Baltimore

[khazalid]

this thread needs purged with fire.

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First off, you didnt read nearly any of those links because several were counts of death by police in drug/traffic related matters where the victim(suspect)was unarmed or "armed" with something like a hammer or a "metal object" or a street legal pocket knife in their pocket.
unarmed civilians should not ever be killed by gun or by the use of physical force(ie freddy gray)
And if a drug crazed hardened criminal with rape/murder is in your home by the time you call 911.wait 5 minutes for the cops to show up and shoot him,your likely out of luck anyways.
Of course for serious shit like murders/domestic terrorism/hostages sometimes lethal force may be necessary but that should not be the job of every single police officer in every town.
If its out of hand and at a point where the suspect HAS to be killed it needs to be like SWAT or something similiar.
Regular cops should be limited to nonlethal methods only.
Ever been maced? Tazed?
I have.
Those stop your casual criminal in his tracks.
Hell nonlethal gun rounds are incredibly effective why are cops carrying 9mm rounds?
Because they can and do kill civilians because they are engaged in criminal activity.

Have you ever been hit full force in the head with a hammer too? If you had, you would know that a hammer is more than sufficient as a deadly weapon.

I agree with your sentiment if not your solution, deadly force should always be a last option, but an option nonetheless, if not for the average criminal, than at least the most extreme and unpredictable situations. If officers were unarmed, then the shooting at the draw Mohammed contest in Texas a couple days ago may have raked up a much higher body count, perhaps it wouldn't have been a great loss, but nonetheless it shows a clear benefit to having an armed force constantly vigilant within a city. If five minutes is the shortest wait, then it's still the best chance you've got.

We should however invest in the most effective and safe technologies we can create, for both sides; heck, if a taser drone could take out a crazed gunman someday, it would not only save more shooters, but more officers too.

[2dimes]

Just need to fix this up.

Have you ever been seen someone hit full force in the head with a hammer too? If you had, you would know that a hammer is more than sufficient as a deadly weapon.

There, much more plausible.

Of course there was that fed ex crew that survived the hammer attack. So I suppose it could happen your way.

[mrswdk]

It clearly wasn't very deadly if / survived.

[a6mzero]

It's estimated between 1882 and 1968 approx 4000 African Americans were lynched. According to some here whites r being persecuted by blacks now. Guess during this black on white racism they left the lynching part out.A more Benevolent form of racism no doubt.

[mrswdk]

These days cops can't even murder black people in custody without being given all sorts of shit for it. What has the world come to?

[ConfederateSS]

-----The U.S. Government committed mass genocide(millions and millions) on The Native Americans ,in the name of Manifest Destiny. The Chinese went from building The Great Wall. To The Trans-Continental Railroad.In death.The Irish had no picnic either. Mexicans had half their country stolen from them. Treated as 3rd class citizens for decades. But as The USA(a baby when started). Has grown,it's people,are growing and moving on together. Learning as The USA is becoming a teenager. Well almost everyone. Some still want to cry,and cry. Instead of moving forward with the rest of the country. The mother in Baltimore. Not just African Americans kids need the crap smack out of them. All America kids have gotten away with all kinds of shit. Because spare the rod is the order of the day now. A kid was stealing from a party store in Michigan. The mom saw him. Smacked the shit out of him. The store clerk,called police, on the mom. She was later arrested at her house for child abuse. Caught on camera. Remember when we didn't need the government raising our kids. The good old days. ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion).

[a6mzero]

Remember the good old days when husbands could beat the shit out of their wife's and not get arrested for it , when parents cod send their kids to school with huge whelps and handprints on their face and nothing was said about it,when the Kkk could murder people and blow up churches and the juries would not convict.. ........sigh man those were the days.

[mrswdk]

Remember the good old days when husbands could beat the shit out of their wife's and not get arrested for it , when parents cod send their kids to school with huge whelps and handprints on their face and nothing was said about it,when the Kkk could murder people and blow up churches and the juries would not convict.. ........sigh man those were the days.

Before Big Brother started telling everyone how to live their lives.

[a6mzero]

Aw cheer up its to much work to pound the shit out of your own family the modern method is to just shoot all of them.

[Serbia]

Bollocks.

[DoomYoshi]

So Obama's new legislation stops sending grenade launchers to police forces.

What's really stupid is that the American people are not being enslaved by grenade launchers, but rather by Wal-Mart. Banning corporations would do more to help lower class blacks than anything Obama would or could ever propose.

[mrswdk]

Banning cheap and efficient stores would help people? lolz, h'okay!