re: Cop shoots suspect in the back of the head while struggling to arrest him grabbing taser

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only a leftist could think "ya know, running away from cops and resisting arrest is perfectly normal behavior".

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I don't know about all leftists but I do know that many blacks think that by how often it happens.

People should look at officers killed every year. It far outweighs incidents like this

Stop breaking the law a-hole!

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Alternate story: Man steals cop's taser, uses it on him, then executes cop with his own gun

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Local news at 10 that's about it.

Very well stated and one of the smartest statements I have read in quite some time on this board.

This is just my opinion, but if I know someone has a gun on them or any other type of devices they could use to bring me down, I am not trying to run away and then fight with them.

In the heat of the moment people's judgement isn't what it is in normal situations, but when I saw the video my first thought was "its April, midterm elections are this year... Right on track".

And people fall for it.

The following are numbers from 2021. The number of people by race killed by cops.

White: 234
Black: 139
Hispanic: 66
Unknown: 608

TOTAL: 1047 And I don't recall seeing a single one of these making its rounds around social media (not that it didn't happen, I just don't remember any being a big deal).

statista

As you can see, each race had a lot more people killed in years before 2021, but what is different in 2021 is the amount of unknowns killed.

Why do some people act like they are from another planet when they have to deal with police?

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GRPD officer charged with murder of Patrick Lyoya

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What.

The.

frick.

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Cop shoots suspect in the back of the head while struggling to arrest him grabbing taser

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He tried to flee first. Only after the cop chased him, tackled him and tried to tase him did he become "violent" in trying to defend himself from the cop's initiation of violence. Simply fleeing is not an act of violence, although it does raise the suspicion of guilt a notch or two, but not to the level of guilt.

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The thing is, the flight itself is a crime. Maybe not a violent crime, but a crime nonetheless.

I will never understand this whole “just let them run” line of thought. Let’s assume for a moment that the police do have accurate registration data on the vehicle (meaning not stolen plates). Let’s go even further and assume the fleeing suspect does indeed live at the registration address.

Then what? Should the cops stake out their house to collect evidence? How many man-hours should they spend doing so? Should they send a SWAT team in to make an arrest at home on charges of fleeing a traffic stop?

That’s asinine. It would require an extraordinary amount of resources, and an arrest at home is far more likely to result in casualties (both among the police, suspects, and innocent bystanders) than arrest at a traffic stop. Not only is it more dangerous, it also gives the criminal (who has already become a criminal, regardless of initial suspicion, by fleeing) a much better chance to evade arrest and/or destroy any evidence that would have been found initially.

So if you aren’t going to set up a raid to arrest them, what’s the alternative? Just let them go and hope they don’t run next time they get pulled over? At that point why have a police force at all?

The entire idea that cops should just let them run is ridiculous. You have a constitutional right to due process, but you don’t have a constitutional right to avoid due process by running away. There can be no due process in that scenario.