EPTNow with several officers shot in Dallas..this is just awful.
I haven't seen my big sister cry like that since she was a kid and seeing a strong 42 year old woman having a nervous breakdown like that...just caught me off guard.
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thePunGun
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Now with several officers shot in Dallas..this is just awful. I haven't seen my big sister cry like that since she was a kid and seeing a strong 42 year old woman having a nervous breakdown like that...just caught me off guard. | ||
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mahrgell
Germany3943 Posts
On July 08 2016 13:39 Dark_Chill wrote: If a random stranger asks you for directions, you don't go all "yes sir, right over there sir", you give them directions. If a cop pulls you over and asks you a question, you answer the question. If the cop is rude as fuck or asking you to do something they don't have the right to demand, you should not be like "yer sir, of course, whatever you want". A cop violating your rights is not acceptable on the basis of being a cop. The only thing keeping you from calling them out is either annoyance (they could make your day longer or some other bullshit) or fear (death or beaten). So when you get pulled over in Germany and you don't understand why a cop is asking you to do something and you'd like to hear their reasoning, do you expect to get beaten or shot? Or if you comply with their demands but they don't like your tone/attitude, do you expect to get beaten or shot. Don't fucking defend these assholes who abuse their authority. I would never do that "blabla sir" or German equivalent, no. And I also know my rights quite well enough to defend them. Also cops in Germany are quite unlikely to shoot you  But at the same time I also don't question them for pulling me over. Because at least under German law, they don't have to give me a reason for pulling me over. (they just call it Routinekontrolle and done) They are also allowed to check my ID anytime. And they are also allowed to do an alcohol test, if I'm driving. And if they really feel like searching the car. Well... they are actually allowed to. And I prefer to actually help them to quicken the process. And we usually got along well. They noticed they got the wrong dude, I noticed they got the wrong dude, we had some talk, they moved on, I moved on. If I would have went full hostile, just because I'm getting checked again for no reason.... well, gonna be a long day. | ||
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Danglars
United States12133 Posts
Already beset by a public outcry over the high-profile death of a black man in police custody and a rising murder rate, Baltimore's police department is facing another headache: it's shrinking fast. ReutersThe number of uniformed officers in the mid-Atlantic city fell 6.1 percent last year and has shrunk by even more in the first half of this year, according to police data seen by Reuters and not previously reported. The fall in 2015 was the biggest decline in police numbers among nine comparably-sized U.S. cities reviewed by Reuters. The police force in Detroit and El Paso shrank by 4.9 percent and 4.3 percent, respectively, while Denver and Las Vegas saw increases of over 5 percent. The reasons for the fall are unclear, but it comes at a difficult time when the number of murders and other violent crimes have risen sharply in Baltimore and many other U.S. cities. Dallas Four officers are dead — three Dallas police officers and one DART transit officer — after two snipers opened fire on police at the end of a protest against nationwide officer-involved shootings Thursday night, officials say. NBCEleven officers were shot by gunmen who were still at large hours after what was believed to be a coordinated shooting, according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown. One person is in custody, Dallas police said, following an exchange of gunfire with Dallas SWAT officers late Thursday. Dallas police said a suspicious package was located near that person, and the package is being investigated by bomb squad personnel. We believe that these suspects were positioning themselves to triangulate on our officers and planned to injure and kill as many law enforcement officers as they could," Brown said at a press conference Thursday night. Dead following a protest and rally for those dead black men in the police shootings. Now police are shot. So sad. | ||
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CobaltBlu
United States919 Posts
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Doraemon
Australia14949 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46234 Posts
On July 08 2016 14:08 Doraemon wrote: there's a video of the shooter rushing an officer, killing him point blank in the back....holy shit... Can the video be posted here?  | ||
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
you can find it in the sub reddit of the "thin skinned" dude | ||
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DeepElemBlues
United States5079 Posts
it's very chilling. the shooter is behind a pillar firing to the left, a cop comes up to the next pillar in the row to the right (behind the shooter). but just as the cop reaches the pillar he ducks down and looks around the right side of it. the shooter went around the left side when the cop was looking around the right side and shoots the cop in the back at least twice from no more than 5 feet away, probably closer, and then shoots him again when he's on the ground. i wish i hadn't watched it. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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heliusx
United States2306 Posts
On July 08 2016 14:08 Doraemon wrote: there's a video of the shooter rushing an officer, killing him point blank in the back....holy shit... That shooter is definitely military. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24152 Posts
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oBlade
United States6325 Posts
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States24152 Posts
On July 08 2016 14:36 CorsairHero wrote: the one guy thats cornered said hes going to shoot more cops and that there are bombs all around... And that "the end is near", sounds/looks like PTSD mixed with some other mental health issue. | ||
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Orcasgt24
Canada3238 Posts
On July 08 2016 14:27 oBlade wrote: This could be its own thread, right (Orlando was)? It's just that we were in here when it started? Nah. IMO it's just another reason to bump the "If you're seeing this topic then another mass shooting happened and people disagree on what to do" thread. To be brutally and completely honest, I have been waiting for something like this to happen. It was only a matter of time until someone goes "vigilante mode" and shoots a bunch of police officers to extract "justice for the fallen". There's a new police murder or brutality case every couple weeks and in nearly all of them the Cop is in the wrong. It's really hard to blame the cop completely though. Because in nearly every single one of the shootings, the victim is armed. Police in the USA get to deal with the world's most heavily armed civilian population and that absolutely makes every single traffic stop or arrest infinitely riskier and more stressful. My personal opinion is all the police shooting cases and every mass shooting is a direct result of POTUS, The Senate and Congress doing nothing to fix the glaringly obvious gun problem. | ||
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NukeD
Croatia1612 Posts
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
Watching the press conference it's pretty clear no one knows what the motives are yet | ||
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DeepElemBlues
United States5079 Posts
The chief also basically said that he and the mayor are going to be making the decision whether to keep negotiating or to send in SWAT to take the guy out very soon. | ||
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NukeD
Croatia1612 Posts
On July 08 2016 14:46 Orcasgt24 wrote: Nah. IMO it's just another reason to bump the "If you're seeing this topic then another mass shooting happened and people disagree on what to do" thread. To be brutally and completely honest, I have been waiting for something like this to happen. It was only a matter of time until someone goes "vigilante mode" and shoots a bunch of police officers to extract "justice for the fallen". There's a new police murder or brutality case every couple weeks and in nearly all of them the Cop is in the wrong. It's really hard to blame the cop completely though. Because in nearly every single one of the shootings, the victim is armed. Police in the USA get to deal with the world's most heavily armed civilian population and that absolutely makes every single traffic stop or arrest infinitely riskier and more stressful. My personal opinion is all the police shooting cases and every mass shooting is a direct result of POTUS, The Senate and Congress doing nothing to fix the glaringly obvious gun problem. I actually thought that in most cases it turns out that the cops were in the right, like 90% of times. | ||
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