Zoltan;1682204 wrote:The final outcome was they killed an unarmed kid. Those are the facts. As I stated earlier, the questions is could it have been avoided? Their approach was their main chance to avoid it, and they screwed that up. The final outcome, killing an unarmed kid, had everything to do with their approach.

They wont be, add em to the Garner and Crawford pile

I Wear Pants;1681992 wrote:More cops would be great in a lot of places. I like police just as much as other public services. I'm harder on police because we give them more power.

The drug use thing is valid but it can be better addressed when treated as a health issue rather than a criminal one. Drug use shouldn't be a crime until you actually commit a crime, as in harm someone or someone else. Until then it's a really stupid personal health choice. Like a million other things part of the solution is to stop the war on drugs.

cities now don't even have enough funding to have the amount of cops they are supposed to. I have yet to work at or know a police department that is even close to 100% staffing. more cops wont be happening any time soon.

So DUI shouldn't be a crime until you crash or kill someone? car theft is ok, as long as you bring the car back at the end of the night? pointing a gun at someone shouldn't be a crime unless you shoot them?

Glory Days;1682465 wrote:So DUI shouldn't be a crime until you crash or kill someone? car theft is ok, as long as you bring the car back at the end of the night? pointing a gun at someone shouldn't be a crime unless you shoot them?

The slippery slope fallacy is usually used by people of sub-standard intelligence to make something minor look a lot more horrible than it actually is. "What! Gays want to marry each other!!!! What's next: humans marrying fish????" "What! People want to get high!!!! What's next: Theft is cool as long as you eventually return what you took????"

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The final outcome was they killed an unarmed kid. Those are the facts.

Also facts...they did not know he was a kid. They did not know the gun was fake. The orange safety tip was removed. The kid was waving the gun around scaring at least one, maybe more people at the park. You have to consider all the facts....just not cut to fact that in reality he was an unarmed kid. The ONLY thing the police may have done wrong or is questionable, is the approach. They were first on the scene of an unknown firearm situation.....maybe in a perfect world they do everything correctly. But you have to mitigate judging the outcome by ALL the facts.

Yesterday, at the local high school (Sebring McKinley), a kid brought in an airsoft rifle to the cafeteria and started waving it around, threatening the students. Cops showed up and the little mother f#cker was lucky the cops didn't blast him. Asshole.

BR1986FB;1687352 wrote:Yesterday, at the local high school (Sebring McKinley), a kid brought in an airsoft rifle to the cafeteria and started waving it around, threatening the students. Cops showed up and the little mother f#cker was lucky the cops didn't blast him. Asshole.

but what was his race...

Glory Days;1687646 wrote:but what was his race...

I'm assuming white. Don't know who the kid was but there aren't many black kids in Sebring.