hear a sound or see a squiggly line on a screen, I am psychologically primed to hit that button fast. As a result, I sometimes hit the button when I have not heard or seen the trigger, and of course I say so immediately, but the tester always assures me that such accidental errors are accounted for when they analyze the data.
I think that is what happened with this cop—though the fact that she responded in that way shows that she is temperamentally unfit for police work!
She was all pumped up on adrenaline and fear, since the carjackers had been armed earlier, though they were not armed by the time they were located and approached by the cops. She stupidly rushed the car, without unholstering her gun first (both = violations of policy).
Since she had already seen one guy bail out of the car, she was not expecting to find the other guy still there, so she was startled and grabbed her gun and fired reflexively—again, all pumped up on adrenaline and fear, spiced up, no doubt, by the sudden surprise of finding someone still in the car. I think she fired her gun the same way I accidentally jump the gun and hit the button when I am primed for it during my hearing and vision tests.
Her quick apologies (She was like, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’”) sound just like my immediate response when I accidentally hit the button (“Sorry! Accident!”)
From the article:
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She also “rushed the vehicle and did not maintain distance without taking the time a reasonable officer would approaching a vehicle with armed suspects,” the statement says.
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From the comments:
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A 19-year-old carjacking suspect shot by Dallas police last week said Tuesday that he had nothing to do with any crime and has no idea why the officer shot him as he held up his hands.
“She looked at me and I looked at her and she just fired,” said Kelvion Walker, 19. “I’m like, what did you shoot me for? … She was like, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’” Walker, who spoke Tuesday from his hospital room, has not been charged.
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[font size = +1]BUT [/font]cops are
armed, and they can often find themselves in scary, stressful situations.
They need to be able to deal with such situations without jumping the gun like that and shooting unarmed people whose hands are up in the air!
Sure, this guy actually was a thug who had recently committed an armed hijacking,
but at that moment he was unarmed and surrendering. It is not the cops’ job to act as judge, jury, and executioner! Such skittishness in an officer puts
everyone at risk, thug or not.
Furthermore, with the pervasively racist conditioning provided by the mass media and our society in general, a lot of people (including and probably especially cops) are trained to respond automatically, reflexively to black men as a threat.
This puts all black men in grave danger, no matter how innocent they are. Even innocent, unarmed black
women—like the young woman shot on the porch when she sought help following an accident—are often killed by people who automatically “fear for their lives” when they see black skin, not because the person is doing anything threatening, but simply because the sight of dark skin scares the bejeebus out of so many people.
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**By the way, in one of the comments on that article I also found a link to another article about outrageously abusive cops:[/font][/font]
"Unbelievably lenient sentence for cop who fingered suspects’ anuses"
The end of 2013 brought a measure of closure to a long-running Milwaukee police scandal, though some say the officer — and his cohorts — who repeatedly and illegally shoved his fingers up black male suspects’ anal cavities got off with a light sentence considering the flagrant nature of his abuses.
The ringleader was identified as officer Michael Vagnini, a white man who routinely targeted black males as young as fifteen for sadistic — and blatantly illegal — anal searches.
One victim said that another officer put a gun to his head while Vagnini administered a choke hold, touched his scrotum and fingered his anus. Another man was probed so violently that he bled.
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Vagnini rarely used gloves when he probed their anuses, the victims contend. He also stole personal items and laughed when asked to present a warrant.
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Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/29/judge-hands-down-unbelievably-lenient-sentence-for-cop-who-fingered-suspects-anuses/#ixzz2p0LTu5Bu
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