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[EnricoPallazzo]

sundin13 said:

EnricoPallazzo said:

Yep. And if they die because they hesitated in front of a guy with a gun pointed to their face almost nobody would care and would say he did the right thing.

You can be trained to immobilize, shoot tires or whatever but the moment a criminal points a gun to an officer well there is no option left. Unless the new rule is "let the criminal shoot first so you can be sure he shot first. Then you try to immobilize him if the bullet hole in your body allows for it. As last resort you can shoot them but only in the legs. Criminal safety first".

But who cares? It's only the fascist police they got what they deserved.

I agree that some of the assertions regarding when and how an officer should use a firearm are fairly ridiculous.

I also feel as if your implication that individuals here are arguing that dead cops are good is offensive and inflammatory.

While we should not take firearms off the table for officers, we should seriously consider both the threshold for force that officers are currently using and how they get into the situation where they feel they must use force. In both instances, it is not uncommon for deadly force to be utilized in an inappropriate manner, either through that instantaneous decision or through inappropriate actions or escalation by the police prior to that moment.

Although it seems most people here dislike the police and gave much but much more attention to the excesses some of them unfortunately committed during the riots instead of the absurds the "peaceful protesters" were committing, my comment was not guided towards any individual here but for the overall feeling I have that nobody cares when a cop dies. There are exception though as there is a case now in UK where we can see at least right wing media going against the gypsies that killed a cop, but in a few countries like my home country for example, mostly nobody cares.