How about being a responsible citizen and obey the orders of a police officer? Then if the officer is in the wrong you are alive to have your day in court against the officer.

Versus hope the taser stops him from potentially killing you? Yes.

 

So when they don't have a weapon, what's the course of action?

I've never been in the situation but I would think it would be possible to actually require police to see a gun, knife, etc before shooting.

 

What?

 

By the time they see the gun, it'll be too late.

A bigger issue may be why so many 20-30 something police officers are so fearful of individuals in the communities that they police. In other words why is the assumption, excluding the Michael Brown case, in so many of these cases that they guy was going to kill me?

How about being a responsible citizen and obey the orders of a police officer? Then if the officer is in the wrong you are alive to have your day in court against the officer.

 

I tend to agree but not following a police officers orders is not a capital offense, at least until recently.

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Too late. Onus is not on police. If you are fighting an officer and do something that COULD be deadly for an officer you put yourself in harm's way.

What?

 

By the time they see the gun, it'll be too late.

 

Do think it is enough for the State to take your life because a police officer felt threatened? Honest question because I felt threatened a bunch in my life without shooting someone. If you have your gun drawn and aimed at a suspect, I would assume by the time he could aim his weapon you could shoot him. I just think the State has a bigger burden to meet that I felt threatened before killing it's citizens.

I tend to agree but not following a police officers orders is not a capital offense, at least until recently.

 

Or had you just not heard of them. Media can blow up anything. Maybe it needs to be blown up.

I personally know of three incidents where tasers were deployed, the contacts hit where they were supposed to, and had no effect. Both times there was more than one officer present. What if you have an aggressive suspect and pepper spray and taser don't work? Then what?

 

Taser sounds like the end-all, cure-all. But you can only use them in close proximity, without anyone in the line of fire (to include other officers who are trying to make the arrest), and when it falls under the proper level of force needed to make the arrest.

 

So shoot them and then hope they have a weapon?

 

Would you wait and hope they don't?

I've never been in the situation but I would think it would be possible to actually require police to see a gun, knife, etc before shooting.

 

I pretty much quit reading after the bolded part

I pretty much quit reading after the bolded part

 

If you don't want to be part of the discussion then no need commenting with a condescending post.

Would you wait and hope they don't?

 

I would never be cut out to be a cop, because I couldn't ever have the mindset of "shoot first, ask questions later."

 

I would never be cut out to be a cop, because I couldn't ever have the mindset of "shoot first, ask questions later."

 

I doubt that's any police officers mindset. Their mindset is probably, don't die.

I doubt that's any police officers mindset. Their mindset is probably, don't die.

 

Let me rephrase then. Shooting someone would never be my first instinct. Even if I was thinking, "Don't die."