When cops MUST back off
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edX
 February 22 2023
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    Frankly, it might just have been a case of the 'grieving wife' wanting her husband dead and hoping to get millions out of his death in the lawsuit thereafter.


    Did she just come off some island in the sun? You call the cops saying your husband is off his head, say that you don't know if he has a gun - thus telling the police that he might have one - and do it at night when the cops will be more paranoid about being shot due to low visibility, and then sit back and wait.


    Why on earth would she do all that, and all merely for an alleged 'threatening' behaviour by the husband which means nothing. He could have just said that if he didn't get more tomato sauce on his chicken, he wouldn't speak to her. Why would you put your husband's life at risk over a 'threat'?


    No, i saw the video of some press conference, and she was introduced as 'grieving'. But all she looked like was as if she couldn't wait to get it over and collect the riches.


    It's a tricky situation. Because people are allowed to carry guns in the US, cops can always assume their own lives are under threat, and that they have only a second to react, and therefore shoot and look for the gun later. It's a natural reaction. And in the dark, holding up your hand to surrender can be perceived as an attempt to shoot. The only way is to not chase the person when it can end up with the cop shooting him.


    What has to be asked is if whatever the cop is chasing the guy for is worth a possible death penalty being inflicted on him by the cop. Is he a clear and present danger to the public? If not, and chasing him could end up in shooting him because he points his finger at you, let him go. That is the bottom line.


    Because chasing a guy, restraining someone for whatever reason, by tazing or whatever can possibly lead to the person's death, nothing can be done by the cop that can lead to that if the crime or suspected crime or infraction on the side of the person does not warrant exposing the person to possible death. It's better to let an alleged shoplifter struggle and get away then kill her with a tazer (as has already happened before) whilst trying to arrest her.


    But of course, in the 'greatest nation on earth', where empathy is as low as gum on the underside of one's shoe, these things do not occur to these geniuses. The stupidity it takes to think yourself a 'greatest whatnot on earth' is the kind of stupidity and arrogance it takes to place your ego, fears, biases, over the interests of another.


    So allow me to reiterate.


    If the action you take in apprehending a person can possibly lead to the person's death or grievous bodily harm, and the crime or infraction the person is suspected of does not deserve that for the purpose of saving public life or the cop's, the force applied cannot be to the extent that the person can suffer the aforementioned.


    In such a case, pursuit or restraint should not continue, or can only continue to the extent the person will certainly not be harmed in anyway. If this is not possible, the pursuit or restraint should cease so that the person could live to be apprehended safely at another time.


    This honours the sanctity of life without which society mutates into a death cult where it is deemed fine for a few innocent to be killed so that the guilty may be apprehended for something that never deserved any threat to their lives in the first place.


    p.s. it is interesting to note that in the linked article, the name of the victim, Alonzo Bagley, was left for later in the article. Psychologically, this serves to dehumanise him so that it is not impressed upon the reader that a person with name, a life, a character, hopes and dreams, etc, was killed. Rather, just that someone was killed.


    The same trick was played with the aftermath of '9/11' where there was much media focus on the people who died, the daughters who died, etc, photos, family statements, etc, etc, etc, whilst nobody knows the name of a single child murdered by america and the uk in the 10 year genocidal embargo on Iraq. People fall for that kind of dehumanising propaganda. I'm no fool.


    edX



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