So, he says clearly that if cops think you have a gun, they will shoot first and figure out the situation later. That sounds like a reason to shoot cops first if you have a gun, not a reason to comply. Terrible.
Making a bad decision based on fear or hate that kills another person makes you a bad person. Making them consistently and repeatedly makes you a bad organization. Defending those bad decisions makes you a disgusting pile of shit that's not worth the skin you're wrapped in.

Lets see them get rid of those officers who are disgracing the badge first, then they can start complaining about the blowback it's causing.

Man being police in a fervently capitalist individualist society awash with firearms just seems like a really bad choice in life. There are clear blue bays in latin america that need fishermen, european cities that need aoustic guitar players..

So, ignoring everything else... why is carrying a firearm legal if the cops are incapable of dealing with an armed suspect without the use of lethal force?

I wonder if it is workable to have specialised armed response units rather than giving all cops guns. I wonder how many of those occasions where an officer was shot were situations were the perp felt their life was in danger. If you lower the stakes might there be a reduction in the amount of arrests that turn bloody, for both parties?

One recurring thing I've often noticed with US cops is that they are really really bad at deescalating standard situations. I've been multiple times to the US and every time an encounter with a cop basically ended at him either shouting at me (I approached them to ask for the way to my hotel - slightly tipsy), telling me to step out of a vehicle with his hand on a holster (traffic stop) or the cops encircling me with an extreme force multitude and warning me to "watch out". (when I walked on foot to a gas station).

Not once have I made a positive experience with US cops when visiting the states. I have never been arrested or done any illegal activity when visiting, but still I felt as if the cops do not know how to assess a situation and always approach it from a worst case scenario. Perhaps out of a fearful state of mind, I do not know - but in any case - escalating a standard situation to the brink is what they seem to be really good at.

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