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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I don't know Gary, what was on anybody's mind. BUT it stands out to me that the little puny skinny butt officer was looking at this great big beefy guy towering over him who waYs saying leave me alone and a bunch of stuff like that. His job was to arrest him. The man refused to be handcuffed. The man was not new to being arrested. What if it was YOUR job to arrest someone who is a LOT bigger than you? I guess you go with martial arts, or wrestling, or one of those things that you are taught in police school. The last thing I thought is the officer was thinking how much pigmentation was present in the man's skin. He was thinking how he could get him in handcuffs and arrested.
Never once did it occur to me that the little officer was trying to kill the big guy. NEVER once. Nor did the thought enter my mind that he was thinking about sociological problems. He may have had a little short man syndrome, a little attitude from THAT, but it never came to my mind that the police officer disliked this fellow due to his race and wanted to kill him. Never once.
I know that that man would be alive today if he had been taught what I had been taught. Do what you are told.Right or wrong the police officer is the boss in this situation.
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Just a minor correction, there were three other uniformed armed officers surrounding him, not just the skinny butt dude, who appeared to be able to handle himself pretty well. Not saying the officer intentionally killed him, but with four armed police officers around him, it seems to me that it could or even should have been handled with a bit more finesse, and we would have one more human alive and one less cop facing consequences. IMHO incidents like this should prompt police departments to train officers in how to negotiate and diffuse incidents rather than overreacting and possibly causing more harm. Now if the perp attacks or pulls a weapon - fair game.