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Originally Posted by Adam X
does anyone know the cop personally? history of being a prick or doing something like this?
Is anyones character taken into account anymore?
*throws hands in air* ... which is what the biker should have done..
fuck I dunno.. cops an idiot for what he did, he'll get reemed most likely.. make a mistake go to jail right?
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Adam, You clearly want to defend the position of the cop. We get that. Most of us are either pro cops or anti cops and our judgement gets skewed as a result. I have a cousin who is a cop, and a good friend who is also a cop. We naturally sympathize as a result.
In this instance though I think it's clear that the guy made a horrible call. The result means the person he shot in the line of duty will never walk again. He is trained to make calls of this nature on a daily basis. Forget the details about who it was and what time of day it happened, as those things are really secondary to why he made the choice to shoot this guy. If they came into his decision making process then clearly he deserves what he's likely to get because you don't just shoot an innocent guy on a bike in the back.
How would you feel if this happened to be a security guard who shot a biker messing around in a parking lot of JC Pennys?
Or alternatively if this were a hispanic guy in Arizona shooting a white guy in the back?
Same crime different circumstances that's all.