Quote-"And even the title now is numerically incorrect. It was one officer against one man--the others who came after never pulled their triggers. And though this seems nit picky, it is not. You could call it "One Premature Cop Unloads.""

What a stretch.

The title is not in-accurate. If the title read, "10 Fully Armed Police SHOOT Drug Addict" *THAT* would be in-accurate. I don't know if there's ten cops in the video (so there's that), but whatever the number is.. that's what the guy was up against.

The rest where trying to hand him a copy of the Watch Tower..??

..just sayin'

Be aware, Citizen!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/10319053.stm
"The BBC reports that armed police were called to a UK school earlier today after being advised of a potential threat by the FBI. The school stated that the FBI 'raised the alarm after Internet scanning software picked up a suspicious combination of words,' strongly implying that they are carrying out routine, automated surveillance of social networking sites. While in this case it does appear that there may have been a genuine threat, the story nonetheless raises significant privacy concerns."

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
Pht - don't turn this into an anti-gun thing. That debate is a dead horse. Care to discuss the huge surge in KNIFE killings the UK is experiencing? Ban the guns and the UK turns into a nation of Jack-the-Rippers. Problem is not guns. Problem is stupid people.


The problem in the UK very much *is* guns AND knives. If guns were freely available I can imagine the problem would be very much worse and we'd have the lunacy of armed police.

That said this shouldn't be construed as a pro/anti gun debate. Clearly for much of the U.S that boat has sailed.

I'm really disturbed that the cops tried to steal property/evidence to conceal the crime. They should all be charged with something.

i've never done crack, but i am guessing that if you are on crack and you are surrounded by armed police and all you have is a knife, well, "drop the knife" sounds a bit different, if you are listening at all, that is. also i wouldn't call ramming someone with a car twice "non lethal force". but it's not police brutality, unless you count the fact that the police sell drugs by proxy.

haha cypress hill, yeah ok, you win

of course guns don't kill people, people do, but knives don't go off accidentally in your pocket, and don't have much range unless you are steven segal.

about the stabbings in the uk... you do realise that arming the police would have prevented zero of those tragic events, and you do realise that there are not many stabbings listed (not to say it isn't a problem, but compared to LA?) and you do of course realise that they were not shootings.

also, none of those were attacks on policemen, and definitely not 2 guys emptying clips at a policeman. (i mean the video in this thread is like WHOOOAAAAAAAAA!!!!! to a brit like me, maybe you can't picture just how freaking crazy it is to think that this happens ANYWHERE in the world)

also, the article you link to highlights the problem of youth crime... these are not criminals they're kids, it's a totally different problem. if you think legalising guns would help there, or that armed police would be a deterrent to these kids, i gotta disagree.