re: Officer-involved shooting in Minneapolis. 20 year old black male shot and killed. (update)

I started college playing football for The U before transferring to State. Granted that was decades ago but seeing this is sad. They gave an inch back in the 90s and in the ensuing years the left has taken a mile.

I went through college before people got weak about hazing. The only dangerous thing was then sending the white guys to a pizza joint in the hood. A place where in the years prior some thug walked into the joint and shot a MPD officer in the back of the head while he and his partner were eating while on break. (Yet it still felt safe enough that the only scary thing was using the bathroom which was at the bottom of a dark staircase.) The memory of that murder will influence policy and institutional teaching for at least another decade. It's why cops may go harder in those communities than they would have before the incident. I don't blame them at all.

The city is getting what they sowed. I would not send my kids to The U with that environment. The school has moved so far to the left that I won't be surprised if they mandate a "multicultural" class for all incoming freshman. Starkville will never be confused with a big northern city but it is by far a better place for learning.

So here's how this plays out. The bodycam footage clearly proves the officer's version of events. The shitstirrers will not accept that it was an honest mistake. The officer needs to move before her personal info is released to the press. This will affect the outcome of the DC trial. The result is either a finding of not guilty or it will be declared a mistrial by the judge or on appeal. Regardless we will see Minneapolis-St Paul burnt to the ground again this summer.

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I'm not here to argue over hypothetical situations.

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Fair enough

You do know that thousands of cases of people fighting and resisting officers take place every year right?

And I would assume you are familiar with selection bias. In other words, you haven’t watched the thousands of other videos where the suspect doesn’t die right?

With that in mind, what is the acceptable level of suspect death for criminals who decide to fight the cops? You can give me a number of a percentage.

Was the female cop, black?

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Would you accept it if it were a family member of yours?

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No. And their reaction is understandable and emotional.

But the adults in the room that aren’t emotional have to figure out how to handle this.

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Those pictures make him look like a queer gangbanger.

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This is a pretty embarrassing anecdote on the quality of LEO we have in this nation. I’m honestly baffled this mistake could even be made by someone that has ever fired a Glock.

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We continue to make their jobs impossible. We continue to cut budgets which leads to fewer police on the streets. We continue to make excuses why they aren't worth more than what they are paid. We elect leaders who continue to throw them under the bus at every turn and work to sow division in their communities. Yet, we still wonder why it keeps getting harder and harder to attract competent, well-educated, and well-trained individuals to the law enforcement field.

The young man freaked up by resisting and going back into his car. Lady cop freaked up by not realizing she had a gun and not the taser when she shot it at him. All I know is if I killed somebody accidentally, I would be locked up behind bars. She should be fired and charged for manslaughter. Both sides freaked up here and both have costly consequences with one being dead and the other could go to jail.

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But the adults in the room that aren’t emotional have to figure out how to handle this.

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What? Adults without emotions are the only ones capable of making decisions? Emotion is what make us human. We aren’t fricking robots.

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You don’t make policy decisions based on emotions. That’s how you get horrendous laws.

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Like voting to defund the police department. It is also how you get hypocrisy when the same people who voted to defund the PD then request personal police details because they have "received death threats".