In Pennsylvania, the health department has one lab in the state that does all rabies testing. Specimens are couriered to the lab by a driver. The specimen has to be kept cool (on ice), which is easier if the specimen is small. Also, the lab has to destroy whatever is left after testing. Ideally the lab would recieve only the brain, but they will accept the entire head.
For small animals like bats, decapitation is not required.
Most people pay their veterinarian to remove and package the head for sending.
Watching the victim crawl, helpless, crying, while being screamed at - why are cops apparently the only ones allowed to go home alive at the end of the day?
One of the worst I’ve ever seen. Have another cop come up the other stairway and cuff him from behind or have the guy turn slowly around to get cuffed. A pellet gun? Is Arizona an open carry state?
Why the fuck do these animals have the respect of the people? This society deserves decline.
It is somehow lawful to subject a nonviolent person to a deadly game of Simon Says with an assault rifle aimed at him. This is like a Quentin Tarantino revenge slaughter flick.
He couldn’t simply walk over to the guy and see if he had a weapon on him. That wouldn’t get him off. He has to emasculate the man and force him to perform tricks like a dog.
And of course the state sits in judgement of itself.
I said it a long time ago: when the standard for defending police misconduct becomes “But I was afraid” EVERYONE IS IN DANGER!!! It’s not just unemployed black men in the ghetto with a history of petty offenses who ask questions and put up mild resistance when the officer starts putting the cuffs on him. White people assume it’s not their problem – this video shows what happens to poor black men can also happen to white men. Police brutality is EVERYONE’S PROBLEM.
Police brutality is indeed a problem, but I think videos like that (and the LaQuan McDonald and the Pilando Castille and many others) show something even more scary. That there is a certain segment of law enforcement that is extremely afraid of their job and when put in situations that have a possibility of gun fire they panic. When you shoot someone who poses a potential danger to you 15, 16, 17 times in rapid fire succession, the only conclusion is that you were gripped with extreme panic. Which leads to the questions: are these officers panic prone or is there something in their training that instills that panic/fear in them? And what can we do about it? Do we need better screening? Better training? Probably both, I think. but when are the people who do the training and screening gonna catch up and come to this realization?
One of the cops in the video was having trouble following instructions, and he didn’t have a gun pointed at him.
That’s the part that really gets be me about these stories: civilians, with guns pointed at them, are are expected to act calm, cool, and collected at all times. Meanwhile, the ones who are supposedly trained for this are allowed to be scared or nervous.
The story says that the officers were “screaming” at the guy. I did not watch the video because YT wanted me to sign in to an account that I choose not to have, so I cannot assume that the report is not perhaps a little embellished. Nonetheless, I have observed more than one video that shows the police at least shouting. When is that ok? The police should speak to possible suspects, at most, in a firm and clear voice. Shouting or screaming only serves to elevate everyone’s anxiety and render directions more difficult to understand. If it is the job of officers of the peace to increase hazard levels whenever they feel like it, that should be clearly stated in the department’s charter. Otherwise, the department ought to be charged to hire adults who are emotionally stable, not Harry Callahans.
The officer’s trial is prosecuted by the office of the DA. The DA needs to keep in good standing with the police, so that they will bring him work. Hence, in many of these cases, the DA is playing to lose, because they do not want the PD to be upset with them. It is kind of like a Club – no, it is very much like a Club.
eschereal I may be wrong, but I think octopus was mocking what he perceives is the anti-cop hysteria (of this thread in particular) wherein there is no justifiable reason why a cop would shoot a suspect ie: “they’re all psychopaths.” To which I would respond that it doesn’t take a psychopath to overreact to a situation. If a suspect who has no weapon and is clearly under duress can’t make any kind of move that doesn’t end up with him dead, I dont think it’s hysterical to point out that it is clearly a fucked up way of “serving and protecting.” The goal of the law enforcement officers should be that everyone goes home alive, not just them.
I wasn’t mocking anything. I don’t like unnecessary shootings and the police far too frequently shoot unnecessarily. Anyone other than police and they’d be locked up for shooting a man like that.
I clearly was referring to that specific policeman.
Training is absolutely the problem – training and culture. Under Obama I was hopeful that more federal oversight might actually gradually force some changes at the local levels. Now? Forget it. This president held a rally and in front of a crowd of police officers encouraged them to be violent.
That isn’t a training issue. That is a piece of shit who doesn’t care about any non-cop getting to pull the trigger execution style. As long as cops keep getting acquitted of first degree murder, they will continue to kill people.
Sorry about that octopus, it felt a little sarcastic, clearly I misread the intent. I apologize to you, but my comments still apply to anyone else who might try to apologize for law enforcement in these cases. There’s a problem that needs to be addressed.
Before everyone, including cops, started carrying around video cameras all the time, most of the time this would never even go to a trial. We’ve seen many cases in the past few years where no one was charged with anything until a video is later discovered. Only then did the DA feel forced to act.
I watched the video yesterday, and that characterization is not embellished in the least. I am still upset from having watched it – it is truly chilling and horrific. Not because of blood or gore – the video is in black and white, and although there must have been blood from the shooting, I did not notice it. But it is harrowing.
Although I can’t get it out of my mind, and so sometimes wish I hadn’t watched it, I do think it is worth watching, so that we can be educated about what is going on in this country.