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Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:35 am to UGATiger26
quote:I guess the cop should figure some shite out before he starts violating people’s constitutional rights. The law doesn’t and shouldn’t favor shoot/taze first ask questions later.
Yes, of course in hindsight the kid presented no threat (maybe), but there was no way that cop could've known that. shite, for all he knew the kid was texting a nearby armed accomplice.
This post was edited on 6/23/21 at 10:36 am
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:36 am to Pettifogger
quote:
dropping harmless teens
How in the f*ck is the cop suppose to know he's harmless?
He runs into someone's back yard when he sees a cop looking at him. He's wearing cloths that a burgler would wear. He keeps texting when the cop tells him to put his hands behind his back.
How could the cop know that he wasn't texting some of his buddies to come and "help" him with this cop?
The cop issued a lawful order. By putting his hands behind his back, the texting would have stopped.
Instead, he ignored the cop, kept texting, and potentially put the cop's life in danger. That ALONE should give the cop the benefit of the doubt in tazing the kid.
Perhaps the scumbag mom would have a "better" argument had he just went to the front door and rang the doorbell like someone who would be less likely to be considered suspicious.
This post was edited on 6/23/21 at 10:39 am
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:36 am to OweO
quote:Ahhh, so you did do SOMETHING
“I didn’t do nothing,” Rodeman reiterated.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:36 am to Pettifogger
quote:
But my position isn't premised on the poor kid, it's premised on my belief that cops should have to perceive a serious threat to use a taser. That wasn't present here.
The kid was like 6 feet away from him. If/when he did become a serious threat, chances are it would be too late.
Isn't this the whole point of tasers? To save lives? Now we're bitching at cops even when they use non-lethal force? frick, no wonder police departments across the country are emptying in droves. These dudes are always in a lose-lose situation.
This post was edited on 6/23/21 at 10:37 am
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:36 am to Pettifogger
Going by the video only there was no need for the cop to escalate the situation. The kid gave a reason for being there and it would have been simple for the cop to confirm his story. That kid could have split his head wide open or worse on the firepit.
Holding him for 21 days may be doubling down on stupid by Florida Highway Patrol.
Holding him for 21 days may be doubling down on stupid by Florida Highway Patrol.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:37 am to ReauxlTide222
quote:
Anyone who thinks this cop should have taxed this kid is a fricking moron
I don't think it's racial profiling, I don't even think this is some egregious example of police brutality
I think it's stupid policing meeting stupid kid. But teens are, by nature, stupid. Dumb police work shouldn't be the default, so the blame isn't going to be spread evenly.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:37 am to AllDayEveryDay
quote:
Black, brown, or blue, it's your right not to comply with a police officers request.
It's also the police officers right to arrest your arse by whatever method he deems necessary.
Would you please cite to the law that states that citizens must comply with any and all requests made by police officers?
Or would you like to modify your position?
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:38 am to MMauler
quote:so now texting is justification for use of force? Who knows, he could have been controlling an armed drone to come shoot the cop.
How could the cop know that he wasn't texting some of his buddies to come and "help" him with this cop?
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:38 am to soccerfüt
quote:
"caught"? inflammatory & judgmental term
how about "displays"?
"where he had permission to be"
Again, judgmental with intent to influence the reader against the LEO.
I still debate if this is an agenda or is it just what sells?
Journalists have to eat too and if unbiased articles don’t get shared and posted to social media as well as slanted articles, is that really on the journalist or the people?
It’s why I would like some type of professional certification to journalism, like the Bar for lawyers, Where certification can be revoked or suspended if they consistently fail metrics for professional journalism ethics.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:38 am to VABuckeye
quote:
Holding him for 21 days may be doubling down on stupid by Florida Highway Patrol.
Noticed that too. Damn, murderers get out quicker than that around here.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:39 am to Pettifogger
quote:Right, this is fricking absurd. He was threatening no one, he wasn't acting suspicious at all, he was probably trying to get his girlfriend to come outside and explain to the cop who he was. How does the cop know that it isn't the guy's house? Sometimes I act stupid and run down my driveway, you're telling me that it's okay for a cop to come into my back yard and detain me for running down my own driveway?
He was no threat to anyone and made no threatening gestures. Nor was he "entering" the home. The cop could have stood there and continued to point a taser at a practically motionless teen who almost certainly had told him his girlfriend was coming to let him in.
If he'd rounded the corner and tased him, ok, maybe. But standing there with no action on either of their part and just tasing him because he wouldn't let you cuff him, when the teen was idle - is stupid.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:39 am to UGATiger26
quote:taze people that aren’t a threat because…who knows if he might become a threat?
If/when he did become a serious threat, chances are it would be too late.
This board is ridiculous.
This post was edited on 6/23/21 at 10:40 am
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:39 am to WDE24
quote:
so now texting is justification for use of force?
When, upon seeing a cop, you run into someone's backyard and refuse to obey a lawful and MORE THAN REASONABLE command from the cop -- YES, it is justification.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:39 am to OweO
quote:
“he failed to comply”.
I found the problem
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:40 am to UGATiger26
quote:
Isn't this the whole point of tasers? To save lives? Now we're bitching at cops even when they use non-lethal force? frick, no wonder police departments across the country are emptying in droves. These dudes are always in a lose-lose situation.
He had the taser leveled at him. shite, if he's a genuine threat hold him at gunpoint (not advocating that under the circumstances). But tasers are still a fairly serious weapon, dropping the kid is no substitute for the completely deescalated resolution of the situation that was about to happen in like 2 minutes.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:40 am to chryso
quote:The guy was on private property and there was no clear crime being committed. It's not up to the police officer to guess or assume that a crime might be committed in the future, this isn't minority report
It is cool if people just refuse to comply as long as they are not acting aggressive? So as long as I don't appear threatening I can ignore anything cops say to me?
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:41 am to WDE24
quote:
WTF is wrong with you people?
When it comes to cops and politics and people of color this board has a hive mentality.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:41 am to OweO
Why did the cop go in the backyard? From the video this officer needs to be fired and never allowed to work in law enforcement!
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:42 am to MMauler
quote:Me, and 95% of people who are invited into my home.
(who goes into someone's backyard to enter their house -- or even their own)
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