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

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Wyrdness said:

tokilamockingbrd said:

My brother in law is a cop. In the past 2 years he has had 2 fellow officer in his district(a fairly smalltown district at that) killed by black men. He was close to one of them. He would be lying if he said he was able to put that out of the back of his mind when he was dealing with a black man. That does not mean he wants to shoot them, it means he fears for his own life and that could effect the way he escalates force. 

No offence dude but if he's that affected he shouldn't be policing.

are you a cop? or been in the military?

I am in the military, so thankfully I dont have to deal with this all the time, however when I was deployed to Iraq I came to understand howsomeone could feel this way.

We worked with the Iraqi police regularly. One of the other LTs in a different company was doing the same thing I did when out of the blue one of those Iraqi police shot him in the back of the neck. Needless to say from then on when working with them I never let one out of site and kept my weapon in a position when I could easily defend myself if need be. Thankfully I never had a situation where I felt threatened, but if I had I would have chosen to protect myself.