Michael wrote:windwalker wrote:Michael wrote:When I grew up in Dallas, there were some cops, not many, who literally put notches on their service revolvers for each "person" they shot. There was a recognizable trend regarding the pattern of differential pigmentation between the shooters and the shootees.
gots to have a bogyman
I call BS on the shit you just wrote. Prove it
Good on you for defending the police. Just don't be such a smug, passive-aggressive pussy about it and act like no one here understands the training issue or departmental policy.
After some vicious beat-downs and shootings by Dallas police in the early 80's, I saw a local news report on TV that featured one of the cops who notches his gun.
always ends up as an attack. nice, almost text book
lets start by I dont defend the police. I do question and try to understand view points which seem very different then my own.
If presented with facts in a rational way I would and have changed my views,,,I do look at both sides
As far as the M16A1 ect.... It was not clear to me at the time as to the type of weapon or rifle, and no one here asked or mentioned it.
sure many might know of the burst 3 shot...but did not ask about why 3 shots
why not more? The focus seems to be on some officer shooting at someone intentionally. I don't buy it...
They came expecting to find someone as reported with a weapon. In light of whats going on now with ambushes
I would expect that any officer would be very circumspect in their encounters in this situation.
From what I've read so far very little is mentioned about the type of rifle used,,,why?
The police chief is Black, which means there will be no one asking about investigating the dept itself.
The officer was or is not white, the way it gets reported is different from jump.
Instead of condemnation people are asked to wait and try to see what happened
Rivera offered an explanation Thursday, saying that the police officer opened fire because he thought the white individual, whom they later learned is a man with autism, was going to harm Kinsey.
"This wasn't a mistake in the sense that the officer shot the wrong guy or he thought that Kinsey was the bad guy," he said in a press conference Thursday.
"The movement of the white individual made it look like he was going to discharge a fire arm into Mr. Kinsey and the officer discharged trying to strike and stop the white man and unfortunately, he missed the white male and shot Mr. Kinsey by accident."
Rivera said that the video footage of the incident was "being portrayed poorly."
It would seem that it was intentional, but he missed....this is troubling considering it was a rifle.
North Miami police said the officer opened fire after attempting to negotiate. Kinsey and his attorney said that the police explanation doesn't add up. State authorities said they're investigating the incident.
The unidentified officer has been placed on administrative leave and he issued a statement in form of a text message, which was read aloud to the media by Rivera.
"I took this job to save lives and help people," according to the officer's text statement. "I did what I had to do in a split-second to accomplish that, and hate to hear others paint me as something I'm not."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/21/us/miami- ... -shooting/"Thursday, saying that the police officer opened fire because he thought the
white individual, whom they later learned is a man with autism, was going to harm Kinsey."
one guy has a name, the other is just white.
The officer is just an officer,,,its reported different.
If the officer happened to be white. It would be reported as the white officer.
The officer obviously made a mistake, how he is charged even if he is charged will depend on what is presented
it may or may not correspond to peoples understanding of what a threat is, or is not....
no I don't automatically support the officers...it would seem that here its a given that there is only one, explanation
for why things happen and can be no other.
update
North Miami city manager Larry M. Spring said Officer Jonathan Aledda is responsible for mistakenly shooting Charles Kinsey while the therapist rushed to the aid of his troubled patient.
Retired firearms expert Robert Hoelscher, who spent 50 years with the Miami-Dade Police Department, said it’s hard to perceive how the situation was misjudged, but it was — grossly.
“I wish there was something positive I could say. You arrive on scene and a guy’s playing with a toy truck. Why do you bring out the assault rifle?” Hoelscher asked. “You can’t get enough training when you’re dealing with lethal force. This is as bad a situation as I’ve ever seen. It’s a good thing he was obviously a lousy marksman.”
Rivera, at the end of his press conference Thursday, read from a statement he said was from Aledda.
“I took this job to save lives and help people,” the officer said. “I did what I had to do in a split second to accomplish that and hate to hear others paint me as something that I’m not.”
Read more here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c ... rylink=cpy