Unarmed naked college student shot and killed by police
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[QUOTE=darkrei9n;37981455]Was thinking of the wrong drug sorry.
[editline]10th October 2012[/editline]
If the person is on PCP that's not going to drop them. When you're hyped up on drugs like that there have been people who have broken both their legs and still tried to keep going.[/QUOTE]
you can't just shoot someone because "they could have been on drugs" if you're going to kill someone you verify that shit.
Cops in Mobile are on edge after one of their own recently got killed; not that what happened months ago is relevant to what happened at South. But I've noticed that ever since one of the cops here got killed while on-duty, a lot more strictness and no-bullshit policies are being enforced, it could've had another outcome but I suppose the officer didn't want to take any chances.
[QUOTE=Speedhax;37988498]I don't understand how a kid like that could be in higher education. Do Americans just let anyone into higher education nowadays?[/QUOTE]
Anyone with the money, pretty much.
Aren't these the situations Tazers were designed for? Hell, Even pepper spray or his baton would of worked perfectly.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;37969420]He should have just beat him with a baton[/QUOTE]
if shooting him didn't stop him, what makes you think beating him with a baton would? unarmed people can still be dangerous especially if they're on something, for instance the "zombie" attack in miami
[QUOTE=AK'z;37973350]It is definitely possible to kill with bare fists.[/QUOTE]
When you're drunk, the other guy has a tazer/baton.
I kinda doubt he'd be able to hurt him enough to kill him.
Wow:
"When Collar continued to rush the officer, Ayers said, the officer shot him once in the chest.
Collar fell to the ground, but got up one more time and challenged him again before dying."
Hardcore.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;37969594]Somehow I feel like people would've cried 'police brutality' anyway if he did that.[/QUOTE]
Do you like get off on cops killing unarmed people or something?
[QUOTE=darkrei9n;37981455]If the person is on PCP that's not going to drop them. When you're hyped up on drugs like that there have been people who have broken both their legs and still tried to keep going.[/QUOTE]
Which is certainly cause to be cautious at close range, but the point of a pepperball gun is that you can hit them from a distance and still retain the ability to draw your sidearm if they decide to lose it or the pepperballs flat out fail. (Some folks show huge resistance to OC)
Why do you even have police in college? Only in fucking america.
[QUOTE=Corewarp3;37992047]Why do you even have police in college? Only in fucking america.[/QUOTE]
We've been over this before. Many US Colleges and Universities are essentially towns. The University of South Alabama has over 15,000 students and 5,500 staff members. To put that into perspective, the staff alone make up over double the amount of people living in my town, or my town + the closest 2 towns near me. 20,500 people is more than enough to warrant its own police department.
I honestly doubt the police are walking around with full utility belts in their office.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;37994323]We've been over this before. Many US Colleges and Universities are essentially towns. The University of South Alabama has over 15,000 students and 5,500 staff members. To put that into perspective, the staff alone make up over double the amount of people living in my town, or my town + the closest 2 towns near me. 20,500 people is more than enough to warrant its own police department.[/QUOTE]
Yep. Campus security exists one way or another. Why not properly train them and make them sworn officers?
Furthermore it is not, as corewarp suggests, "only in America". Canada and the United Kingdom do something similar.
[QUOTE=GunFox;37995557]Yep. Campus security exists one way or another. Why not properly train them and make them sworn officers?
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I'm fairly certain most campus police are sworn officers.
[QUOTE=Mike42012;37991723]When you're drunk, the other guy has a tazer/baton.[/quote]
Drunk and high seems much more likely. It takes time to deploy a taser, and if you miss then you're kind of fucked. And a baton isn't a guarantee you'll win a fight.
[quote]I kinda doubt he'd be able to hurt him enough to kill him.[/QUOTE]
Tell me why the officer should put him (or her) self in the position to be hurt, or even killed? How is that going to protect anyone?
Think about this, let's say the officer instead of shooting the suspect attempted to tackle him instead; the suspect manages to get the upper hand and the officer was killed. Then, still out of control, the suspect proceeded to kill several other people before being shot and killed anyway. Sure, perhaps that's a bit unlikely, but it's completely possible.
The officer was by himself, and facing a person in an unknown mental and physical state who was clearing not thinking right; ask yourself, would it really be worth the risk, not just to the officer, but to anyone else the suspect encountered if he managed to escape, to try and take down the suspect with less than lethal means?
Personally, as you may have gathered, I don't have any problem with what the officer did. Mind you, it's sad that a life was lost, but it could have been much worse.
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