Yes. When he's used it to threaten a homeless man, you're certain he has is on him (the cops immediately removed it from his pocket after the shooting, no need to search him), he refuses to cooperate, tazing him doesn't work, and he's strongly resisting being handcuffed and you're losing control of him - remember, you know for certain he has a gun, as these cops did.
Heck, you don't even need to remove the gun from your pocket to shoot it, or you can do like he did in a previous incident, try to grab the gun.
As I've already pointed out, at the risk of being repetitive, this is NOT about punishment, and any attempt to introduce that as an argument is disingenuous and a really dick move.
What's making the world more dangerous isn't people like me arguing that thugs are a problem, it's the thugs themselves. As a convicted felon, he was not allowed to have a gun. And waving around a gun while threatening a homeless man is not something that we can just ignore, no matter what the color of a person's skin.
When the grannies are acting like thugs and going around waving guns and threatening homeless people, get back to me.
First they came for the desktops, but I didn't care, I could use a laptop with an external screen and keyboard.
Then they came for the laptops, but I didn't care because... Tablets!
Then they came for the tablets, and I didn't care because Smartphones make tablets feel like boat anchors.
You can have my smartphone when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
Obviously you are willing to ignore that Sterling was armed, that he had threatened someone, that he had resisted arrest, that tazing him didn't work, and that (from the second video) the cops knew he was armed at the time because they didn't have to frisk him to find the gun - they immediately took it from his pocket.
This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with the guy's actions. At that point the cops were acting in self-defence, and you would have shot too, unless you're even more of an idiot than your statements indicate.
1. He was a thug for his entire adult life. That is justified by his record. You can read 46 pages of his previous activities here It's at the top of the page, but takes a moment to load since it's from disqus.
2. There is no reason whatsoever that this career criminal wouldn't have continued being a violent thug. Obviously 2-1/2 years of hard labor didn't change him, so jail isn't the answer.
3. There is absolutely zero objective evidence that the world would be a safer place with him, but there's plenty that the world wasn't when he was alive.
If you read elsewhere, I go into detail about the particulars of this incident; the shooting was justified, and the 2nd video proves it. Even after being tazed and dragged to the ground, he was still fighting back and refusing to be cuffed. The video also proves that the cops knew he had a gun in his pocket - they took it out without having to search for it.
So, aggressive armed perp, what would you do if you're on top of him and you can't control him? You know he has a gun and that he's probably not going to hand it over peacefully. You'd shoot, or be shot. Take your pick, but most of us aren't willing to be martyrs.
Even one incident of sexual harassment has been held to be sufficient cause to quit without notice and without penalty. And any employer who's asked you to do anything illegal is in no position to badmouth you if you instead quit immediately. As you can tell if you read the comments, that's not all that infrequent.
My point was that whatever the laws were for anyone else, Louisiana and Federal law did not allow him to be in possession of a firearm, period. A guy with his extensive rap sheet would never get special permission.
A police official said that Carradine was found naked, hanging by a rope in the room's closet.
He died from auto-erotic asphyxiation.
two of Carradine's former wives, Gail Jensen and Marina Anderson, stated publicly that his sexual interests included the practice of self-bondage. Anderson, who had plans to publish a tell-all book about her marriage to Carradine, said in an interview with Access Hollywood, "There was a dark side to David, there was a very intense side to David. People around him know that." Previously, in her divorce filing, she had claimed that "it was the continuation of abhorrent and deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly."
At least he wasn't wearing a monkey mask at the time. That would have been weird.
The cops weren't able to control him, knew he had a gun on him, tazering didn't work, and you would rather they do what - serve tea? BTW, as a convicted felon and repeat offender he knew that he'd be doing time for the gun he illegally had in his possession, so he was highly motivated to not surrender.
As for me, you don't see me going around threatening homeless people with a gun at 12:30 at night (or any time, for that matter). And if I were to be accused of threatening someone, I would let the police handle it, same as the last time I was wrongly accused of making threats after reporting a child abuser, and let the court give me the chance to screw over my accuser during cross-examination and drive them into a screaming fit at the judge so they get kicked out. That made my week!
Why resist when you can turn it to your advantage because you haven't done anything wrong... unless of course you've done something wrong, in which case you're already a stupid f*ck.
I'm about as far left as you can get, but you don't see me rallying around this thug. That's probably because I think political correctness is a disease of the mind.
From the initial complaint they knew that he had a gun. Even you admit they couldn't control his hands. I'd have shot him too. He wasn't being "punished" - so get your terms right instead of trying to reframe the situation.
In this case the shooting appears justified. Grow up. The world is a better, safer place without him. He could have avoided all this by not illegally carrying around a gun and threatening someone at 12:30 at night.
Toxic work environment. sexual or other harassment, unilateral breach of the work agreement (pay cut, type of work or location changed). 100% defensible even if your work contract requires you to give notice.
Get real, people. Sterling was a registered sex offender, with a long history of violent crime, spousal abuse, and had tried to disarm a police officer during a previous arrest. This is a guy who broke a wall to steal an old lady's goldfish so he could sell them for $20. Nothing was below him. He was well known to area police, and he's your typical punk thug who thinks that a gun makes him tough.
Waves a gun around threatening to kill someone, the cops show up, he is MOST uncooperative because he's a gangsta with a gun, and don't have to take no shit from nobody, especially da man!
It would have been (and has been) the same outcome if he had been white in Canada with a knife, as opposed to black in the southern US with a gun. You keep asking for it, eventually you'll get it. The world is a better place without him, and all other punk-asses. He doesn't get a pass just because he's black. Reverse discrimination is as bad as outright discrimination.
As for him being shot 4 times, nobody's going to shoot only once and then wait for you to pull out your gun. People are making a big thing about that because carrying a gun is legal there. They seem to forget that making threats while waving a gun around isn't.
This has nothing to do with race, and people shouldn't be giving a perp anything close to a pass just because of their skin colour.
Now all you people who are so bent on being seen as so politically correct and pure that you can't see or think stright, flame on!
This isn't facebook where you can post any soft of shit and people will believe it without question. People on slashdot will check sources; there are even some heretics who RTFA.
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Yes. When he's used it to threaten a homeless man, you're certain he has is on him (the cops immediately removed it from his pocket after the shooting, no need to search him), he refuses to cooperate, tazing him doesn't work, and he's strongly resisting being handcuffed and you're losing control of him - remember, you know for certain he has a gun, as these cops did.
Heck, you don't even need to remove the gun from your pocket to shoot it, or you can do like he did in a previous incident, try to grab the gun.
Two-faced bastard! :-)
They had already tazed him, and he continued to resist arrest, so they tackled him. I guess you missed that video.
Also, only 2 officers, not 3.
News Flash: It's not a peaceful situation when someone is threatening a homeless man while waving a gun around.
As I've already pointed out, at the risk of being repetitive, this is NOT about punishment, and any attempt to introduce that as an argument is disingenuous and a really dick move.
What's making the world more dangerous isn't people like me arguing that thugs are a problem, it's the thugs themselves. As a convicted felon, he was not allowed to have a gun. And waving around a gun while threatening a homeless man is not something that we can just ignore, no matter what the color of a person's skin.
When the grannies are acting like thugs and going around waving guns and threatening homeless people, get back to me.
And as you said, Fuck You.
First they came for the desktops, but I didn't care, I could use a laptop with an external screen and keyboard. ... Tablets!
Then they came for the laptops, but I didn't care because
Then they came for the tablets, and I didn't care because Smartphones make tablets feel like boat anchors.
You can have my smartphone when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
Obviously you are willing to ignore that Sterling was armed, that he had threatened someone, that he had resisted arrest, that tazing him didn't work, and that (from the second video) the cops knew he was armed at the time because they didn't have to frisk him to find the gun - they immediately took it from his pocket.
This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with the guy's actions. At that point the cops were acting in self-defence, and you would have shot too, unless you're even more of an idiot than your statements indicate.
1. He was a thug for his entire adult life. That is justified by his record. You can read 46 pages of his previous activities here It's at the top of the page, but takes a moment to load since it's from disqus.
2. There is no reason whatsoever that this career criminal wouldn't have continued being a violent thug. Obviously 2-1/2 years of hard labor didn't change him, so jail isn't the answer.
3. There is absolutely zero objective evidence that the world would be a safer place with him, but there's plenty that the world wasn't when he was alive.
If you read elsewhere, I go into detail about the particulars of this incident; the shooting was justified, and the 2nd video proves it. Even after being tazed and dragged to the ground, he was still fighting back and refusing to be cuffed. The video also proves that the cops knew he had a gun in his pocket - they took it out without having to search for it.
So, aggressive armed perp, what would you do if you're on top of him and you can't control him? You know he has a gun and that he's probably not going to hand it over peacefully. You'd shoot, or be shot. Take your pick, but most of us aren't willing to be martyrs.
Even one incident of sexual harassment has been held to be sufficient cause to quit without notice and without penalty. And any employer who's asked you to do anything illegal is in no position to badmouth you if you instead quit immediately. As you can tell if you read the comments, that's not all that infrequent.
My point was that whatever the laws were for anyone else, Louisiana and Federal law did not allow him to be in possession of a firearm, period. A guy with his extensive rap sheet would never get special permission.
"Found Murdock naked and lifeless with electrical cord around his neck" is ruled a suicide now?
Have you forgotten David Carradine and how he died?
A police official said that Carradine was found naked, hanging by a rope in the room's closet.
He died from auto-erotic asphyxiation.
two of Carradine's former wives, Gail Jensen and Marina Anderson, stated publicly that his sexual interests included the practice of self-bondage. Anderson, who had plans to publish a tell-all book about her marriage to Carradine, said in an interview with Access Hollywood, "There was a dark side to David, there was a very intense side to David. People around him know that." Previously, in her divorce filing, she had claimed that "it was the continuation of abhorrent and deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly."
At least he wasn't wearing a monkey mask at the time. That would have been weird.
The cops weren't able to control him, knew he had a gun on him, tazering didn't work, and you would rather they do what - serve tea? BTW, as a convicted felon and repeat offender he knew that he'd be doing time for the gun he illegally had in his possession, so he was highly motivated to not surrender.
As for me, you don't see me going around threatening homeless people with a gun at 12:30 at night (or any time, for that matter). And if I were to be accused of threatening someone, I would let the police handle it, same as the last time I was wrongly accused of making threats after reporting a child abuser, and let the court give me the chance to screw over my accuser during cross-examination and drive them into a screaming fit at the judge so they get kicked out. That made my week!
Why resist when you can turn it to your advantage because you haven't done anything wrong ... unless of course you've done something wrong, in which case you're already a stupid f*ck.
So plug a standard usb keyboard into your phone. What's the big deal? Or get one of those roll-up keyboards to take with you.
I'm about as far left as you can get, but you don't see me rallying around this thug. That's probably because I think political correctness is a disease of the mind.
He was a convicted felon, and as such not allowed to own a gun. Ask the feds.
Doesn't work since nobody is going to go to his site no matter what. Heck, most people don't even read the summary.
From the initial complaint they knew that he had a gun. Even you admit they couldn't control his hands. I'd have shot him too. He wasn't being "punished" - so get your terms right instead of trying to reframe the situation.
... said the anonymous coward.
In this case the shooting appears justified. Grow up. The world is a better, safer place without him. He could have avoided all this by not illegally carrying around a gun and threatening someone at 12:30 at night.
He wasn't murdered. Get your head out of your ass. Murder requires intent. Also, convicted felons aren't supposed to have a gun on them, period.
Exactly, but you wouldn't believe the idiots saying that the gun isn't an issue because it's legal to carry a gun there.
Toxic work environment. sexual or other harassment, unilateral breach of the work agreement (pay cut, type of work or location changed). 100% defensible even if your work contract requires you to give notice.
I know, but it's not hard to find his many previous arrest records right at the top of this page. (Note: these 46 pages may not be all of them).
1) open source for your claim in browser.
2) select "copy link location"
3) write your response, pasting in the link location.
Get real, people. Sterling was a registered sex offender, with a long history of violent crime, spousal abuse, and had tried to disarm a police officer during a previous arrest. This is a guy who broke a wall to steal an old lady's goldfish so he could sell them for $20. Nothing was below him. He was well known to area police, and he's your typical punk thug who thinks that a gun makes him tough.
Waves a gun around threatening to kill someone, the cops show up, he is MOST uncooperative because he's a gangsta with a gun, and don't have to take no shit from nobody, especially da man!
It would have been (and has been) the same outcome if he had been white in Canada with a knife, as opposed to black in the southern US with a gun. You keep asking for it, eventually you'll get it. The world is a better place without him, and all other punk-asses. He doesn't get a pass just because he's black. Reverse discrimination is as bad as outright discrimination.
As for him being shot 4 times, nobody's going to shoot only once and then wait for you to pull out your gun. People are making a big thing about that because carrying a gun is legal there. They seem to forget that making threats while waving a gun around isn't.
This has nothing to do with race, and people shouldn't be giving a perp anything close to a pass just because of their skin colour.
Now all you people who are so bent on being seen as so politically correct and pure that you can't see or think stright, flame on!
Stop using passwords. It really doesn't protect any of your personal devices, and if you can't trust the people you work with, they should be fired.
This isn't facebook where you can post any soft of shit and people will believe it without question. People on slashdot will check sources; there are even some heretics who RTFA.