old salt wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:06 am
Why should he be allowed to walk home rather than be arrested ?
There it is. This is the mindset that the police officer had....and this is the systemic mindset that needs to change. This mindset isn't working....and it's just one of the reasons that police keep shooting people that are unarmed, or simply evading.
You want the police to register justice on that spot, by any means necessary. In other words----you think that if he is let go, the result is unjust. And yet what happened as a result of this idea that this man "can't" be let go?
A policeman drew his gun on someone running
away from him.
And I'm not setting up a strawman. I'm telling you that that policeman made a decision that it was better to shoot a man, then to simply let him go.
I have no clue if race had anything to do with the policeman's mindset. I'm not commenting on that.
As I said before-----remember when the community of Los Angeles figured out that high speed car chases were stupid, and were doing more harm than good? So what did they do? They changed their policy.
Now there's a 56 page policy for the police on what to do and why.
This is what these communities need......more clarity and better standards that keep these overstressed police officers from drawing their guns in the first place. Simple stuff like evaluating whether running down a dark alley chasing someone who might be armed over some nothingburger incident. Just let them go. And this is about protecting the citizens, the police themselves, the career of the policemen, and the community as a whole. And yes, the potential felons, too. They need protecting, too, and sometimes I think we forget that. Innocent until proven guilty.
https://post.ca.gov/Portals/0/post_docs ... ursuit.pdf