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Pow--Freeze isn't a decision.

The troops in afghanistan have to show much more restrain in an actual war zone. Cops must not have rules of engagement.

Well put. Not to mention monetary (especially traffic) fines within the criminal justice system help to fuel the onerous police presence we enjoy in our suburbs today.

The guy should go up for manslaughter.

Pathetic.

This was posted weeks ago and it was a bad shoot then. Still is.

"Sarge, this old guy simply won't stay in his truck with his hands on the wheel. And he can't stand without his cane. Can I shoot him?"

I am pretty cynical of the police, but I really have a hard time believing the cop was thinking what you wrote.

And as much as I hate even bringing this up, was this in the south? I think the cop is black and with an old white man getting out of the truck and reaching for something might have escalated the officers decision. Obviously NOW the wrong decision. Perhaps this officer is better suited to work in the police station, not in the field.

Ya, brave people let the guy with the shotgun shoot first


Old guy gets out of the truck and reaches for long, dark object in truck bed, completely ignoring officer, takes it out and swings around.

We had an officer killed about 40 miles from were I sit under exactly similar circumstances a few years back, except in that case IIRC the old guy got out of the car with a Mini 14. Routine traffic stop, safe area, out of the blue.

I'll give the Cop a pass on this one. Sad deal all around, I hope he says in the profession.

JMHO,
Birdwatcher

Old guy gets out of the truck, reaches in the truck for a long object and sets it on the ground to lean on; doesn't hear the officer's commands over the highway traffic noise, and gets a clip sprayed at/in him.

This is a classic shoot/don't shoot decision and the LEO fails miserably. Every time I watch one of these guys unleash with a semi-auto, I miss the old wheel gun days and measured shooting.

I don't want to see one LEO killed in the line of duty. It is a tough profession, just like soldiering, and sometimes extremely hazardous. I hope this one gets out of the profession. I don't want him out there with a gun.

That cuts both ways, except that white on black racial animus and violence is history and / or leftist mythology and black on white is epidemic.



What better way to exercise such animus and not only get away with it but make the old 'crackers' pay you for it than in uniform and under the color of law.

Seriously? I don't think brother man was having flashbacks to Jim Crow days. This reminds me of when Clinton said he remembered black churches burning in Arkansas in his youth. Someone checked and discovered that nothing like that had happened since he was hatched.

And everyone of us has only a split second to determine if the cop that has us pulled over is about to shoot us or not. Shoot first? Run? What's an innocent person supposed to do, just stand there and get killed by Barney Fife?

But OK. The got all weepy and said he was sorry. Guess he just keeps his job and his pension and lives to kill another day.

I have always had plenty of respect for the law-men and the job they have to do,
But it's plain to see there is deffinatly something broke in law enforcement these days, this kinda crap is getting way out of hand.
I'm starting to feel there's more to fear from the cops than anybody.

The problem starts with DOJ's head jackass and works its way down.

That's been my view for a while now.

No, it started with the war on drugs and accelerated with the war on terror. Both phony justifications for increased police statism under the pretense of addressing threats.