17 Year Old Shot And Killed By Cop

Rusha

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And you've encouraged bad apple cops

Wrong. I have clearly stated that *bad apple cops* should be confronted in court. Unlike you, I do not encourage civilians to initiate or participate in a roadside brawl.
 

gcthomas

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Wrong. I have clearly stated that *bad apple cops* should be confronted in court. Unlike you, I do not encourage civilians to initiate or participate in a roadside brawl.

Yes, you said that. But you are taking the side they'd want you to take in this, regardless.
 

Granite

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Yes, you said that. But you are taking the side they'd want you to take in this, regardless.

Correct. That's what they count on--enough "good people" remain uncomfortable with holding cops to account, so it rarely if ever happens. And enough so-called "good cops" choose to do nothing (except to tell themselves they're still the "good guys," for whatever reason). So it goes.
 

glorydaz

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So, you weren't serious?

About Gunsmoke? No, I was not serious. I know Dodge City was not as it was portrayed in the tv show. :chuckle:



And your plain and simply wrong. So we can not talk past each other, what is your definition of a police state?

I'm assuming it's what's being portrayed on threads like this, and that's what I'm finding so far fetched. What I'm seeing is nothing more than fear mongering not based on facts at all.
 

Rusha

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Yes, you said that. But you are taking the side they'd want you to take in this, regardless.

Pfffftttt ... no, I am taking the side of *common sense*. Unlike you. Simply showing a license and registration is an act of nonaggression that would have most likely ended in kid receiving a lecture or warning ticket.
 

gcthomas

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Pfffftttt ... no, I am taking the side of *common sense*. Unlike you. Simply showing a license and registration is an act of nonaggression that would have most likely ended in kid receiving a lecture or warning ticket.

"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen." Attributed to*Albert Einstein

You are right that complete compliance would have smoothed things. But the kid did not start the aggression; his behaviour was polite passive non-compliance in the video clip. The cop started getting angry and initiated the aggression in order to bully the kid into grovelling compliance. The kid acted wrongly, but for non-violent non-compliance to result in seven (!) bullets in his corpse suggests that common sense escaped the cop as he escalated the situation in anger.
 

ok doser

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But the kid did not start the aggression; his behaviour was polite passive non-compliance...

which is a violation of the law and justification for the officer to arrest him

but for non-violent non-compliance to result in seven (!) bullets

i'm fascinated why you continually misrepresent the situation

do you think you're fooling anybody?

why do you keep ignoring the fact that the kid assaulted the officer?

(which, btw, really doesn't meet the definition of "non-violent non-compliance")
 

brinny

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which is a violation of the law and justification for the officer to arrest him



i'm fascinated why you continually misrepresent the situation

do you think you're fooling anybody?

why do you keep ignoring the fact that the kid assaulted the officer?

(which, btw, really doesn't meet the definition of "non-violent non-compliance")

When did this 17 yr old assault the officer?

Did i miss something?
 

gcthomas

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The kid, from what the video shows, was compliant in lying prone, and the cop kicked the phone then tasered him to force compliance. The taser was not used in defence. Even if the assault was justified by the passive non-compliance, it was certainly the cop who escalated the stop to violence.
 

ok doser

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the officer, in the hospital, after the shooting:

361514-officer-frost-injuries-3d2b8.jpg


the kid resisted arrest, the officer tried to use his non-lethal weapon, the taser, it failed, the kid got on top of him whaling on his face, so the officer shot him


the story gcthomas is trying to sell is: the kid refused, politely, to produce his license and registration, so the officer executed him at roadside
 

ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
... the cop kicked the phone

didn't kick

watch the video

he leans over, holding the taser in his right hand, reaches down with his left, takes the phone out of the kid's hand and tosses it

that's when the kid starts struggling

then tasered him to force compliance.

right, because the kid was struggling

it's hard to get the cuffs on when they're struggling
The taser was not used in defence.

not defense, no

to control the situation and get the cuffs on

Even if the assault was justified by the passive non-compliance, it was certainly the cop who escalated the stop to violence.

:doh:
you're a retard
 

brinny

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the officer, in the hospital, after the shooting:

361514-officer-frost-injuries-3d2b8.jpg


the kid resisted arrest, the officer tried to use his non-lethal weapon, the taser, it failed, the kid got on top of him whaling on his face, so the officer shot him


the story gcthomas is trying to sell is: the kid refused, politely, to produce his license and registration, so the officer executed him at roadside

THIS is the officer? Really?

How did he get like that?

Apparently i missed something.

Where does it give an account of how this officer got this way?
 

gcthomas

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This.

on the other hand, if I'm frost and I shoot the kid dead for reasons that might not be appropriate and realize I'm in a world of trouble, and I realize my body cam's off and I'm out of the line of sight of my dashcam, if I'm a quick thinker I slam my face into the pavement a couple times real quick and claim he attacked me
 

ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
that's what you think happened?


that's more believable to you than a kid outraged over being stop unjustly (in his mind), being arrested unjustly (inhis mind) and having his cell phone taken away attacking the cop?
 
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