YourGrandpa wrote:HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:YourGrandpa wrote:
An officer was hit by a car and other cars were rammed. If you were the officer, when do you start shooting to save your life and the lives of others?
Some people seem to think that assaulting an officer is the same thing as cursing out your neighbor.....
Idiots.
holy fuck you are stupid...
Some policies appear to have been violated in the shooting, which occurred when undercover officers fired 50 bullets at Mr. Bell’s car after he drove into one of the officers and an unmarked police van.
Officers are trained to shoot no more than three bullets before pausing to reassess the situation, Mr. Kelly said in his most detailed assessment of the shooting yet. Department policy also largely prohibits officers from firing at vehicles, even when they are being used as weapons.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/nyreg ... r=homepage
sure you don't want to blame BET?
I'm not stupid, nor am I simpathetic to some moron who rams police or pedestrian vehicles. It seems like a wrong place wrong time for everyone envolved. The driver picked the wrong place to go phsyco in his car and paid the ultimate price.
Now explain to me why this is a race issue? Why does Al, the constant fuck up Sharpton feel he has anything reasonable to add? He's just stirring up racial problems and is obviously out for himself. He couldn't give two shits about anyone affected by this tragedy. All he cares about is getting his name in the paper and justifying his retarded existance.
oh you're a simp pathetic alright. but you aren't sympathetic, I can see that. So aside from the danger of shooting at a vehicle on public streets near homes etc, explain to me how shooting is justified when there are three or more people in this van and only one person is driving? i guess deadly force is just an everyday thing for you?
Race is so obviously a factor here in this forum, it's laughable. As for race as a factor in the shooting I'll refer you back to the NY times article which you probably didn't read...
“We prefer talking than not talking, but the object is not a conversation, the object is fairness and justice,” Mr. Sharpton said as he left City Hall. “Because we’re not just interested in being treated politely, we’re interested in being treated fairly and rightly. And that will happen when police are held as accountable as anyone else.”...
Many, however, expressed concerns that the administration was failing to deal with what they described as continuing tensions between black residents and police officers even when the officers are nonwhite. ...
“There were some heated exchanges,” said the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, an influential Pentecostal minister in Brooklyn. “We all agree that there is a pattern of police abuse of power, and this abuse of power ranges from police killing to police brutal behavior to disrespect. We reiterated that over and over again.”
Reverend Daughtry warned the mayor not to confuse patience with complacency. “There is a temperature in our communities that is rising, and the tension is intensifying,” he said. “While we don’t want to try to ignite anything, we’d be blind to overlook what’s happening and not to sound the alarm.” ...
Saying that there was a “grave crisis” of confidence in his southeast Queens community, Bishop Lester Williams, the minister who was to have performed Mr. Bell’s wedding, asserted that there had been no improvement in police-community relations since the height of tensions during the Giuliani administration.
“It’s little Iraq, I’m sorry, especially toward the blacks in the community,” he said before attending the meeting. “We don’t feel protected.” ...
