Good shoot or no? Atlanta Chief resigns.

[HaveGun]

Police confronted a black man who was intoxicated and fell asleep in his car in a Wendy's drive-thru. He resists arrest, wrestles with the officers, steals one of their tasers, and starts to run away. He turns and points the taser at them, so they shoot and kill him.

Not sure if threatening officers with a taser rises to the threat of deadly force in which comparable deadly force is justified. Perhaps it is. I know officers are justified in using deadly force if a suspect is fleeing that presents a grave danger to the public. Not sure a drunk guy with a taser rises to that level. In any case, the Chief of Police resigned and it has fanned the flames against police, again.

White Atlanta cops shoot dead a 27-year-old black man near Wendy's

Rayshard Brooks, 27, was seen resisting arrest as two officers tried to take him into custody in a parking lot of a Wendy's on University Avenue in Atlanta at around 10:30pm on Friday.

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[Oregonhunter5]

You point anything at a cop the need to shoot first.
You get drunk and pass out in a drive thru you get what you get.

Sorry if people don't do stupid crap there life would be much more peaceful

 

[Member 5605]

Didn't know a taser was a deadly weapon at distance.

Hmm.

 

[L84Cabo]

There is a gun involved in EVERY encounter a cop has. If someone is fighting with a cop and/or pointing/shooting a taser at a cop, the response has to be that the gun could become taken and used by the bad guy. Maybe the guy is just trying to get away. Or maybe he intends to take the cop's gun and shoot him with it and/or shoot innocents. You cannot take the approach of, "let's wait and see what the bad guy dose," because by then it could be too late.

If you don't want to get shot, don't fight with cops and don't point tasers at them. It's astounding that this even needs to be said.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

The idiots think cops are going to work each day playing 1 on 1 hoops or something.
There supposed to go home each night. If criminals act stupid cops get to handle you as needed

 

[BrentN]

Justice can only be served by hiring the new Chief based on skin color.

 

[Unicykle]

How long is it going to take these dog stupid morons to figure out if you just comply you get to live?

 

[Oregonhunter5]

How long is it going to take these dog stupid morons to figure out if you just comply you get to live?

My dog is way smarter than criminals

 

[Unicykle]

My dog is way smarter than criminals

Hell the dog in my avatar was smarter than me, the one i got now not so much but i guess personality goes along ways.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

If everything was good here the Chief would still have a job. Obviously mistakes were made and a man who didn't have to die was killed. This just reinforces the need for police reform.

I can see we can all improve at our jobs. But how do we know if that "bad" guy didn't have another gun in his belt. You point anything at cops it's not gonna end well. You can point your finger. You pay cops under $100,000 a year but folks think they are tribes like navy seals

 

[HaveGun]

In any case, Atlanta is now burning.

 

[Unicykle]

If everything was good here the Chief would still have a job. Obviously mistakes were made and a man who didn't have to die was killed. This just reinforces the need for police reform.

I dissagre completly, why are we so soft on crime and so hard on police? Police have a right to not be killed and go home to their family at nite. Some body so drunk they pass out in a drive thru... how may innocent peoples lives did he risk behind the wheel, resist arrest, fight with the police and steel a weapon he could use aginst some other innocent person, he made his decision and paid the price. Act like a rabid animal you get treated like one.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

My tax dollars pay police wages and I'm tired of the shoot first ask questions later mentality. I say fire and prosecute every cop involved in a shooting and let the courts sort them out.

Yet your not a cop

 

[HaveGun]

My tax dollars pay police wages and I'm tired of the shoot first ask questions later mentality. I say fire and prosecute every cop involved in a shooting and let the courts sort them out.

 

[HaveGun]

So in Atlanta, there is a questionable shoot. The cops are immediately put on leave and an investigation is launched, and the Chief of Police resigns.

Still, the residents decide that's not good enough and burn down the Wendy's where it happened. WTH is wrong with these people?? What kind of thought process leads them to react with extreme violence and property damage? How do you deal with people like this? I see no other alternative than to use violence against them in order to protect the rest of society.

It seems they will not be happy with anything less than absolutely no police or accountability for their actions. They want to just be able to destroy communities and commit criminal acts. Preventing them from doing so is racist. Just insane.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

So in Atlanta, there is a questionable shoot. The cops are immediately put on leave and an investigation is launched, and the Chief of Police resigns.

Still, the residents decide that's not good enough and burn down the Wendy's where it happened. WTH is wrong with these people?? What kind of thought process leads them to react with extreme violence and property damage? How do you deal with people like this? I see no other alternative than to use violence against them in order to protect the rest of society.

It seems they will not be happy with anything less than absolutely no police or accountability for their actions. They want to just be able to destroy communities and commit criminal acts. Preventing them from doing so is racist. Just insane.

Any reason to go animalistic

 

[sobo]

In any case, Atlanta is now burning.

I called it hours ago. Good to see my visionary powers are still up to Nostradamus standards...

 

[SonicBlue03]

In any case, Atlanta is now burning.

Somewhere in the great beyond, Sherman is looking at them thinking, "amateurs."

 

[Oregonhunter5]

My IQ is too high apparently.

Probably not

 

[BrentN]

My IQ is too high apparently.

7 weeks ago you joined a firearms forum, have made 4 troll posts in the political threads, and now claim high IQ. Indeed.