Don’t pass out behind the wheel at a Wendy’s drive thru. Don’t pick fights with cops who are being entirely reasonable considering the situation. Those aren’t hard asks.
Nobody ever wants to discuss the lack
Death penalty seems completely inappropriate for each of these transgressions.
If you’re dumb enough to do those things, death is definitely a consequence. Thank god he didn’t plow through some innocent people.
If death penalty for dumb then COVID has stiff competition.
Take the L. The guy got away.
An individual driving drunk and fighting with police is putting their life at risk as well as the public in general. He rolled the dice and lost.
So it’s your stance that if you can resist arrest, start a physical confrontation, take an officers weapon and then get away, you’re free? That will make things awfully violent and dangerous for police and the public going forward. Are you sure you don’t want to put your feelings aside and think with your brain here?
Even after he fired a taser at you or your fellow officer? Then let him roam the streets of Atlanta with the taser?
Yes. Versus shooting a man in his back? Yes.
So what happens when the man who has already deployed a taser gets confronted by another officer?
Same argument is made when a guy is running away with a gun in his hand. I will never fault an officer for making a split second decision to deploy their weapon when put in a situation like this. A police officer shouldn’t have to be tased simply because it is not considered a lethal weapon. There are countless variables that allows a person like you to sit in the comforts of your home and type out how that officer should have acted in that situation. You are embarrassing yourself.
Given police are trained to deal with armed people, I’m guessing they have ideas.
Yep. Not shoot to apprehend. Shoot to kill.
Yeah, it allows for open season on police officers. If you are going to do that, you damn well better increase the charges and penalty of prison time for assaulting an officer. Unfortunately, that too, would be viewed as systemic racism.
Don’t drive drunk and pass out in a drive thru. Don’t shoot cops with tasers. This guy acted like a jackass and put himself at risk. Was it right to shoot him? Probably not. Is it right to turn the drunk driver who assaulted cops into some sort of martyr? Absolutely not.
I’m not embarrassed at all. I think the guy put himself in a likely position to he shot and killed. I know if I did what that guy did, I would be expecting to die.
The criminal drunk driver didn’t appear to care about the training officers were given. In fact officers tried pretty much all non lethal means to apprehend the suspect until he discharged a weapon at them.
What I am saying is if we just allow police officers to get punched and assaulted all of the time without increasing the consequences for doing so, you are going to have people who simply don’t care, punch officers, resist arrest, and run away. In that spur of moment, a police officer shouldn’t have to think, “there are two of us and one of him. I’m pretty sure he has a taser in his hand and not gun, so that is ok. If he hits my partner with it, it’s ok because there are two of us. Also, if my partner is incapacitated, I still have a weapon and can defend myself.”
I’m pretty sure based on the footage, the officers would have preferred the criminal simply comply while being taken into custody and continued on with their shift.
