Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:07 am
I think hand-cuffs and a baton were the way to go here.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
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Forsher wrote:I think hand-cuffs and a baton were the way to go here.
Granbora wrote:I say this isn't justified, the officer could have shot him in the foot or leg, thus ending the encounter.
Granbora wrote:I say this isn't justified, the officer could have shot him in the foot or leg, thus ending the encounter.
Forsher wrote:I think hand-cuffs and a baton were the way to go here.
Condunum wrote:The Grand World Order wrote:
Autopsy only turned up cannabis, oddly enough. Either way, it's impossible for an officer to know exactly what someone's on, only that they're naked in public and charging them.
In a situation like that, it's best to assume that they're on something that will make them much more difficult to apprehend, such as angel dust.
Edit: And can we chalk this one up to "Reefer madness"?
L Ron Cupboard wrote:Perhaps Collar and cuffs didn't go together.
The Land Fomerly Known as Ligerplace wrote:And if the cop kept running back, it seems like he didn't have any viable non-lethal options.
You pretty much hit it on the head. Regular police abuses of civil rights are pretty much the norm in the deep south since the reconstruction era.New Chalcedon wrote:I don't know why the media's making such a big deal of this particular case - similarly dubious things happen all the time in the Deep South.
*looks up other sources*
Ah, now I get it. It's news because the dead kid's white. This happens to a black kid, and it's a flash in a pan - a few people bother to read it, and then it's forgotten. Kinda like that kid who somehow managed to shoot himself in the temple with an "illicit firearm", after being searched and with his hands cuffed behind his back. But hey, he was black - so it got a couple days' hafl-hearted protest, then ignored thereafter.
This case, however? A white kid (read: someone who's actually worth a damn in the eyes of Bible Belt law) died - so cue the three-ring media circus, the official investigation, etc. etc. etc.
Bonus points if the cop turns out to be black.
Norstal wrote:Hardened Pyrokinetics wrote:He was naked.
That immediately invalidates any claims of being threatening. No weapons and either drunk or on drugs, and also naked with his gangly bits exposed? Yeah, not going to be a problem for a trained professional.
A naked man was able to eat someone's face.
Shit people, we just had this problem a few months ago. How short is your attention span?
Xomic wrote:Norstal wrote:A naked man was able to eat someone's face.
Shit people, we just had this problem a few months ago. How short is your attention span?
I don't believe that any of those "face eating" attacks were carried out against police officers, who, as Hardened Pyrokinetics notes, are supposed to be trained professionals capable of handing people. Given he had no weapon, nor any armour or anything, it ought to have been a simple manner, for a trained professional, to take this person down in a non-lethal fashion.
Hardened Pyrokinetics wrote:He was naked.
That immediately invalidates any claims of being threatening. No weapons and either drunk or on drugs, and also naked with his gangly bits exposed? Yeah, not going to be a problem for a trained professional.
Forsher wrote:I think hand-cuffs and a baton were the way to go here.