Yeah I can’t believe I am siding with catamount here but that lady was out of line. Just take the fucking ticket and appeal it later if you really think it’s bullshit.
You can’t just run from the cops when they legally (and fairly professionally) request you to comply with something. Especially when you’re in the wrong.
That’s when the deputy opened fire. But, in the video that the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office released on Monday, the door did not open before the officer opened fire. The video confirms the homeowner had a gun, but it does not capture the homeowner aiming a weapon at the deputy. The last image of the homeowner, before the shooting, appears to be of him walking away from the front door.
The deputy is shown in the video shooting multiple times through the left sidelight window. The homeowner, identified by his attorney as 62-year-old Dick Tench, was struck multiple times.
The video does not show Tench “open the door and point a gun directly at the deputy,” as officials originally claimed.
Yeah I can’t believe I am siding with catamount here but that lady was out of line. Just take the fucking ticket and appeal it later if you really think it’s bullshit.
You can’t just run from the cops when they legally (and fairly professionally) request you to comply with something. Especially when you’re in the wrong.
Police said an officer shot a man who opened a door while aiming a gun. Then the body-cam video came out.
A police officer responding to an emergency alert rang this guy's doorbell in the middle of the night, saw through the window that he had a gun, and shot him.
One reason for this is that law enforcement is fighting a different type of war. We are fighting an unrelenting, never-ending fight against criminal predators in our society. While there are battles won and lost each day, there is never a final resolution – a final victory is never in sight.
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In the final analysis, what stands between chaos and carnage on the one hand, and the civilized and tranquil society we all yearn for, is the thin blue line of law enforcement. You are the ones manning the ramparts – day in, and day out.
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Not too long ago influential public voices — whether in the media or among community and civic leaders — stressed the need to comply with police commands, even if one thinks they are unjust. “Comply first” and, if you think you have been wronged, “complain later.”
But we don’t hear this much anymore. Instead, when an incident escalates due to a suspect’s violent resistance to police, that fact is usually ignored by the commentary. The officer’s every action is dissected, but the suspect’s resistance, and the danger it posed, frequently goes without mention.
We need to get back to basics. We need public voices, in the media and elsewhere, to underscore the need to “Comply first, and, if warranted, complain later.” This will make everyone safe – the police, suspects, and the community at large. And those who resist must be prosecuted for that crime. We must have zero tolerance for resisting police. This will save lives.
“Comply first” is very scary to hear from the AG especially when compliance often leads to death only leaving family and society to complain on the victim’s behalf.
That’s a police state. We live in a police state. I don’t know how people can deny this.
If a police officer sexually assaults you, the AG just told you to comply. And we all know a victim that complies would not be viewed would not be viewed as a victim at all.
Per Barr and most conservatives, I guess the colonists should have just paid their taxes and then written more strongly-worded letters to George III.
Nope. They should have just knuckled under to whatever dictator or king led them. The colonists were renegades who should have just shut up.