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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people are nuts if you think a man who was [i]holding his child[/i] is going to pick a fight with some gigantic stranger.

You're also crazy if you think the guy has any obligation to go "hand to hand" against a monstrous, blank-faced attacker.[/quote]

Where in the report does it say that the man who was shot was gigantic, monstrous, or blank-faced?  Your bigotry towards people with developmental disabilities is evident.  [/quote]

Even his cousin refers to the assailant as "a gentle giant".  Obviously the guy was a big guy who got triggered by something and, without provocation, slammed a man holding a 1 year old baby to the ground.

Glad that innocent baby is o.k.!

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Gentle giant means big, not monstrous, not blank-faced. I agree that PP is bigoted.[/quote]

This guy was apparently both a gentle giant who posed in happy family pictures AND a hulking giant who, without provocation, slammed a man to the ground.  I feel for him and his family because certainly he was normally not a violent individual and his aggressive behavior was out of character for him.  That does not mean that he didn't attack the officer, putting a small child at risk of serious injury.  Because he did.
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Were you there to witness it, or are you just saying what you want to be true to justify murdering some brown people?[/quote]

I am simply going by what the cop's lawyer says happened.  If surveillance video backs up what he is saying then...it is what it is.  The cop was reacting to being aggressively attacked for no reason.  His reasons for firing his weapon were based on the physical threat being posed to himself and his child at the time.  Nice try making it all about race though.  You're a true peach.[/quote]

But being threatened DOES NOT JUSTIFY shooting in a crowded place.  You are not allowed to hurt innocent bystanders just because you subjectively feel threatened.  Police officers, of all people, need to be trained in ways to de-escalate that cause the least harm.  Not to go in guns a-blazin under all circumstances.  It's truly terrifying that we have reached the point where we think it's justifiable that cops have hair triggers and shoot first, ask questions later.

Doesn't anyone remember this amazing video of a Canadian police officer talking down an armed suspect?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43876772

Police in the US have hair triggers because they are TRAINED to be that way, armed, and then on top of that, we allow them to go out in public with their weapons off duty.

I don't care if this police officer was actually attacked -- he had NO business firing like crazy in a crowded grocery store. 
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+1,000 to PP just above.

Knowing that off-duty police may be around me and carrying does not make me feel safer, as it once might have. Now it makes me feel more nervous instead. I have to assume that most cops who might be out in public probably have little to no training or experience in de-escalating any situation nonviolently.[/quote]

If it makes people think twice before violently hauling off and assaulting someone else, maybe there will be far fewer situations to de-escalate.  Don't want to get shot?  Don't attack random people. Done.[/quote]

No thank you.  I pay the police, and I want them to learn how to de-escalate situations especially when the person may not be rational (juvenile, angry, intellectually disable, mentally ill, intoxicated). I do not want to live in a world where the police are entitled to shoot randomly without concern for the citizen or bystanders.  [/quote]

x 1 million

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