11 officers shot, 1 bystander shot during protests over recent shootings

[hershel_layton]

Peh said:

Nuvendil said:

Well school shootings are inherently different than these situations. And it's a generalization to say that the presence or absence of an armed guard would stop all shootings, each is different.

But you point about the Minnesota thing proves my point.  Dallas cops get 60 weeks and they weren't the agressors in this incident and to my knowledge haven't had any bad shootings make headlines recently.  But the Minnesota cop after 2 years minimum gunned down a guy who was going for his wallet cause he paniced.  Education and training can help, but cops are people and the high tension right now is affecting cops as much as civilians.  It's more about the qualities of the person's training rather than the quantity.  60 good weeks is better than 4 poor years.  Now 4 good years is likely better than 60 good weaks before you bring it up but my point is, lack of training is only a small part of the problem.  And it's a problem on both ends, civilian and cop. 

I'm not defending one side or the other one. I have also seen the videos where civilians act like fucking idiots and they deserved what was coming at them.

Why Dallas and not Minnesota? Probably because the tension reached their limits over there. People don't care and don't know about the difference in the police educations between the states. They get fueled by the media and either had bad experiences with cops or grew a fear towards them.

If you don't give them a reason to hate you, they won't hate you.

Too sum it all up.

My deepest condolences for the fallen officers. It always hits the ones who have the least to do with this. You are now at a position to go on as it is or change how it works to avoid these in the future.

Minnesota's a pretty chilled state. I've rarely seen riots break out like the ones in the South.

And our cops are much better. The tougher requirements prevents policemen from getting in easily. Unfortunate that one of our policemen decided to kill an innocent dude.

 

 

I live pretty close to the place it occurred though. Driving past it gave me the chills in all honesty.