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Combined? Well over 60%, based on 40% of them being domestic abusers, the hundreds of examples of groups of them assaulting protesters and journalists, and examples like when the entire buffalo riot squad looked on while two of its officers assaulted Martin Gugino, walked past him as he bled on the sidewalk and then all simultaneously resigned once their criminal associates were charged. The rest actively cover for them, turn a blind eye and maybe haven't gotten their opportunity yet. It's a far worse problem than some bad apple cops walking around killing drug addicts or criminals. It's a cult culture of violence and disrespect for the people that they're supposed to protect and who put the food on their family's table, and it's one that permeates all the way through the justice system. Ask yourself, what kind of sick ***** gets off on pushing a 75 year old man into the pavement? My answer: A cop.

Not hardly. I've been confronted by violent people on several occasions. I've had a knife to my throat and been in other perilous situations and yet I'm still here because empathy and compassion work. Believe it or not, there are other things that motivate people besides fear. If more people went to college you could learn about that in Psychology & Ethics.

Back on topic: Here's what the allies of the two shot police officers of the LA branch of the organized police terrorist group did to journalists attempting to exercise the 1rst amendment in service to the people of their community. These victims of state-sanctioned terrorism are the real heroes.

What about your post is funny? How about damn near all of it? From your claim that the video refutes my stance instead of provides evidence that it's indeed true that cops have poor training and poor character, To the accusation that I'm somehow a POS for sharing pictures videos and reports of violence police committed. How are they not the POS?, To The notion when they did everything they could, including practically begging, a guy to comply when video evidence shows them screaming at him before assaulting him, To the notion that you contradict yourself seconds later by stating you've been in that exact situation many times 'Repeatedly threatening force, and hoping for compliance", To the notion that you somehow see yourself as doing a noble thing by threatening another person while they are the bad guy for "formulating a plan" prevent your threat of force What would I have done differently to de-escalate the situation? Almost everything. In my opinion from based on what I can see on the video, the officers did everything they could to make their suspect feel like a cornered animal Once it became clear that the suspect was unwilling to comply, I would have utilized far different techniques in an attempt to gain compliance. I would have utilized a far less threatening tone and manner of speech, I would have refrained from shining a high lumen flashlight in his eyes, I would have heard him out without interrupting him unless I had to I would have tried to empathize with his situation and showed him how I understood I would use that relationship to help him understand what I needed to do and why- setting limits Any one of those things would have drastically changed the entire tone of the conversation and the interaction. Using the approach that you treat everyone like a criminal is dog****. It results in innocent people being harassed and assaulted, escalates potential conflicts into realities, and worst of all it doesn't even work when the person actually is a criminal or with a person that has the capability for violence - in self preservation or otherwise. As they say, when all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Innocent? They're members of the LA branch of an organized police terrorist organization. Their organization murders and assaults people they're paid to protect while killing animals, abusing drugs, and committing domestic violence on their families. I already provided the evidence. And it's the act of a terrorist organization.

They did everything that could to end that situation in bloodshed. I'm shocked it didn't escalate sooner.

Cite a single example of me professing racism, ever. I ask again, do you need me to help you understand what empathy is?

Do I need to explain what empathy is for you? I have better than anecdotal experience. i have evidence - corroborated and fact checked. I'm listening.

Why paint them all with a broad brush? I think I'm showing here that violence is endemic to the force. In addition to their assaults and killings of the public, they're widely known for killing people's dogs, widespread abuse of drugs and alcohol, and rampant domestic abuse. Two studies found that 40% of families of police officers experience domestic violence. So, you've got bullies, murderers, domestic abusers, animal killers and addicts whose job it is to decide who broke the law and whether or not they deserve to die and then you've got the "good guys" that turn a blind eye to this behavior, condone it, or actively support it, when two terrorist cops in Buffalo resigned their post over the suspension of their "brothers". Why do I paint them with a broad brush? Because it's a goddamn terrorist organization they've all willingly chosen to be a part of. If there was any such thing as a good cop, they'd have resigned already. They sold their souls for a gun and a badge. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/

Empathy is what's made me so angry.

You might feel differently if it was your son that was gunned down by a predator.

He's being proven right every single day that passes. It's pretty amazing he was willing to sacrifice his entire career right in his prime for something that he believed in. Years later the mass majority now shares the same views, even if they don't attribute it to him now, or even think fondly of him. That "son of a B word" changed the whole world.

For the people it blinded or caused brain damage to, not really. Officer Nicholas Gebhart was just one such member of a terrorist police organization in Austin, Texas who shot a 16 year old, Brad Levi Ayala, in the head as he stood on a small beam peacefully watching the protests. The attempted murder of this boy left him with permanent brain damage. 16 years old and his life as he knew it will never be the same because of a killer cop who was previously investigated as part of a fatal shooting of a man in 2018. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/brad-levi-ayala-shooter-identified-austin-police/

Terrorist police organizations using "rubber bullets" have caused at least 115 head injuries to date at protests since George Floyd was murdered https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/29cbf2e87b914dbaabdec2f3d350839e

Hopefully they don't live down to the organized violence they're known for, but that's asking a tiger to change their stripes.

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You fail to understand that I'm also putting the law on trial. The murder of Daniel Shaver resulted in the acquittal of the murdering officer. It doesn't change that it was murder. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/judge-releases-video-of-police-shooting-of-daniel-shaver-after-officer-acquitted/2017/12/08/3e715e7a-dc3e-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_video.html

Has a jury in the land ever sentenced a man to death for resisting arrest? What gives a cop that right? I think people forget who pays the bills around here. For a bunch of so called libertarians, you guys are sure in a hurry to bow to the whim of authority.

I disagree.

Good for you. Unfortunate for others that don't share your good fortune.

They should have more selective recruiting and better training so that they don't murder innocent people.

This is what I'm talking about. They exercise no skills in de-escalation but rather escalate the situation. Is the suspect a scumbag? Without a doubt, but they also know that having interacted with him in the past directly. Their process for getting him to comply with what they want is to repeat the same thing at him over and over again, which clearly doesn't work. Not very bright, but not escalating. The suspect is still not at all aggressive. They then escalate the situation by yelling at him, thinking that'll probably work. It doesn't. The suspect is still not at all aggressive. They then escalate more and threaten him with violence via a taser - when that doesn't work they add yelling The suspect is still not at all aggressive. They then escalate again by tasing him The suspect becomes defensive but doesn't attack They escalate again by macing him he still doesn't attack them and pleads for them to stop screaming for help They mace him again and wrestle him out of the car at which point he shoots them. --- If you think that's a great way to get a favorable result, that's the problem. To use it as justification for why police should attack first and ask questions later is beyond ignorance. If you consider yourself a person that always follows the law, and in the event you were accused of not doing so you'd be fully compliant, I can see how you'd take the side of the officers here and just naturally assume that they did everything correctly. Maybe according to the police handbook they did - or maybe they weren't even aggressive enough. Looking objectively at the situation though where they were in a stop with a person chronically in trouble with the law, I find it mind boggling that they would attempt to use escalating forms of violence and think that they aren't going to end up with a violent result for somebody. They pushed this guy inch by inch to be the worst person he could be. Nobody had to die there.I'm not going to say that they caused themselves to get shot. After all another person chose to do that to them. However, watching that training in action makes it pretty clear why we're in the situation we are right now with police brutality. I call you a liar. Prove it. Statistics don't care what you believe.

Who attacked first?

Police go through minimal training. You can get a gun and start patrolling in as little as 10 weeks. I would think a degree in criminal justice or a related field would greatly help police officers understand the law, psychology and problem solving techniques that don't involve murder. Proof that "only in the USA and other 3rd world countries do police get to act as judge, jury and executioner of those laws." https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/ In the rate of numbers of absolute killings by police, the USA ranks #6 in total, and on the per capita count, every single country above them can objectively be described as 3rd world.