Sig1Hunter

Awesome! That blog was hilarious!

Or what? You are going back to the negative ICE? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

...like we need a hole in the head.

Did he speak his mind? I understood it to be that he took a neutral position. My post intended to suggest that it is a bit over the top to stage a large scale protest in response to someone not voicing a concrete opinion. To me, it marginalizes their position when they take such a hardcore response to something that is seemingly innocuous.

He refuses to criticize Arizona's new immigration law? Let's protest! No one is allowed to have a differing viewpoint! How dare he have a mind of his own! Link

Was this the same interview where he blamed the positive HCG test on tumors and then started talking about how he was worried that he may be playing his last game every week? He is worthless as a human being if/when these statements ever get exposed for being sad, sick attempts at drumming up sympathy for him. I hope he realizes that real people with real cancer will be waking up in the morning with a legitimate fear that it will be the last sunrise they ever see.

I don't really have an opinion on the topic, but any post by SJ Bills Fan is always a great read. This one is no different. And, saying that Leonidas is mercurial is like calling the sky blue!

nevermind.....

or, that he doesnt want to get hurt before his contract extension is signed with the Bills?

Is a deal being "done" and a deal being "agreed to in principle" different? If so, this could account for Schefter saying the deal is not "done".

Personally, I think this quote from McKelvin is more alarming: "So I got them off Brohm, but it was pretty good to get my hands on a lot of balls"

Well, I think that pretty much settled it. He can now change his name back to whatever it was and get on with his life.

We would still have to wait 20+ years for this manlove miracle QB!

Gotcha. In our wonderfully free society we are free to have a dissenting opinion. When you start calling cops lazy, insisting that they would get sued (and lose), and stating as fact this this Taser use is improper, I felt the need to show you the other side of the coin. If you just disagree with it, I understand.

Only if you forgive me for tasing you afterwards.

My comment wasn't referring to you. My comment was referring to the stupid fan that ran on the field for his 45 seconds of fame. That being said, I am right and you are wrong in this instance. Not because I am a police officer, but because I understand the legalities of Taser use. You have yet to grasp it.

Stupidity breeds interest, I suppose.

I couldn't have said it better myself...Responses like these are why I participate in your fantasy football league, dude. And why I kick your butt, too!

Classic.

BTW - you offer only critical responses. You don't offer any solutions other then the token "stop eating doughnuts you fat cop" one. That doesn't fly. You don't want police to use Tasers. You don't want police to use batons. You don't want police to use impact weapons of any type. If you were Chief thebug, what would you propose? And, from what I can glean from your earlier posts, police aren't allowed to take any action until a serious crime is committed. If a guy breaks into your house and holds a gun to your head, I can't shoot him until he shoots you - by that logic.

It speaks volumes to you because you take things out of context and don't have any kind of understanding of the situation. You see what you want to see and hear what you want to hear. Did you see in the article that you linked where it says the the officer has been cleared and the use of force was justified? That's all that matters. It doesn't matter what public opinion is. It doesn't matter what the Phillies do. It doesn't matter what the ACLU thinks. It doesn't matter what the AMA thinks. Did my reply about the reasoning behind the Taser make any sense whatsoever to you?

Before the Taser, we beat people with sticks. Before we had sticks we punched and kicked the bad guys. Do you really want to go back to the old days? I don't. Technology has made law enforcement so much safer and efficient - even over the last 10 years. The Taser is another example. I know you just didn't compare a criminal offense to a non criminal infraction to try to prove your point. If you intended to do so, you just showed how truly ignorant you are.

I agree with everything that guy wrote! Dont use the Taser on passive resistors - check. Don't use it on secured subjects - check. Try not to use it on the very young or old - check. Don't overdo it - check. Taser is not an alternative to deadly force - check. The issue is that you may see that statement quoted above differently than I do. Lets take the actions of the guy in Philly, for example. He was not passively resisting. He was actively resisting. This is important because this is the threshold that has to be crossed to get to intermediate weapons. He was running away from police and actively resisting their orders. To a police officer, and anyone with a critically thinking brain, this is an action/word/deed that he intends to do violence or use force against another. I do not have to wait until he actually goes up to a player on the field and starts punching him in the face. I do not have to KNOW what his intentions are, I just have to have a reasonable justification to believe that is what his intentions are.

Firstly, I am not going to rely upon a bunch of doctors to tell a police officer that Tasers are used too often. Just like the general public, they have no knowledge of what my job entails. I would not pretend to tell these doctors how to remove an appendix. I would agree that Tasers "may contribute to the death of suspects directly or indirectly", mainly because this statement is incredibly vague and really cannot be disagreed with. Secondly, the statements quoted by you from the ACLU are ridiculous. It goes to show how ignorant they are. He's not getting away? Really? So, we just let him run around until he tires himself out and sits down? The ACLU has an agenda - and, that agenda is not to educate itself on police procedure. Yes, I would have done EXACTLY what that officer did in Philadelphia. This is a 100% justified use of the device. No doubt about it. BTW- I do not pretend to ignore that there are improper uses of the Taser. I am merely stating that the threshold to be met for the use of the Taser is very low, something which much of the public (and apparently the ACLU) does not understand.

No, that was not my department. But, I am familiar with the incident. It is a cautionary tale in a lot of things, particularly undercover operations. But, specific to this Taser conversation, I'm not sure how your question fits. If you could elaborate, maybe I could answer better for you. As far as the picture goes, I am not aware of what Philadelphia PD's "standards" are. I would also add that the picture makes that guy look fat because his shirt is bellowed out from the wind and physical action. I know that for my agency, we have to meet a certain physical fitness level upon being hired and completing the academy, after that, its completely up to you to keep yourself in shape. Right, or wrong...