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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Then I am naive. I don't believe the police either have/or should have the right to simply stop anyone they choose for no reason and start questioning them.
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They always have a reason.
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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Bad analogy because you are choosing to jump out of that plane. This guy didn't choose to go looking for those cops.
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No, but he did choose to run, and then pull weapons. Thus the analogy stands. Both scenarios have a choice, both have a given, and both have an inevitable end result, both of which can be avoided.
You make it sound as though it's specifically these cops in this particular part of that city who perform their duties this way. Not true. Why just a few years ago here in Winnipeg a couple of young guys were doing a B & E. The cops arrived on scene, the young guys ran. A cop caught up to one suspect, the kid pulled out a screwdriver and came at the cop. He was told several times to put it down, he didn't. The cop shot the 18 yr old guy dead. There was a huge blowup about it and public debate over it. After investigation the cop was cleared.
Funny too is, back then people said "why didn't the cop taser him? He'd be alive now", yet nowadays after several taser-related deaths people now want to ban cops from using them.
I'm not defending the cops, far from it. Some of you seem to think so but you're dead wrong. All I'm saying is they WILL use force when any kind of suspect resists. Bitching about it isn't going to stop that from happening, not in Oakland, not in Canada, not anywhere. In light of that I'll stick with my opinion that it's probably better to give yourself up and deal with the assholes in court rather than being a hero and pulling a weapon thinking your piddly little pigsticker has a hope in hell against a group of cops armed with guns and tasers.
right or wrong, just don't fucking do it. Hopefully none of us find ourselves in that situation.