US Maniac cops at it again, this time in LA.

I wouldn't see Potter as a maniac by any means. There's plenty of evidence of police brutality that is with intent and often with discrimination.

Honestly, I believe her case to be the result of awful training practices in the police force there. To become a police officer you need 21 weeks, on average, training. This is significantly behind other developed nations. They have no national agreement on training so while it's 21 weeks on average you can be sure as **** it's a lot less in some places.

The policing system there is an absolute shambles, top to bottom. From brutality, corruption, racism to ineptitude, lack of correct funding and a lack of any meaningful training means that it is inevitable that we see incidents like this regularly.

I don't know about the incident in LA but it does seem wreckless to be firing a gun in that environment, it's well proven that hitting a target, even close range isn't as easy as it's made out to be.

This accident was totally avoidable, another example of trigger happy Police where their first reaction was to kill rather than disable.

If descalation doesn't work you disable with tazers not automatically fire your weapon. Obviously I wasn't there, but in most Western countries that would have ended differently.

Discharging a weapon in a shopping centre full of people if always gonna end in tears. Police in America need better training and less emphasis needs to be put on using your firearm.

... black and tans reborn...?

There was a joke:

"I want to apply to be a police officer"

" Very well - firstly, have you ever been convicted of a criminal offense involving voilence?

"No, Sir!"

"Ah well, thanks for applying..."

You think it was impossible to shoot something not fatal but dam powerful enough to make anyone fall, but they seem to prefer a shoot to kill if your tail light is out.

I just searched for it..... Are you trying to wind me up or what😂

Its literally the first thing that pops up.

I saw interview with black man seriously saying how he wish for all woke white people to go back to sleep.

It's inevitable and it's always been the case because it's the most important country in the world.

Unlike anywhere else whatever big happens in the US has consequences everywhere.

That's why you hear so much about America.

It's a vast, vast country. The way some go on they think everyone's rioting or has multiple guns or whatever.

Complete nonsense. It's a very diverse country with good and bad.

Let me put it this way, would a viral video of Travellers doing a sulky race or something be a fair representation of you as an Irish person?

Would that encapsulate Irish people?

Of course it doesn't.