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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daunte Wright committing armed robbery with a deadly weapon IS serious. Stop trying to minimize his criminal past.

Nevertheless, the tape shows the female officer here simply made a tragic mistake.

There is NO evidence of racism or bad intent here. None whatsoever.[/quote]

Stop trying to minimize the fact that the color of his skin is why it even escalated to him being tased.[/quote]

So the alternative is let him drive off?[/quote]

YES. Apprehend him later. No one needed to die over any of this. [/quote]

Huh. And what happens the next time - any reason to believe he won’t resist a third time? So we should just sit around and wait from criminals to turn themselves in when they feel like it?[/quote]

There are division in the police that pick people up on warrants. That is literally their whole job.[/quote]

Oh my god, here comes the NYPD blue expert. Yes, there are fugitive squads. They are there to track down very, very bad guys, and other less bad guys if they have the time. Should police just stop making arrests and rely on one small squad to later track down everyone and find them? How about when the criminal with the warrant they just let go because the criminal decided he wasn’t ready commits other crimes. Are you serious? You have no idea [b]how policing works.[/b][/quote]

Policing here. Not policing everywhere.

How do they apprehend fugitives in countries where most police don't carry guns? Let's try that. [/quote]

Even in the US, most criminals are “apprehended” without drawing weapons. That’s because most subjects comply. Resistance is when risks increase for officers. And because the US is awash in guns, police are very much on edge.

And in case you didn’t notice, this officer attempted to use less than lethal force but made a really bad mistake.[/quote]

I don't mean Kim Potter should have tried whatever is routinely done elsewhere. I mean maybe we start over, disarm most police, and standard practice becomes apprehensions the way they are done in places where most police are not armed. Because the way we are doing it, it doesn't seem to be working too well.[/quote]

It’s not “the way we’re doing it.” [b]It’s the reality we’re living in.[/b] [/quote]

The way we're doing policing doesn't seem to be working. [i]In the reality we're in,[/i] it fails to deliver the results we want. We should reconsider whether this is the right way to do it. Changing our policing practices, unlike all of the larger systemic problems to which you rightfully point, is directly within the control of the people who employ the police. If you can't agree to this extremely narrow proposition, you're here as a cop apologist.[/quote]

And what exactly is this extremely narrow proposition? [/quote]

We should reconsider all elements of policing.[/quote]

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