You can absolutely post what you wish. I am however asking ( even using the word “please”) that you take the fucking trouble to read what you link, rather than dump mis-read headlines on us over which you got your panties in a wad without bothering reading the article involved.
In other words, if you don’t want to read it, don’t ask us to.
I did read it. And three of my four friends read it and also thought it was a police officer (the first one who sent it to me indicated it was a police officer which probably biased my reading of it). It was the fourth one who pointed out it wasn’t.
You know what’s horrible? That American policing is in such disrepute that anybody could read it an accidentally think it was a police officer.
Anyway, thank you your majesty for graciously allowing me to post what I wish. Your graciousness and mercy truly know no bounds. I am such a pale shadow to you who was never misread anything. I bask in the presence of one so perfect as yourself. For truly, I misread something and then pointed out my own error, I am literally the worst person on the planet. Equal to at least 10 kiloTrumps.
I posted about it on Facebook when the news first broke that the officers were being charged for falsely pinning crimes on black people, and even among my super-woke FB following I think there were only like three responses.
Controversial encounter between link-enforcement and civilian
Police in Atlanta, Georgia area look for 18 year old black cop-killer Tafahree Maynard:
While it could well have happened this way others might think police decided to kill him as soon as they found him and the mower blade was the only possible weapon around.
Thoughts?
Who wants to bet that the officers were wearing functioning body cams that captured the entire incident?
And who wants to bet that the officers were wearing cameras that somehow failed to record during the incident?
That would be fair, in cases like this where it was deliberate. This is no “honest mistake in the performance of their duties” at all.
You set someone up for thirty years, YOU get the thirty years.
Massachusetts cop indicted by the feds for beating and unlawfully threatening a Latino teenager.
From the indictment (PDF):
According to this story, the cop in question actually, literally kills puppies:
People might not care that he beats women and hates Puerto Ricans, but they will definitely be calling for blood because he killed a puppy.
Here’s a two-fer: a situation showing that (a) it is possible to get a situation under control without shooting someone, and (b) there are plenty of cops who shoot first and ask questions later.
This happened in Robbins, Illinois, which is basically a southern suburb of Chicago.
A bunch of drunk guys are asked to leave a bar. Someone comes back later and starts shooting, injuring four people. Security guards get the situation under control, and one of the security guards has one of the suspects on the ground with a gun in his back.
Then the local police arrive on the scene and shoot the security guard dead.
I’ll give you one guess as to the race of the security guard.
I just read that same article; I was heading here to post. Remarkable. The whole “good guy with a gun” thing kind of goes out the window if the good guy is the wrong color, it seems.
Wow. That’s tragic. Not all that surprising. But tragic for the guard and his family. If you can, please post updates on whether the police officer is charged. It sure looks like they are teaching “Shoot first, ask questions later” at police academies.
I’m certainly not a trained LEO, and I readily admit that most of what I think I know regarding police protocol comes from CSI and Law And Order.
But this position appears to be one that an LEO would take with a suspect, rather than a suspect with a hostage.
By the way, the deceased security guard wanted to be a cop.
I don’t know why, but this one hit me particularly hard. The security guard does everything right, doesn’t shoot anyone, apprehends one of the troublemakers, he’s the hero of the moment - and the cops shoot him dead. Sounds like they didn’t even shout “Drop your gun!” or anything like that, just shot him dead.
Yeah, of course he was black.
Sounds like he was a beautiful guy, too. And he’s snuffed out, just like that. 
I also read this story and came here to post it. What an awful tragedy. I’ll bet that the cop gets nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
Don’t worry. The drunk will be charged for the death of the security guard.
Tell me again how a “good guy with a gun” is supposed to solve gun violence.
I think that the kind of people who say that mean a good white guy with a gun. It doesn’t occur to them that a black guy can also be a good guy.