Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 10:02 am
Is an outstanding warrant used to justify a death sentence?
Looking at Doc's video in the other thread, it showed the police (3 of them?) subduing Blake. Then Blake gets up, and the best the officers can do is follow him with a pointed gun? If there was a reason to arrest the guy or even get to the point where guns need to be drawn, they should have just cuffed him earlier and avoided the whole mess. To me, that's a show of inadequate training.
With George Floyd - it's the same thing. Why knee on the guy's neck for 8 minutes, when you can just cuff him and put in the car? Again - poor training or something worse?
Comparing criminal crime to police on citizen crime is not the answer. The public expects the police to be better than criminals.
The police have a tough job, and they don't make it any easier with these incidents. Defunding the police to re-fund mental health workers and social workers and people who are trained to deal with specific problems will go a long a way to start cutting down the number of incidents we see of this sort.
Looking at Doc's video in the other thread, it showed the police (3 of them?) subduing Blake. Then Blake gets up, and the best the officers can do is follow him with a pointed gun? If there was a reason to arrest the guy or even get to the point where guns need to be drawn, they should have just cuffed him earlier and avoided the whole mess. To me, that's a show of inadequate training.
With George Floyd - it's the same thing. Why knee on the guy's neck for 8 minutes, when you can just cuff him and put in the car? Again - poor training or something worse?
Comparing criminal crime to police on citizen crime is not the answer. The public expects the police to be better than criminals.
The police have a tough job, and they don't make it any easier with these incidents. Defunding the police to re-fund mental health workers and social workers and people who are trained to deal with specific problems will go a long a way to start cutting down the number of incidents we see of this sort.
