Discussion for article #246608
Why… Why do police insist on shooting people for any reason.
Look at me mean? Shoot.
Wielding a stick? Shoot.
Carrying a toy gun? Shoot.
Breathing? Shoot.
Doing anything? Shoot.
Do these freaking idiot cops not know what the hell a STUN GUN is? Is a life (white or black) really worth so little to them???
The only time it’s acceptable to SHOOT someone (otherwise known as ‘use deadly force’) is if they’re going to shoot back.
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I like the Mayor’s statement. Here’s hoping she doesn’t cave to the blue and follows through with that attitude.
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What’s so unfortunate is this young black teen could have done nothing to avoid being shot. The Salt Lake City police would have found him and shot him if he was at home studying for a school test. He could have been working on his car in his driveway, washing clothes at the laundromat, quietly watching a movie in the basement or in a theater. Having police come upon him in the act of fighting and beating another person with a metal pipe did nothing to instigate this shooting. No matter how well behaved, law abiding and below the radar he was the police were going to shoot him.
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Am I the only one who thinks that someone ostensibly being beaten with sticks and not needing any medical attention suggests a more complicated story than is being told so far?
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Welcome to Amurikkka…please join the line on the right for your casket fitting. Would you like fries with that?
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This typifies the ammosexuals’ reason to exist… in their moist dreams they see themselves as heroes for shooting somebody (preferably a darker shade of pale) who scared 'em.
Just another ‘job’ creation tactic sponsored by the NRA.
Yep, she’s our brand new mayor!
Being deaf. One deaf guy was shot because he didn’t respond to police commands.
Nope.
We are supposed to be outraged? Why? The kid didn’t drop the medal stick and threatened the kid he was fighting. I am sorry the officers fired, but this isn’t an outrage.
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Wielding a medal stick threatening another person isn’t the same as a mean look, carrying a toy gun, breathing or doing anything. Wielding a medal stick and moving toward someone you are fighting is assault with a deadly weapon. Police have a right, and indeed an obligation, to prevent injury.
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I agree. Are we all reading the same story? The police were attempting to break up a fight. If you have a weapon, and refuse to drop it, then take the consequences.
Wonder how many who fault the police handling this situation would fault them if they were the victim being beaten with a metal rod by a teenager? I’m a black grandmother and I’ve told my kids don’t do the crime if you don’t want to do the time. No sympathy from me in this case.
That may be good advice for your grandchildren but no sympathy for a young man carrying a stick to be shot down by police? There is no good reason for him to be shot
We are all supposed to be outraged, but two guys went after a third with medal sticks (pipes?, ballbats?) and the police tried to break it up. They told the two guys with sticks to drop their weapons. One did, they other continued to brandish his weapon and move to the victim. The cops shot the guy attacking. They didn’t shoot the guy who dropped his stick. If they had shot him I would be outraged, but that isn’t the case here. They shot the kid who didn’t drop his weapon. A pipe or a ball bat can be as deadly as a Glock. End of story.
Here we go again. So the story is a young man carrying a stick (I wonder why? Late night stickball perhaps?) was shot down by the police. Says who? We all know how the first eyewitness accounts from the Michael Brown case turned out. From what I read, the police responded to a fight situation. If this young man was ordered to drop the stick and he refused, then the police was justified in using force.
Yeah, I can’t agree with you on this one. If, like the article caption shows, the two officers waded in with their night-sticks and beat the heck out of the kid, that would make some sense to me. Shooting a kid with a stick because he doesn’t stop-drop-and cower, or even turns to the officer… that’s called excessive force.
One of the things I’ve noticed in reports of these kinds of things is that officers shooting black people with (possible) weapons) always have to make a split-second decision, and seem almost always to make it in favor of shooting. Officer confronting a white guy with a weapon seem more capable of taking their time.
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