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Me either and the results were tragic. I know it's a tough job but there are improvements that can be made. Ensuring dispatchers are relaying all information would be an easy improvement.

It's easy to second guess the cop when there is video of the cop opening fire instantly on the child without taking a moment to assess the situation. Especially a guy with this evaluation in his past... Nearly two years before he shot and killed a 12-year-old who had an air gun, Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann resigned from another police job after a supervisor described him as "distracted and weepy" and "emotionally immature." Records from the Independence Police Department obtained by CNN include comments from a supervisor detailing what they called "a pattern of lack of maturity, indiscretion and not following instructions," a "dangerous loss of composure during live range training" and an "inability to manage personal stress." "I do not believe time, nor training, will be able to change or correct these deficiencies," Independence Deputy Chief Jim Polak wrote in a November 2012 memo.

Why, shouldn't this information have been of the utmost importance as to allow the responding officers to properly assess the information?

Let say a neighbor called and said they saw him steal something from my mother's house a few blocks away so I went to his residence and witnessed him get something out of his car and put it in his pocket. I struggle with him over the item in his pocket and then fearing it's a gun draw and shoot him.

The 911 caller indicated that it was probably a toy and he was a kid....

So if I shoot a guy because I felt threatened because he had his hand in his pocket, and it turns out to be a pill bottle, do I get arrested/indicted/prosecuted?

This guy nor the kid in Cleveland were charging.

Come on man, I watched a video a few days of a cop that pulled up on a 12 year old boy with a toy. He was so fearful he immediately opened fire. Shame on that guy.

Whatever the answer is, which is a combination of all the things listed and some LE reforms, I as a citizen feel that the state needs a bigger burden than the officer felt threatened. I as a regular citizen cannot kill someone because I felt threatened the same should be true for the State.

I agree, based on the officer's report in this case his gun was already drawn on the suspect. I'm not sure why you wouldn't back up and wait to actually see a handle of a gun or knife before killing someone. I thought officers where trained to diffuse these situations. Isn't there an adage about an average citizen's interaction with police is likely to be one of the worst days of their lives.

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

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.

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?

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.

Unarmed black man killed by white Phoenix officer PHOENIX — The facts surrounding Rumain Brisbon's death — the ones that could be agreed upon as of Wednesday evening — follow a narrative familiar to a nation still reeling from the racially charged police incidents in Ferguson, Mo., New York City and elsewhere. In Phoenix on Tuesday evening, a white police officer who was feeling threatened used lethal force on an unarmed black man. The incident left the officer unharmed and Brisbon, 34, dead with two bullet wounds in his torso at a north Phoenix apartment complex. Do the rules of engagement need to be changed, is feeling threatened enough for a government employee to play judge, jury and executioner without ever even seeing a weapon?

When I was in college I'd visit friends at EKU and all of the bars at EKU closed at Midnight. There were a pelthora of very drunk, barely able to stand college girls leaving the dog (Dating myself). :lol2:

I don't know everyone processes alcohol differently. What is her height and weight, what had she had to eat, what was her experience/tolerance to alcohol? There are many factors but based solely on his testimony I can deduce that she was at a club near closing, dancing by herself, had already given someone her phone number and was underage to be drinking. Isn't that enough to tell you she was in all likelyhood "very drunk"? Have you ever been to a college bar near closing or known the type of guy who hung around the bar/club/party near closing just waiting to pick off the low hanging fruit. To me that was Winston in this case, he was that guy, that bad guy. Maybe not a rapist but they kind of guy that will take advantage of others for his gain. There is too much evidence in other Winston situations to not be able to tell he's not the most upstanding guy. Again, that doesn't necessarily make him a criminal but it doesn't make him someone you'd want your daughter to bring home.

They called FSU's Police Department who refered the matter to the city PD, shouldn't it have been their job to trace his cell number, interview witness at the club, etc.? I think she probably knew he was an athlete but not necessarily who he was. Was he even famous by the time she reported his name? I think she was just tore down drunk and he saw her state of inebriation and took advantage.

It sounds like Winston took advantage of a very drunk girl. That makes him a bad guy, I'm not sure if that makes him a rapist. That would depend on how drunk and the laws of Florida but he's a bad guy, that I'm sure of.

After getting a chance to watch this weeks episode last night, I don't believe there is any chance that Jax dies now. I'm sure Wendy is pregnant now and it will be Jax, Wendy, Granpa Nero and the boys playing green acres on the farm.

That is correct. I played football from the time I was 6 years old and wasn't that good. Life is not fair. :lol2:

The biggest challenge Brian Weinrich faced going into his first season as head coach at Highlands was rebuilding the offensive line. The Bluebirds had no returning starters up front and all but one of the back-up linemen on last season’s depth chart had graduated as well. www.nkyfootball.net A nice quick article about the HHS O-line. Call me biased but I don't believe you'll find a better O-line coach in the State of Kentucky. I watched them play Campbell County in their season opener and they were not a good group. Campbell County probably would have won that game if it weren't for Hoge just making play after play while running for his life. Where that O-line was in that game vs where they are now is nothing short of amazing. Nice job by those kids and my big bro!

After watching the Hudl videos it appears to me that Player #1 is much faster, has more quickness and is much more dangerous after the catch than player #2.

I think they are probably referring to The Game of Thrones, as it has set the bar very high in this regard as it kills everyone, all of the time. To me The Walking Dead does a good job of balancing out keeping around the cast that we care the most about and killing enough of the semi-main characters to keep it fresh.