Me either. I didn’t remember the eight rounds. He must have emptied his gun or there’s no telling how many times that poor, innocent kid would have been shot.
To me, that case (the cop who shot 8 times in the guy’s back) is an interesting one from a social perspective. He clearly snapped. He had never been in serious trouble before (he was cleared of one incident of using a taser unnecessarily). He would never be allowed to own a firearm again. He poses pretty much zero risk of reoffending. Is there any point to putting him in jail for 20 years other than vengeance? I’m not sure how society benefits. It makes the victims feel better, but that’s all.
Do you think the fear of jail would prevent someone from doing that? I’m not sure. If so, it might be worth jailing him.
I do not think that.
I don’t think either. I’m not sure how that could be studied.
None. The last three cases posted have one thing in common. All 3 ran. If they wouldn’t have run from authority they might still be alive.
Possibly true, but irrelevant. Cops do not have the right to murder a fleeing suspect.
Apparently, they do or they wouldn’t carry a gun.
They have the ability to, Michele. They do not have the right to.
Then what’s the gun for?
Michele, you are being intentionally difficult. The purpose of a policeman’s gun is not to let him commit murder of unarmed fleeing people. I’m going to go do some work now.
I never said it was nor will I. I’m just stating, whether they use it legally or not, officers have the power to shoot anyone they want at any time or they wouldn’t be issued a gun.
Al Sharpton said if Nichols was white he wouldn’t have been beaten. I disagree. They would have beaten him if it was personal. I believe it was personal to one of them. I don’t know if he meant for Nichols to die or not but he may have beaten him in anger. He used the Law to exact vengeance. That’s especially heinous.
I think the guy that initiated the whole thing was white. Hemphill.
Sharpton is probably right.
Either way, Sharpton is probably right. There’s probably no white people that live there.
I have no idea if Tyre Nichols was screwing that cop’s wife. There is no evidence yet. Just rumours. That said, it is the only thing that makes any sense here. Five cops with apparently clean records (at least I haven’t read anything bad about their records) suddenly went crazy and murdered a guy for what? At least this would give us a reason if it turns out to be true.
At least one of them has had some kind of trouble or been reprimanded on the job before.
It appears they worked together. He probably didn’t like that, especially if the woman was sharing information with the cop about her work day with Nichols. He was probably talking to his co-workers about it and they planned to find and hurt him. How far they intended for that to go is a mystery but we may learn something more about their intentions over time.
I didn’t know what you were talking about when I first read this. Looks like there’s even more to this case.
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Looks like the Dilbert comic is now canceled. He seems pretty calm. He either wanted to retire or is a complete moron.
I actually pretty much never see blacks beating up whites.