Quote (balrog66 @ Dec 7 2019 08:56am)
Not all of em do it for the community though. Plenty of wannabe warriors who are looking to be the biggest baddest cop in town, along with the actual genuine caring cops.
Interview with the father of the UPS driver:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6gJw9BwUP8That is true, there are some bad officers out there. I like to think the far overwhelming amount are good, but when you have an officer that isn't in the right mindset for the job, bad things happen.
As an example the shooting in, I believe Nevada with the hotel and the drunk man that came crawling down the hall, I know one of the officers had a dust cover that said "you're fucked" or something along those lines written on it, extremely unprofessional and that makes me question him immediately. The whole case was bad and handled poorly.
But. Departments do a pretty extensive interview process, mental health evaluations and more however. At least in Minnesota. I can't say that will always guarantee that a mistake is never made.
Anyways. I watched the interview, and I did watch the actual shooting incident video basically right away after my first post prior to editing (should have watched it first oops).
But yes, based on what I've seen on that video. I will say, that at the specific time, the UPS driver came crawling out of the vehicle, there needed to be better placed shots. So much risk of collateral damage. I'm not sure what happened there, if people just started spraying when they saw both present, or what.
Regardless, the fact that a wall placed shot wasn't placed on the robber and that the UPS man, based on the video and what I'm seeing and speculating on that, I believe was shot by the police is tragic. In that moment where they both were exiting, that part was handled poorly.
Can't really comment on the rest of it, since I haven't seen it.
This post was edited by GLYC123 on Dec 7 2019 09:19am