I don't know what he did or did not do. I was only posting what she said. I don't know why she didn't hit the light switch. Maybe there was sufficient light to see the "intruder" but not enough to see the apartment furniture. Considering that she hit and killed him, she wasn't "firing blindly".
She said she fired twice, she hit him once. It's not hard to meet your target when they're stationary at that close of a range with a handgun. If she could see him clear enough for an on target shot then she should have seen who it was. So either she fired blindly into a dark room like her story says, or she had time to adjust the target and hit center mass, which was time to deescalate and evaluate. Whatever way you spin it, she's either guilty of negligible homicide or outright homicide.
I'm really not.
This event doesn't happen often. I'm only aware of this one event. Which can be explained by the identical floor plans and unlocked door as a tragic accident rather than a cop simply murdering the neighbor. Still won't help at trial.
This thread is called "Police Brutality in the USA" not "dumb cop breaks into another person's home and kills them". There's a lot more at play in both the threads and my replies than one incident.
That's not "basic protocol".
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/protocol
It's basic protocol.
That's a standard event that happens fairly often. Officers go to different countries to try and learn different tactics.
Yes, just for most nations it isnt "how not to shoot people"
Would also point out that Scotland officers face knives more than guns and the US faces guns more often. We also have a more varied population base.
It might surprise you, but Scottish police also face down menacing children with toy guns, nefariously dangerous situations of someone fleeing and the most frightening of all, a person following instructions.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/959220/scotland-gang-crime-warning-police-guns-scotland
The Scottish police also face firearms a lot more often than you think.
officer should have got prison time.
If he wasn't an officer he would have.
Take it up with the jury.
I'll be there all year if I have to ask them about every cop they've let off.
Debatable. A lot of concealed carry classes stress that you don't do a thing without clear instructions from the officer.
Castile was clear and concise, at no point did he act erratically or out of line.
. Officers responding to call of person with gun were NOT told that caller thought it was a toy. Kids with real guns do kill people.
Doesn't matter, you should attempt to deescalate. Do you think no other country has airsoft guns or toy guns?
. Thousands? Citation needed.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-police-killed-nearly-9000-civilians-since-911/218381/
There's no clear figure because most depts. do not report it. We know its at least close to 9000.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3b7d4d422943
We know in 2014 that the police
reported killing 94 unarmed people. We also know many of them do not report it, we also know that they are not reporting unarmed shootings that did not result in death. In the two decade timeframe I've given you it's beyond reasonable to put the number of unarmed people in the US shot by police in the thousands.
Don't do that. I clearly meant how the media reports and not that the report at all. Michael Brown got months of media reports on how he was kneeling with hands up before being murdered yet the actual evidence has him attacking the officer while the officer was in car.
Oh the same Michael Brown who had fled into a busy street where Officer Wilson fired off 10 rounds, with only six connecting with Brown, one of which is believed to have happened in the initial struggle in the car? What was stopping one of those wildly fired bullets hitting a bystander other than luck?
Out of how many police encounters?
See above, the police are not required to provide numbers and most depts to not.
Comparison based on what data? Which countries? Why those countries? Does the data take into account that the US has a constitutional right to own guns and those other countries don't?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country
Finland, Canada, Iceland, Norway, take your pick. Whilst yes, no other country on earth has more firearms than people, these are all countries who have a relatively high number of firearms per head. None of them have the issues you have. Those numbers also only account for registered and legally owned firearms.
The police have similar things and ranks like the military. The police are often expected to be first responders to events like terrorist attacks. That does not mean they are trained like the military.
I never said they were trained like the military? But thanks for making the point for me. They have military level equipment, but not even the basic training.
The training is different. The military training is "is it a threat to the base, the mission, or me? No. Not my problem." The police training is to respond and de escalate or make arrests according to the law.
The Military are taught to deescalate where possible.
Riot police and SWAT teams are different from the standard street level police and you should very well know that.
NYPD, not SWAT.
Routine neighborhood policing in Philly. Not SWAT.
Michigan, not SWAT.
The idea that beat cops are the standard is deliberately misleading. They're also not in some army of two situation, they work in pairs on a beat, in close proximity and constant contact with other pairs to squad up if needed. It's not important to my example regardless.
Who said that? The standard weapon for a police officer is a handgun
No, the rifle in the car is standard issue. They do not carry at all times out of convenience, not because it's not issued to them.
while a soldier on patrol utilizes a rifle.
That's also not true. Rifle is an incredibly generic term. British Royal Artillery patrols carry sub carbines. USAF patrols carry Sub machine guns. Some units carry PDWs.
There is also a huge difference in amount of ammo carried
Yes, because the soldier is expecting to be involved in long firefights.
and how much range time a police officer gets as opposed to the military.
Which comes back to bad training.
. Guarantee that the military is better equipped than the police.
In what sense? The military has LAVs to deal with rocket fire, IEDs and other armoured units. The police have LAVs to deal with non violent protesters.
Feel free to link to where US military forces haven't shot someone throwing "Molotov's and the like".
https://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/Docs/TBS/B130936 Law of War and Rules Of Engagement.pdf
ROE provide restraints on commander's actions consistent
with both domestic and international law and may, under
certain circumstances, impose greater restrictions on action
than those required by the law. Commanders must be
intimately familiar with the legal basis for their mission. The
commander may issue ROE to reinforce principles of the
Law of War, such as the general prohibitions on the
destruction of religious or cultural property (when such
property is used in accordance with its protected purpose),
and minimization of injury to civilians
It goes on from there, but it's taught that local youths throwing rocks and low end molotovs and the like at you is not something you open fire at.
The vast majority of police officer interactions are peaceful and law abiding.
But enough of them are not. All people are asking for is better standards and training from govt employees tasked with public safety. Its not a big ask.
