re: Dallas Police Shooting of 15 year old: Update: OFFICER FIRED

Can we honestly just cut it --- who
Gives a flying frick if they were drinking?

Louisiana is the home of cultural underage drinking. It's encouraged. Outside of Louisiana, many teens do it. I hope they weren't drinking any driving. But I'm
Not about to get into a character drag of a bunch of kids because they were being kids.

Officer just got fired

Well we can't understand it, we're not black.

But we're a considerable portion of the country, so if you want to do something other than protest about it, you'll have to articulate it to us. Eventually black Americans may be of a number such that you can get what you want accomplished without the cooperation of white people. But that won't be particularly soon.

And, as in any persuasive setting, you'll need to make your case in a compelling way. Blocking interstates and getting social outcast white kids to bang drums doesn't seem to work.

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Officer just got fired

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That doesn't bode well for him? Is his name out there ?

What I've heard was one shot to the head with a patrol rifle. Idk?

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Officer just got fired

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That'll show him. I mean he will get charged with something. But how many of us would still be walking free and only fired from our job?

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That'll show him. I mean he will get charged with something. But how many of us would still be walking free and only fired from our job?

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It takes a little while to summon a GJ and get an indictment on something like this. What they did today was spot on:

1) They admitted within hours of viewing the video that the video clearly did not support the officer's version of events

2) They fired him just a few hours later

I think the PD there is doing an admirable job of staying ahead of this story.

But the cop? The cop is absolutely fricked and is going to jail.

I have a feeling this officer will be made an example of (as well he should be). A senseless tragedy that confirms alot of fear.

Expect more unjust law enforcement action. It the natural off shoot when certain high risk groups denigrate the role a LE and the talent pool falls lower and lower. Until people respect the law and those tasked with maintaining law and order you will get more incompetent enforcement of societal parameters.

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I think the public has little understanding of these situations; their expectations of LEO's are unrealistic. It is inevitable that humans gonna human.

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Honestly, I can see pulling a gun instead of a taser easier than I can see shooting into a car moving away from you when all of the other officers are probably doing nothing.

Take Michael Brown. Is it possible the cop erroneously feared for his life and panicked? Sure. And that's what I'd call an "understandable" error. Not to say there aren't consequences, but as human beings, we can understand how that hypo goes awry.

Shooting a guy in the back as he runs away in N Charleston? Don't see it.

This scenario (so far) - don't see it.

Overall, I agree, it's a lot of pressure. But it comes with the job, and incidents like those two appear to be far outside of the bounds of what normal citizens will view as an "understandable" lapse in judgment.