MN Police Shoot and Kill Daunte Wright

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Anonymous wrote:The dash cam footage is out. It’s bad. She thought she had a taser.

I think the body cam footage is quite exculpatory. He wrestled out of handcuffs (!!! Why???) and she followed procedure for taser. She clearly had no lethal intent. If he had stayed instead of driving off, they could have administered first aid and maybe saved him. Sorry, but he’s the start for each thing that went wrong here.

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Anonymous wrote:He is known to carry a gun without a lic and fled the Police....

If this were a white Trump supporter DCUM would have three threads all discussing how great it was.

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Anonymous wrote:Please explain how the shooting was not justified. Once the guy went back to get in the car, why isn’t use of lethal force reasonable. (I recognize she meant to use a taser, but even if she intended to use a gun, what’s the issue.). The guy could have been reaching for a gun. Has anyone seen the New Mexico video showing the officer getting gunned down?

https://nypost.com/2021/04/11/new-mexico-cop-darrian-jarrotts-shooting-death-during-traffic-stop-video/

Or what about the Nashville cop getting shot by the woman who went back into her car, resisting arrest:

https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/maam-put-the-gun-down-video-shows-tennessee-cop-and-woman-shooting-each-other-as-she-tried-to-flee-stop/

At some point, shouldn't not killing people be more important than taking people into custody? It's not like he was actively committing a crime at that moment. Maybe we need to err on the side of life, rather than shows of force.

You’re completely missing the point. He’s resisting arrest and he goes back into the car. How do the police know that he’s not reaching for a gun. Are they supposed to wait until they see his hands? Go watch those videos I linked to.

Yes. They are supposed to let him go. He is not a fleeing felon and he is not a danger to society.

That is what police policy states.

Nice spinning of the facts. You make it like he was running away and the police shot him in the back. Once he got into back into the car, he could have reached for a gun. Spare me your armchair quarterbacking. And please show me the police policy that says once a guy resists arrest and gets into his car, it’s policy to just let him go.

Holy crap. You think lethal force is A-ok because someone could be doing something. Jesus f-ing Christ.

The real problem here is that policing attracts the lowest quality people. The idiots, the bullies, the authoritarians. And the boot lickers that support them.

So how do departments attract higher quality people? Because I'm sure the way they are seen/treated by then general public isn't doing much to convince "high quality people" they should go into law enforcement.

College education

Mental health tests

Better pay

Screen for racism

Security clearance

Locally stop hiring dudes from him f@ck Pennsylvania who never saw a black person except on TV.

I won't argue with mental health screening and better pay.

Derek Chauvin has a college education.

How does one "screen for racism?"

What kind of "security clearance?"

Your last statement is just absurd. None of the officers involved in the recent shootings match that description.

You don’t know how security clearances work? Top clearance.

You can screen for racism during the meantal health check, social media posts, background check.

The last statement is not absurd. If you are from a sheltered background You should not be a cop.

None of these alone will stop the problems but these are a minimum.

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Anonymous wrote:The dash cam footage is out. It’s bad. She thought she had a taser.

I think the body cam footage is quite exculpatory. He wrestled out of handcuffs (!!! Why???) and she followed procedure for taser. She clearly had no lethal intent. If he had stayed instead of driving off, they could have administered first aid and maybe saved him. Sorry, but he’s the start for each thing that went wrong here.

It’s horrible, but he should have not fled.

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Anonymous wrote:The dash cam footage is out. It’s bad. She thought she had a taser.

I think the body cam footage is quite exculpatory. He wrestled out of handcuffs (!!! Why???) and she followed procedure for taser. She clearly had no lethal intent. If he had stayed instead of driving off, they could have administered first aid and maybe saved him. Sorry, but he’s the start for each thing that went wrong here.

Are you kidding? The taser is worn on the OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BODY from the firearm. It’s department policy. It’s uniformly practiced. How could she have meant to use her taser and pulled her firearm instead? She’s no longer competent to carry a lethal weapon and have a license to deploy it against her fellow citizens as a police officer.

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Anonymous wrote:The dash cam footage is out. It’s bad. She thought she had a taser.

I think the body cam footage is quite exculpatory. He wrestled out of handcuffs (!!! Why???) and she followed procedure for taser. She clearly had no lethal intent. If he had stayed instead of driving off, they could have administered first aid and maybe saved him. Sorry, but he’s the start for each thing that went wrong here.

It’s horrible, but he should have not fled.

It’s horrible but they should not have fought him. They could easily picked him up later.

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So many people in this threat are problematic. Cops should de-escalate. Cops should not kill people for resisting arrest. Cops should not think they are using a taser when they’re using a gun.

Ugh

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Is the identity of the officer being protected?

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Anonymous wrote:The dash cam footage is out. It’s bad. She thought she had a taser.

I think the body cam footage is quite exculpatory. He wrestled out of handcuffs (!!! Why???) and she followed procedure for taser. She clearly had no lethal intent. If he had stayed instead of driving off, they could have administered first aid and maybe saved him. Sorry, but he’s the start for each thing that went wrong here.

It’s horrible, but he should have not fled.

It’s horrible but they should not have fought him. They could easily picked him up later.

This isn't a complex thought: Police should not shoot anyone running away from them. Ever.

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Anonymous wrote:The dash cam footage is out. It’s bad. She thought she had a taser.

I think the body cam footage is quite exculpatory. He wrestled out of handcuffs (!!! Why???) and she followed procedure for taser. She clearly had no lethal intent. If he had stayed instead of driving off, they could have administered first aid and maybe saved him. Sorry, but he’s the start for each thing that went wrong here.

It’s horrible, but he should have not fled.

It’s horrible but they should not have fought him. They could easily picked him up later.

I agree, but perhaps they thought he had a gun in his car. I don’t understand how a taser feels the same as a gun though.

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Anonymous wrote:The dash cam footage is out. It’s bad. She thought she had a taser.

I think the body cam footage is quite exculpatory. He wrestled out of handcuffs (!!! Why???) and she followed procedure for taser. She clearly had no lethal intent. If he had stayed instead of driving off, they could have administered first aid and maybe saved him. Sorry, but he’s the start for each thing that went wrong here.

It’s horrible, but he should have not fled.

It’s horrible but they should not have fought him. They could easily picked him up later.

I agree, but perhaps they thought he had a gun in his car. I don’t understand how a taser feels the same as a gun though.

Unless they see a gun there is no reason to just assume somebody has a gun. Why would they?

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Anonymous wrote:The dash cam footage is out. It’s bad. She thought she had a taser.

I think the body cam footage is quite exculpatory. He wrestled out of handcuffs (!!! Why???) and she followed procedure for taser. She clearly had no lethal intent. If he had stayed instead of driving off, they could have administered first aid and maybe saved him. Sorry, but he’s the start for each thing that went wrong here.

It’s horrible, but he should have not fled.

It’s horrible but they should not have fought him. They could easily picked him up later.

I agree, but perhaps they thought he had a gun in his car. I don’t understand how a taser feels the same as a gun though.

Unless they see a gun there is no reason to just assume somebody has a gun. Why would they?

Because of the color of his skin-- oh, wait, are we saying that out loud here or pretending it would be the same for white people like Dylan Roof?

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Anonymous wrote:The dash cam footage is out. It’s bad. She thought she had a taser.

I think the body cam footage is quite exculpatory. He wrestled out of handcuffs (!!! Why???) and she followed procedure for taser. She clearly had no lethal intent. If he had stayed instead of driving off, they could have administered first aid and maybe saved him. Sorry, but he’s the start for each thing that went wrong here.

It’s horrible, but he should have not fled.

It’s horrible but they should not have fought him. They could easily picked him up later.

This isn't a complex thought: Police should not shoot anyone running away from them. Ever.

Yep. Cops are trained to be able to catch him without killing him. The cops were not under any threat at the time. None of them mentioned that they though he might have a gun and he certainly didn't appear to be reaching for anything that would put them in danger.

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Rinse. Wash. Repeat. Are we going to go through this on every black criminal that let's shot and killed. Seriously.

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Anonymous wrote:There are also tons of cops killed every year but they keep coming to work each day. What happened to these people is absolutely terrible and there's no excuse for the killing of George Floyd but visit ODMP.org once in a while and be surprised at the number of LEO who die each year in the line of duty. Somehow the media forgets to report on that.

I don't want to see officer killed. I support our police. And a person makes a choice to be an officer, or not. A citizen does not make a choice to be black and therefore "scary" to some officers.

Average Joe Schmo who is not a police officer should be able to pull into a gas station or whatever without getting shot or pepper sprayed or tazed by our official law enforcement.