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

Any mention yet of the race of the cop or the victim? That defines how long the story will be in the media.

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..."

So you honestly think there’s no better way to disarm someone of a bike lock than shooting him and an innocent child dead? Jesus wept.

Tell me this, how come the cops are so reluctant to “deal with” these lunatics running around with automatic weapons and political flags intimidating and threatening people, dressed up in army gear? They only seem to want to go after the easy targets.

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😂

What's it like

It's more funny all these people in Ireland jumping on the popular bandwagon of hating the police in the USA, it's been made fashionable by brain dead rappers and celebrities.

I don't agree at all with what happened in this case sometimes SOME of the police over there are far too quick to turn to their gun to solve the problem but there is a huge difference in being critical of some police officers panicking and using their weapon than there is of promoting hatred of the police as a whole like most of the people on this thread and some bafoons in the USA.

The problem is guns are everywhere over there, there is strong suspicion to believe any suspect is armed so the police are naturally on edge, the police have a very very difficult job in the USA, it's not like it's a foreign police force occupying land, someone has to police the bloody place so all this talk about hating the police and that they are all trigger happy animals is nonsense.

It's not like the top brass of the police are colluding with and controlling the KKK to massacre a ton of black people, police are driving into the ''hood'' where the people hate the police black or white police it doesn't matter and in these areas handguns are sold for 40 dollars and machine guns aren't much more expensive, it's no wonder there are casualties.

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.

What does a cop get paid? It would want to be a healthy six figures. Life at risk, lots of beuraucracy,very cliquey and constant toxic environment.

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.