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Originally Posted by The Judge
I kept thinking that another cop was going to step-up and take over it was clear that nothing this poor guy did was enough . He was not a threat.
He was in a deadly game of "Simon Says".
There are thousands of cops can they all make-up their own rules as to what a suspect is suppose to do when confronted?
No matter what, laying flat with hands behind your head and legs crossed left over right not right over left is enough . Not to mention hands raised earlier.
A complete waste of life an innocent father and husband.
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Judge,
I saw pretty much what you did.
I am very pro-cop and I recognize what a difficult and dangerous job it is. Even more so in inner cities.
However, I am hard-pressed to find justification of this one.
My wife used the
Simon Sez metaphor as you did we she watched this.
Today, I sent this to one of my retired cop-friends. (We have breakfast together about once a month.) I asked him what he saw. His response was, "There must be more to the story."
My question was, "What can we be missing?"
I held my friend (the cop) accountable for his attitude. I asked, "Are you saying that there is
ALWAYS more to the story because a police officer "just wouldn't do anything like that?"
He admitted that there are "bad cops." My problem is that the knee-jerk reaction from police is that "there MUST be more to the story."
The public has a tendency to knee-jerk in the other direction: "The bad cops killed another innocent person."
While that is bad, this is worse.
Look, I get it. There is a brotherhood and that brotherhood has to exist for these guys to survive on the job. However, if the police will not hold themselves to a
higher standard, we need a police force to monitor the police.
Remember, I am BIG supporter of police. I was once on the wrong end of an altercation with police involvement. It took me a long time to get past the fact that anyone can be on the wrong side.
Just my opinion.
Dave Schwartz
