This was a FELONY STOP. Get your heads out of your butts.
Get your head out of your butt.
If they were going to make a high risk stop (aka felony stop) they should have considered officer saftey when doing so.
They didn't. there was no consideration given to officer safety except for guns drawn. One cop is standing out in the open off the beam of the car. Stupid, for a felony stop. No cover, not concealment. He then holsters his weapon. On a 'felony stop'?
Another runs up approaching from the front and bashes the window. A baton? In his gun hand? Again
no concern for officer safety. Bum rush a suspect vehicle occupied x times? Really? They were all acting on adrenaline. That's a good way to get yourself or someone else killed. They weren't prepared for a gunfight.
What about the source of the video? It's another cop's body cam. Where is he? About 9:00 which is almost directly opposite another cop. IF there were shot fired, how safe would any of them be? Can you tell me that with
any degree of certainty. Rhetorical, because I say you can't.
Granted they didn't know what they had till they did. And when they did, they should have ramped down, because they didn't continue with any semblance of a high-risk stop.
Nobody, meaning me, said or implied they should be coddled. My 'MQBing' is nothing compared to what they would have faced had there been shots fired.
POST no longer teaches
routinely taking suspects to the ground. It's been demonstrated it's more efficient and safer (officer safety) to take them into custody from a position of cover, as they exit, than use more manpower to pick them up or risk them trying to flee.
I'm all for cutting cops a break and have done so on many an occasion, and did so here with the mention of adenine. It can work for you or make you stupid. I'm just not down with bad tactics.
That's how people get hurt or worse.
And, in many states, she can't get her driver's license until she is 21 now.
Same here. I hope that's the case in NM.
When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.
You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.
There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.
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Perfection is the enemy of progress. -Winston Churchill
-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.
You make me pull, I'll put you down.
Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.
I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.