# Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread

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**Created:** [October 10, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942 "2014-10-10T07:35:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 1, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/248 "2014-12-01T18:46:38Z")

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> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> Something to consider…the man in this story had access to or had a gun on him, and was tasered…twice…and given the opportunity to actually fire shots himself before he was shot and killed. Now I can’t find a picture of the guy, but knowing that area if I had to guess I’d say he’s white.
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> I wonder if a black guy would have enjoyed the same use of force continuum?
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> [Neighbors react to Versailles shooting](http://www.komu.com/news/neighbors-react-to-versailles-shooting/)

[He’s white.](http://www.komu.com/news/morgan-county-deputy-shot-suspect-dead-after-confrontation/)

So, a deputy was shot and injured because he chose to use less lethal weaponry against an armed man. That’s why people, including the police, are entitled to shoot first, if shooting is at all justified.

I’m becoming more convinced that black people aren’t being treated unfairly badly by the police so much as white people being treated with unnecessary kid gloves.

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