Maybe it’s like homeopathy and by dropping the gun he became more dangerous.
That’s just how those people are. They have two guns and make sure the cops see them drop one to make the cops think he is unarmed, so they will walk up to him all nice and easy. Then, KABLAM! KLABLAM! Next thing you know there are two dead cops. Happens all the time. Don’t you watch the news? Another example of quick-thinking law enforcement preventing what could have been a horrible tragedy.
“Drop the gun, or we’ll shoot! We’ll shoot anyway, of course!”
“Drop the gun and/or we’ll shoot!”
Drop the gun and we’ll shoot!
“Shouldn’t that be ‘or’ we’ll shoot? Seems like a pretty crucial conjunction.”
(Stolen from the Emperors New Groove)
It’s still amazing that you defend police when you also think that holding them to ‘McDonalds worker’ standards like ‘remain professional even if someone says a mean word to you’ or 'don’t kill people just because you don’t like them, they look funny, or something other than ‘they pose a direct threat’. Police simply should not be shouting and shoving guns in someone’s face just because they’re a black guy wanted for a minor misdemeanor (especially one 1000x less bad than what the cop himself as committed).
How about shoving things up their ass?
Is that too much to ask for? How much do we have to pay them to avoid that? $300,000, $400,000?
It’s a leading question, and I don’t buy the premise. I can’t think of any minimum wage job where the job is to literally go around all day inserting toilet plungers into a prisoner’s rectum. And nurses and people who go into the caring professions typically don’t want to sexually assault people who they have in custody, so comparing police work to professions that get paid a similar amount is unreasonable. You’d probably have to pay cops at least half a million dollars a year to attract anyone who wants to put up with the terrible work without inflicting forced sodomy.
This part:
Yeah. Proud.
A classic example of how profiling has made black men into monsters who must be “neutralized” first and investigated later rather than people who have rights under the law. Police officers have shown more restraint when confronted by wild animals.
Here’s some news:
What a bunch of fucking slime.
Basically, he says it doesn’t count because they didn’t get away with it.
Rochester, NY:
I wish I could say it’s amazing how you continue to mischaracterize me, even though I said the following just upthread, in direct response to you:
Interesting definition of “defending police”. 
The fact that you said one thing not positive about them doesn’t change the rest of what you said.
The one little thing I said repeatedly, that they are incompetent and are not fundamentally intellectually capable of becoming competent? That we’d have to get rid of them and start over with a much higher class of human being to get much improvement? OK then. 
This is quite an interesting piece about police “courtesy cards,” which they give to family and friends, and are used as a sort of “get out of jail free” card for traffic offenses and other minor infractions.
As the author points out, an important part of policing is not only who get nabbed, but also who doesn’t get nabbed, and police discretion tends to produce fairly predictable patterns in the types of people who end up with their face on the ground and the type of people who get to drive away with a tip of the hat after a traffic stop.
They’ve come up several times in other threads, it doesn’t help the police’s image, if you ask me.
Most recent
I have an acquaintance that was telling a story of how they were in a hurry and in stopped traffic. There was no one coming the other way, so they crossed the double line, and drove down the wrong side of the road, passing a stopped school bus in the process.
Got pulled over, but because she is related to some cops, they sent her on her way without anything more than a verbal warning.
She told this story as though it were a good thing.