Does anyone else feel as if that American cops are just to trigger happy and look for the smallest Execuse to kill somebody?

[Anonymous]

Okay after the shooting of Daniel Shaver by a police officer who had kept on yelling at him while he was drunk to crawl towards him and told him not to reach behind his back and it looked like he reached towards the back of his pants and he was then shot for it. I immediately heard bootlickers defend his killing by saying that he reached for something when he shouldn’t have. And also that cops have dangerous jobs and that if they want to stay alive they must shoot the person immediately if they think they are reaching for something. I mean I get cops have dangerous jobs, but this idea that a person must remain calm when someone points a gun in their face is fucking ridiculous. I mean fuck in the heat of the moment people make mistakes and shit. And also it has gotten to the point where dealing with cops is like dealing with an armed terrorist hijacking a building where if you make one wrong move or don’t immediately do what they tell you to do they will kill you. I mean the term comply and you won’t die is something that you would imagine being said by Somali Pirates to the ship workers on a boat they just hijacked, not by cops.

[NamerOfStars]

If they were, there'd be reports of them gunning someone down every damn DAY, instead of a handful of times a year. I also wonder what, exactly, you think police are if you note that "this idea that a person must remain calm when someone points a gun in their face is fucking ridiculous". Are cops not people, to your reckoning? Are they not people who have the responsibility of keeping everyone ELSE safe? If you or I get shot by a mugger, well, that sucks, but no one else is going to die for it; cops don't have that luxury.

Now, there HAVE been a disturbing number of cases of unarmed people being shot by the police, and if you're arguing that we need more emphasis on de-escalation and a halt on the militarization of police forces, I don't disagree at all- but police killing someone is RARE. Only a tiny fraction of a percent of police encounters with the public end in violence of any kind. Turn away from media and look at math.

[anylolone]

They'd kill way more if that was the case, and around half of unarmed people.

[Rangers]

No, they're not trigger happy enough

[Anonymous]

Yeah it's a problem