Perhaps you need to recall what Innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt means?
Perhaps you could read the definitions for non sequitur and red herring. No one said the DA is judge, jury and executioner, or whatever stupid thought was going through your head.
It means the DA didn't waste time trying to prosecute a case he had no hope of winning.
You sound like the Obamabots whining the reason their guy didn't prosecute a single banker because the DOJ couldn't win any of the cases - when the feds have a conviction rate over 90%.
A murdering pig shot a man for no reason two seconds after he stepped out his front door. Manslaughter, straight up.
But this *wasn't* some random guy. It was a guy who was there and who was armed for the express purpose of dealing with a violent situation in which at least one of multiple hostages had already been gravely wounded or killed.
And for all the cop knew the man walking out the front door was a hostage.
Context matters, and you cannot condemn someone for not having perfect knowledge, particularly in a scenario such as this one.
Straw man. Cops get fake or misleading calls all. the. time. but can't go in shooting everyone on sight. So why all the desperate defenses of the indefensible here? You got family in the gestapo, or are you one of those kind of teabaggers?
Their shitty standup comedy sp3cials alone put number every good piece of original content.
Have you tried....not....watching them? I would projectile vomit if I were tied to a chair and forced to watch Fuller House. So I skipped over it on my way to the second season of Jessica Jones.
Just letting your arms drop to your sides could be a "motion towards the waist". Every time you walk like a normal human being you are "making a motion towards the waist". This get-out-of-jail-free card needs to be torn up, permanently.
If the person isn't actually reaching for an actual weapon, the cop doesn't know what he's shooting at. Negligent homicide, straight up.
There are plenty of videos where cops get shot because even with full training.
Which are shown incessantly to trainees, turning them into scared chickenshits who gun down innocent people for no reason. It needs to stop. This SWAT team was in force, in cover with ballistic shields. Even if this man had a gun, the chances of him getting off a hipshot are lower than the officers winning a Powerball.
After the election was over and Bush got his second term. You even trying, bro?
If you think the New York Times is right-wing, you're a nutbag, plain and simple.
It's indisputably right wing. So they say something nice about a Democrat once and a while - whoop de freaking do, the Democrats are another right wing party. War shilling and sitting on NSA wiretapping alone makes them a conservative rag. Period. To be as off base as you are here, I'd have to go find a newspaper that called for the abolition of private property and confiscating guns and hold them up as an example of a Libertarian publication.
So you're being willfully obtuse. Bombing Iraq, Libya, Yemen etc etc is not "okay", dumbass. The point is that none of that warmongering placed us one step away from a few decades of nuclear winter.
These "progressives" are trying to force me to think just like them, as any good totalitarian would.
Such as.....? Climate change is real, universal health care provides better care for less money, a high minimum wage creates jobs, and vaccines don't cause autism. If some cultist is completely immune to reason on issues that affect the rest of the human race, blunt force application of facts is the only option left, along with public mockery. Like when Jon Stewart asked the lunar conspiracy theorist that got knocked on his ass by Buzz Aldrin, 'you know on the video that punch looks fake'.
If on the other hand you're using the scare quotes to refer to fauxgressives who try to shape every conversation around 'white privilege', those conservative assholes are the left hand of COINTELPRO, to the right hand of whipping up suburban fear of mexicans and muslims. Engaging in political theater to keep people divided where they should be united.
Firearms safety training that you receive as a civilian and as a police officer differ. Police are trained to shoot if they think that the assailant is reaching for a gun.
Except he wasn't reaching for anything, which means the cop had no idea what he was shooting at - which was my point exactly.
So what? Even if that's true and not something you made up on the spot, you manage the exceptions, not manage to the exception. And how well would your superman be doing with a face full of mace on top of being tasered multiple times.
Policies based on rarest pie-in-the-sky anecdotes are shitty policies.
In this case, the DA concluded that there would be a trivial defense of 'the cops thought he was reaching for a gun' with no real evidence showing otherwise, and declined to prosecute.
Because of the incestious relationship between DA's and the cops they work with, just like I said. There was no, none, nada, zip sign this man was reaching for any weapon.
but I can't support asking people to fight back against a knife attack with a taser
Sure you can, that's what they're for, along with mace and batons. Cop trainers need to stop terrorizing cop trainees into scared chickenshits who can't do their jobs without getting their guns off.
I don't know about you, but when I had firearms safety training when I was six, one of the cardinal rules drilled into my head was "always be sure of what you are shooting at". This murderer obviously didn't as the man had no gun. If grown assed trainers aren't teaching remedial safety to cops, they should join them in prison for criminal negligence.
The district attorney concluded that several of the officers closest to victim Andrew Finch thought he reached down to pull up his pants, leaving his right arm hidden from the officers, the Wichita Eagle reports. "The officer who fired the shot, along with some others, thought Finch was reaching for a gun."
Yet it wasn't the cops next to the guy who made the kill shot, it was one at distance, so this is bullshit on its face. DA's need to be banned from from investigating cops in their own jurisdiction as they work with said cops as part of their day job. The DOJ should go after cops for civil rights violations when local prosecutors drop the ball, like when they sent some of the officers who beat Rodney King to prison.
The earth is billions of years old, and it has had a climate able to support life for hundreds of millions of those years. How could you possibly describe such a system as "fragile"?
Uh, every recorded mass extinction event in history? All of which came from the environment changing to fast for life to evolve or migrate.
This is mental.
Yes, climate change denialism is mental indeed. It's already costing you hundreds of billions every year - dealing with record storms and forest fires isn't free.
It's nowhere near as intense as the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan.
Which happened when the U.S. gave support to proto ISIS and Al Queda jihadists to commit atrocities to provoke the USSR into an invasion. But the U.S. was never close to bombing Russian forces directly, as they are right now in Syria.
Really? I seem to remember a certain Nobel Peace Prize winner that ran out of bombs.
Did Obama do it with the possibility of bombing Russian forces directly, which could result in the sinking of U.S. Navy ships, which results in WW3? No? Then you're full of shit here.
Repeating myself since you skipped over it the first time: a wingnut raising the NYTimes as an example of "liberal media" is as disastrous to their case as a communist holding up Chernobyl as an example of a successful Soviet program. Sitting on NSA wiretapping alone means your storyline is 100 pounds of excrement crammed into a 5 pound sack.
Hand waiving. An independent shop can sign contracts where they agree to XYZ terms with another company. They're still independently owned, but they have obligations to uphold due to said contract. I don't know if this does or does not apply to this shop in question, but the point stands.
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Perhaps you could read the definitions for non sequitur and red herring. No one said the DA is judge, jury and executioner, or whatever stupid thought was going through your head.
You sound like the Obamabots whining the reason their guy didn't prosecute a single banker because the DOJ couldn't win any of the cases - when the feds have a conviction rate over 90%.
A murdering pig shot a man for no reason two seconds after he stepped out his front door. Manslaughter, straight up.
And for all the cop knew the man walking out the front door was a hostage.
Straw man. Cops get fake or misleading calls all. the. time. but can't go in shooting everyone on sight. So why all the desperate defenses of the indefensible here? You got family in the gestapo, or are you one of those kind of teabaggers?
Have you tried....not....watching them? I would projectile vomit if I were tied to a chair and forced to watch Fuller House. So I skipped over it on my way to the second season of Jessica Jones.
But it's all 100% on demand with 0% ads. So even if you're right, Netflix does cable far better than cable companies do.
A Heisenberg merit badge would be bitchin
Reality has a well-known leftist bias.
Or....classes offered by local boy scouts or shooting range. But drug lord sounds much cooler.
Just letting your arms drop to your sides could be a "motion towards the waist". Every time you walk like a normal human being you are "making a motion towards the waist". This get-out-of-jail-free card needs to be torn up, permanently.
If the person isn't actually reaching for an actual weapon, the cop doesn't know what he's shooting at. Negligent homicide, straight up.
Which are shown incessantly to trainees, turning them into scared chickenshits who gun down innocent people for no reason. It needs to stop. This SWAT team was in force, in cover with ballistic shields. Even if this man had a gun, the chances of him getting off a hipshot are lower than the officers winning a Powerball.
After the election was over and Bush got his second term. You even trying, bro?
It's indisputably right wing. So they say something nice about a Democrat once and a while - whoop de freaking do, the Democrats are another right wing party. War shilling and sitting on NSA wiretapping alone makes them a conservative rag. Period. To be as off base as you are here, I'd have to go find a newspaper that called for the abolition of private property and confiscating guns and hold them up as an example of a Libertarian publication.
So you're being willfully obtuse. Bombing Iraq, Libya, Yemen etc etc is not "okay", dumbass. The point is that none of that warmongering placed us one step away from a few decades of nuclear winter.
Such as.....? Climate change is real, universal health care provides better care for less money, a high minimum wage creates jobs, and vaccines don't cause autism. If some cultist is completely immune to reason on issues that affect the rest of the human race, blunt force application of facts is the only option left, along with public mockery. Like when Jon Stewart asked the lunar conspiracy theorist that got knocked on his ass by Buzz Aldrin, 'you know on the video that punch looks fake'.
If on the other hand you're using the scare quotes to refer to fauxgressives who try to shape every conversation around 'white privilege', those conservative assholes are the left hand of COINTELPRO, to the right hand of whipping up suburban fear of mexicans and muslims. Engaging in political theater to keep people divided where they should be united.
Except he wasn't reaching for anything, which means the cop had no idea what he was shooting at - which was my point exactly.
So what? Even if that's true and not something you made up on the spot, you manage the exceptions, not manage to the exception. And how well would your superman be doing with a face full of mace on top of being tasered multiple times.
Policies based on rarest pie-in-the-sky anecdotes are shitty policies.
You're reinforcing my point here.
Because of the incestious relationship between DA's and the cops they work with, just like I said. There was no, none, nada, zip sign this man was reaching for any weapon.
Sure you can, that's what they're for, along with mace and batons. Cop trainers need to stop terrorizing cop trainees into scared chickenshits who can't do their jobs without getting their guns off.
I don't know about you, but when I had firearms safety training when I was six, one of the cardinal rules drilled into my head was "always be sure of what you are shooting at". This murderer obviously didn't as the man had no gun. If grown assed trainers aren't teaching remedial safety to cops, they should join them in prison for criminal negligence.
Yet it wasn't the cops next to the guy who made the kill shot, it was one at distance, so this is bullshit on its face. DA's need to be banned from from investigating cops in their own jurisdiction as they work with said cops as part of their day job. The DOJ should go after cops for civil rights violations when local prosecutors drop the ball, like when they sent some of the officers who beat Rodney King to prison.
Then its a good thing that church has as many followers that the War on Christmas does.
Willfully obtuse.
Lots of people are tools of their own free will, but you could try sending Exxon an invoice for your efforts.
Ah yes, the "countries with 3-4 times the population of the United States should pollute less than the USA" line of entitled dipshittery.
Uh, every recorded mass extinction event in history? All of which came from the environment changing to fast for life to evolve or migrate.
Yes, climate change denialism is mental indeed. It's already costing you hundreds of billions every year - dealing with record storms and forest fires isn't free.
Was China closely aligned with Serbia? Was China sending troops to help the Serbians? If not, your anecdote is a red herring.
Which happened when the U.S. gave support to proto ISIS and Al Queda jihadists to commit atrocities to provoke the USSR into an invasion. But the U.S. was never close to bombing Russian forces directly, as they are right now in Syria.
Did Obama do it with the possibility of bombing Russian forces directly, which could result in the sinking of U.S. Navy ships, which results in WW3? No? Then you're full of shit here.
Repeating myself since you skipped over it the first time: a wingnut raising the NYTimes as an example of "liberal media" is as disastrous to their case as a communist holding up Chernobyl as an example of a successful Soviet program. Sitting on NSA wiretapping alone means your storyline is 100 pounds of excrement crammed into a 5 pound sack.
Hand waiving. An independent shop can sign contracts where they agree to XYZ terms with another company. They're still independently owned, but they have obligations to uphold due to said contract. I don't know if this does or does not apply to this shop in question, but the point stands.