to another. What is perfectly clear is when you arrive on a scene, you IMMEDIATELY turn on that body cam. That is what I am referring to when I say following proper protocol.

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The fact of the matter is that there are often situations where there is no “violation of protocol” and yet, officers could have handled the situation better.

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I clearly stated in my previous post that I'm all for letting the situation play out.

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Nevertheless, at a minimum, the videos appear to show a callous disregard for his well-being when he was in obvious distress.

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So the officers didn't follow Proper Protocol. And what police department's protocol is when you have a person handcuffed behind his back, laying face down on the ground, no threat to himself, the officers or the public, yet the officer feels the need to put a knee on the neck of someone that is in custody. If they justify that type of behavior from the police then that department needs a change. The need to the neck was UNNECCESARRY AND EXCESSIVE.

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Police officers should be trained and are held to a higher standard.

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How much do you think an employee of this caliber and training should get paid? I’ll bet it’s way more than BRPD is paying.

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If an officer cannot control his emotion in high stress situations then he's in the wrong line of business.

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You ever lose your temper with your kids? Spouse? At work?

Maybe you shouldn’t be a parent, spouse, or employee.

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Should be "dont do drugs and try to use counterfeit money.

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Well it still doesn't justify a DEATH SENTENCE. Because if that's the case, we wouldn't have enough prison space for those that commit that sort of crime. At the end of the day, the officer was an a-hole.

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From another article.
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BRPD legal division says it will take at least 30 days to release any possible video of incident involving Koy Moore

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That seems like an absurd amount of time

it also sounds like the exact same amount of time that a governing body is mandated to produce material under the freedom of information act

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Combine that with the rumor they were searching for someone who fit Moore's description who also had a gun

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So what if Koy had a gun? He's not a felon.

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So what if Koy had a gun? He's not a felon.

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Spot on.

Great post.

I would not want to be the next LSU football player that gets pulled over drunk or slapping his girlfriend around.

They have gotten special treatment for decades.

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Because no matter what he was doing if he was accused of having a weapon and treated as though he had a weapon without anyone having seen or reported he had a weapon, then the cop is wrong.

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