I don't think anyone disagrees with 7 (4 of the shots hit him, but, regardless, it is still excessive) shots being fired as not at all necessary, so, to be clear, I am not defending the amount of shots fired, but, these officers called out orders to him, guns drawn, and he continued to walk away from them, and then reached in to his vehicle. I can't believe people are upset that he got shot. Again, 7 shots is overboard, but, whether it was 1, 4 or 7, this conversation would still be happening.
Think about it this way.....you're sitting on your porch and someone you don't know starts approaching the front door of your home. You draw your gun, point it at him, and ask him several times to leave. He continues to walk towards your front door and then reaches in to his pocket. Are you really going to just stand there and wait to see if he's just pulling out a wallet or a weapon? If you were a cop, you'd be dead in a day. Once he reached in to his vehicle, he made it a decision between life and death. Those officers want to go home to their families just like you and I. They aren't going to wait to see what he's going to grab. Police don't get paid to die. They could have shot him many times over the course of the minutes they gave him to comply. They didn't. They opened fire when he decided to grab for something. Anyone with a hint of intelligence knows that is the worst thing you can do when cops have their guns pointed at you. To repeat again, I do not agree with the amount of shots fired, however, I don't disagree with him being shot, period. He's a fucking idiot who should have just done what he was told.
They don't shot at the legs because it's a smaller body part, it is easy to miss, and missing gives them time to fire back and kill the officer. That is why they are not trained to aim for smaller body parts. Everyone always says 'they should shoot for the legs'. I am sure you've played video games in which you have had to shoot a moving target. Imagine that in real life, trying to shoot someone's legs as they are running away. Knowing your life is at risk, imagine how you're going to be feeling, thinking. You're not going to take that risk. It's you or him.
I learned a lot of cop stuff from my sister in law's husband. His cousin was a police officer who was shot in the head, you can read the story in the link below. His sister is also married to a cop:
Clinton Gayle, 50, is serving two life sentences for the first-degree murder of Brampton resident Const. Todd Baylis, and attempted murder of his partner Const. Mike Leone.
www.thestar.com
I signed the petition, of course, this piece of garbage didn't deserve to let go, and he wasn't. Fuck him, hope he rots.
There are bad cops out there, absolutely. In this case, the man reached for something, and, although the officer shot 6 too many bullets, everyone is acting like this man was an 'innocent, unarmed victim'. There were reports he had a knife and told the officers he was going to grab a gun. Not sure if that is true or not, but, even if it isn't true, he may have been unarmed while he was walking, but, again, are you going to wait for him to arm himself when he's reaching in to the vehicle? Why is THIS the event that makes fucking athletes getting paid millions decide to boycott? Why is the gun issue in America alone not enough for them to want to boycott? Why is pedo shit being made a 'normal' thing not enough to make them boycott? Why didn't all the sexual assaults that were exposed in Hollywood make them boycott? Why don't school shootings make them want to boycott? I don't give a flying fuck what color anyone is, what gender anyone is, what sexuality anyone is, I am not going to decide when I want to care about something. I am not going to suddenly have an issue playing sports because someone the same color as me was shot by someone of another color. The media here keeps emphasizing white cop shoots black man. Why does this have to be racial? Where is the proof this cop is racist? The amount of time guns were drawn on this man, they could have shot him if it were racist, but, they didn't, they continued to yell orders and shot when he reached. Instead of focusing on the fact that this man ignored police and went to grab something from his vehicle, the media is focusing on this guy being paralyzed from the waist down. Making this guy a victim. Ignoring his actions. I feel 0 sympathy for this douchebag, and I am sure a lot of people will be angry with that statement, but, if he just listened to the police, this wouldn't have happened. These basketball players didn't feel the need to boycott when the 5 year old kid was shot by his neighbour point blank while riding his bike, I wonder why that could be.
I am rambling on, but, subjects like this just irk the hell out of me. There are so many issues wrong in this world, every good person on this planet deserves peace and equality, but, it's never going to happen because the media manipulates people in to thinking what they want you to think, people will always have an opinion without looking at the events that take place, people will always have a stereotype, people will always have selective hearing/reading, there is always going to be divide. Look at how many people now are all about fuck cops, cops are shit, defund the police.....the above article I posted was a good cop who got killed by a piece of shit human being and on the facebook article, a woman was saying the killer should be freed because 'cops are killers'. This is what society has come to because it's been brainwashed to think every cop is a piece of shit who's trigger happy. Bad cops exist. Bad people exist. Not every cop is bad. Not every person is bad.
If I go to the movies, and I get a gun pulled on me. Is that my fault? Fuck no it's not. Hell I could stay home and someone breaks into my house.
