Feel as if this should be changed to :

Official TTG American Police Incidents Topic

In main post only.thing from elsewhere is an officer getting attacked...

America seems to be a scary place
Dean

Dean wrote Feel as if this should be changed to :

Official TTG American Police Incidents Topic

In main post only.thing from elsewhere is an officer getting attacked...

America seems to be a scary place
Dean

Eh not really. Where I'm at I've never seen the police pull out a weapon on anyone. I hardly see the police for that matter.These incidents do gain a lot of attention though from the news.

These events, police killing people and people killing police ALWAYS happen. It's just for some reason the media has decided to milk the shit out of it now.

Everyone always points back to the fifties and sixties for Police. I hope they do realise that Police were 10x more racist and ignorant than they are today.

I am a police cadet(explorer, whatever your PD/SO calls it) with the local PD. Myself and my senior officer work in the worst part of town, a predominately black neighborhood. In every traffic stop, out of the hundreds performed, not once has anyone been shot. Tased, yes.

In the Tulsa incident, did that man deserve to get shot? God no. The video seems unclear what the officers instructions were for the guy but it seems silly to me for him to retreat back to his vehicle when the police have guns pointed at him.

All lives matter, regardless of race, ethnicity and up bringing. The only thing that should be questioned is the capability of Police Officers around the United States. Granted, these incidents don't happen in every city and town of every state but surely there would be very few incidents like what we've seen if all officers across the nation were competent.

The only way it is lawful for a Police Officer to use their firearm is if they suspect their life is in immediate danger. Immediate being, a suspect lunging at them with a knife or other weapon, or pulling a firearm on an officer. Reaching into a window, walking away and not listening to officers is not a lawful reason to shoot a suspect, regardless of their crime, it never will be lawful. Even if an officer is being lunged towards by a suspect with a knife, it is not impossible, or difficult for that matter to disarm a suspect and it's something that is learnt in Police Training, and that brings me onto the next point;

Are these officers even trained up to a sufficent standard? From an outsiders point of view, some are very well trained but some are exceptionally poor and bring their PD, the badge and the police around the world into disrepute.

I agree with the Black Lives Matter movement but it isn't the way to go about things. It's segregating. Demanding and protesting about the training and competence of Police Officers would be much more suitable.

A man was killed and two officers were injured following a police-involved shooting in Brooklyn Saturday afternoon, the NYPD said.
Police responded to a 911 call about a suspicious man in the hallway of 362 Sutter Ave. at around 1:10 p.m.
sunday.

The uniformed officers, a male and a female, were patrolling the ninth floor of the Van **** housing project building in Brownsville when they spotted Erickson Brito roaming the hallway. They approached the the 21-year-old and asked him for identification.
A brief conversation soon turned confrontational when a fight broke out between Brito and the officers. As the policeman removed his metal baton, Brito grabbed it from him and began to beat the officers over the head, he was shot and killed.

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Great read, thanks